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Any stories of Obama buyer's remorse?

Posted on 02/14/2015 7:39:21 AM PST by eekitsagreek

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To: Pearls Before Swine
I have some relatives who are the same way. When it comes to Obama, it is a case of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. Obama is more pure in their eyes than the pope for devout Catholics, the Mormon prophet for Mormons, or Mohammad for Muslims. Obama can do no wrong. It is not even possible. If Obama is for something, they will change their view to conform to his. It is not worth discussing anything political with them. They are true believers who wouldn't see the truth if it slapped them in the face.
21 posted on 02/14/2015 8:12:43 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: Walrus

The disenfranchised people of this country have not “risen up” simply because they are not ORGANIZED


They tried with the Tea Party but the left (including the GOPe) and the media went all out Alinsky tactics on them. Labeled them racists, rednecks, neocons, etcs.

You’re right. It needs to be relabeled and reorganized.


22 posted on 02/14/2015 8:13:30 AM PST by boycott
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To: Nevadan

They’ll still love Obama even while he feeds them to the Lions


23 posted on 02/14/2015 8:14:40 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: eekitsagreek

Idiots. A person has to be some special class of stupid to not see what a disaster Obama would be. Duped? Yeah, if you are brain dead stupid. Sensible people saw right through Obama.


24 posted on 02/14/2015 8:18:12 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: eekitsagreek

I don’t know any. Family members and friends who supported him are posting all the wonderful improvements from ‘the best president since Clinton’.

I do know one person who has hard core Obama in 2008 in the primary (strong Obama, anti-war, etc), who is expressed overall hatred for the whole thing. They became cynical that no one is actually going to do what’s right. 100% that person will pull the lever for Clinton, Warren or anyone else on the ticket in 2016, so it’s no progress.


25 posted on 02/14/2015 8:18:46 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: eekitsagreek

The silence is deafening in our neighborhood. Most of us are conservatives, but there are a handful of diehard libs who proudly displayed Obama signs in their yards during both elections. We all interact socially, and politics is rarely brought up in those settings but the Obama cloud hangs out there like a pregnant whale. We know who they are and they know we know who they are- Outwardly nice people stricken with a terrible self inflicted mental disease.


26 posted on 02/14/2015 8:19:29 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

They’ll Celebrate when Obama announces he’s running for a Third Term ,but he must control the Internet first


27 posted on 02/14/2015 8:20:15 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Sensible people saw right through Obama.

Yes, but there weren't enough of us to counter the "I want my freebies" voters.

28 posted on 02/14/2015 8:20:39 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: eekitsagreek

When uninformed, misinformed,ineligible, government dependent and downright ignorant people are allowed to vote and the choices presented to the informed and intelligent voters are unsavory candidates preselected by their respective parties, you tend to get bad results.


29 posted on 02/14/2015 8:21:42 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: eekitsagreek
I am surrounded by well educated (whatever that means today - I mean 'capable of thought' whether they are encumbered by it or not) ... liberals. One, worked in DC all her life in PR and media, so is an intellectual. Another is a hippy type with money so can afford patently unworkable views since the consequences never affect him - he's a lifestyle liberal. His wife is a Buddha Liberal. I'm a Buddhist generally in my thought. That is NOT Buddhism, but it is cliche Buddhism. All of them - their remorse is expressed (or should I say unexpressed but implicity) by:
  1. They don't blame his failure on the evil republicans anymore.
  2. They don't defend anything he's doing anymore, including OCare.
  3. They look away and change the subject on anything political.
  4. No longer any cockiness when speaking of politics.
  5. It's mostly characterized by what an ashamed narcissist looks like. Too proud to admit anything, but clearly can't believe he could be wrong. So ... just sort of hides in the corner when the subject comes up. Since they can't literally hide in the corner - you see it in their eyes. Almost pleading with you not to pick a fight with them. True intellectual cowards, are they.
There is more - but I would say their silence is the sole expression of remorse. It's not really remorse. They don't yet regret or repent, they merely, like a confused man in purgatory, wander around with a zombie look, sure that there is an explanation, and yet neither their intellect nor hopey-changey hearts seem to find one.

