Obama to transcend his last week's performance next Tuesday!

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Thursday October 11, 2012 · 5:03 PM PDT

2012/10/11 · 17:03

Character is destiny!

Obama did poorly last week in the debate. Either he was not prepared enough to make a forceful case with facts and details, or he had not thought through the impacts and media reactions to his "be polite" strategy, or he is just not assertive enough to give voice to his disdain for untruth and still has considerable hesitation about expressing negative feelings verbally.

Preparation and media strategy are things he can address before the next debate. He's not however going to become less empathetic or a better actor to give us the image of an assertive black and white decider in one week. The good news is that he doesn't have to.

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Sunday October 03, 2010 · 4:58 PM PDT

2010/10/03 · 16:58

An analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities dispels the impression created by blind critics of this democratic administration and its policies who justify most of their opposition on the basis of the countries fiscal deficit.

dadan

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 6:20 PM PDT

2010/09/26 · 18:20

I am amazed at how little discussion there is in the public discourse about the gist of the Health Care Reform act. I have a sad feeling that if the republicans had passed the bill everyone would know exactly what the bill was about but now very few people actually do. When there is any talk at all it all revolves around how unpopular it is, how it was passed, how many people and for how long did they kick and scream before it passed and if we are lucky we are treated to a list of obvious common sense reforms it includes, like outlawing life time caps or denial of coverage for children based on pre-existing conditions.

Even the base or the whole of the Democratic party seems to have lost sight of what was one of the most critical items in its platform for a long time which was

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Thursday September 16, 2010 · 4:05 PM PDT

2010/09/16 · 16:05

The best way I have heard so far on how to make sense of the response to the big wave of anger and discontent.

Ben Jealous just said on the Ed show:

"... we are in a time when prosperity is going down while diversity is going up and in those times you have two choices. You can do what the Tea Party does; try to push down on diversity. They really can never win that battle, or you can push up on prosperity, and that’s what we are focused on. We are focused on job creation."

That is essentially the difference between the two choices avialable to the voters in November.

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Can Democrats make a credible case for focusing on the middle class needs after November?

60 votes Vote Now!

Can Democrats make a credible case for focusing on the middle class needs after November?

They don't care about the middle class

12 votes

They couldn't do anything about it even if they cared

5 votes

Perhaps after the cleanup of Bush's messes they can refocus on the middle class

8 votes

They have always been focused on the middle class

23 votes

They will convince the country that they care and will help the middle class

12 votes

We have already won.... (with poll)

dadan

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 7:17 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 19:17

To see why, you have to look way back to when Obama first started running. I know some of you did not support him at that time but those of us who did did so for a very specific reason. You see I did not support Obama from the beginning because he was the first "clean and articulate" African American candidate.

(more over the fold....)

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What will Obama do

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What will Obama do

Obama will sharpen his message and we will win

182 votes

He doesn't need to sharpen his message

13 votes

He will keep his tone and they will win

26 votes

No matter what we do they will win

30 votes

The myth of Obama's white blue-collar problem!!!

dadan

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 8:05 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 20:05

To say that Obama has a problem with blue-collar voters and therefore could not win the general election is pure fiction.

That would be like saying Clinton has a black voter problem and would she even be competitive without the support of black voters?

It's total nonsense. Just because a group of voters prefer one candidate in the primary does not mean they will not come back to the party in GE.

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Who will the democratic blue-collar voters vote for in November?

76 votes Vote Now!

Who will the democratic blue-collar voters vote for in November?

Obama

65 votes

McCain

11 votes

Stay Home

0 votes

Clinton's vote, beyond bad judgment

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 9:20 PM PST

2008/03/06 · 21:20

Obama has focused on Clinton's vote to go to war as a sign of her bad judgement. It's time he calls it what it really was: a sleazy decision to cover herself politicallly, showing total disregard for the death and destruction that was bound to ensue.

More behind the fold...

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 12:54 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 12:54

Former president Bill Clinton got into trouble last week for using fairytale and Obama in the same sentence, (same paragraph really,) but the real fairytale would be to think that we Democrats can reduce a whole campaign to one word and expect to win the general election.

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Obama to transcend his last week's performance next Tuesday!

Zero deficit without Bush’s Trilogy

HCR talking point: 32 million more people covered!

Ben Jealous of NAACP nails the narrative

We have already won.... (with poll)

The myth of Obama's white blue-collar problem!!!

Clinton's vote, beyond bad judgment

Of Change, Experience, and Fairytales