President speaks to a overflow crowd

[bigdarryl]

So much for his unpopularity http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/obama-speaks-packed-rally-overflow-crowd

[Fred Sanders]

1. Reuters - fuck the facts, make stuff up to smear Obama, how much more obvious can they be?

[sheshe2]

6. Yup, fuck the facts!

Let's just bash the president to hell every step of the way. Let's just make stuff up, toss it against the wall and see if it sticks.

They are a sorry lot, aren't they Fred.

GOTV2014 and stop listening to the Koch owned media!

Go team!

[NYC_SKP]

2. pwned!

[think]

3. k&R /nt

[cilla4progress]

4. Good to see him

smiling

[JaneyVee]

5. Whoa. That Reuters article was so shitty.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. Ya...but....liberal media!

[sheshe2]

7. Wow Reuters!

You are a disgrace.



A big thank you darryl!

[calimary]

8. I used to have some respect for them. No more.

Buncha partisan shills.

[MontyPow]

9. He doesn't seem too popular with the Democrats running for national office.

Why do we run such Democrats for national office?

[sheshe2]

13. Monty, you have been here for 10 days.

Did you come here to bash our Democratic President a few weeks from the election? And by doing so seem to be bashing the Dems running.

Why is that?

[MontyPow]

14. I'm not bashing the President.

I want to know why Grimes runs from all the work he's accomplished. What other senatorial candidates or house candidates have called for the President to campaign with them. How many have taken ownership of ACA or the debt reduction or the stock market surge?

You've been here forever Sheshe. From what I can tell you couldn't care less how Democrats behave so long as they're Democrats.

I have higher standards, I guess. Sorry.

[sheshe2]

15. Well first~

I want to know why Grimes runs from all the work he's accomplished. What other senatorial candidates or house candidates have called for the President to campaign with them. How many have taken ownership of ACA or the debt reduction or the stock market surge?

You need to look at logistics and the states they are running from. Red State Blue State they have to run different races. Grimes is one of them and so is Davis. Both red states. Yes, yes I hear the cry for True Progressive or nothing, yet sorry, that is a pipe dream. This country has all sorts of folks. We have all sorts of Democrats that believe in the people, we should not and can not believe a party is of one mind. We are a party beautifully diverse that really wants to reach a goal for all the people.

You've been here forever Sheshe. From what I can tell you couldn't care less how Democrats behave so long as they're Democrats.

I have higher standards, I guess. Sorry.

Actually I have only been here for 2 years. I do believe in Democrats to take the lead...do we have some assholes? Yes we do.

Your standards are higher than mine, really? Good for you.

Do me a favor and don't define what I believe after 10 days. You do not know me.

[MontyPow]

17. The idea that red/blue logistics are different is falacy.

Even when you poll red states they support virtually all progressive policies. Certainly that is the case with what the ACA has as well as what it should have had.

As for passing judgement, you did so in ten days. I've been reading DU since the Obama/McStain race in 2008. So look at the three fingers pointing back at you as you point the judgement finger at me.

[djean111]

27. No matter what those polls say, most Republicans will never vote Dem, and most Dems will

never vote for a Republican. And it is an accepted given that, when elected to Congress, a politician will vote along party lines, no matter what they campaigned on or what their constituents prefer as policy.
Remember the Tea Party poster - "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare" - THAT is logistics in a nutshell.
Campaigning, now, is as much about firing up the base to actually go to the polls, as it is about issues. For the GOP base, mentioning Obama may be a surefire way to get them to the polls.
Logic, here, is meaningless. People vote against their best interests all the time. Obviously.

[MontyPow]

29. Well, we certainly can't try to broaden the voter turnout, now can we.

And since the colors of the states are immutable, why waste our time.

Perhaps we need better leadership, better candidates, and better "supporters".

[djean111]

31. Perhaps you should go into campaign management, and put your ideas into action.

Go down to your local campaign headquarters and tell them what you think.
More useful, methinks.

[JI7]

16. see Alison Grimes immigrant Ad and you will see the type she is appealing to

for votes and why someone like Obama would not help with those type of voters.

[MontyPow]

18. She needs to reach Democrats and educate the rest.

Every facet of ACA polls well over 50% and she runs away?

What possible demographic is she hoping to reach by running from the President? None of his policies has been remotely progressive. If she tried, even just a little, to sell the Democratic brand rather than lazily and stupidly trying to brand herself as Republican Lite, she would easily win.

[JI7]

19. the ACA is not the problem, it's the color of the President that is the problem

[MontyPow]

20. That's not an explanation, that's an excuse.

[JI7]

21. excuse for what ?

[MontyPow]

23. Excuse for running Republican Lite Democrats rather than Democrats

[JI7]

24. not sure what that means , there are primaries if someone else wants to get in

[MontyPow]

25. I wonder what kept Ashley Judd out.

Could it be the "discussions" she had with Party Elders? Yeah, I think that was it.

[JI7]

26. she could still have gotten in

[MontyPow]

28. Why did you make the remark about a black president, then?

[JI7]

30. because it's why Grimes doesn't want to be associated with him

she needs votes from certain types who have a problem with him being black in order to win the election.

[MontyPow]

33. And I day again it is an excuse for being a lazy candidate and running from a successful President.

No thank you. I prefer Democrats who run towards successful Democrats.

[Stellar]

10. The title says....

"Obama Speaks To Packed Rally With Overflow Crowd, Reuters Turns It Against Him"

How about that?

[fadedrose]

12. That's My Boy!!

He can't get rid of us old faithfuls no matter how bad it gets....

'thanks for posting. I need to hear good stuff about him . . .

[Cha]

22. But, but, but.. "a crowd walked out.." so sayeth the daily mail and posted by a couple a

members.

Oh, and I see at the link that Reuters fails to mention the overflow crowd detail but get the heckler in there? Oh, the US corporatemediawhore$ Never Fail to live down to their standards.

[no_hypocrisy]

32. Today's edition of the New York Post also said crowds walked out before Obama finished.