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President Obama has hit the campaign trail and is trying to keep a stiff upper lip in the process, but even he acknowledges that things don’t look good for the Democrats in November.
From ABC News
At his town hall meeting at George Washington University last night, President Obama at one point almost sounded like he was eulogizing House Democrats who made risky votes at their political peril.
“Something that I’ve been surprised about is how courageous a lot of members of Congress have been on some of the big, tough issues that we’ve worked on over the last 20 months,” the president said. “There are a lot of folks who took some really tough votes over the course of the last 20 months, knowing that it was bad for them politically; who voted for health care reform even though the polls said this would cause them problems in the next election; who voted for financial regulatory reform, even though they knew that by supporting it, it might attract big money pouring in and directing negative ads against them. And they did it anyway. And that was risky for them.”
The president specifically singled out as “folks who have been willing to stand up” Democratic Reps. Tom Perriello of Virginia, John Boccieri of Ohio, and Betsy Markey of Colorado, saying that they voted for his agenda “knowing that they might be putting their congressional careers at risk. And that’s been a pleasant surprise.”
The reflective tone, coming 20 days before the mid-term elections in which Perriello, Boccieri, Markey and other Democrats may way be shown the door by voters, is also seen in an interview with the New York Times that in the previous 20 months he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” that realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” and perhaps should have “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts” in the stimulus.
If the Democrats lose control of the House next month the blame will be squarely on Obama’s shoulders thanks to an agenda that has proven to be very unpopular with the public, and which is putting his party’s candidates on the defensive.
Even now as Obama is admitting to the non-existence of “shovel-ready projects” or that he looks like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat” there aren’t any apologies from the media for misleading the public that such projects existed or that the president was really a different kind of Democrat.
Obama will get the blame for the Democrats ceding ground if not full control of the House and the Senate but the liberal media is also culpable as they did little to question the president’s agenda and they know it.
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5 Comments for Obama’s Optimism Fades
Yes, the media did little to question Obama’s integrity and the under handed manipulation of the legislative, and every other process. What an unbelievable ego this liar has, to think he could get away with it.
Chicago Mafia style politics is what was predicted….and it has come upon our great country. He is a liar and a crook extraordinaire.
Dems wake up. You have been screwed and beheaded. The democratic party and process has been hijacked and changed forever. No one will ever trust them again. See the 400 groups involved in that Oct. 2nd rally — they sure showed their hands, didn’t they. This is the change you voted for.
OBAMA has done our country a favor. He has united citizens from all parties as to our vulnerability in being governed by politicians who are incompetent and self-serving. We need to eliminate multiple terms; lifetime benefits; pork; professional lobbyists; et al in favor of the well being of our nation. WE NEED TO START THE PROCESS ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010!
One should remind those liberal journalists and the NAACP that there has been no acts of violence commited during one of those tea parties ecept by some of obamas bootlickers
From Obama in the article: “Something that I’ve been surprised about is how courageous a lot of members of Congress have been on some of the big, tough issues that we’ve worked on over the last 20 months,” the president said. “There are a lot of folks who took some really tough votes over the course of the last 20 months, knowing that it was bad for them politically; who voted for health care reform even though the polls said this would cause them problems in the next election; who voted for financial regulatory reform, even though they knew that by supporting it, it might attract big money pouring in and directing negative ads against them. And they did it anyway. And that was risky for them.”
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Yeah, he was surprised that they voted against the majority of Americans on all these votes, and only got them by making “back-room” deals, promises…not kept, bribery…causing many in the base to move away from him.
He brags about all the achievements he has accomplished, but they are not only unpopular with the Majority, but detrimental to the U.S. sovereignty and bankrupting our Nation. He has become the ONLY modern day president to single out people and groups to slander them, well below the expectations of a President and a plethora of lies..he is a sad little man with a big stick.
How many campaigning liberals are running on any of the crap they voted on…3, possibly 4, and saying they would repeal ‘only parts’ of those passed Bills.
I was heartened by the democrat college reporter attending several TEA Parties, taking photographs reported that they did in fact believe in what they claim, found very few carrying crude signs were asked and complied with other members asking they remove those signs. He gave the TEA Party high marks for what they believe in, and in his opinion was a legitimate concern of those Americans.
I hope the demacrats lose big next month i hope to see OBAMA looking more worried then a turkey on the day before thanksgiving