America’s Repudiation of the Obama Agenda Continues

[Raider]

I came across this commentary in reference to the recent primary elections, where the author makes a lot of very strong points, I just wanted to share it..... Your thoughts


America’s Repudiation of the Obama Agenda Continues

Howard Rich
Chairman of Americans for Limited Government
Friday, May 21, 2010

It began last November in statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey. Then it swept through Massachusetts in a stunning U.S. Senate special election this January. Most recently, it has spilled over into primary battles in Utah, Kentucky and Pennsylvania – growing more potent as the calendar year advances toward a climactic November 2010 showdown.

“It” is the ongoing, unequivocal public repudiation of the agenda of President Barack Obama – a seismic shift in the thinking of the American electorate regarding the sort of “change” they want for their country. In several races “it” is also a direct rejection of Obama himself – as evidenced by the deaf ear voters turned to his personal appeals on behalf of Massachusetts’ Attorney General Martha Coakley and party-switching Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter.

Both Coakley and Specter enjoyed commanding leads over their opponents prior to Obama’s active engagement in their races, with Specter enjoying a 21-point cushion over Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak as recently as last month (Sestak ended up defeating Specter by a 54-46 percent margin). Similarly, Sen. Scott Brown trailed Coakley by 17 points just two weeks before pulling off his improbable five-point upset victory.

In both races, Obama appeared in radio and television ads on behalf of the losing candidates – and in the Massachusetts race he paid a last-minute visit to the Bay State in an unsuccessful effort to rally Coakley’s faltering campaign (similar to his failed last-ditch effort to revive the flagging candidacy of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine).

There was no eleventh hour visit for Specter – but only because Obama’s political advisors read the handwriting on the wall and were desperate to avoid yet another embarrassing image of their boss with his arms draped around another losing candidate. Accordingly, after pledging to give Specter his “full support,” when Election Day rolled around Obama was nowhere to be found – and wasn’t even following the race “all that closely,” according to his spokesman.

How’s that for loyalty?

Also worth noting was the tremendous shot in the arm that Sestak’s campaign received when he revealed that the Obama administration (in typical “Chicagoland” fashion) offered him a high-paying federal job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge against Specter – a charge which has yet to be properly investigated, but which served as a turning point in the race.

Meanwhile, halfway across the country in Kentucky another repudiation of Obama was taking place – albeit one that rattled the cages of a completely different set of Washington insiders. There, Kentucky ophthalmologist Rand Paul – son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul – trounced establishment Republican Trey Grayson in a race that demonstrated the growing political clout of the Tea Party movement.

Paul defeated the GOP’s hand-picked candidate by a 24 percent margin – even after Grayson received endorsements from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Vice-President Dick Cheney. Similar to Obama’s last-minute shunning of Specter, McConnell also fled the scene of his anointed candidate’s downfall – ostensibly to attend to “Washington business.”

Paul’s win was the second demonstration of Tea Party power in as many weeks, coming on the heels of Utah Republicans’ refusal to re-nominate incumbent U.S. Senator Bob Bennett. Additionally, ten other U.S. Senators and twenty U.S. Representatives are retiring from politics in advance of the 2010 elections.

What’s fueling this “wave?”

The convenient answer is “voter angst,” but the truth is that each of these elections represents a mixture of prevailing national sentiment and more regionalized root perceptions. In Pennsylvania, for example, Democrats rejected Obama’s personal appeal to support a party-switcher – while in Kentucky, Republicans rejected their party’s chosen nominee to support a candidate who they believe will be more aggressive in taking the fight to the Obama regime.

In both cases, Obama loses. And while the mainstream media continues to portray the Tea Party as part of the “fringe” of America’s political spectrum (while relying on a generic “anti-incumbency” foil to insulate Obama from the dramatic electoral defeats), the truth is the roots of this new limited government movement are deeper and stronger than anyone previously imagined. Also, reversing Obama’s harmful policies not only remains the movement’s raison d’etre – but its source of popular support.

