Posted on 08/30/2009 3:46:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Barack Obama came into office championing change, and he apparently assumed that if Americans voted for him, it was because they wanted the future to be different from what went before. Actually, what they wanted was a future much like the not-so-distant past -- before the financial crisis, before the recession, before the Iraq war, before the most unpopular president since the invention of polling.
If voters had wanted a sharp ideological shift, they could have voted for Democratic candidates more identified with Great Society-style government -- Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or even Dennis Kucinich. Obama got the early endorsement of Ted Kennedy, but like Bill Clinton before him, he won because he distanced himself from Kennedy-style liberalism. His promise of change was eloquent enough to motivate the left wing of his party but vague enough to make him acceptable to people in the middle.
Among independents, Obama beat John McCain by an 8-point margin. The reason John Kerry lost and Obama won, as Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen has noted, was not liberal voters: They voted for both in the same proportion. The difference was that while Kerry had a 9-point edge over his Republican opponent among moderates, Obama carried them by 21 points. Obama also did significantly better among conservatives than Kerry.
After the election, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee Mike Duncan noted that the Democratic nominee supported offshore oil drilling, merit pay for teachers, a tax cut for 95 percent of Americans, more troops in Afghanistan and an end to wasteful federal earmarks. "Put simply," he said, "Barack Obama just ran the most successful moderate Republican presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower."
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I’d take a thieving Clinton over what we find ourselves with today. Hell, I wax nostalgic for a little tryst in the Oval office. How bad are things when you start thinking those were the good old days.
Really bad... but I’m with you - please bring back Clinton!
This President is not only crazy, but unAmerican. Please can’t we have this election over...
This 0bama guy is atrocious, and clinton was bad enouigh - but the present occupant in the oval office won’t control his problems, and he won’t sent a bro’ off his plantation.
Agreed. Too much change. Too much Socialism.
Sorry to say, but it seems worse than you think... I look at all the left wing idiots that he has appointed (without Congressional approval - Czars) and I really wonder just what in the hell is happening! This President is crazy!
Not anti-government...Anti-Communist.
Find and watch Glenn Beck’s five shows from last week and you’ll be mortified at first, then encouraged last. Then continue to watch or better DVR his shows.
Instead of watching Shep blubber away each evening, I watch Beck.
“Barack Obama came into office championing change, and he apparently assumed that if Americans voted for him, it was because they wanted the future to be different”
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t give a plugged nickel for what the voters, any voters, want. He follows the orders of the International Communists, who follow the orders of the bankers, Illuminati, Council On Foreign Relations, Bilderbergers, Jesuits, Masons and the rest of the New Age, New World Order self-acclaimed “elite”.
He is not crazy, he is the enemy of the constitution and this nation. He needs to be removed from office along with his cronies in disgrace. The American people must be made aware of the danger of this group of traitorous marxists. Unfortunately most know it already and many just don’t care.
After the election, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee Mike Duncan noted that the Democratic nominee supported offshore oil drilling, merit pay for teachers, a tax cut for 95 percent of Americans, more troops in Afghanistan and an end to wasteful federal earmarks. "Put simply," he said, "Barack Obama just ran the most successful moderate Republican presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower."
When they woke up, what a dream!
...before the most unpopular president since the invention of polling.The very same most unpopular President who beat fake hero real traitor John Kerry, and as a supposed lame duck, treated the Demwit majority in Congress in 2007 and 2008 like a prison beeotch.
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