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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #30 on: September 22, 2011, 12:26:37 AM »
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The by-election in NY in which Mayor Koch's voice proved influential in overturning decades of fidelity to the Democratic Party also served to raise question marks about Obama's possibilities - although it's said Democratic performance in that constituency was expected to be challenging even if Koch didn't intervene. Although the economy was the driving force, that by-election included an element of concern regarding President Obama's perceived insensitivity to Israeli interests.

That's all it is... a bunch of Orthodox Jews and Israel zealots are hardly the most accurate bellwether on his chances for office.  Also, can't blame the disapproval ratings on a media push.

He needs $$$ to finance the campaign. That's one aspect. Can't alienate the philanthropic lobby.

But aside from that, I disagree with the zealot and Orthodox characterizations. Obama worked hard to win over skeptical Jewish voters who traditionally voted Dem ... Recall Hillary didn't have to work (as) hard to get their support. All she had to do was maintain. Even outside Orthodox circles, there are concerns because there is a feeling that he hasn't delivered the goods he promised. Given the amalgam implicated in Dem Party politics (gays, ethnic minorities, labour etc ...) he's got issues all across the board.

What's an "Israel zealot" anyhow? Someone who defends Israel's right to exist?

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #31 on: September 22, 2011, 12:52:51 AM »
I am speaking specifically of that constituency... they are hardly representative of Jewish voters nationwide.  The 'zealot' comment references their unflinching, irrational support of Israel, and denunciation of any criticism, irrespective of whether it's deserved or not.  Maybe yuh not familiar with District 9.
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #32 on: September 25, 2011, 09:23:26 AM »
forget de HOPE ah promise, de message is RESET.

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Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight


WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.

And though he didn't say it directly, for a second term, too.

Obama's speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much in talks with Republicans -- and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.

"It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future -- and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side.

"I need your help," Obama said.

The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he's to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday's speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.

He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," he said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way."

But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."

Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.

Obama said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they're open to some of the tax measures -- but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business.

But at times, Obama also sounded like he was discussing his own embattled tenure.

"The future rewards those who press on," He said. "I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on." [ribbit - seems he doh have time to reflect on why, when he had both houses, he ignore his own team of economic advisors and decide to freestyle - cuz he all-knowing all-seeing like de one above STEUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPSSSSS]

Caucus leaders remain fiercely protective of the nation's first African-American president, but in recent weeks they've been increasingly vocal in their discontent -- especially over black joblessness.

"If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers.

Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members were dismayed by Obama's concessions to the GOP during the summer's talks on raising the government's borrowing limit.

Cleaver famously called the compromise deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich."

But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because "nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."

Still, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., caused a stir last month by complaining that Obama's Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is "supportive of the president, but we're getting tired."

Last year, Obama addressed the same dinner and implored blacks to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock."

What followed was a Democratic rout that Obama acknowledged as a "shellacking."

Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, there was a sharp drop-off two years later.

Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate at between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and it's worth noting off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters.

This year's caucus speech came as Obama began cranking up grass-roots efforts across the Democratic spectrum.

It also fell on the eve of a trip to the West Coast that will combine salesmanship for the jobs plan he sent to Congress this month and re-election fundraising.

Obama was leaving Sunday morning for Seattle, where two money receptions were planned, with two more to follow in the San Francisco area.

On Monday, Obama is holding a town meeting at the California headquarters of LinkedIn, the business networking website, before going on to fundraisers in San Diego and Los Angeles and a visit Tuesday to a Denver-area high school to highlight the school renovation component of the jobs package.
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2011, 09:10:24 AM »
If Cacausian thinks like ppl frm trinidad Hell f**king NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! if they think Like americans we good to go .. One more term for Mr Obama..Anyway or the other I think the man his doing his best.. A little to Partial but He doing his best he gets my vote...

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #34 on: September 26, 2011, 11:54:43 AM »
September 23, 2011 New York Times

Jewish Votes, Some of Them in Play
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

American Jews have long proved a solid voting bloc for the Democratic Party, with about four out of five voting for President Obama in 2008, according to exit polls. Jewish voters are driven by a broad range of concerns, but for some the security of Israel is dominant. Now, with the peace process in the Middle East at a stalemate and Palestinians taking their case for statehood directly to the United Nations, Republicans are stepping up their efforts to peel off Jewish voters.

While this constituency is clearly in play, a new Gallup poll shows that Jews are no more disillusioned than other Americans are with Mr. Obama. According to the poll, his Jewish support has declined since the election in 2008 — but at a rate no different from that of Americans as a whole. Even with that drop-off, 54 percent of Jewish voters told Gallup in August and September that they approved of the job the president was doing (compared with 41 percent of American voters over all). In fact, Jews continue to be far more enthusiastic about Mr. Obama than other Americans — a 13-point difference that has remained sizable throughout the president’s term.

The fresh focus on Jewish voters was prompted in part by the victory of a Republican, Bob Turner, in a special election last week in New York’s Ninth Congressional District. With a heavy concentration of Orthodox Jews, the district is not representative of Jewish voters nationwide; the Orthodox lean far more Republican than the vast majority of American Jewry.