For example, two months after its passage, the latest Rasmussen reports poll shows that 56 percent of Americans favor repealing Obama’s socialized medicine law – which is actually a higher number than Rasmussen recorded in the aftermath of Congress passing the legislation.

That’s true “staying power,” and the longer Obama continues to ignore America’s rejection of him, his candidates and his agenda, the stronger the movement against him will grow.

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Don't feed the troll

[bmugford]

Oh look another anti-Obama post on a domain forum by Raider. Don't you have anything more productive to do?

[Raider]

Don't feed the troll

The fact your posting here with nothing to contribute to the discussion makes you the troll...... Why not change your user name back to VirtualT?

Or better yet, Virtual TROLL.

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Oh look another anti-Obama post on a domain forum by Raider. Don't you have anything more productive to do?

Brad, Why don't you mind your own business? Seriously.... I have every right to create threads on this Forum, If you don't like it then DON'T visit them or better yet put me on ignore...

You and Virtual never have anything to contribute to these threads but criticism of the thread itself... You want to improve this section? Start by growing up!

[H2FC]

I came across this commentary in reference to the recent primary elections, where the author makes a lot of very strong points, I just wanted to share it..... Your thoughts

My thoughts?? ......You're one weird sickO.

[bmugford]

Just like I have every right to respond to you. If you don't like it start making some actual contribution to the forum.

Brad

Brad, Why don't you mind your own business? Seriously.... I have every right to create threads on this Forum, If you don't like it then DON'T visit them or better yet put me on ignore...

You and Virtual never have anything to contribute to these threads but criticism of the thread itself... You want to improve this section? Start by growing up!

[Gerry]

some actual contribution to the forum.

Brad

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[katherine]

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[Gerry]

In Iceland people live and get along with trolls...

and volcanoes!

Volcanoes is an odd word when you look at it.

It contains the word C-A-N-O-E-S, as in the Plural of canoe.



But, we pronounce it differently when it is put with the letters V-O-L.

Otherwise, what do we call this???



Is this a VolCanoe?

[Raider]

Here's a list of Senators coming up for Re-election in 2010;


Retiring Democratic Senators (5 seats)
Christopher Dodd of Connecticut
Ted Kaufman of Delaware
Roland Burris of Illinois
Evan Bayh of Indiana
Byron Dorgan of North Dakota

Retiring Republican Senators (6 seats)
George LeMieux of Florida
Sam Brownback of Kansas
Jim Bunning of Kentucky
Kit Bond of Missouri
Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
George Voinovich of Ohio

Democratic Senators defeated in Primary Nomination (1 seat)
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania

Republican Senators defeated in Primary Nomination (1 seat)
Bob Bennett of Utah

Democratic incumbents (12 seats)
Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
Barbara Boxer of California
Michael Bennet of Colorado
Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
Barbara Mikulski of Maryland
Harry Reid of Nevada
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Chuck Schumer of New York
Ron Wyden of Oregon
Patrick Leahy of Vermont
Patty Murray of Washington
Russ Feingold of Wisconsin

Republican incumbents (11 seats)
Richard Shelby of Alabama
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
John McCain of Arizona
Johnny Isakson of Georgia
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
David Vitter of Louisiana
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
Jim DeMint of South Carolina
John Thune of South Dakota

Just like I have every right to respond to you. If you don't like it start making some actual contribution to the forum.

Brad

Yes, you have a right to respond alright, but you DON'T have a right telling me what to do... You have NO authority on this forum at all, If you don't like me posting here or don't like the content, take your PMS problem up with the mods or with Adam.... Or just put me on ignore, whatever suits your fancy.

If selling crappy domains on this forum is your thing, that's great... Just DON'T try to make it mine.

And I see you make quite a lot of posts in the political section yourself;

http://www.dnforum.com/search.php?searchid=1703743

DNF has NO shortage of HYPOCRITES that's for sure.

My thoughts?? ......You're one weird sickO.

Another ****ing hypocrite;

http://www.dnforum.com/search.php?searchid=1703862

29 threads created by you on the same subject...

Written by a closed minded Heretic.