No more cocky responses unbacked by facts. No more sneers. People diagnosed as delusional ... the are most at risk when reality forces its way in. This is a mild version of that. They are lost ... but still cling by a thread of hopeandchange.

I'm describing the one's who were already full out lefties. The middle of the roaders don't have much problem saying "well that was a mistake."

30 posted on 02/14/2015 8:22:19 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: eekitsagreek

Anybody out there have stories of stupid people?


31 posted on 02/14/2015 8:23:49 AM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Walrus
A reinvigorated Tea Party (perhaps with a name change) might a good place to start.

They will sully the new name as well. Do not think you can avoid the attack by the New York Liberal Democrat Union members who control the information streams in this nation.

It doesn't matter what you call yourselves, if you talk about reducing the size of government, you will be regarded as a "hate" organization and unworthy of respect or consideration.

Nothing is going to get solved until we can compete with or destroy those New York (and Los Angeles) Liberal Democrat Union members who control the News/Entertainment industries.

So long as they control the high ground, we will not be able to beat them. We have to take their high ground in order to win.

32 posted on 02/14/2015 8:23:51 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: tinyowl
Heh - I guess the new mantra is ...

Hope and Change the subject

33 posted on 02/14/2015 8:23:58 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: tinyowl

They probably still believe in the ideas, they just think Obama must be doing it wrong


34 posted on 02/14/2015 8:24:41 AM PST by GeronL
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
And as long as the Fed continues injecting the economy with printed dollars in exchange for bonds that we'll eventually have to pay back, they'll get their freebies.

And there it is. They stay in power by bribing their armies of voter zombies with printed money for which the productive members of society will eventually have to pay.

And they thought we got rid of slavery.

35 posted on 02/14/2015 8:25:36 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Yes, but there weren't enough of us to counter the "I want my freebies" voters.

Who shouldn't be allowed to vote anyway. The last three words of the 24th amendment were a dreadful mistake.

36 posted on 02/14/2015 8:28:01 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: boycott
They tried with the Tea Party but the left (including the GOPe) and the media went all out Alinsky tactics on them. Labeled them racists, rednecks, neocons, etcs.

You’re right. It needs to be relabeled and reorganized.

No it doesn't. The First thing the media people will say after a relabeling and reorganization is "These people are the same people who made up the Tea Party." And they will hammer that point constantly until everyone realizes that you are just a relabeled Tea Party.

The answer is not to try and hide or camouflage yourself from the Left wing Liberal Democrat Union member Media from Massive Urban environments like New York and Los Angeles, the answer is to undermine, compete with, and eventually destroy the Left wing Liberal Democrat Union Member Media from the Massively Urban environments like New York and Los Angeles.

If we don't do that, we aren't going to win anyway.

37 posted on 02/14/2015 8:32:16 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: eekitsagreek

I ran into a liberal I worked with a couple of years ago and we talked for a minute. As we parted he said “You were right about Obama”. I was surprised.


38 posted on 02/14/2015 8:35:51 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lakecumberlandvet
When uninformed, misinformed,ineligible, government dependent and downright ignorant people are allowed to vote and the choices presented to the informed and intelligent voters are unsavory candidates preselected by their respective parties, you tend to get bad results.

Agreed.

We can solve the Misinformed problem by competing with and destroying the Liberal Democrat Union Members from New York and Los Angeles who produce our news and entertainment, and we can solve the uninformed and ignorant problem by repealing the last three words of the 24th amendment, and thereby deny the ability to vote to people who aren't paying taxes.

But I don't really see either thing happening, so odds are that we will simply keep rolling down this same stretch of track till we go off the cliff.

39 posted on 02/14/2015 8:43:18 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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I am sure there were Jews who were praising Hitler and imploring his aid as they were loaded on the cattle cars.


40 posted on 02/14/2015 8:43:48 AM PST by matt1234 (Slay the beast.)
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