Nevertheless, the election generated excitement among Republicans that the Jewish vote could be up for grabs. Reporters visited three communities with heavy concentrations of Jewish voters for impressions of any shift in their allegiances. (see articles below)


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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2011, 11:56:00 AM »
[THE FIRST SCENARIO]
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.: Fears Gnaw at Liberalism
By ERIK ECKHOLM

Judy Rothman is a lifelong Democrat who says, “I’m not 100 percent sure yet that I won’t vote for Obama.” She finds herself leaning that way, though — solely because of “a vague sense of unease” about the depth of President Obama’s support for Israel.

Ms. Rothman, 47, and her family moved from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to this Philadelphia suburb five years ago, buying a house near the Lower Merion Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation. A physical therapist who works with infants, she knocked on doors for Mr. Obama in 2008. Back then, at dinner parties with the more hawkish couples who dominate their new synagogue, her husband kicked her under the table when her defenses of Mr. Obama got too passionate.

But those conversations were “eye-opening,” and now she feels torn between her liberal ideals and her fear for Israel. Her concern is visceral because her brother and sister live there, she said, and anti-Israel passions unleashed by the Arab Spring have deepened it. She feels that Mr. Obama asks Israel to make too many unilateral concessions.

“I just want a stronger show of support,” she said.

Local Jewish leaders say most of the more than 200,000 Jews who live in greater Philadelphia, many of them scattered through the western suburbs known as the Main Line, remain Democrats and are almost sure to support Mr. Obama in 2012. But they also say many Jews struggle with the agonizing counter-pulls expressed by Ms. Rothman — devotion to liberal social policies but a primal, if to some irrational, sense that Republican hawks might be better for Israel. Enter Bibi Netanyahu stage right

Rabbis compare notes on how to handle Israel-related issues in their congregations because they are so contentious, said Rabbi Adam Zeff of the Germantown Jewish Center in Philadelphia. He said that his congregation, which includes many urban professionals, tends to be liberal and more focused on domestic issues, and that most members were comfortable with Mr. Obama’s Israel stance. Yet he struggles to know what to say about Israel without setting off acrimony.

Murray Lefkowitz, 85, a retired furniture repairer, said that if he had a complaint about Mr. Obama, it was that the president had not fought hard enough against the Republicans.

“I do worry that the Republicans might offer stronger support of Israel,” Mr. Lefkowitz said after exercising at the Kaiserman Jewish Community Center in the Main Line suburb of Wynnewood, “but I’m a professional worrier.” He cannot understand why Jews would forsake their history of liberal social thought to become Republicans. Hmmmmmmmmm, some SERIOUS!!! Solomonic wisdom ... ask Ari Fleischer

Bill Rubin, 53, a test tutor taking a basketball break at the center, was more pointed. “I think the mainstream Jewish community is too reflexively supportive of anything done by Israel,” he said. “I do care about Israel, and I don’t mistrust Obama on Israel.”

Lori Lowenthal Marcus, 53, is one of those dinner-party guests who urged Ms. Rothman to be more hawkish. She voted against Mr. Obama in 2008 and expects to support the Republicans in 2012.

A lawyer who fought for abortion rights, she said her thoughts on Israeli security had hardened since 9/11. Now, she runs a Zionist campaign from home that supports Israeli settlements and strong defense policies.

Sean Collins Walsh contributed reporting from Philadelphia.
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #36 on: September 26, 2011, 12:03:02 PM »
[THE SECOND SCENARIO]
September 23, 2011
Only Palms Are Swaying
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

Munching on a buttered bagel at a bookstore, Helen Wagner and her partner, Clifford Turkel, said they knew exactly why President Obama looked to be stumbling and sliding his way toward the election.

But they also know there are no easy answers. It’s true, they said: Mr. Obama needs to be more astute on Israel, and Jews in general are wary of his stance. Israel is his friend, and in a region soaked with enemies, friends should not be squandered, and yet a truce also is necessary. And, yes: The economy is reeling, people are livid, progress seems ephemeral, and yet Mr. Obama began his term with an outsize load of turmoil.

So will Ms. Wagner, a dynamic 86-year-old, and Mr. Turkel, a 77-year-old born in the Bronx, both Reform Jews, vote for the president again?

“Of course, of course,” Ms. Wagner said.

“Absolutely,” chimed in Mr. Turkel. Then he offered a dollop of advice. “He should be more aggressive on his handling of the Republicans,” he said. “He should give them a little hell, the way Truman did.”

Outside supermarkets and restaurants, inside bookstores and candy shops, Jewish voters in this affluent yet diverse Jewish community in north Miami said they planned to mostly stay the course. If they did vote for Mr. Obama in 2008, many of them — Reform and Conservative alike — said they planned to do so again, although not quite as enthusiastically.

Those who did not vote for the president the last time — mostly Orthodox, with a smattering of Conservatives like Jay Weinberg — were more convinced than ever that they had made the right choice. “He has thrown Israel under the bus,” said Mr. Weinberg, 64, a former educator. “What is he going to give them — the Golan Heights, too?”

