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DarkSteven -> RE: Why the Democrats are so full of hate (10/12/2011 6:33:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
It's quite simple, really. They don't have a candidate to vote FOR.
I thought I would share an article I read with my coffee this morning.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/the_obama_problem.html
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To understand Obama's loss in popularity, it is necessary to recognize that Barack Obama was a fluke. He was an unlikely candidate, pushed to his party's nomination as a result of the media. His election was another quirk, more aberration than achievement. The perfect storm virtually ensured that the Democrat candidate would win in 2008. It is not a strain to conclude that the mainstream media, rather than the electorate, put Obama into the highest office in the land.
In hindsight, a great mistake was made. Even the fawning media and the Democrat establishment now recognize that, although are unwilling to publicly admit it. Their behavior is analogous to refusing to discuss a friend's terminal illness in the hope that it will somehow go away.
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The real problem is that there never was any substance to Obama. He was the political equivalent of a Potemkin village. There was nothing behind the façade. There was no "there" there. All of the problems arise from this obvious flaw.
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Obama was all hype and no substance. That realization has dawned on voters, resulting in horrendous polling. Richard Nixon was never liked, but he was at least thought competent. Obama was liked but never competent. Now Obama is living proof of the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. He is neither liked nor competent.
Even the hapless Jimmy Carter did not attain that status.
Poppycock. Obama won due to several things. One was Hillary Clinton's stupid decision not to run in caucus states. One was his phenomenal organization, using social media. And one was that the GOP brand was damaged by eight years of the unpopular Bush administration.
Obama has been a failure regarding the economy. Bush decimated it, and Obama's made it worse.
Obama's foreign policy has actually not been that bad. He's had enough success against AQ that Republicans are muttering that he has not paid Bush due respect. As though Bush's foreign policy was something to emulate. He's managed a very tricky Arab Spring fairly well, and handled the Somali pirates well. Like the economy, though, he hasn't extricated us from Iraq or Afghanistan.
The real knock against Obama is that he's not Reagan. There was a sunny optimism about Reagan that was infectious, and that is sorely needed now.
Obama's not the dream candidate, admitted. But he's not that bad. He's just too conservative for a lot of his supporters.
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