Political & Elections

pima · Guru

RE: Obama takes offense

geeps20 · Senior Member

sorry Doe, that AP article is Junk. Fact: Obama HAS to win Ohio, not Romney. Something you won't hear from the bias media. Fl, Va are Romney's.
Obama HAS to also win WI..

catahoula · Guru

Offended? Maybe he is but... face it, it's the voter that counts right about now and since it's the year of the "WAR ON WOMEN", let's ask several how they feel about emancipation and how they'll exercise those attendant rights:

Beyonce doesn't really need any more money... wasn't intended, I promise you... but she ain't gonna kick it out of bed, either:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/29/article-2224741-159A8DC5000005DC-73_634x719.jpg

Those who are still scrabbling to get ahead (your basic, hope-befuddled Obama supporters from 2008) seem a little ornery:

I was very excited about him. I thought he was a moderate. I thought that his election would promote racial healing in the country.

It would be a tremendous transformation of attitudes. And instead: one thing after another. Not least: I consider him, now, one of the most racially divisive and polarizing figures ever. I think it's going to take years to undo the damage to relationships between the races.

The creation of this culture of surveillance, from these bureaucracies, which is also carried over into Obama's endorsement of drones on the military level as well as for police control of the population. I mean, I don't understand how any... veteran of the 1960s who's a Democrat could not see the dangers here, that Obama is a statist. It's exactly what Bob Dylan was warning about in "Subterranean Homesick Blues," okay?

You don't want government agencies being empowered to intrude into people's lives like this. The controlling force in Obamacare is the IRS! Okay? This flies in the face of what the Free Speech Movement was about at Berkeley or about any of the values, I feel, of my generation.

So I feel the Democratic Party needs to be shattered and remade to recover its true progressive roots. I don't see progressives. All I see is white upper-middle-class liberals who speak in this unctuous way about the needs of the poor.

They have no connection whatever with the working class. Okay? It's the professional class gone amok. And that's why they don't notice what a bureaucratic nightmare Obamacare is.

(Camille Paglia's always entertaining, agree with her or not, since she always has such a fresh explanation of exactly why might your nose be telling you there's rotting meat within distance.)

Ann Althouse, who's blog the above's from, hoo-rahd the entirety of it, btw. Another 2008 supporter gone astray, it seems.

john doe · Guru

AP: Obama close to 271 electoral votes

9:23AM EDT October 29. 2012 - An Associated Press analysis says President Obama is in position to claim 271 electoral votes -- one more than needed to re-claim the White House.

The AP also notes: "To be sure, anything can happen in the coming days to influence the Nov. 6 election."

As it stands now, the AP says that Republican challenger Mitt Romney "continues to have fewer state-by-state paths than Obama" to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win, because he is seen as trailing the president in the key state of Ohio.

"Without Ohio's 18 electoral votes, Romney would need last-minute victories in nearly all the remaining up-for-grabs states and manage to pick off key states now leaning Obama's way, such as Iowa or Wisconsin," says the AP.

Also from the Associated Press:

"The analysis shows that Obama probably would win with at least 271 electoral votes from 21 states, including Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, and the District of Columbia.

"Romney seems on track for 206 from 23 states, including North Carolina. Obama won that state in 2008 and campaigned aggressively there this year. But Obama's team acknowledges it is the most difficult state for him to win, and he's paid less attention to it recently.

"Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia, with a combined 61 votes at stake, could go either way."

Romney aides, meanwhile, cite polls showing they are closing in on Obama in states like Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Iowa.

The wire service also notes that its analysis "isn't intended to predict the outcome."

"Rather, it's meant to provide a snapshot of a race that has been stubbornly close in the small number of competitive states all year.

"The analysis is based on public polls and internal campaign surveys as well as spending on television advertising, candidate visits, get-out-the-vote organizations and interviews with dozens of Republican and Democratic strategists in Washington and in the most contested states."

hope · Guru

The lamest of the lame. It's over. The best he can muster after the recent developments is that he "takes offense." To me this sums up the mindset of the New Democrat Party.

The President is hunkered down taking care of America during the storm. Holding one of his very very few news conferences to assure us all. MSNBC in its desperation is haling the terrific job Obama is doing taking care of all of us during this time. Chris Christie thanks him for his "outreach," and Obama is "very cool" right now---proving to us that this man is deserving of another four years. And how this hurricane is "hurting Romney." Hilarious.

Meanwhile, Romney's poll numbers keep climbing for some mysterious reason, and Obama's likeability ratings continue to take a nosedive.

Anyone notice now absolutely HORRIBLE Obama is looking since the last debate? Not exactly robust. Something is wrong, very wrong, with this man.

I would love to hear from any true believers left out there. smile

Other comments also welcome....

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/29/obama_takes_offense_to_accusation_that_he_has_not_been_truthful_on_benghazi.html

-- Edited by hope on Monday 29th of October 2012 04:15:09 PM

-- Edited by hope on Monday 29th of October 2012 04:16:59 PM