Posted on 09/16/2009 7:41:19 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
On Friday, I was at DePauw University in Indiana debating former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. It was two days after Barack Obama's big speech before a joint session of Congress and Mr. Dean is a strong advocate for his party's agenda and a medical doctor, so I expected him to defend the president's idea of adding a "trigger" to health-care reform to ease its passage and thereby guarantee a government takeover of our health-care system.
But Mr. Dean turned out to be tougher on triggers than I was. He called them a "terrible" idea.
It's now becoming clear that Mr. Obama's speech failed to rally voters and failed to inspire Democrats to follow their president's lead. And while the fissures are small now (Mr. Dean's worry seems to be that triggers would give too much away to Republicans), they will likely widen unless the president shows that his policies will do what his campaign did expand the pool of voters in favor of Democrats.
That's not happening now. A Gallup poll this week found that 38% of Americans say their representative should vote for ObamaCare 40% want their member to vote against it. It was 37%-39% on the same question the day before Mr. Obama spoke.
Part of Mr. Obama's problem is his language. His speech contained little new information and his tone was unpresidential. Instead of binding Americans to his cause, he called legitimate concerns "misinformation," "false," "demagoguery," "distortion" or "tall tales." Earlier in the week he declared them "lies." This was like calling people with concerns stupid, and it's not the way to win them over.
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PSSSSSSSST! KARL, Please dont instruct the OBOZO on how to correct his depraved personality and Terrorist tendencies!
Please just let the “JACKASS” hang himself by his own petards!!! What ever they may be.....:-)
If Ozero takes Rove's advice he will further alienate the far left.
Rove's toying with the Shamster.
Another problem is:
Obama *IS* ACORN.
Do we want ACORN running our healthcare? Republicans, Rush, hannity, Savage, Beck and others should be asking - DO WE WANT ACORN RUNNING OUR HEALTHCARE?
LOL! Priceless.
Obama *IS* ACORN.
I hope and pray that You are Correct!Its just that the RATS know Karl is Brilliant! Thats why they have tried to destroy him in a Million different ways.....
Great pic!
I don’t think these Dems will follow Obama out of a burning house; he knows the game is up, and now its just damage control. Many of these Dems are starting their political careers, and won’t throw them away for the clean, articulate Kenyan or his trend-setting wife everybody has fallen in love with (haven’t seen her around lately, have you>). The strategy to get the majorities in Congress were smart enough, but left you with a “big tent” that included a range of Democrats often diametrically opposed on some major issues (abortion, gun control, illegal immigration). They now have the numbers to control the topic of discussion, but without any accompanying action
I think it’s going to be very interesting how may Obama HR3200 Kool-Aid drinkers they’re going to be in the House, particularly among the first-termers.
Oh, they've been ignoring Rush's advice for years too. I wouldn't worry about it much.
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