Posted on 05/15/2014 8:33:43 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: I Need New Yorkers to Move West and Vote Democrat
by Charlie Spiering 15 May 2014, 7:41 AM PDT President Obama joked during a New York fundraiser that he needed the attendees to move west to increase his support.
During his speech, Obama told a story about a woman who asked how she could help him, and he joked that she should move to North Dakota.
If I could just get about a million excess votes in Brooklyn out to Nebraska, Wyoming, wed be doing okay, Obama said as the crowd laughed. I don't need 80 percent of the vote here.
Obama complained about structural disadvantages with the political system, pointing out that although Republican ideas did not have support from the majority of Americans, the political system kept Democratic majorities out of reach.
We have a congenital disease, which is: during midterms our voters don't show up. That's what it comes down to, he said. That and population distribution and gerrymandering.
Obama said he had been stymied in trying to enact his agenda because "Washington doesn't work."
Obama said:
The challenge we've got is very simple: Washington doesnt work. It's not as if we've got no good ideas on policy. We've got tons of them. I've got a drawer full of things that we know would create jobs, help our middle class, boost incomes, make us more competitive. But we have a party on the other side that has been captured by an ideology that says no to everything because they cling to a rigid theory that the only way to grow the economy is for government to be dismantled and let the market sort things out, and folks at the top doing very well will somehow automatically trickle down to everybody else.
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That’s what happens when you intentionally put all your voters in the population centers. You can win presidential elections and senate seats (state-wide races) but congressional districts and local legislative seats are filled with republicans.
They absolutely loved it when they controlled the country after the censuses of 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970 and even 1980. But after the 1990 census, the 2000 census, and the 2010 census, power shifted significantly, as reflected in the various legislatures across the country.
I know it’s not healthy but I really hate this piece of poop. I’m starting to really hate those who voted and still support him.
Yep.
To me, it sounded like he was joking......but not really. And a forced move would be exactly how his tiny little mind thinks.
Oh, I’d love to see those limousine liberals in North Dakota. They’d buy up all the oceanfront property there.
Anyone notice that most of the Demorat States are pushing for Presidential election by "popular vote",
rather than by the Electoral College ?
They must be getting ready to offer more 'freebies' for elections , and not have to resort to regional distribution state-by-state.
That's all we need: more distribution of entitlements , and less responsibility and accountability .
Obama doesn’t understand you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
If you didn’t insult Republicans everytime you open your mouth, they might be more reluctant to work with you.
But when you go around calling people, rigid, ignorant, and the party of NO, they are not in the mood to work with you.
Translation: Voting machines are all rigged in New York, so we need more democrats in the red states because we haven’t been able to rig corrupt elections there yet...
And we need to divide electoral votes by congressional district, no more winner take all states.
The challenge we've got is very simple: Washington doesnt work.
She's got that part right, but the solution is less government, not more.
We don’t want them.
I Like My Guns Like Obongo Likes His Voters;UnDocumented!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s from a gun store sign in Texas. You saw it too.
Red states should take a good look at extending residency requirements for voting to about 6 years or so.
Inside of every joke there is a certain amount of truth.
Many a true work spoken in jest.
All he can do is whine about our great country and what’s wrong with the American people. Why can’t he just get out of the way and let America move forward.
The guy is preaching idiocy.
The US is at near parity in terms of public support/opposition to the parties and a whole host of issues.
The Constitution was designed to account for that: so that a minimal majority couldn’t just trample over a substantial minority.
This guy is basically advocating mob rule and tyranny of the majority.
That’s why I no longer fear the possibility of civil war. I realized it’s probably the only way we will ever be able to fully rid ourselves of the opportunistic infection known as leftism, so, if it ever happens, it might not be an entirely bad thing.
Or there wont be a civil war because libs will infest every are of the country so there is no place left to fight a war over, much like here.
Latinos are slowing moving in on and growing in Texas and the Southern states. Dems are counting on them taking over the Red states.
Amnesty just speeds that up.
What’s the draw. Tech jobs? How big is this town?
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