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James Carville: Obama should ‘panic’
Politico ^

Posted on 09/15/2011 5:13:21 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

James Carville: Obama should ‘panic’

By: Mackenzie Weinger September 15, 2011 06:18 AM EDT

Democratic strategist James Carville has just one word of advice for President Barack Obama: panic.

In a CNN op-ed, Carville said Tuesday’s two special election results are a warning to the White House – and a sign the president must make drastic changes now to stave off the Republican momentum.

It’s time to panic, he wrote.

“People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things,” Carville wrote on Wednesday. “Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: Panic.”

Carville said Democrats are “past sending out talking points” and said he would tell the president, “The time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed.”

Carville’s advice: “Fire. Indict. Fight.”

Obama must fire someone – “No – fire a lot of people” — because the current team is just not working, Carville wrote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jamescarville; obamanation; panicof2011
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1 posted on 09/15/2011 5:13:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I think he needs to take some time off to relax...maybe play some more golf.


2 posted on 09/15/2011 5:16:03 AM PDT by ari-freedom (It's time for Obama to get a downgrade.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps pushing further to the Left would help?


3 posted on 09/15/2011 5:17:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: Sub-Driver

He will not fire anyone. He’s the most incompetent fool ever to hold the office. Jimmy Carter, you can now rest a little easier.


4 posted on 09/15/2011 5:17:49 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: ari-freedom

Well, don’t you think the golf could be combined with a nice vacation at an expensive resort somewhere?


5 posted on 09/15/2011 5:17:49 AM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Obama must fire someone – “No – fire a lot of people” — because the current team is just not working, Carville wrote.”

Sorry, Hillary. Hope you liked it there in Africa when you had the chance.


6 posted on 09/15/2011 5:17:49 AM PDT by ari-freedom (It's time for Obama to get a downgrade.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is understandable that Jim would publicly promote the notion that Obama is getting bad advice, as the reason for his failure.

Why are conservatives so reluctant to simply assign bad motives to Obama?
Sean Hannity wouldn’t shut up, when a guest attempted to make that point last night.


7 posted on 09/15/2011 5:19:12 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: The Bronze Titan

One man’s perceived incompetence is another man’s agenda!


8 posted on 09/15/2011 5:19:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ari-freedom

Actually, I believe the man and his wife need a good, long vacation....say...somewhere in Kansas....

I hear there is a nice town called Leavenworth that has a nice big spa....


9 posted on 09/15/2011 5:19:48 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Sub-Driver

It appears Obama has lost his Middle-Earth base.


10 posted on 09/15/2011 5:19:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Lizard face, we’ll do the firing, and it won’t just be the current crop in the white house... a whole slue of fire’n be go’n down in DC, come November 2012...


11 posted on 09/15/2011 5:20:11 AM PDT by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s see. Fire, indict, fight. Is that sort of like gulag, show trials, KGB action?


12 posted on 09/15/2011 5:20:42 AM PDT by Rippin
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To: dps.inspect

yeah but who wants to wait that long?


13 posted on 09/15/2011 5:24:15 AM PDT by ari-freedom (It's time for Obama to get a downgrade.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Carville may be a looney tune but he knows a thing or two of getting democrat politicians back in good graces. Lie, but lie effectively. But baraq is a special case. He won’t listen to anyone because he is the ONE. If baraq replaces anyone, it will be with people who are even more strident marxist than the previous ones. He is an african dictator at heart and will not change his mind.
carville is trying to push a rope. won’t work.


14 posted on 09/15/2011 5:24:16 AM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama is panicking the only way he knows how. He has retreated to his basic capability, and that is campaigning. And he’s doing it at colleges, where he can bask in the naive adoration that the kids slather on him.


15 posted on 09/15/2011 5:24:48 AM PDT by tje
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16 posted on 09/15/2011 5:25:12 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Sub-Driver

We all knew this point would come, where all the tired Marxian ideas collapse. The qustion is whether we can keep from falling completely appart as this rolls into a depression.


17 posted on 09/15/2011 5:25:30 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Sub-Driver

Snake oil ain’t gonna fix the problem.


18 posted on 09/15/2011 5:26:11 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Rippin

“Let’s see. Fire, indict, fight. Is that sort of like gulag, show trials, KGB action?”

Find - Fix - Flank - Fudge it.


19 posted on 09/15/2011 5:26:16 AM PDT by ari-freedom (It's time for Obama to get a downgrade.)
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“This may be news to you but this is not going well,” he wrote. “For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm.”

WTF?

20 posted on 09/15/2011 5:27:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Vetting - The process of examination and evaluation of a candidate's record.)
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