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| thesecondcoming |
Posted - 9/21/2012 9:23:08 AM | show profile | flag this post
Obama: " You can't change Washington from the inside..."
Obama's campaign is over.
If you can't change Washington from the inside, why is he running again?
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| anonymous 1 |
Posted - 9/21/2012 9:38:32 AM | show profile | flag this post
I ah think that ah ah I've learned ah some lessons ah over ah the ah last ah four uh years ah and the most ah ah important ah lesson I've ah learned ah is that ah you can't ah change Washington ah from ah the inside.
The smartest president ever......Without TOTUS.
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| mpdodgson |
Posted - 9/21/2012 10:15:08 AM | show profile | flag this post
He means the voters
you numb-nuts.
David Weigel wrote yesterday; "I have literally no clue why this is supposed to be a gaffe." Couldn't have said it better myself. Just one example; The Party of NO this week shot down a jobs bill for Veterans. A JOBS BILL for VETERANS. Think about it. If you can't get something like that passed (it was two votes shy of the 60 needed)...the only way we will get anything done is for the voters to stand up and demand lawmakers put country above party.
For the record; here's the actual quote:
"You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside. That’s how I got elected and how the big accomplishments like health care got done – was because we mobilized the American people to speak out. That’s how we were able to cut taxes for middle class families. So, something I’d really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people, so that they can put pressure on Congress to move some of these issues forward."
So. Explain to me why that's a "gaffe".
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| thesecondcoming |
Posted - 9/21/2012 2:38:42 PM | show profile | flag this post
Obama is on the INSIDE of Washington....
He's the President who lives IN WASHINGTON. He's the insider.
I'm glad you don't think it's a gaffe.
Obama is history.
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| Grateful Deadline |
Posted - 9/21/2012 3:08:07 PM | show profile | flag this post
In Texas, voters changed discrimination against Latinos from the outside. The people on the insider weren't about to change it, because they were the problem.
That's the type of change Obama meant. Maybe reading the entire quote would help you to understand it.
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| cdnreprtr |
Posted - 9/21/2012 3:20:57 PM | show profile | flag this post
GOP: party of insiders.
Couldn't be any clearer. K street cash, old boys networks, secret deals with super pacs and tax- expensed luncheons.
Republicans think change is what they get from a waitress when they stiff her a tip.
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| etaoin shrdlu |
Posted - 9/21/2012 3:56:34 PM | show profile | flag this post
The Romney campaign...
is the first in history to create a strategy based almost entirely on taking his opponent out of context.
And the miserable failure of the Romney campaign, the falling poll numbers, the sustained or widening gap for Obama's lead all show why Romney's strategy has failed.
Hope they keep wasting time on this.
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| mpdodgson |
Posted - 9/23/2012 3:42:48 PM | show profile | flag this post
Two updates on this;
First--very funny; SNL ridicules Obama for the "change Washington from the outside" comment. Even if you support the president--which of course I do--this was great.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-weekend-update-asks-what-are-you-doing-obama/
Second; not funny at all; Romney repeatedly stating "you can't change Washington from the inside"
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/when-mitt-romney-said-you-couldnt-change-washingt
Would someone please tell these people you can look things up on the internet?? Criticisizing your opponent for saying something you said?? Not a great move.
{RCP Popular vote average: Obama 48.3% v 44%
EC: 247 v 191 Just sayin}
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| cruiser |
Posted - 9/23/2012 5:15:31 PM | show profile | flag this post
"how the big accomplishments
like health care got done – was because we mobilized the American people to speak out"
Obama and his left wing buds motivated the American people to speak out alright...but they weren't listening. Pelosi and her colleagues locked themselves in their offices and didn't accept any input from Republicans OR the American people. I can tell you that from first-hand experience.
Pelosi even told us they'd have to vote for the bill to find out what was in it. She wasn't about to tip her hand before then...which would have set off a firestorm she just didn't want to deal with.
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| cruiser |
Posted - 9/23/2012 5:19:06 PM | show profile | flag this post
"RCP Popular vote average...(inconsequential)"
The popular vote doesn't elect the president. But the two daily tracking polls (Gallup and Rasmussen) have it a dead heat. That's significant.
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| Grateful Deadline |
Posted - 9/23/2012 5:56:10 PM | show profile | flag this post
What's significant about it here on Sept. 23?
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| cruiser |
Posted - 9/23/2012 9:40:01 PM | show profile | flag this post
If you don't know, dearie,
there's nothing I can do for you.
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| Grateful Deadline |
Posted - 9/23/2012 9:51:49 PM | show profile | flag this post
In other words, you don't know.
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| Grateful Deadline |
Posted - 9/23/2012 9:58:20 PM | show profile | flag this post
You crack me up, cruiser! You expect everybody to run and look up everything just because you said something. Did you know that's a trait of NPD? Yep -- chaos creation in order to get attention.
You have no clue whether a daily poll is important on Sept. 23 for an election on Nov. 6. The fact is, it's not. But you couldn't help throwing it out there, hoping some poor suck would chase after it and then you'd get your Sunday jollies by ripping them down.
Well, I'm not chasing after it, and it looks like nobody else is either. Maybe you'll get tired of chumming for victims when nobody takes the bait.
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| mpdodgson |
Posted - 9/23/2012 10:52:39 PM | show profile | flag this post
I did note
cruise did not respond about the two sites I did suggested (one critical of Obama--one not) I'm not saying he didn't look at them, I'm just pointing it out)
Moving on: "Obama and his left wing buds motivated the American people to speak out alright...but they weren't listening."
Uh, well, that's wrong. When it comes to "ObamaCare/RomneyCare Light??
•61 percent of respondents favored allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26.
•72 percent of respondents wish to maintain the requirement that companies with more than 50 workers provide health insurance for their employees.
•82 percent of respondents favored banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
Damn those Americans. "Pelosi and her colleagues locked themselves in their offices and didn't accept any input from Republicans" Absolute total lie and everyone knows it.
I LOVE THIS "I can tell you that from first-hand experience." REALLY?!?!?!? It's a 'locked office' but they let a free-lance writer--for what--Home Depot--let this total wingnut dirt bag sit in the back of the room????????????????
Moving on--"The popular vote doesn't elect the president." (NO but it should) "But the two daily tracking polls (Gallup and Rasmussen) have it a dead heat. That's significant."
Well, no, and maybe. I'm looking at it right now and I don't see "Romney + anything" And the EC is less than encouraging; Oh...you know that........."The popular vote doesn't elect the president"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
You better get those "we got ripped off" slogans ready...
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| etaoin shrdlu |
Posted - 9/24/2012 9:00:33 AM | show profile | flag this post
The point is...
the two tracking polls mentioned are NOT significant.
As cruzo pointed out, popular vote does not elect the president.
And when you look at the state by state vote, not only is Obama in front, but he's got a significantly wide margin in the swing states.
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| beenthere |
Posted - 9/24/2012 9:40:55 AM | show profile | flag this post
Yesterday, my diehard, red-blooded, 40-year, Republican father-in-law told my husband he is NOT voting this year.
Apparently he hates Romney as much as he hates Obama, so he is opting out of the voting process this year. One less Republican vote for Romney.
You could've lifted my jaw off the floor with a crane.
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