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The Ground Has Shifted Under Obama
Human Events ^ | August 1, 2011 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 08/01/2011 10:04:21 AM PDT by redstateone

No matter what happens with the eventual debt ceiling deal, one thing is certain: the political ground has now shifted under President Obama’s feet, and he and his strategists have yet to realize how seismic the shift has been...

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; bho2012; bho44; debt; federalspending; leadership; obama
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1 posted on 08/01/2011 10:04:26 AM PDT by redstateone
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To: redstateone

To quote Obama, was it a “Teutonic shift”?


2 posted on 08/01/2011 10:07:15 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter

Ha! That’s a good one.


3 posted on 08/01/2011 10:08:24 AM PDT by redstateone
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To: redstateone

I think Obama knows he’s screwed.


4 posted on 08/01/2011 10:08:24 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: library user

Do you really? Or do you think that they know that in a year, the media, Hollywood, and all the rest will rally around him and win? I’m not sure.


5 posted on 08/01/2011 10:09:43 AM PDT by redstateone
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To: redstateone

Well...if the current debt ceiling “deal” goes through, this will give Obama cover of a sort.

Why isn’t the American public SCREAMING about this????


6 posted on 08/01/2011 10:10:22 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: redstateone

When that Kangeroo Committee gets down to business, his base will change their tune as the GOP base howls in anger.

This is long term good deal for Obama and a CATASTROPHE for us.


7 posted on 08/01/2011 10:12:09 AM PDT by ZULU (Crapo, Coburn and Chambliss are a herd of renegade RINOs.)
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To: redstateone

When that Kangeroo Committee gets down to business, his base will change their tune as the GOP base howls in anger.

This is long term good deal for Obama and a CATASTROPHE for us.


8 posted on 08/01/2011 10:12:32 AM PDT by ZULU (Crapo, Coburn and Chambliss are a herd of renegade RINOs.)
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To: ZULU

I agree with his base rallying later. They’re in a sour mood right now. But once the GOP candidate is named, and they kick the Chicago attack machine into high gear, the progressive sheep will follow and rally. Against a weak GOP candidate, that spells reelection.

Depressing.


9 posted on 08/01/2011 10:14:07 AM PDT by redstateone
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To: redstateone

Voters bought into the hype of Hollywood and the MSM back in 2008.

However, they didn’t buy it in 2010 and won’t in 2012.

Nov. 2012 will be more similar economic-woes-wise to 2010 than 2010 was to 2008, which makes it even more likely 0 goes down and goes down big.


10 posted on 08/01/2011 10:15:09 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: ZULU

They’ll give us Mitt Romney..we’ll vote for Ron Paul and Obama is in like Flint.


11 posted on 08/01/2011 10:15:39 AM PDT by alamogal
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To: Fantasywriter

What’s the word for Teutonic shift in Austrian?

But back to substance.

There’s a lot of groaning here at FR today, and understandably.

But it is what it is. I think we have to keep in mind that we didn’t totally lose. No, that is not heartening.

But we didn’t win the Cold War without a lot of major setbacks, either. Nor was it even apparent when Reagan left office that we had in fact won, and all that George Bush had to do was to kick over the carcass.

The welfare state is dying, because we can’t defy gravity much longer. We have to take heart and fight to make sure that something will replace the welfare state when it finishes crashing down.

I think in Cold War terms, we are at about 1985. The stimulus was like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The communists have overextended again, and they are going to lose. We just have to keep fighting.


12 posted on 08/01/2011 10:16:24 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: library user

Boy I sure hope you’re right.

It’s just that Plouffe, Alexrod, and Obama are terrific campaigners. One can only hope that the Obama Zombies have waken up from their slumber.


13 posted on 08/01/2011 10:16:34 AM PDT by redstateone
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To: Fantasywriter
A Teutonic shift -- like this dress? (Or is that more of a Teutonic smock -- I can never tell.)



Do the Teutonians speak Teuton?
14 posted on 08/01/2011 10:18:52 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: redstateone

The greatest weapon that the GOP had going into the next election is the debt ceiling. The GOP should have pushed harder on the limited ceiling increase to force another conversation during the next election cycle.


15 posted on 08/01/2011 10:20:16 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: redstateone

He will win reelection.


16 posted on 08/01/2011 10:20:38 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: redstateone

Obama lost nothing in this deal.

The only way the political ground might have shifted under Obama is that he won this war and is on more solid ground. He and the democrats made buffoons out of Boehner and McConnell once again.

So now during the 2012 campaign he can claim he compromised with republicans but their plan only made things worse, yada, yada, yada.....


17 posted on 08/01/2011 10:21:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: ConservativeDude
What’s the word for Teutonic shift in Austrian?

That's what they call it when Angela Merkel squirms at the prospect of needing to meet with Obozo.

18 posted on 08/01/2011 10:28:43 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: redstateone

Read this if you haven’t already seen it. It explains why I think 0 will lose:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2753912/posts


19 posted on 08/01/2011 10:28:58 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Too funny! Could it be a Teutonic frock?

I think the Teutonians speak ‘Austrian’.

At least, that’s what Austrians speak. Just ask Obama.

::smirk::


20 posted on 08/01/2011 10:31:04 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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