Posted on 11/02/2009 4:38:55 PM PST by Steelfish
In Iowa, Euphoria Gives Way to Second Thoughts on Obama
JEFF ZELENY November 2, 2009 WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa — Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama. From the moment she first saw him two years ago, she was smitten by his speeches and sold on his promise of change. She switched parties to support him in the Iowa caucuses, donated money and opened her home to a pair of young campaign workers.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” said Pauline McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse.
But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying: “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”
“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.”
One year after winning the election, Mr. Obama has seen his pledge to transcend partisanship in Washington give way to the hardened realities of office.
A campaign for the history books, filled with a sky-high sense of possibility for Mr. Obama not just among legions of loyal Democrats but also among converts from outside the party, has descended to an unfamiliar plateau for a president whose political rise was as rapid as it was charmed.
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Is this from our New York TImes or is their one on Pluto?
I feel no sympathy for the dopes who feel betrayed.
Me either, total idiots.
Williamsburg? Yikes. Unpleasant flashbacks.
67% of 18-29 year olds voted for 0 and according to Gallup “white single women, unmarried, divorced, separated or divorced voted “overwhelmingly” for 0. This is the primary group that gave us these two low-rents in the WH.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” said Pauline McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse.
But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying: “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”
“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
People this stupid (basically the entire demoRAT party or whoever voted for 0bozo the commie pig) shouldn't be allowed to vote, own houses or drive cars. They're just too damn stupid. They're zombies, as Bob Hope pointed out in a great old time video!!! It looks like she is still looking for a way to justify financially supporting & voting again for the commie pig 0bozo.
Alas, another idiot who fell for the “Hope and Change” mantra, totally clueless that it really meant “You will be Hopeless and Shortchanged.”
Good grief, over 70 years old and too dumb to have observed the world around her all those years and learn anything from it.
Hate to say it, but that was my first thought too. She is not some naive, pie-in-the-sky teeniebopper.
With age brings wisdom. Not.
Hey, Lady! How is that workin' for you?
She’s disappointed in Obama because he represents “politics as usual”?
Did she expect him to levitate? Raise the waters? Rain down manna from Heaven?
I suspect that a lot of these dopes still don’t understand what the real problems are with Obama.
Like he’s a Kenyan Muslim Communist who really, really HATES America. I don’t call that politics as usual.
What a SUCKER this Pauline McAreavy was!
You wonder how these people made it through life in one piece. This particular woman was retired. That’s a lot of living. She never met a schister in her life before? I can see how naieve teen agers fall for his crap, even some college students, but grown adults? I’m still amazed at that.
Not only is the bloom off the rose, its also starting to smell like a dead fish.
Karma’s a bitch - ain’t it?
Right along with you, but I’m glad their eyes are opening and I welcome them back “to the fold”...
But this can’t be! He graduated from Harvard and had cool slogens and sounded so good and promised to take care of us.
She voted for hope and was left with a few pennies in change.
If you are looking for “change”, I suggest you vote YOUR incumbent representative and (if applicable) senators OUT of office next November.
They are frequently ignorant and proud of it, often nauseatingly so when they are third or fourth generation 'rats with a propensity for hyphenating their citizenship.
My 21 and 19 year old college student daughters were among the 33% that voted for McC...er...Sarah!
And they are enjoying watching those who voted for 0 whine and complain.
Her husband probably told her how to vote for many years and now that he is gone.Seriously I used to work as a poll worker and it is very common among the blue haired democrats for their husbands to stand behind them and “help”.
So am I.
WTF?
Hoenstly - this is crap. I live in Iowa, I have many friends and family in Iowa - some of them die hard democrats. Not once have I seen a picture of Obama on a mantle anywhere. Nor a wall, nor an end table, nor a mousepad, etc.
I have a mantle - but no pictures of Obama there. I even have a dart board - no pictures there either.
What a complete and total load of crap. Honestly, did this article really need that level of fictional flourish?
