Who Is Obama's Base?

[Dinger]

Serious question. Not one I can answer, because the definition of his base seems to keep changing.

[medeak]

1. judging from his supporters calling in on msnbc and npr

they are moderates and naive young people

[musette_sf]

2. .....

(thx n2doc)

[Occam Bandage]

3. It seems as if he's attempting to govern without one.

I'm not sure that's ever been successful.

[polichick]

10. True - I guess having a base is too partisan. nt

[polichick]

4. Reading DU, seems the base is only those who agree with the prez on any given day. nt

[CakeGrrl]

9. Or the ones who CLAIM to be the base while they tell him he's a weak, wimpy idiot

who needs to show them that he's working for THEM.

[niceypoo]

22. Obama left the party

...not the other way around.

[CakeGrrl]

24. When did THAT happen?

Keep telling yourself that. Stay in the bubble.

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[sasha031]

5. ....

[polichick]

6. Yikes - that is really creepy! nt

[sasha031]

7. ya, I probably shouldn't have done that...

[polichick]

8. I didn't mean you shouldn't have - it's a well-done but creepy image. nt

[Dr.Phool]

19. The haves and the have- mores.

Seems I've heard that before somewhere.

[Safetykitten]

11. On a leafy street in suburban Chevy Chase is a family.

Dad works for a last Century insurance company and has avoided all the layoffs, and is quite secure. He likes when the President talks about college and all the tax credits, as his two scamps will soon be going to college. He has a great health plan, and lives in the same house that him and his wife bought when they married.

His wife is works for a HC company and business is good. Plenty of time to work from home and take the kids around to play dates.

They recycle and put those swirly bulbs in all the lamps, except the ones in the newly remodeled kitchen, which of course have to have the halogen. But hey, it looks great.

Times are good and all their friends vote Democratic. They like the stability and are not too keen on those people that cause all the problems, you know the gays, the HC nuts, the war crime freaks. They don't understand why this is such a big deal, and about that tax thing! Craziness! Don't people realize that tax cuts are good? For EVERYBODY! I mean they are for gay rights but why so strident? Rome wasn't built in a day.

The President has this. Life is good.

[Hello_Kitty]

12. OMG! That is awesome. You should make it an OP. eom

[Atticus]

13. Very well written. Thanks. nt.

[polichick]

14. Are you sure this is a Democratic family? nt

[lonestarnot]

17. LOL,

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. delete

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[Supersedeas]

27. when the trickle is a shower

[polmaven]

16. Since 1/20/2009,

the American people are his base......All of us.

[donco6]

18. Whoever agrees with him the most.

Lately, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

[Clio the Leo]

20. Is it anti-war opponents? Is it first time college voters? African Americans? Is it....

.... college educated, white, female senior citizens?

The answer is yes..........

I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them. ~ Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope"

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. African-Americans, I would think.

Not because of color, but because they're our most loyal constituency.

[Hawkowl]

23. Wall Street

I think that this has become fairly obvious by now. The tipoff began when Geitner and Summers were appointed along with giving Bernake another term.

The tax cuts for millionaires should seal the deal.

[FrenchieCat]

25. His base appears to be those who did their homework, and weren't "inept"

when they hired him for the job, which he presented himself for honestly and openly.

The ones who claimed to be fooled, only fooled themselves, and yet they continue to blame
him. Perhaps if they would have taken the time to get informed, they wouldn't feel so
"Betrayed" that their employee has his own mind, and is using it the way that he has determined
is the way to go, and the way he certainly communicated that he would.

Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-08-10 09:36 PM
Original message
"I am bound to disappoint some, if not all"

I think it's possible a lot of us have never read these words and the rest haven't read them for a LONG time.


I am a Democrat....

.... after all; my views on most topics correspond more closely to the editorial pages of the New York Times than those of the Wall Street Journal. I am angry about policies that consistently favor the wealthy and powerful over average Americans, and insist that government has an important role in opening up opportunity to all. I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody’s religious beliefs–including my own–on nonbelievers. Furthermore, I am a prisoner of my own biography: I can’t help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of how generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives.

But that is not all that I am. I also think my party can be smug, detached, and dogmatic at times. I believe in the free market, competition, and entrepreneurship, and think no small number of government programs don’t work as advertised. I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers. I think America has more often been a force for good than for ill in the world; I carry few illusions about our enemies, and revere the courage and competence of our military. I reject a politics that is based solely on racial identity, gender identity, sexual orientation, or victimhood generally. I think much of what ails the inner city involves a breakdown in culture that will not be cured by money alone, and that our values and spiritual life matter at least as much as our GDP.

Undoubtedly, some of these views will get me in trouble. I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.

As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.

The Audacity of Hope

As posted on this forum.

[Skittles]

26. that should be asked in the past tense

[WI_DEM]

28. Democrats who support him by margins of 82% or higher, liberals who support him with 85%

African Americans who support him with 90% or more. Younger people who give him over 60% approval.

[stevenleser]

29. There you go again, muddying up the discussion with facts.

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