The Obama Poll Drop: It's the Issues, Stupid!

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Broadsides.com
September 8, 2009

* On the Iraq War, Obama was pushed into saying that the “surge worked beyond anyone’s wildest expectations” to the Fox News blowhard, Bill O’Reilly. Despite being an inaccurate – if not completely spineless – position, it effectively handed what was the number one issue directly over to Mr. Surge himself, John McCain.
* On energy issues, the Dems are in the middle of doing an about-face on offshore drilling. Instead of showing some spine and sanity in the face of the Republican’s new – and scary – hit chant of “drill baby, drill,” the Dems are flip-flopping like McCain on the issue and, according to The Hill, preparing to help pass new offshore drilling allowances.
* On health care, the Obama campaign continues to muddy and muddle through a confusing and all-but-impossible to understand “solution” that will allow the insurance companies and “the market” to remain in control. If it sounds a lot like the Hilary plan of 1993, well, it is. And we all know how that ended up – 15 long years ago. Thanks Dems. Sorry, but any health care plan from the Dems that doesn’t include the words “universal” or “single-payer” is just a pale imitation of the Republicans’ plan. In other words, not much change there.

And that’s what the lib-Dems don’t get: When you talk the talk of change, you’ve also got to walk the walk. Otherwise, you look like John Kerry or Al Gore. You know, two guys who took the voting public for fools by refusing to stand firm on their issues, changed issue-horses in mid-stream and, as a result, were both L.O.S.E.R.S.

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3. Do You Really Believe That Broadside.com is a "right-wing " Website??

You must be really new to politics if you don't know the difference between 'right-wing propaganda" and progressive/left opinions. Broadsides.com is hardly a right-wing website. From what I've read they only posts article written by people on the left-side of the political spectrum.

Do you also think that Tom Hayden and tens of thousands of other anti-Republicans who dare criticize any aspect of Obama's election strategy are right-wing propagandists? We have a big tent. Seems like you want to shrink it to only those who happen to agree with all of your political views and opinions. Let see .... a telephone booth might be big enough to hold all of us.

The RNC Funeral
September 3, 2008

Well, that was creepy. The Republican Convention, that is. Was it me, or did it feel more like a funeral than the party they were trying oh-so-hard to make it? Because this Grand Old Party looked and felt like nothing more than a fatally wounded elephant making a slow fall to the ground. I was half expecting to see the tusk-poachers come crashing in.

Rule number one for political convention organizers has got to be that they make sure to fill the auditorium. You know, kind of like the Dems did in Denver. Because there’s nothing as ineffective as seeing old, white people with really stupid hats standing around in a half-filled arena while trying to pretend that the place is rockin’. Sorry, but the cameras didn’t lie. And I’ve seen more excitement in the windows of Montpelier’s VFW Hall.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, we should all begin to understand John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin. I mean, what the hell else did he have to spice up the party? And, no, Cindy’s ridiculous dress doesn’t count.

McCain saw the Dem Fest in Denver, looked over the notes for his own upcoming convention, and realized that Lieberman, Romney and Pawlenty didn’t offer squat to the ticket or the party. So Palin it was. And the McCain folks are certainly hoping that the Palin intoxication that the left, right and middle are in the midst of – good or bad – will help hide the carcass of the dying elephant in the room.

You can read the rest of this article, which Citizen_Penn might also describe as "right-wing propaganda" at:

http://broadsides.org/the-rnc-funeral.htm

[elkston]

2. This poster has never been for Obama. Always posting negative crap. n/t

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5. That's Absolutely False So Please Refrain From Personal Attacks

[AlCzervik]

4. "Lib-Dems". And the hell is the writer that we should listen to him? All he did

was insult Obama supporters.

[H2O Man]

6. the sky is falling

cluck-cluck-cluck

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7. It's Not Falling But I'm Worried You're Not?

Oh well, let's hope Obama starts punching hard against the big money interests that are responsible for the economic crisis that working class people face.

He shouldn't be afraid of offending Wall Street special interests even if it means reduced contributions to his campaign. That will be more than made up from more working class financial donations.

[H2O Man]

8. cluck