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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:42 AM Original message |
A Republican can defeat Obama in 2012 by appearing sane and using Mitt Romney's deadly message |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. How to beat President Obama |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Nope you're right..he should keep on doing what's he's doing... |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. FYI: |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Do you have any idea how valuable you are? |
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CrossChris (641 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It might actually be helpful to point this out now, so he doesn't lose on the issue next year. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yeah, |
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ItNerd4life (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. People don't have to buy into the message |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Hmmmm? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. It was only partly the economy |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Why are you so confident people won't buy into a BS message? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Who |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
48. You characterized the message as "BS." |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Cracks me up too ... apparently .... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. Personally, I think we are in trouble. |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
8. So the mess Obama inherited should only take 4 years to clean up. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Clean up? Just wait for the austerity cuts in social programs. It'll get worse, not better. |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Tell that to the electorate who turned the House Repug last November. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #22 |
40. Yeah they don't see "hope" and "change" speeches on t.v. And why do you think that is? |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'm more concerned about Independent voters who supported Obama, not Democrats. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. actually they argued repeatedly that the stimulus should have been |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Only a small fraction of that "stimulus" was used for jobs, the lions share was tax cuts. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Yes! And *WHO* blocked it? The Blue Dog Democrats and the Corporate Democrats |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
53. So you are saying that the BIGGEST problem is INSIDE the Democratic Party. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. You're absolutely right on this point! Pissed me off that the WH got involved |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 01:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
38. What Obama "jobs bill" is being currently blocked in Congress? |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. There's no *current* jobs bills because the president doesn't introduce bills. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Technically you are right. But in reality Presidents do introduce bills via their party reps. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Uh...that's what I said. The president generally appoints someone in Congress of his party |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #45 |
54. The Republicans engaged in "procedural filibusters" because Senator Reid permitted them to. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Those rules have to be set at the beginning of the legislative session. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #57 |
60. According to what .... the Constitution? The Senate may change their rules at anytime. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. What are you talking about? Reagan presided over a Congress that was |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. Ouch. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. Obama's "college manufacturing credential" jobs proposal in radio address makes no sense. |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. As a registered Ind. I voted for Obama. As a senior citizen my life |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
17. To claim that saying Obama is beatable is anti-Obama is naive. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Obama is |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. So what leadership is Obama showing on that issue? Since you know so much do you know? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Wait |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. To repeat: What leadership is Obama showing on the voter suppression issue you raised? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Voter suppression? |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. You raised the issue of Repugs supressing Dem votes. What is Obama doing about it? |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 01:29 PM Response to Reply #24 |
37. The poster said DEPRESSING not SUPRESSING |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #37 |
52. It applies equally. Obama is twiddling his thumbs either way. |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
19. There are many ways to lose in 2012 |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #19 |
59. One of the threats to Obama may very well be election fraud |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
26. I think Obama is dealing with something unique. |
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CelticThunder (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. ITA. And for me the issue is how is he dealing with it? And I don't see him dealing w/it at all. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Obama just does not seem to grasp this reality. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Millionaires tried to mount a military coup against FDR. |
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emsimon33 (904 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. At the rate the Democrats are going, i.e. not supporting their own |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
41. So to be clear, on DU ... |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I am so glad most of Mr. Obama's critics are mostly cranks and do-nothings. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. Same here. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-11 10:19 AM Response to Reply #50 |
61. There seems to be quite a bit of cognitive dissonance as well. |
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kiranon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
47. Clueless, socially inept, somewhat weird Romney won't beat Obama. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #47 |
55. Probably not but who will be nominated to try and beat the highly vulnerable President Obama? |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #47 |
58. Clueless, socially inept, somewhat weird: |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
49. I don't doubt it. After all, that's Obama's strategy. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 03:49 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Better ... Can you give us a LINK to each so we can compare them? |
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