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Young People Deserting Obama
HUMAN EVENTS ^ | 05/04/2010 | Ron Meyer

Posted on 05/04/2010 12:19:04 PM PDT by george76

I'm always entertained when older folks try to reach out to people my age. It's hardly ever a pretty sight and most of the time these attempts end up being hilarious. I found myself chuckling at Barack Obama's most recent effort to beg young voters to come out to the polls this November.

No one is buying it anymore, especially young people.

Even the most liberal of my generation are frustrated with the President... The radical environmentalists on college campuses across the country were furious when Obama opened up the coasts for limited drilling.

Young Americans are realizing they did not get the politician they bargained for.

Better yet, some of us are realizing that the Obama presidency is punishing our future. Down the road, we will be the ones forced to pay off the record-breaking deficits and debt that Obama's budgets and trillion-dollar spending programs are leaving us.

There is little doubt that Obama will have a hard time reconnecting with the new voters he had in 2008. While he may get the koolaid-drinkers, it appears most everyone else is dissatified with him and his policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
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To: george76

Kool-Aid drinkers? Was this kid alive when Jonestown took place?


61 posted on 05/04/2010 1:38:27 PM PDT by printhead
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To: colorado tanker
Saw somewhere today the Obamistas think they can recover in time for the 2010 midterms because of a better economy. Good luck with that . . . .

Hahaha! Those Obamistas are nuts! The price of gas is going to shoot up now. Watch gas go up to around $5 per gallon this summer.

62 posted on 05/04/2010 1:38:29 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (I can see November from my house.)
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To: george76
The radical environmentalists on college campuses across the country were furious when Obama opened up the coasts for limited drilling.

And I'll bet every one of thoes mindless little pissants have gasoline consuming automobiles, too. Would they rather we just continue to get our crude from hostile ME countries?


63 posted on 05/04/2010 1:42:06 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
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To: a fool in paradise
She "figured" she couldn't trust "either one of them" rather than ACCEPTING that the MEDIA had lied to her about Bush bringing back the draft. Until kids wake up to the Pravda Media, they will fall for this BS.

What amazes me is the younger generation is supposed to be so media savvy yet many still get their news from very limited sources (AOL, SNL, Stewart, etc.). It's tough competing with news sources that pander to young interests... which at an age where you're not paying your own bills pretty much revolves around sex, drugs and rock and roll.

All those big numbers about debt and listening to people who say no all the time... it's like, just so boring! So they vote for the cool guy who promises ice cream for everyone. Yeah! Mean people suck!

64 posted on 05/04/2010 1:42:09 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: george76

With young liberals the most you can hope for is that they don’t come out to vote.
They are not going to get some flash that wanting other people’s stuff instead of getting your own is unethical and lazy. It will take longer to find conservative principles for them.


65 posted on 05/04/2010 1:43:17 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: swarthyguy
“What the heck do you know, kid, you voted for Obama”.

oooh, there's one to remember. Thanks!

66 posted on 05/04/2010 1:45:23 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: ConjunctionJunction
The price of gas is going to shoot up now

I don't even want to think about it. :-((

I was talking with a liberal friend a couple of days ago and she went through a whole litany of things that were depressing her, even the health care thing. She clearly thinks we're headed in the wrong direction. She'll never vote Republican, but I'd say morale in the other camp is really low.

67 posted on 05/04/2010 1:47:41 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Ladysmith

When a buddy complained last year that the price of his rollup tobacco had gone up at Walmart due to FedTaxes, I laughed, and said, well you voted for this - Obama said he was gonna raise tabak taxes!

Nonplussed, perplexed and unable to respond!


68 posted on 05/04/2010 1:49:29 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: rhombus

Kids see themselves getting shouted down by rabid leftists. Especially on forums (whether they be music, film, etc.). It becomes a big pecking party.

The silent majority keeps mum because the totalitarians on the Left don’t tolerate civilized debate and abide by the mantra “politicize everything”.

Every generation has to open their eyes for themselves. Don’t abide by an ideology because someone says “it’s the popular thing to do”, come around to it. Do the investigation. Kick the tires. But don’t just be critical of one ideology. It’s why antiAmericanism as espoused by Howard Zinn is dishonest. It shunned any discussion of where America excelled and does not address the sheer horrors of Socialist and Communist nations in that same timeframe. It’s what he wanted to replace our form of government with; if we are to have a debate, show me what you want INSTEAD.


69 posted on 05/04/2010 2:04:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: swarthyguy

Can they still by their hipster cloves with flavored tobaccos being outlawed?


70 posted on 05/04/2010 2:04:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: colorado tanker
I was talking with a liberal friend a couple of days ago and she went through a whole litany of things that were depressing her, even the health care thing

I know Leftists who are upset that Health Care wasn't single payer. And then they get offended if anyone suggests that it may be in any way Socialist (even though European elites are HAPPY to see America going Socialized medicine).

They are intellectually dishonest.

71 posted on 05/04/2010 2:06:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: printhead

Jonestown. Another pie in the sky socialist paradise from San Francisco and Democrats.


72 posted on 05/04/2010 2:07:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: RexBeach
"How does the author know that young people are disappointed in Mr. Obama?"

Maybe he read the article in Rolling Stone a few months back that said the same thing.

73 posted on 05/04/2010 2:10:00 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: a fool in paradise
Leftists who are upset that Health Care wasn't single payer.

I didn't get into a debate but she likely falls in that camp.

I can easily see turnout down with the lefty base that depressed and indies deserting them in droves.

74 posted on 05/04/2010 2:11:18 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: george76

I just hope the country doesn’t implode with a conservative administration. The mindless zombies will immediately blame it on them rather than the Democrats.


75 posted on 05/04/2010 2:12:50 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: imahawk

“Too late dumbasses.The damage has already been done and the idiot young people will be paying for this long after us old gits are dead.Morons.The hope and change that destroyed America.”

Many of them will someday have children if not already. Then they will have to explain it all to them.


76 posted on 05/04/2010 2:18:09 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: colorado tanker

Any liberal who is upset because it isn’t “single payer” doesn’t understand the concept of a creeping tide of socialism. Incrementalism is the key. If it isn’t repealed in total, single payer is coming. Obama said that it may take 20 years to get rid of private insurance but that is the stated goal.


77 posted on 05/04/2010 2:21:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: Theodore R.
You hang on to that belief, Theodore...........no matter how ridiculous it makes you look.

IF young people voted for Obama to "slap GWB around" (a ridiculous assumption on its face - they voted for an American Idol, cool black guy), it's only because they believed the incessant media lies about President Bush.

It's really time for you to move on, and put the blame where it belongs. President Bush is NOT responsible for "horrors." The American people made a bad choice based on bad information and gross stupidity.

Period.

78 posted on 05/04/2010 2:22:02 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Correct!

I think the plan now is to let the costs go totally out of control to ramp up public support for a "public option" as a cheap alternative. It could work. We need to repeal that mess.

79 posted on 05/04/2010 2:27:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: george76

Maybe Obama can win them back by offering unlimited government employment in his “youth corps” program.

All they have to do is promise to campaign for him and his hand picked candidates, and vote (ala card check procedures) for only him and his cronies.


80 posted on 05/04/2010 2:33:16 PM PDT by airborne ("It's a great day for hockey!" - 'Badger' Bob Johnson (RIP))
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