President Obama in Asheville
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I’ve had the good fortune of meeting/witnessing a few presidents. I got to shake Jimmy Carter’s hand at the Tampa airport when I was seven years old. Bill Clinton I saw speak at the Brandenburg gate in 1994 and again in Belfast’s City Center in 1995. This morning I’ll get to be a part of the audience as President Barack Obama delivers an address to an Asheville-area audience. Welcome back, Mr. President. Asheville welcomes you.
The President is launching a bus tour to push the American Jobs Act, which is encountering resistance from all sorts of entrenched interests, both Democrat and Republican. The legislative proposal cuts payroll taxes; keeps teachers on the job; invests in highways, transit, rail and aviation; creates an infrastructure bank; expands access to high-speed internet; and more.
I’m thinking a Romney-Cain ticket versus an Obama-Hillary ticket would be like catnip-laced-with-crack for TV talking heads and our vast online and print politico-punditry.
And a Romney-Cain package would be the gift that keeps on giving and giving to the Left and Right, the Blue and the Red, because in the much less than 50pct-chance of it losing to Obama, it would have nonetheless brought to a frenzy all on the Right and Left who are also Romney-haters, Mormon-haters, and Black-haters, as well as folks who are just anti-GOP, period, respectively. In the better than 50pct-chance that this race-transcendent and religion-transcendent ticket (must snicker at this marketing irony) wins in 2012, I’d say that having Obama out of the White House would at least re-energize all the 2008 progressive efforts coast to coast that mistakenly lapsed into a 3-year coma the day after the election in 2008. Yup, Romney-Cain, the gift that gives and gives to a neurotic America, indeed.
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Twitter: anonymousmarsh
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I think you mean the “early progressive movement” was a colossal success. Also, suggesting that the reason people voted for Obama to prove they weren’t racist, is in itself, a racist statement.
Cain’s not going to attract too many cross party voters with crazy talk like this.
Cain says that “The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country. The objective of the liberals is to make America mediocre.”
When asked if he still believed that by David Gregory on this week’s Meet the Press, Cain decided to double down on his remarks.
Naturally one of the reasons he gave here is that heaven forbid, liberals would like to see defense spending cut.
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Shad says: “Also, suggesting that the reason people voted for Obama to prove they weren’t racist, is in itself, a racist statement.”
Oh, so I guess most people voted for Obama because they examined his experience and paper trail (NONE) and determined that it had prepared him for the presidency of the United States.
Ooopsie, I think I just outed myself as a hateful, knuckle-dragging racist. Of course, a half-term undistinguished senator from Illinois was OBVIOUSLY our best choice as president, seeing as how his marketing was way cool and stuff (Blue and white signifies good stuff, dontcha know…). He had a logo, even. And even was the first person ever to have a logo for the office of President-Elect while he read his cool stuff from the teleprompter. Everybody knows an eye-catching logo and supersonic marketing campaign portends a most wonderful leader.
I’m wondering how many people who post and read here have read “Manufacturing Consent” by Noam Chomsky. He says “educated” people are the easiest to propagandize. Obama’s marketing blitz sure as hell proved that. You guys are still patting yourselves on the back for voting for a guy who has continued the vast majority of Bush’s policies.
…but…but….you hated Bush, RIGHT?
But now,….Assassination without trial— OK!
More warrantless wiretapping—-OK! As a matter of fact, now we swoon in support!
More sending troops into other countries without congressional approval or a national conversation—OK!!! It makes our liberal hair stand on end in pride!
(Ooooh, but don’t you repugs or tea baggers suggest such things. We’ll get our panties in a big ol’ twist!)
Only trusted Obama can do this stuff and make it okay!
Twitter: anonymousmarsh
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Well suetwo I don’t believe I said any of those things. I’m sure there were many people who voted for Obama because of the color of his skin, just as I am sure there were many who voted against him for the same reason. My point was to say that reducing his election to, and inferring that the only reason he was elected, was because of progressive white guilt, is in itself racist.
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Twitter: randallt
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I would love to read some on the ground experiences from the President’s visit.
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Suetwo, Obama was our best *imperfect* choice for President. Our system since the 1970′s or thereabouts has proven very effective at making sure voters never got a chance to vote for a really good progressive choice. And this stuff here:
Well, that and so much more, amounting almost to soft-edged fascism, does indeed infuriate and depress Obama voters… which is part of why they’re occupying Wall Street now. What else can they do? Vote for the hard-fascist GOP ticket instead? Obama talks a good game, but he’s part of the problem now, and has his supporters over a barrel. Most of them understand and do not like this. And if “educated” Americans seem gullible, perhaps it says more about what even educated Americans are taught. Do the elites think we’re stupid? Not exactly: they HOPE we’re stupid and do all they can to make it so.
In short, Sue, it’s not that you’re wrong, per se, but at this moment you veer close to victim-blaming.
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U.V., that line does not improve with repetition.
UV, aka bitterexdemocrackkk, has never been known for subtlety. FC was for the war on the poor, long before it was cool.
How many screennames does Fisher have now? Seems like a good dozen or more on the C-T forums…
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Bless his heart.
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Twitter: gordondsmith
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Here’s the YouTube link to Obama’s Asheville speech
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