The Obama campaign’s new web video warns, “one year from now, all of our progress could be erased.”
One is tempted to ask, what “progress” are they talking about?
The 9 percent unemployment? The $3.43 per gallon gas in November? Freddie Mac needing another bailout?
The fact that 5 million U.S. households are either in foreclosure or delinquent on their mortgage, and 11 million homeowners owe more than their homes are worth? The fact that nearly 49 million Americans, almost 15 percent of the U.S., is currently on food stamps?
The angry young people camping in public parks and fighting with police?
Solyndra? Fast and Furious?
Obama is dealing with the fact that he doesn’t have much of a record to run on by asserting that such a record is there — i.e, “progress” and “change” without ever trying to make the argument that Americans are indeed better off now than they were four years ago.
Once again, if the GOP was smart (debatable) they would be running ads on TV, not just the web, that highlight the failures of this clown, using his own words.
Why wait for the nominee? Do it now just to make Americans aware of the bad things that have been done.
It is remarkable to me that they still seem to think they can revive the spirit of blind hope that propelled Obama's 2008 campaign rallies.
I understand that Obama's team has misty-eyed memories of those "good old days," but it seems to me that the independent voters who elected him realized a long time ago that they got snookered in 2008. Trying to replay it seems like about the dumbest strategy they could try.
What Obama is trying to do here is to convince his base that he needs 4 more years to enact the change that he utterly failed to deliver on (according to them) the first 4 years. With a likely GOP controlled Congress.
Is it inconceivable that what we have IS the progress they were after?
The drive for $10-per-gallon gasoline, "necessarily-skyrocketing" energy prices, forgiveness of debts to poor home buyers that could never afford the homes they bought, degrading the standing of the US in the world, and "under the radar" gun control (it's not BHO's fault that the drug runners didn't get the memo to keep fast & furious guns in Mexico, and instead used them to kill US law enforcers) are all things people now in this "never let a crisis go to waste" administration talked about both before and after November 2008. It's that most of the independent and the "he-can't-be-so-bad" Republican "Hopey, Changey" voters for BHO, just didn't listen, comprehend, or care.
Besides, what is OWS, other than a community organizer's wet dream?
It seems to me that President Obama has already accomplished what he came to office to do - shift a large part of the nation's wealth into the hands of a relatively small number of government-oriented people, and to shift the center of the nation's social mindset to the left. He was expected to carry the ball and get four yards for his team, and he has gotten six. With another four years, he will probably get a first down or even more.
It will take a very concerted effort, and long-term incremental patience to get that yardage back for freedom and constitutional government. If he is defeated in 2012, we must repeal Obamacare, replace the federal Tax Code, and try to institute Term Limits for elected officials and their staffs and political appointees. Hard work ahead, but required if our grandchildren are to live in a free nation.
"MKS : 11/07/11 13:46
It seems to me that President Obama has already accomplished what he came to office to do - shift a large part of the nation's wealth into the hands of a relatively small number of government-oriented people,"
I think you mis-spelled "Bush", there.
Am I the ONLY ONE who remembers Halliburton, Backwater, and all the massive giveaways in Iraq?
Once again, if the GOP was smart (debatable) they would be running ads on TV, not just the web, that highlight the failures of this clown, using his own words.
Why wait for the nominee? Do it now just to make Americans aware of the bad things that have been done.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn one year everything he's done could be erased? Let's hope he's right.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is remarkable to me that they still seem to think they can revive the spirit of blind hope that propelled Obama's 2008 campaign rallies.
I understand that Obama's team has misty-eyed memories of those "good old days," but it seems to me that the independent voters who elected him realized a long time ago that they got snookered in 2008. Trying to replay it seems like about the dumbest strategy they could try.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat Obama is trying to do here is to convince his base that he needs 4 more years to enact the change that he utterly failed to deliver on (according to them) the first 4 years. With a likely GOP controlled Congress.
Good luck with that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs it inconceivable that what we have IS the progress they were after?
The drive for $10-per-gallon gasoline, "necessarily-skyrocketing" energy prices, forgiveness of debts to poor home buyers that could never afford the homes they bought, degrading the standing of the US in the world, and "under the radar" gun control (it's not BHO's fault that the drug runners didn't get the memo to keep fast & furious guns in Mexico, and instead used them to kill US law enforcers) are all things people now in this "never let a crisis go to waste" administration talked about both before and after November 2008. It's that most of the independent and the "he-can't-be-so-bad" Republican "Hopey, Changey" voters for BHO, just didn't listen, comprehend, or care.
Besides, what is OWS, other than a community organizer's wet dream?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe's talking about the "progress" they've made in the march towards communism, of course.
I'm like Eric, though, in that I think it'll take a lot more time to erase all that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"The Obama campaign’s new web video warns, “one year from now, all of our progress could be erased.”
A song comes to mind when I hear this, "Dancing in the Street!"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt seems to me that President Obama has already accomplished what he came to office to do - shift a large part of the nation's wealth into the hands of a relatively small number of government-oriented people, and to shift the center of the nation's social mindset to the left. He was expected to carry the ball and get four yards for his team, and he has gotten six. With another four years, he will probably get a first down or even more.
It will take a very concerted effort, and long-term incremental patience to get that yardage back for freedom and constitutional government. If he is defeated in 2012, we must repeal Obamacare, replace the federal Tax Code, and try to institute Term Limits for elected officials and their staffs and political appointees. Hard work ahead, but required if our grandchildren are to live in a free nation.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseagree up and down that field of play
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"MKS : 11/07/11 13:46
It seems to me that President Obama has already accomplished what he came to office to do - shift a large part of the nation's wealth into the hands of a relatively small number of government-oriented people,"
I think you mis-spelled "Bush", there.
Am I the ONLY ONE who remembers Halliburton, Backwater, and all the massive giveaways in Iraq?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe upshot of this is --
To Obama's world view and way of thinking, America and the American's he cares about ARE better off now than four years ago.
The rest of us troglodytes just need to get with the program and let him finish what he started.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI can imagine where I would have been without Obama and I am madder than hell !
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