Renata Bloom, 73, a Conservative and a real estate agent who plans to vote for Mr. Obama, like last time, said the Arab Spring had frightened Jews and turned some against Mr. Obama. “People are questioning him now,” she said.

Not Holly Royce Ginsberg, 69, who described her support for the president as “unshakable.” A former teacher, dental hygienist, Playboy bunny and “super liberal,” Ms. Ginsberg said Mr. Obama had been “handed a rotten bunch of fruit.” She said that on the question of Israel, people just had a “knee-jerk reaction.”

But Ruth Fertig, 81, standing near a kosher candy shop, said that while Israel was key, her criticism of Mr. Obama went beyond that: It’s the economy, his lack of leadership, the people who surround him in Washington.

A retired New York City teacher, Ms. Fertig said that she had voted for him once, and that once was enough. She will probably stay home on Election Day.

Could she change her mind?

“I don’t believe in miracles,” she said.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #37 on: September 26, 2011, 12:08:00 PM »
[THE THIRD SCENARIO]
September 23, 2011
An Enthusiasm Cools Down
By JENNIFER MEDINA

For Melissa Balaban, 46, talking about President Obama feels like criticizing a close friend. She knows he could do better, she said, she really wants him to do better, but she will stick with him even in difficult times.

Ms. Balaban is the executive director of Ikar, an independent Jewish religious community in west Los Angeles. Dozens of its members knocked on doors and helped raise money for Mr. Obama in 2008.

Hillel Tigay, 42, the music director of the community, said the sense he had was not so much one of “buyer’s remorse,” but more like a “Sunday hangover.” He has been disappointed in the way the president has spoken about Israel, but he cannot see voting for a Republican.

They are frustrated, demoralized even, that Mr. Obama has not been able to effect more change since taking office. Several said this was the first president they had voted for with excitement, hoping he would lead with a moral vision. Instead, they said, he has been forced to focus on tactical details, and not very effectively.

But those in the small group who gathered Thursday morning at the rabbi’s office to chat about the president said they would vote for him again, regardless of their disappointment. “Absolutely,” said Rabbi Sharon Brous, their 37-year-old spiritual leader, her voice rising. “Everything is at stake.”

These are not single-issue voters. They are looking for candidates who support gay marriage and, save for the one Republican in the group, liberal economic policies. They see themselves as Zionists, but are not necessarily enamored of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

“There’s a sense that if you are not with him, you are anti-Israel and not to be trusted,” said Adam Wergeles, 46, a lawyer and Ms. Balaban’s husband. “That’s absurd and dangerous.”

Everyone there favors a two-state solution. But while Mr. Tigay said he found Mr. Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday reassuring because it emphasized America’s commitment to Israel, Mr. Wergeles said he saw it as capitulating to American political pressure, and not focusing enough on practical solutions.

Most frustrating, Rabbi Brous said, is how Republican leaders have tried to capitalize on the debate over Israel for political gain. “They’re touching on all the vulnerabilities of the Jewish community by distortion,” she said.

Yoni Fife, 31, a lawyer and the lone Republican and McCain voter in the group, finds himself unmoved by the current Republican candidates, who he said were “way away” from where most American Jews were on social policies.

But as Ms. Balaban put it, Jews were not just a solid voting bloc in 2008. They were a “solid cheering section.”

“What concerns me most is that people are just not going to care enough to vote,” Mr. Wergeles said. “The loss of that kind of passion could really hurt Obama.”

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #38 on: September 26, 2011, 02:57:08 PM »
Last year, Obama addressed the same dinner and implored blacks to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock."

What followed was a Democratic rout that Obama acknowledged as a "shellacking."

Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, there was a sharp drop-off two years later.



That is it right dey. It is no longer a 4 year cycle. It is a 2year cycle.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #39 on: September 26, 2011, 08:42:26 PM »
Ah say it, how ah see it

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #40 on: September 26, 2011, 09:54:57 PM »

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #41 on: September 27, 2011, 12:07:34 AM »
I cyah vote for Cain  ;D Republican.

well dat iz d REAL problem.....isnt it..

cause Obama aint have ah prayer in d world if dey go neck and neck.....

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #42 on: September 27, 2011, 05:53:46 AM »
I cyah vote for Cain  ;D Republican.

well dat iz d REAL problem.....isnt it..

cause Obama aint have ah prayer in d world if dey go neck and neck.....



This is the dude that say Americans have the right to ban mosques right?
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #43 on: September 27, 2011, 06:22:12 AM »
This is the dude that say Americans have the right to ban mosques right?

Yeah thats right..and he iz also d same dude who also said he iz a Black American and not an African American..
Ah say it, how ah see it

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #44 on: September 27, 2011, 06:55:57 AM »
This is the dude that say Americans have the right to ban mosques right?

Yeah thats right..and he iz also d same dude who also said he iz a Black American and not an African American..

does that help?
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #45 on: September 27, 2011, 08:20:06 AM »
This is the dude that say Americans have the right to ban mosques right?

Yeah thats right..and he iz also d same dude who also said he iz a Black American and not an African American..

