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To: paul544
When 70+% of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track and Obama still polls at 50%...

This is what we have to understand. People are angry about the way things are, but they don't associate those bad things with Obama. I've talked to many, many people and a lot of them say things like they "like Obama". I ask them why they like him, or what it is they like, and they have no answer other than to repeat they "like" him. They are either brainless or brainwashed. And others who say things like "they don't blame him". But they blame Republicans or Bush. I ask them why they blame those people and the answer seems to be "they're bad people", or they "don't like them". I can only conclude a lot of people simply have emotionally driven political philosophies.

We have to understand this phenomenon and figure out why it is this way. We need to find a way to connect the dissatisfaction people feel with Obanga, because he is the cause of it. For some reason, a lot of people don't want to believe it.

67 posted on 11/10/2011 11:56:59 AM PST by chimera
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To: chimera; paul544; PSYCHO-FREEP
When 70+% of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track and Obama still polls at 50%...

This is what we have to understand. People are angry about the way things are, but they don't associate those bad things with Obama. I've talked to many, many people and a lot of them say things like they "like Obama". I ask them why they like him, or what it is they like, and they have no answer other than to repeat they "like" him. They are either brainless or brainwashed. And others who say things like "they don't blame him". But they blame Republicans or Bush. I ask them why they blame those people and the answer seems to be "they're bad people", or they "don't like them". I can only conclude a lot of people simply have emotionally driven political philosophies.

We have to understand this phenomenon and figure out why it is this way. We need to find a way to connect the dissatisfaction people feel with Obanga, because he is the cause of it. For some reason, a lot of people don't want to believe it.

This is the same thinking of the university president who championed the Occupy people and their goals (in the abstract) but reached a real-life point of being fed up with their on-campus filth and mayhem, and sent them packing.

It's emotionalism. When do people wake up? When the problem starts to dribble its fetid water over their own home's threshold.

On that same campus I saw a "Dump [BO]" sign (BO was pictured with a Hitler mustache). This would have been unthinkable a year ago; they would have confiscated that protestor's sign.

I think the cognitive strain is beginning to show. Redistribution of wealth is fine in theory, too much wealth is concentrated in the hands of too few, these people say -- but they squeal when they feel a hand grabbing their own wallet.

91 posted on 11/12/2011 1:20:43 PM PST by thecodont
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