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Barack Obama is on course for a second term – against all the odds
Guardian UK blog ^ | 17 Aug 2011 | Michael White

Posted on 08/17/2011 9:30:15 AM PDT by smokingfrog

Let's take the day off from picking over the ruins of our own miserable riots and try to cheer ourselves up over Barack Obama's good fortune. What good fortune? I hear you ask. Surely he has just been humiliated over the US budget debacle and the decision of a cowboy credit rating agency to tweak America's triple-A credit status. His standing in the polls is sagging, now below 40%.

Well, yes, that's all true. And he has not been a particularly brave or effective president either. Democrat or Republican, I'd be pretty disappointed, too. But election campaigns are about choice of both candidate and their policies. So Obama's luck lies in the near-unbelievable fact that the Republicans look determined either to pick a loser or refuse to vote for someone who could win.

In the past few days, newspapers have been full of reports about the Republican field, as displayed at the Iowa "straw poll" – a pretty phoney beauty contest ("institutionalised bribery" – Sunday Telegraph) even more fixable than next January's Iowa caucus – and not displayed, in the sense that two wannabe presidents, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, stayed away.

The straw poll was won by the Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, who is this season's Sarah Palin, though not so wacky or whimsical. She who has five children, has fostered 23 more, and is an evangelical Christian conservative popular with Tea Party activists. Last winter, I argued here that ex-governor Palin was and is unelectable as president ("That's not a prediction, it's personal guarantee").

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: election2012; iowastrawpoll; teaparty
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Long deranged rant. 0bama is no Harry Truman.
1 posted on 08/17/2011 9:30:23 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Unfortunately, unless conservatives can rally around one candidate, it may be true.


2 posted on 08/17/2011 9:32:23 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: smokingfrog

Look out!

Here comes the TITANIC!!


3 posted on 08/17/2011 9:33:53 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: smokingfrog

It’s the Guardian, fercryin’outloud.

Read their version of the history re: teh American Imperialism, if you want to know what I mean.


4 posted on 08/17/2011 9:34:47 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: smokingfrog

Can I barf now ... if FUBO somehow gets re-elected we might as well wrap it up because I doubt the world will ever see a free society again not in a long long time at any rate


5 posted on 08/17/2011 9:34:59 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
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To: Nachum
Unfortunately, unless conservatives can rally around one candidate, it may be true

Yep instead of focusing on the ball Conservatives are busy day dreaming about some fantasy perfect candidate who will magically appear and "Save" them.

The result is probably a repeat of 2008, Conservative votes scattered to the 4 winds thus allowing the RINO Romney to win the nomination with about 20% of the party vote.

Then, since Romney is 0 lite, only the two parties hard core bases vote in Nov 2012 allowing 0 to breeze to a 2nd term.

6 posted on 08/17/2011 9:39:09 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: smokingfrog
“Against all the odds” my ass.

That scumbag has 90% of the “reporters” and 99% of Hollyweird barraging Americans with pro-Hussein propaganda 24/7.

7 posted on 08/17/2011 9:39:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: smokingfrog

Perry Responds To Obama: “Mr. President, Actions Speak Loud Than Words”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/17/perry_responds_to_obama_mr_president_actions_speak_loud_than_words.html

Obama vs. Perry in a nutshell

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/obama_vs_perry_in_a_nutshell.html


8 posted on 08/17/2011 9:39:43 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Nachum

Primaries exist for that reason. It’s a competition and it’s supposed to be messy. There’s no need to rally around one person right now. I love that we have such a large diverse field.

Cindie


9 posted on 08/17/2011 9:40:26 AM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: smokingfrog
"knuckle-dragging congressfolk like Florida's Allen West"

Racist! Oh wait, only conservatives are racists.

10 posted on 08/17/2011 9:41:39 AM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: BenLurkin

Post of the thread.

My initial thoughts exactly.

The Kenyan RaceMarxist, has enjoyed billions in free publicity and propaganda; off the charts even by the ridiculously skewed media standards, routinely enjoyed by other Commie/Democrats.

He is no underdog.


11 posted on 08/17/2011 9:44:42 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: smokingfrog

The Guardian strikes again. LOL.


12 posted on 08/17/2011 9:45:13 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

[ “knuckle-dragging congressfolk like Florida’s Allen West”
Racist! Oh wait, only conservatives are racists. ]

Primates like Gorillas and Chimps locomaote around by a gait referred to as “knuckle walking”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle_walking

So are they calling Allen West a monkey or primate?

Isn’t this blatant racism?


13 posted on 08/17/2011 9:50:26 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: smokingfrog

Obama is going down in a very humiliating defeat, it will be quite a spectacle for our sore eyes.


14 posted on 08/17/2011 9:54:35 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: smokingfrog
That must be some great weed, Mikey!


15 posted on 08/17/2011 9:55:32 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: smokingfrog

The UK Guardian says that a return of Obama would be good fortune?

No wonder their own country is so Fudged up.


16 posted on 08/17/2011 10:07:13 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: GraceG

It is according on who does it.


17 posted on 08/17/2011 10:08:55 AM PDT by sport
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To: smokingfrog

The odds are that “The Divine One” will be reelected. Bloc votes, fraud, massive amounts of money, inept Republicans and Media bias. The aforementioned are difficult to beat not withstanding our fervid wishes.


18 posted on 08/17/2011 10:14:28 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: smokingfrog
Typical Guardian cheerleading for Obama.

Obama does have the media running interference for him 24/7 but stubbornly high unemployment numbers and the generally negative U.S. economy can't be hidden. So, Obama and the left try desperately to point fingers of blame at Republicans, TEA party politicians, the House of Representatives, fate, whatever, but it doesn't resonate with the electorate anymore. The Guardian piece carefully ignores the effect of the alternative media (internet, conservative talk radio, Fox News). I believe this kind of smarmy article from a left-wing (U.K.) publication is a combination of leftist wishful thinking (I notice that it mocks every GOP candidate but Romney) and an attempt at sheer propaganda. It won't work. Obama has done too much damage that most Americans can see or, worse yet, have personally experienced (job loss, etc). Leftist puff pieces pretending that, 4 months prior to the first Republican primary, a full year before the nominating convention and 15 months before the federal election, the Republican field is in disarray and the 'front-runners' (Perry, Bachmann) are 'extreme' (what else?) and far too conservative for the independents to vote for is simply twaddle. As always, the next few months will see a winnowing of the current Republican field and the emergence of a true front-runner, not the leftmedia choice. It may be Perry, it could be Palin but it probably won't be Romney, thank God. Obama won't come close to winning re-election and the Guardian will just have to suck it up.

"Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to whom you will vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have." (candidate) Ronald Reagan, October 28, 1980 at the close of his debate with then-president Jimmy Carter.

These should be the same questions the eventual Republican presidential candidate asks of the nation (in his/her own words, of course). They concisely clarify the reasons for denying Obama re-election.

19 posted on 08/17/2011 10:25:55 AM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: smokingfrog

Yes and the tactics will include bashing the tea party and blaming...Bush.

Just read this on another web site by a liberal poster, wondered how to respond to it: “Barack inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit.”

Of course I know that he’s been in there spending for 3 years, but I imagine this is the sort of stuff they are going to pitch out there.

We really do need to rally around somebody, to prevent these guys from doing it again. Of course the lie machine is geared up and ready to start spewing forth.


20 posted on 08/17/2011 10:29:34 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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