What is the significance of that?
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #46 on: September 28, 2011, 06:37:02 AM »
This is the dude that say Americans have the right to ban mosques right?

Yeah thats right..and he iz also d same dude who also said he iz a Black American and not an African American..

What is the significance of that?

Herman wants nothing to do with Africa.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #47 on: September 29, 2011, 03:34:02 PM »
Can Rick Perry Regain His Momentum?
by Mara Liasson

Texas Gov. Rick Perry rocketed to the top of the field after he jumped in the race for the GOP nomination for president last month.

His early rise in the polls was based on what Republican voters thought they knew about him. But the debates gave Republicans a chance to see Perry in action — and the normally aggressive Texas governor has been forced into the uncomfortable position of defense.

"No other candidate ... has the record that I have," he said last weekend in Michigan. "Yep, there may be slicker candidates and there may be smoother debaters, but I know what I believe in."

A Wobbly Debate Performance

There were three key moments in last week's Orlando, Fla., debate where Perry undercut himself. The first came when he defended his support of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants:

"If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there, by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart," he said.

Calling people who disagree with you heartless is not a great way to win their votes. And Perry has since acknowledged that was a poor choice of words.

But that wasn't Perry's only problem in the Orlando debate. He also seemed unprepared when asked a predictable foreign-policy question about what he'd do if Pakistan's nuclear weapons fell into the wrong hands:

"Well obviously, before you ever get to that point, you have to build a relationship in that region. That's one of the things that this administration has not done. Yesterday, we found out through Adm. Mullen that Haqqani has been involved with — and that's the terrorist group directly associated with the Pakistani country. So to have a relationship with India, to make sure that India knows that they are an ally of the United States."

And when he tried to attack Mitt Romney with a list of well-known flip-flops, he seemed tongue-tied:

"Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of, against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it — was before — he was before these social programs, from the standpoint of, he was for standing up for Roe vs. Wade before he was against, verse — Roe vs. Wade?"

A Rick Perry Problem

Perry's unsteady performance set many Republicans to wondering whether he was ready for a presidential campaign or, for that matter, the White House.

Bruce Keough is a Republican activist who had been Romney's New Hampshire state chairman in 2008. But he publicly broke with Romney earlier this year and was looking for another candidate to support. He said he was interested in Perry.

"With Perry," Keough said before the Orlando debate, "I'm looking for that reassurance, that message to the voters that, 'Yeah, I call them like I see them, and I've said some things when I'm making speeches and writing books that might give you pause, but I'm not going to be a president you have to worry about. I'm not going to drop the ball on the 5-yard line.' "

After the debate, Keough said Perry's performance was not reassuring.

"I have serious concerns that he may be someone who's going to drop the ball after watching him in Orlando," he said.

So what does Perry do now? Advice, of course, is plentiful. Republican consultant Alex Castellanos worked for Romney in 2008 and for one of Perry's opponents in the 2006 Texas governor's race.

"Rick Perry's never won races in Texas because he's loved or because he's eloquent," Castellanos says. "He's won races because he rips his opponents' lungs out."

And that's what Castellanos thinks Perry should do now: Attack Barack Obama, showing Republicans how he'd fight the main event. But between now and then, he has to attack Romney — and Castellanos says that could be risky.

"What it might do is strengthen Romney," he says, "because if Romney sits there imperturbable, unflappably cool and keeps on going, this may be what Mitt Romney needs."

Most Republicans agree that Perry doesn't have a Romney problem — he has a Perry problem. Florida Republican strategist Eric Eikenberg says Perry needs to remind Republicans what they liked about him in the first place — that he's a strong conservative, an evangelical Christian with a Texas record to boast about.

"He's the only governor in this country that can actually say that he's been a job creator, his state's been a job creator during this recession. And that's a message that is resonating with voters," Eikenberg says.

He says it's still early enough for Perry to refocus. And Perry will have plenty of opportunities: He's campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend, and then on Oct. 11, he'll be back in Romney's backyard for another debate.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/29/140924715/can-rick-perry-regain-his-momentum

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #48 on: October 05, 2011, 07:28:03 AM »
http://youtu.be/1eF6vCv13bw

Check what hank have to say
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #49 on: October 08, 2011, 09:04:26 PM »
http://youtu.be/1eF6vCv13bw

Check what hank have to say

Ah read a next thread on de forum with man getting call "worse than saddam hussein".

When man advertise demself as a "straight talker" watch 4 hyperbole.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #50 on: October 17, 2011, 09:03:26 AM »
October 16, 2011

Big Cash Edge Powers Obama in Drive for ’12
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and GRIFF PALMER
The New York Times

President Obama is exploiting his early lead in campaign fund-raising to bankroll a sprawling grass-roots organization and information technology apparatus in critical general election battlegrounds. He is doing so even as the Republican candidates conserve cash and jockey for position in what could become a drawn-out nominating battle.

Since the beginning of the year, Mr. Obama and the Democratic National Committee, for which the president is helping raise money to finance his party’s grass-roots efforts, have spent close to $87 million in operating costs, according to a New York Times analysis of campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. That amount is about as much as all the current Republican candidates together have raised so far in this campaign.

