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applegrove

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23. I agree the country is doing poorly for
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 03:41 AM
Feb 2014

many. But I don‘t think this list was directed at Democrats. I think it is directed at people in the stock market. Surely in this data driven age we can make messages geared towards one group or another. Because a president has to lead more than one group. And the GOP has not disrupted the economy for the upper middle class, unlike what they have purposely done to destroy workers wages. So why not promote Obama‘s success there, for those people stuck on faux? Facebook. To try to wake them up. So they like Obama. So they pay attention to democrats. So they then are able to hear how bad Republicans are for the country as a whole. So they vote democratic. So Repubs lose power. So the democrats in power can actually do something to fix unemployment. Because they are in power. Because some faux news viewers saw that Obama was not all bad. So they stopped thinking like children in black and white with Obama demonized. So they stopped thinking Obama was all darkness and evil while thinking their republican asses are all good and pure. So they stopped thinking pure capitalism was all good and pure. So they actually began to think that government did have a role to mitigate the worst of capitalism. So they actually saw a role for regulations, unions and such. Because they didn‘t see those things as all evil. All because they read a list of 5 things Obama had accomplished and that, for once, they saw he was not all bad.

What has Obama accomplished? [View all] applegrove Feb 2014 OP
Recommended. (nt) NYC_SKP Feb 2014 #1
Greater Ethnicity/Gender diversity regarding new Federal Judges - image below Tx4obama Feb 2014 #2
And a good chunk of GOP wish-list legislation, too. blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #3
You mean like endin Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires? Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #5
Oh you haz a sad~ sheshe2 Feb 2014 #12
In spite of all the teabaggers' Greedy Obfuscation and Cha Feb 2014 #4
Only 6 comments so far? Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #6
Unimpressed by bullshit? JackRiddler Feb 2014 #8
+10000000 woo me with science Feb 2014 #9
Agree with #8. JackRiddler and #9. woo me with science democratisphere Feb 2014 #29
Don‘t you think a list like this is directed applegrove Feb 2014 #11
The Dow 30 JackRiddler Feb 2014 #16
So you don‘t want anybody who is in applegrove Feb 2014 #17
See my post #18. The booming stock market does not say much about whether the American JDPriestly Feb 2014 #20
I agree the country is doing poorly for applegrove Feb 2014 #23
So you want to kill kittens? JackRiddler Feb 2014 #31
You have a point. Although there are still some good points on the list. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #18
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about economic drivers Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #22
Are you quoting 1980s Reagan and/or Regan? pragmatic_dem Feb 2014 #24
Wingers have similar response to Obama accomplishments .... sigh uponit7771 Feb 2014 #32
So sorry for your limited world-view. JackRiddler Feb 2014 #33
Very good list, and only scratches the surface Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #7
Yes, this was much bigger than many know. JNelson6563 Feb 2014 #19
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a huge amount of inequity in who has been able to participate pragmatic_dem Feb 2014 #10
K&R! sheshe2 Feb 2014 #13
Remember where we WERE under Republicans? Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #14
K&R!!!!! rury Feb 2014 #15
Dow plunged to 6500! and GDP to -9% and ........... ErikJ Feb 2014 #21
OMG davidpdx Feb 2014 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #26
Yeah, thanks a lot, Obama!!!!!! MADem Feb 2014 #27
Now that is almost worthy of a Mission Accomplished banner liberal N proud Feb 2014 #28
Reminds me of the guy in a bar slamming back shots flamin lib Feb 2014 #30
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