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Obama Is Tanking: Is It Unemployment … or Is It Him?
Pajamas Media ^ | July 29 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 07/29/2009 8:47:51 AM PDT by AJKauf

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To: AJKauf
It is believed that only about 100 seats in the House are contested. Figure 25 of them are GOP held. That leaves 75 Dems to be unseated. If the GOP won 40 of those seats they might have a one vote majority. That is if they held all of their contested seats.

In 1994 the GOP profited from public ennui with 40 years of Democrat control. It had a plan about what they were for that resonated with the voters, tired of the same old. It had a spokesman the GOP felt comfortable getting behind in Gingrich. 15 months out from the 2010 elections and none of these factors are in place. People may be dubious or worried about the direction things are going, but the Dems control the news most Americans get and the GOP may make inroads by yelling STOP but they need to develop a direction to take the nation. And I see little sign of doing that at this time.

21 posted on 07/29/2009 9:06:16 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: AJKauf

Obama’s Core values = Incompetence and Bitterness


22 posted on 07/29/2009 9:06:38 AM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: AJKauf

IMHO it is both. People are beginning to realize that he has a line a mile long and waist deep that is nothing but BS! Continuing to blame Bush makes him look very wimpy so he’s also losing his “cool” his supporter’s liked.


23 posted on 07/29/2009 9:07:05 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

Every news show begins with”And today the President...”. I think people are also just plain tired of his face in theirs.
It is like a Banana Republic..the President makes the biggest news every day.


24 posted on 07/29/2009 9:09:59 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: AJKauf

ALL of the above!


25 posted on 07/29/2009 9:13:25 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: AJKauf
On TV now saying recession is over. We are saved. What an ass. It's just beginning and this pompous ass lies and lies. He is insane.
26 posted on 07/29/2009 9:14:41 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: AJKauf

Unlike the slickster Clinton, I do not believe that Obama can stomach the need to govern moderately - He is too sure that “he won”, and that means “he wins everything”.

Clinton, when faced with a more conservative congress, had the sense to understand that doing something - even if it wasn’t really his personal favorite idea - was more important than getting his way (except with interns).

Is anybody else aghast at their own nostalgia for the Clinton presidency?


27 posted on 07/29/2009 9:19:03 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: Logical me

His arrogance was revealed with the “stupidly” comment.


28 posted on 07/29/2009 9:19:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: AJKauf

Maybe some of his hardcore supporters are starting to realize that Barrack Obama ain’t “gonna pay off my car and house” and are already looking for the next sugar daddy to care for them??


29 posted on 07/29/2009 9:22:17 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: AJKauf

it’s both....he has nothing in his playbook to respond except another “look at me, ain’t I slick?” teleprompter performance, the the public is already getting tired of them.


30 posted on 07/29/2009 9:23:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: AJKauf

“..veer toward the political center”

As if the Kenyan Imposter has a center.

Pour on the calls and letters. Let’s drive him down to the teens....


31 posted on 07/29/2009 9:23:50 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: Logical me
As his numbers decline and his road gets rougher, he will become defiant and “colorful”. We ain't seen nothing yet, as Al Jolson would have said.
32 posted on 07/29/2009 9:26:02 AM PDT by oyez
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To: PugetSoundSoldier; 1000 silverlings; xzins; P-Marlowe; wmfights; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; ...
With Obama's numbers tanking, we need to be on guard for some "wag the dog" crisis that will be scripted to boost his negative standing among the public.

Mamet's movie is worth seeing again.

33 posted on 07/29/2009 9:26:33 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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Ubama is like the catchy pop song you hear on the radio and perhaps enjoy hearing for a couple of weeks, but then by the fiftieth time you hear it you can’t stand it anymore and want to kick your stinking radio. That’s Ubama. People have grown sick of him.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog...


34 posted on 07/29/2009 9:27:49 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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It’s him. He never shuts up. He’s all high sounding gibberish with no substance.

He’s a fake, a fraud, a phony, a doofus, a twerp and an outright liar.

He’s also a wolf in sheeps clothing, a Manchurian POTUS, a socialist/leftist/communist/anti-American/traitor.

He’s not really an American.

Then there’s his lovely wife,......She reminds me of a short kick in football, or the technique of holding the baseball bat horizontal and letting the ball hit it for a short infield play, or the long pole used on flat boats in England to push the boat along rather than rowing.

Can you think of anything else? Next time I’ll tell you how I really feel.

And further more,........


35 posted on 07/29/2009 9:30:36 AM PDT by garyhope
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To: Lancey Howard

You mean like THIS song=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoWF2YalYvI


36 posted on 07/29/2009 9:32:13 AM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: garyhope

And plus, he’s got BO, real bad BO.

He stinks to high heaven!


37 posted on 07/29/2009 9:32:35 AM PDT by garyhope
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It his PORTFOLIO ....


38 posted on 07/29/2009 9:33:53 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Only feces and dead fish go with the flow.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Amen, a real possibility with a l'il help from his friends

he gets high with a little help from his friends

we're gonna die, with a lil help from his friends

39 posted on 07/29/2009 9:36:41 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; PugetSoundSoldier; 1000 silverlings; xzins; P-Marlowe; wmfights; Alex Murphy; ...

I would bet it’s the unemployment issue, because that’s one way the average American can feel a bad economy. (Gas prices and tax increases are others.)

In Ohio, my state, unemployment is officially at 11.1%, really at 16.5%, and adding in underemployment, the number is probably at about 20%.

That means that 1 of every five people you talk to are most likely to have an unemployment problem or an underemployment problem.

They talk to families, who talk to friends, who talk, talk, talk.

It’s a whisper campaign against the government...although it’s more like a shouting campaign.


40 posted on 07/29/2009 9:38:01 AM PDT by xzins (Chaplain Says: Jesus befriends all who ask Him for help.)
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