In recent months, that money has helped open campaign offices in at least 15 states. In contrast, the best-financed Republican candidates, Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, have physical presences in just a handful of early primary states like New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

In just the last three months, according to the filings, the Obama campaign has spent more on payroll, more than $4 million, than several of the Republican candidates have raised.

The president is already paying staff employees in at least 38 states, including Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico and North Carolina. His Chicago campaign headquarters hums with more than 200 paid aides.

And Mr. Obama has spent millions of dollars investing in social media and information technology, applying both savvy and brute technological force to raising small-dollar donations, firing up volunteers and building a technical infrastructure to sustain his re-election campaign for the next year.

The gap in spending underscores facts easily lost amid the president’s low approval ratings, his challenges in winning over independent voters and the gridlock he faces in Washington: Mr. Obama brings unmatched financial resources to the campaign trail, and a team with a well-honed sense of where and how to deploy money, people and technology.

“In the past three months, we’ve grown our organizing staff by 50 percent and opened up three new field offices every week,” Jim Messina, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, wrote in an e-mail to supporters on Thursday. “Thousands of volunteers and organizers made 3 million phone calls and in-person visits to voters.”

Mr. Obama’s advantages are partly circumstantial: With no primary opponent, Mr. Obama, like other incumbent presidents before him, can begin preparing for a general election contest that is still more than a year away.

He can also raise large contributions for the Democratic National Committee — topping out at $30,800 per donor rather than the $5,000 limit on contributions to candidates — that are helping finance the party’s broader efforts to help Democrats up and down the ballot. During the last three months, the committee has already transferred funds totaling more than $1.3 million to Democratic organizations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the party’s filings.

Though the Republican National Committee has enjoyed strong fund-raising in recent months, it is also still paying down large debts incurred during the 2008 cycle. At the end of September, the committee was still $14.5 million in debt, according to campaign reports.

That gap explains, in part, why Republican-oriented independent groups like American Crossroads and Americans for Prosperity are devising plans to spend millions of dollars this year on social media and voter-identification efforts, with a major focus on helping the eventual Republican candidate win the White House.

Mr. Perry and Mr. Romney, as well as Mr. Obama, are also backed by “super PACs” founded by each candidate’s allies and former aides. Such groups can raise unlimited contributions and are required to disclose their expenditures much less frequently than the campaigns or party committees, creating some uncertainty in assessing how the fund-raising wars will ultimately aid one candidate or another.

Mr. Obama has used his growing field operation as a selling point with large donors in a fund-raising initiative called “Strong Start.” The program shares with supporters the campaign’s estimated costs for organizers, offices and campaign supplies in 12 states and regions, and invites them to underwrite the costs with a donation.

“We need to Start Strong now, we would like each N.F.C. member’s help to get this off the ground and take ownership of this quarter’s field offices,” Kevin Karlsgodt, Mr. Obama’s deputy finance chief of staff, wrote in an e-mail to top Democratic donors on the party’s national finance council early this month. “Get friends to chip in a week or two, and we’ll be there in no time.”

In just one example of the campaign’s financial clout, in the last three months, Mr. Obama has spent more than $2 million on online advertising and half a million dollars on computer equipment and software. His bill for Web hosting was $360,000, more cash than each of the Republican candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Jon M. Huntsman Jr. had in their bank accounts at the end of the quarter.

The filings also reveal where the Republican candidates are investing some of their time and money. According to his campaign filings, Mr. Romney, who spent big in Iowa in 2008 but has suggested he would not compete aggressively in the state this year, has doubled his campaign staff there, to four from two. He has also spent about $160,000 in the state this year, including some direct mailings.

Mr. Perry, who entered the campaign midway through the third quarter, has spent about $58,000 in Iowa, though the state is regarded as an important proving ground for his candidacy.

Several of the Republican candidates are spending relatively heavily in New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the country’s first primary. Excluding consulting costs, Mr. Huntsman has spent the largest amount, about $397,000, in the state, followed by Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who has spent about $278,000, and Mr. Romney, who has spent $184,000, according to an analysis of campaign filings.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #51 on: November 01, 2011, 09:28:28 AM »
Herman Cain was seen on CNN today digging a hole, a trench, and a grave. Which one will he end up in?

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #52 on: November 01, 2011, 06:23:57 PM »
amazing how cain have dis ting come back. recall de democratic primaries where opponents of obuma also get dey laundry aired in de press. is a good ting michelle have obuma under manners.

perry is a dunce and rubio get ketch as well. ha ha, dis is a real jokey bunch of candidates.

doh worry arttentionseeker, obuma have de next 4 years sewn up.

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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #53 on: November 08, 2011, 10:10:38 AM »
This does not look good for the President; I am sure his advisors are seriously trying to perform some damage control as we speak. I am sure the President will respond as quickly as possible.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/sarkozy-to-obama-netanyahu-is-a-liar/2011/11/08/gIQANvFd0M_blog.html?hpid=z3

Sarkozy to Obama: Netanyahu is a ‘liar’

By Jason Ukman

(Charles Dharapak — Associated Press) In diplomacy, as in politics, there are plenty of cases in which a world leader has been caught unaware on a “hot” microphone. There have been fewer, if any, in which that leader has been caught calling another an outright liar.
 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes the prize.
 
