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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt makes me upset that Democratic candidate are running from President Obama
I'm pulling my hair out. President Obama has a strong record of accomplishments any Democrat should be proud to stand by.
I read this option piece from the New York Times below:
From The New York Times:
The Democratic Panic
In hopes of preserving control of the United States Senate, Democratic candidates are keeping their distance from President Obamas best policies, but thats a risk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/alison-lundergan-grimes-kay-hagan-and-other-candidates-avoid-obama.html
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(82,849 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)What's wrong with the Lumpenproletariat that they don't realize how great Obama's trickle-down strategy will be for them one day?
Amazing.
Regards,
TWM
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is demanding that Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes take down an ad that uses the term illegal aliens.
This latest TV ad from Alison Lundergan Grimes is deeply upsetting. Grimes seems to be forgetting that we are a nation of immigrants that has continually strived to honor all the hard-working people who aspire to the American Dream, Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn.orgs executive director, said in a statement Tuesday.
Its deeply troubling that Grimes would stoop this low in order to try to defeat [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell, and she needs to take this offensive advertisement off the air immediately.
Grimess ad accuses her Republican opponent, McConnell, of voting to provide amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits to three million illegal aliens, the largest legalization program in U.S. history, and cites a Washington Post article.
Grimes appears at the end of the ad to approve the message and says, Ive never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/220744-moveon-demands-grimes-take-down-offensive-immigration-ad
pansypoo53219
(20,952 posts)3rdwaydem
(277 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)If they don't see the benefit of have Obama around, that's their problem. Bet Obama, Michelle, and Biden spend a lot of time the next few weeks on the campaign trail anyway.
Time to start ignoring the voices that say we will lose, are losing, or are panicking.
3rdwaydem
(277 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)again.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)The election will be the final arbiter of this political strategy. In the case of McConnell vs. Grimes, it is clear people in Kentucky like Kynect, that Kynect is Obamacare/ACA, that McConnell is proposing eliminating it (well, except for the website) and that Grimes is too chickenshit to connect the dots and argue on its behalf. Bill Clinton is advising her and this is the same tired political philosophy of the DLC, the Third Way, the Blue Dogs, or whatever permutation applies.
sendero
(28,552 posts).... entire motivation is to get elected. If they are running away from Obama there is a simple reason.
His poll numbers suck. And why is that? Well, that is left as an exercise for the reader.
3rdwaydem
(277 posts)He pulled this country back from the brink of economic collapse and spearhead the Affordable Care Act.
History will be far kinder to him.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)It's a big part of the reason we had to endure 8 years of the Cheney/Rove presidency. These people need a clue.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)what THEY deserved.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)then fucking lose with dignity!
Sick of this shit!!!!
3rdwaydem
(277 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)and people like you who refuse to stand by all the good things he's done despite some bad decisions. Oh, I get it! He's not 100% pure so he sucks! Riiiight! So you'd rather the ReThugs take over; that'll be good! That'll show em, right?
Tired of this shit!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Many of us black folk are sick of the Democratic party taking us for granted. Haven't learned shit from Al Gore!
3rdwaydem
(277 posts)President Obama will go down in history as one of our better Presidents ever.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)And sadly so many people here won't admit that even when it comes to Grimes in KY, she can't admit she voted for Obama and we all know damn well why. These folk around here pretending like she's on some noble cause to save the Senate for the Democrats are full of it. BULLSHIT! It has always been about this man's race! That's the only thing these ReThugs have to fall back on. And if the Democrats are honest and better than those assholes they'd admit the truth and remember what happened during the 2008 Democratic primaries when many white Democrats openly admitted that they couldn't vote for a black man.