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Subscribe to RSSThe New York Times on Obama’s speech in Kansas yesterday: “Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax and regulation to level the economic playing field.” More: “The new tack reflected a decision by the White House and the president’s campaign aides that — with the economic recovery still lagging and Republicans in Congress continuing to oppose the president’s jobs proposals — the best course for Mr. Obama is to try to present himself as the defender of working-class Americans and Republicans as defenders of a small elite.”
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Let it be known by all present, that I have reviewed, considered and fully approve of Bob's comment above.
Bob- you are to be commended on the very visible improvements in your contributions. We applaud your fine effort on this great and memorable day.
In the memorable words of Rick Perry...."Oops".
Bob,
That's the only thing you've ever said that I agree with. ;-)
That's the only thing Bob's said that makes sense.
Having spent my Thanksgiving vacation in the heart of a right-wing, Libertarian household, and just now coming up for air in reality, I can report, the reason conservatives hate Obama is because he stopped their apocalyptic vision of an economic collapse from happening. The Right has a very dark weltanshauung, and it so disappoints them not to be fighting urban refugees, folks who have fled the burning cities, desperate for the stale spaghetti the righteous right wingers have stockpiled in their basements - for just such an economic collapse!
Amy, the spaghetti in my basement is still fresh!
PS. I'm not kidding.
Amy - I have similar relatives. I like guns and own a few myself, but I don't see any reason to own hundreds of them.
For some of them the movie "Red Dawn" is used like most people use pornography.
nisl
The glee with which my right wing relatives discuss the "coming collapse" is matched only by their fervour for Ron Paul. No way will these folks vote for Romney.
In other words, the President will run a totally negative campaign, pitting one group of Americans against another. It is all he has, with such a pathetic record to try to defend.
Obama is willing to turn Americans against each other with envy and hatred , in order to save his reelection.
Somehow, I dont think Teddy Roosevelt in his grave is saying , "Bully, Barry!"
What's good for the goose ....
Repubs have been doing this for the last 3 years.
The tea people GOP republicans have been doing this since Newt started it in 1994.
The tea people GOP republicans have no idea's so all they have is to go negative, as usual. As you can see their already accusing the Democrats of doing what they are already doing.
Bob, where in that single paragraph printed above does it say that Obama is going to run a negative campaign of the sort the GOP's pathetic pretenders are running right now? Obama is going to appeal to moderate, working class Americans, a subset of the population that the GOP has abandoned in its attempt to cultivate the votes of the right wing lunatic fringe, a group which you exemplify so well. That's all.
Who is John Galt ?
He is a greedy sociopath.
Obama is the most divisive President in history. He has nothing to run on so all he does is to play the class warfare game and campaign in the negative. The Republicans, if they are smart, will run against his record and the economy. Remember President Clinton's words "It's the economy stupid." Obama has spent more money and done more harm than any President in history. If the democrats had been smart they would have ran a more moderate democrat against Obama in the primary election. They are a few that would be a much better choice than Obama.
Awwwww FR, the nuancing: “The new tack reflected a decision by the White House and the president’s campaign aides that — with the economic recovery still lagging and Republicans in Congress continuing to oppose the president’s jobs proposals — the best course for Mr. Obama is to try to present himself as the defender of working-class Americans and Republicans as defenders of a small elite.”
I especially like: "--the best course for Mr. Obama (not President Obama as every other President is called - my words) is to try to present himself as the defender of working-class Americans and Republicans as defenders of a small elite."
As far as I know and remember that is what President Obama has always done, although trying to work with and compromise with the dysfunctional congress for the sake of bi-partisanship has gotten in the way. And the Republicans are defenders of a small elite. [my emphasis]. If the Republican voters of the low-information type would wake up, they would understand what has been happening to their country for the last thirty years, and if they really want to take it back, they will stop voting Republican. However, we know that they only want the "purists" of their ideology and demogoguery, and therefore, will never be able to see the forest for the trees.