Sarkozy, in Cannes for the G-20 summit last week, believed he was speaking privately with President Obama when he reportedly described how frustrating he finds Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But their microphones were on, and the conversation was picked up by reporters listening to a simultaneous translation.
 
“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, according to the Reuters news agency, whose reporter was among those who heard the gaffe.

“You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you,” Obama replied, according to a French interpreter.
 
The Associated Press, which also had a reporter present, said news outlets “did not initially report the [remarks] because they were deemed private under French media traditions.”
 
A French Web site, Arret sur images, published a report late Monday, and the news agencies — not to mention the rest of the French-speaking world — have joined in, traditions to the wayside.
 
It was unclear what prompted Sarkozy to lash out, but the French have made little secret of their frustration with Israel’s decision to expand large-scale settlements. At the United Nations in September, Sarkozy called for Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to begin within a month and for the General Assembly to set a one-year deadline for talks to yield an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

Last week, France voted to support membership for Palestine in UNESCO, despite U.S. pressure to the contrary.

The French president is hardly the first world leader to be overheard by reporters in private conversation, and international summits are notoriously unfortunate for them in that regard.

In 1997, then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was speaking with other European leaders at a summit in Madrid when he began joking about then-president Bill Clinton, and U.S. politicians in general.

“In your country and my country all the [American] politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes,” he said, before laughing a bit.

“They sell their votes! ‘You want me to vote on NATO, then you have to vote to build me a new bridge in my constituency!' ”
 
A few days later, Chretien called Clinton and apologized.


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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #54 on: November 09, 2011, 07:59:34 AM »
Herman ... wow. It seems yuh going to deprive the American electorate of another historic presidential election ... That of two African-American candidates on the November ballot. Ah well ...

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« Reply #55 on: November 10, 2011, 02:24:35 PM »
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's personal assistant is leaving the White House.

Reggie Love, the former Duke basketball player who has been a constant presence by Obama's side since the 2008 presidential campaign, will depart the White House by the end of the year.

Love has been managing his role at the White House while also enrolled in an executive MBA program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A White House official said Love was leaving the administration so he could focus on school.

"His ability to juggle so many responsibilities with so little sleep has been an inspiration to watch," Obama said in a statement. "He is the master of what he does."

Love, 30, is the latest in a string of longtime Obama aides to leave the White House this year, including senior adviser David Axelrod, press secretary Robert Gibbs, deputy press secretary Bill Burton and deputy communications director Jen Psaki. All were part of Obama's team since at least since the 2008 race.

But it is Love who has had perhaps the most unique access to the president.

As Obama's personal assistant — a job that's also known as the president's "body man" — since the beginning of the administration, Love has been a near-constant presence by Obama's side, both at the White House and in travels around and outside the United States.

Love first started working for Obama in his Senate office, and was promoted to personal assistant during the presidential campaign.

His job requirements have included everything from carrying copies of the president's speeches, his iPod, and a steady supply of gum, newspapers and aspirin, to taking photos for audience members as they shook the president's hand. Wherever the president goes, Love has rarely been more than a few steps behind.

"I have an iReggie, who has my books, my newspapers, my music, all in one place," Obama said in an interview last year.

The president also credited Love for expanding his musical repertoire, introducing him to artists like Nas and Lil Wayne. Love has been a frequent teammate on the court for the sports-obsessed president. During the 2008 campaign, Obama and Love started a tradition of playing basketball on the day of every primary or caucus.

Love's departure was first reported by The Washington Post.
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« Reply #56 on: November 10, 2011, 03:05:08 PM »
attentionseeker, now's your chance!

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« Reply #57 on: November 11, 2011, 03:47:03 AM »
The truth is stranger than fiction. Very good work if you can get it.

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Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How it Hurts America
By James Marshall Crotty | Forbes – Wed, Nov 30


"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)

 

Since I report on American education, including the intellectual lassitude of American voters, foreign observers routinely ask me: Why Do Republicans Gleefully Embrace Idiots as Presidential Candidates?

The question naturally begs a larger question: How can a country, with the world’s highest national GDP, and absurdly complex systems regulating everything from credit default swaps to nuclear missile safety, possibly allow onto its national stage men and women of such transparently inferior intellect?

The easy answer is that there has always been a long, pathetic history of anti-intellectual paranoia in American politics, as Richard Hofstadter documented in his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963). It is like kudzu. You just can’t kill it. No matter how advanced the U.S. becomes in technology, biomedicine, and weaponry, it not only attracts, but promotes, under the rubric of equal opportunity, a confederacy of dunces as Presidential candidates.