WTF?
I have no doubt that what you say is true.
Yep! Bet ya she sits there in her chair and watches the View, Opraha,GMA etc all day.
I have no doubt.
He’s so cute. And blacks will feel better about things. It’s how they “think”.
That was the genius of the Obama campaign - he managed to sell himself as a DC outsider to inattentive moderates without ever declaring it in such a way that riled up his left-wing base. McCain, on the other hand, was viewed as the ultimate DC insider even if his platform was (somewhat) less supportive of the Big Government agenda.
If you want to vote against politics as usual, you can't do it by supporting any major party candidate - they don't get the nomination without first earning the Goldman Sachs Seal of Approval.
As a native and current resident of Iowa, I would say that is it representative of how the nation votes. Primarily many, way to many, people who have been snowed by the "D" party they always voted for. It has never been about voted for a "D" it has been about voting against an "R."
And, I have got to say, the "R's" in IA and nationally have been pretty pathetic over the past 15 years as a general statement (wish Representative King was my representative).
That's a national trend, which reflects the presidential election vote.
Personally - I could care less if IA lost it's first in the nation status - if you don't live here you can't fathom the pain and suffering of constant bombardment for an entire year during a presidential election. Hopefully someone is making money.
But if you want to make someone else first - who should it be? CA, TX, IL?
Only fair way to do it in my opinion is to have a same day national primary vote.
By the way - the caucuses in IA are significantly different for dems than they are for republicans - republicans vote, dems share their feelings and argue with each other until the squeeky wheel wins...
I see way too many middle aged and senior women with Obama bumper stickers on their cars. The genius of the Obama campaign was they convinced too many voters that they were voting for the Cosby family.
Ya reckon Ms. McAreavy would appreciate my tag line?
Jiminy crickets!
Did those wacky scientist crack a dimensional door from some super-collidor experiment?
America has just now figured it out?
Either that or Roddy Piper blew up the mind control transmitter and we are seeing what Obama really looks like....
Most people 70 and older are set in their ways and get all their news from the DBM. They are from an era when you could actually trust a lot of what you heard on ABCNBCCBS to be factual. Most are not consumers of cable news nor are they computer literate. I cut these people a break.
I don’t cut a break to the young adults who are computer savvy, watch cable news and voted overwhelmingly for Obama. They’re just plain stupid.
I hate to tell all you people and I know I am going to get barked at, but in the long run I am glad McCain lost. He is an idiot. The Tea Parties have arisen because of our current president’s policies and they are succeeding( see NY 28)and it is time for more activism on the part of the American people.We should have never let it go so far downhill. Obama is awakening the sleeping giant.
Just...wow.
I understand she lives in a different world than the one she grew up in...we all have.
I've heard a saying...some people have 20 years experience at a job. Other people have one year's worth of experience, twenty times.
Uh....I’m almost 76 and I don’t consider myself stupid. I have been engaged with the world all of my life. I did not sit in a class room of children and fill my life with grading papers and trying to be politically correct. I have been a member of FR since 98 and I am very informed. I’ll bet if you took a poll here, you would find that there are more people over 70 than you think.
Shame on someone 76 years old taken in by a scam artist.
Just goes to prove my adage that growing older doesn’t always mean growing wiser.
My septuagenarian parents shake their heads at what goes on in this state and say, "My God, we're a bunch of idiots."
I blame the GOP for fronting McFriend as much as the dumb hope and change voters. If we only had a real canadit...
This is from the NYT. They make stuff up.
Freepers certainly don’t fit the picture I was painting. The people I called stupid were the YOUNG adults (reread my post).
First of all, you and others on FR of a similar age use a computer and second of all you seek out knowledge from lots of sources.
I am close to 60 and most of the people I know personally who are over 70 do not use a computer, even though they are well educated people.
She is now an administrator at another large Houston research hospital at an even better salary--and the people she works for and with share her views.
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