To be fair, Democrats have had their share of dolts, including the tax-cheating, race-baiting, college dropout Reverend Al Sharpton (who gained fame not only because of his courageous civil rights protests, but because he claims to be “Keepin’ It Real”; read: not formally educated), as well as Democrat-turned-Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond (whose 1948 campaign slogan was “Segregation Forever”). Nevertheless, in 2011, the God-fearing Ossified Party has rolled out the greatest assortment of Know-Nothings in its history, most of whom share a singular misconception: because I can do one small thing well (e.g., run a pizza chain), I can handle the world’s most demanding job.

At first blush, one thinks this embrace of incompetence has something to do with the uniquely American idea that anyone from any background can become President. It’s an old saw told to almost every young person in the country. I believed it. I also believed that I would be an astronaut or a professional basketball player.

However, reason suggests, that when a clear-headed adult, with no experience in national politics, no reputable training in public policy  -- as opposed to a bastion of Christian zealotry like the former Oral Roberts School of Law, which Michelle Bachman attended -- and little understanding of countries outside U.S. borders, says that he or she is running for President, his or her reasonable adult compadres should rightly say, “You are suffering from delusions of grandeur.” After all, you need advanced degrees to properly practice medicine, law, and nuclear physics. Why would we expect the Leader of the Free World to have anything less than the precise qualifications for such an elevated job opening?

However, only in America is no training or knowledge required to perform a job that is not only more complicated and demanding than the above three fields, but one which regulates the above three occupations and all sorts of other complex and nuanced occupations around the globe (including undercover agents in foreign lands).

But that’s only the beginning. What's far more troubling is that you can attract a huge amount of support in this country precisely because you lack qualifications to be president. Such reasoning is, in effect, the raison d’etre of all so-called “outside-the-Beltway” campaigns of recent vintage. However, to fully grasp why inexperience, incompetence and outright stupidity has such an emotional hold on Republicans in particular, you have to understand a core principle of conservative  orthodoxy: intelligence equates with moral relativism.  Which is why, after twice-electing a genuine, but fatally corrupt, thinking person in Richard Nixon, the Republican Party moved away from its historically pragmatic moderation in search of morally doctrinaire ideologues. Naturally, this paved the way for conservative extremists, who, while short on smarts -- or perhaps because they were short on smarts -- stuck to “conservative principles” like maggots to rotting meat. As my late diehard conservative Republican mother told me when I asked how she could rabidly support  such an obvious dullard as George W. Bush, "Because I don't trust the smart ones."

Ronald Reagan became the first of many morally unambiguous dimwits to warm the cockles of conservative hearts. Yes, with this post-Nixon strategy, the dwindling GOP intellectual fringe (historically held up by William Buckley and barely maintained to this day by the likes of David Brooks and Peggy Noonan) has had to stomach an occasional faux pas (e.g., Reagan's simpleton predecessor, Gerald Ford, claiming in a 1976 presidential debate that “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe”), or gasp-inducing ignorance of foreign policy basics (e.g., Sarah Palin not knowing that there is a North and South Korea, or her hysterical notion that Sputnik bankrupted the Soviet Union). But, at least they knew their standard-bearer was not going wishy-washy on them (i.e., thinking hard for a living).

This gambit worked so well with Reagan, it naturally attracted other knuckleheads. First came George Bush Sr.’s running mate, William Danforth Quayle, who promptly showed his latent stupidity by public misspelling potato as “potatoe” … in front of a sixth-grader.

 
Thereafter, Quayle was the butt of many excellent late night jokes, but he lacked the earnest believability of a Reagan to ever accede to the Oval Office (though he did have a fairly hot wife). It took two terms of an intelligent commander-in-chief, and another moral equivocator, former law professor Bill Clinton, for the Republicans to search again for an unequivocal moral crusader with not a whole lot going on upstairs.

Enter George W. Bush, who, like Reagan, also enjoyed two terms in office, despite beliefs in brazen poppycock such as Intelligent Design and in the whopper of all disastrous absurdities, that Saddam Hussein was not only marshalling weapons of mass destruction to directly attack the U.S. (no, he was bluffing to deter his real enemy, neighboring Iran), but that he was also behind 9/11 (never let a good crisis go to waste, eh Mr. Cheney?). Only a true rube could believe such specious nonsense. And G.W. Bush – who exemplified the adage, “Never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity” -- fit the bill. The Republican Party loved him for it, bending over backwards to sanitize and “Hannitize” his many blunders, while selling his disinformation to a gullible American public still in shock from the attacks of 9/11.

At last count, the Iraq Detour has cost this nation trillions of dollars (with more trillions to come, as this country keeps its commitment to care for wounded and mentally shell-shocked Iraq War veterans and their loved ones). It also cost the lives of 125,000 Iraqi civilians, and many times more than that who’ve been wounded or displaced by the Iraqi misadventure.  All because of a lie and Americans’ willingness to either believe that lie or not forthrightly contest it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the empirical cost of stupidity.

After the costly policy blunders of Bush, Jr. -- for which this country is still paying dearly in lower credit ratings and draconian cuts in funding for parks, libraries, law enforcement, and more -- in came yet another Democratic law professor to clean up yet another Republican mess. Except this Democrat, Barack Obama, did not carry the moral and ethical baggage of his Democratic predecessor.

However, for reasons both racial and political, though primarily intellectual (President Obama is too cosmopolitan, too wordly, too nuanced, too calm, too Europe-friendly), Republicans have aggressively sought to cut Obama’s tenure short. Unfortunately, this time around they lack a bona fide, morally unequivocal, conservative with enough general election appeal to take Obama on. Each hopeful successor to the Republican Dumbass Throne (the coveted RDT) has proven so cartoonishly dopey as to offend even the intelligence of diehard Iowa primary voters, easily the most unbending conservatives in the U.S.

Things are now so bad on the dumbass front that, in a poll announced yesterday, Iowans are no longer interested in the current crop of Republican cretins. This includes Texas Governor Rick “Oops” Perry, who, in a colossal boneheaded moment in a live nationally televised debate, could not remember the third federal agency he would cut as president.

 
In an empirical validation of the anti-intellectual streak in GOP Politics, Perry then went on national talk shows the following morning to defend his stupidity as a reason to vote for him. On CNN’s “American Morning,” Perry said, "We've got a debater-in-chief right now, and you gotta ask yourself: 'How's that working out for America?'" In other words, being a good debater, and knowing the issues, is bad for America. This list also includes Michelle “Pray the Gay Away” Bachman, who believes that “Founding Fathers” like John Quincy Adams “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States” (except J. Q. Adams died in 1848, long before “slavery was no more”). Even though the self-righteous Bachman is a native of Waterloo, Iowa, voters in her home state just cannot see trusting her with the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal (trusting a Creationist like Bachman on any public policy would be like trusting a phrenologist with curing your cancer).

And, yes, this also includes the endlessly entertaining Herman “I’m Not Supposed to Know Anything About Foreign Policy” Cain, whose inability to construct a coherent sentence on Libya and stated desire to prevent an already nuclear-armed China from “going nuclear” are now part of national dumbass folklore.

 
And lets not forget the deeply annoying Rick "Sanctum" Santorum, who said publicly that former P.O.W. John McCain “didn’t understand advanced interrogation techniques.” A Republican dumbass hallmark: arrogance wed to ignorance.

As a result of such transparently dumb stooges, Iowa Republicans, and conservatives in general, are actually settling on a bona fide shyster in the Richard Nixon mold: the pudgy, pompous, nastiness known as Newt Gingrich. As I made clear in my previous column, Darth Gingrich Vs. the Romney Ken Doll, the Republican nomination is now a race between Gingrich and Romney, which, once all the baggage of the corrupt former Speaker is laid out for all to see, could tilt to the nomination back to the Massachusetts Mormon, where’s it’s been for most of this Republican election cycle.

Now, you might ask, why aren’t Republicans in love with Romney? After all, he’s been a successful businessman in the Republican mold, essentially downsizing companies to their bare essentials and then reselling them for profit. He has that vague, detached, tall Ken Doll vibe that Republicans idealized in Reagan. In addition, as a devout Mormon, he’s squeaky clean in the morals department. Dude doesn’t drink, smoke, do drugs, or drink hot caffeinated beverages. He’s more straight edge than the Crotty, and that’s saying something.

Unfortunately, Romney, a Harvard graduate (and not a faux one like G.W. Bush), is just not seen as dumb enough. Though he and his Mormon faithful believe in preposterous canards (e.g., that Jesus Came to America), Romney consistently demonstrates a frustrating lack of imbecility, particularly in the the artful compromises he’s engineered over his political career, including his momentous achievement of passing mandatory health insurance in his adopted home state of Massachusetts. This subtlety of purpose, this nuance, is anathema to politically and morally unambiguous conservatives, who see the world in great big Murdoch-style tabloid dualism.

Which makes their sudden embrace of Mr. Gingrich so hilarious. Because, even more than Romney, it is Gingrich who has demonstrated enormous flexibility in his core conservative principles. He voted for NAFTA and the WTO; loan guarantees for China; most favored nation status for China; $1.2 billion in aid to the United Nations; and the creation of the Department of Education. Moreover, he reached across the aisle to make deals with Democrat Bill Clinton on welfare reform and a balanced budget, while achieving a compromise on global warming with Nanci Pelosi (which he has since pathetically renounced in an attempt to appeal to the Hannity-Bennett blockhead wing of the GOP). Recently, he attacked Paul Ryan’s budget plan as “right-wing social engineering” (before backing off that claim as well).

What Gingrich proves is not his electability, but, rather, the disastrous absurdity of the Conservative fealty test. Like other fealty tests in American history (from Truman’s Executive Order 9835, a.k.a. the “Loyalty Order,” to Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, right up to Herman Cain’s Muslim Loyalty Test), it is bound to end badly for the candidate, the party, and the country, which is governed best when the commander-in-chief is given enormous flexibility to do the practical, diplomatic, and, thus, smart, thing, not the ideologically pure one.
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Re: Will President Obama be re-elected?
« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2011, 06:33:38 AM »
dat ting long but highly entertaining............who eh know republicanism is akin to stupidity, d only smart people in dat lot are d rich ones dat benefit from the "pro rich people" ah mean pro business ::) republican policies ................ent Daft ;D
I pity the fool....

 

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