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Dem pollster: What Obama really needs is an Oklahoma City moment
Hot Air ^ | November 5, 2010 | by Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/13/2011 10:26:31 AM PST by Marty62

Occasionally, political pundits get so wrapped up in their analysis that they don’t think through all of the implications of their commentary. That happened to Mark Penn, longtime Democratic pollster, in his appearance on Hardball last night, in the most charitable explanation possible. Eyeblast’s Joe Schoffstall clips this magic moment from the discussion with Chris Matthews on how disconnected Barack Obama has become from the American electorate, and what it will take for him to reconnect, using Bill Clinton as an example:(video of Chris Matthews show)

President Clinton reconnected with Oklahoma. And the President right now he seems removed. And it wasn’t until that speech that he really clicked with the American people. Obama needs a similar kind of, yeah. So it will take a terrorist attack for people to like Obama, or perhaps a natural disaster? That’s what Penn says here, and it’s worth noting that Matthews doesn’t bat an eyelash at the suggestion. Had a Republican pollster suggested in 2004 or 2006 that George Bush could really use an “Oklahoma” to reconnect to the American people, the media would have run endless stories about “wag the dog” notions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; arizonamemorial; bho2012; giffords; jaredloughner; okcbombing; tucson
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Where is the analysis of whether the Dums were really HOPING for a tragedy to boost Zero?
1 posted on 01/13/2011 10:26:33 AM PST by Marty62
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To: Marty62

He was just practicing ‘civility’ Democrat style.


2 posted on 01/13/2011 10:32:24 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

The fact that a Dum polster would even think like that is digusting and characteristic of the Party of hate.


3 posted on 01/13/2011 10:34:44 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Marty62

In your opinion, how far do you think they might go?


4 posted on 01/13/2011 10:36:21 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Marty62

Evil. There is no other word to describe the ‘Rats.


5 posted on 01/13/2011 10:38:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Obama’s really gotten shortchanged here. First he gets a jihadi (can’t make anything of that) and now a politically ambiguous paranoid schizophrenic where, try as the left might, they really can’t pin the blame on Tea Partiers or the right in general. Seems like his minions need to mount a serious effort to create something here. Of course, they wouldn’t be so brazen. /s


6 posted on 01/13/2011 10:46:25 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

They are hoping for a Reichstag fire.


7 posted on 01/13/2011 10:51:17 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

It’s according to how well this tragedy works out for them.

Apparently Zero’s speech last night has given them renewed energies in their attacks. frankly, I am sencerely concerned for the lives of Palin etc. I would not be surprised to see attacks on Tea Party Members.

I think the original Blowback set them back on their heels.
But today has shown they are coming back for more.

when Congress comes back and takes on HC Repeal, I hope that Repubs notify the LEOs of EVERY threat they will get.


8 posted on 01/13/2011 10:52:29 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: SVTCobra03

You may be on to something there. The Dums are complaining loudly that Congress should stop all work because of the tagedy.

walking on the graves of the dead in Tucson is tantamout to a Reichstag Fire.


9 posted on 01/13/2011 10:56:11 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: combat_boots

Democrat style: Stand in pool of baby blood and hand out free T-shirts and reminds people to vote for him but tells the folks in the back of the bus you keep hush now.


10 posted on 01/13/2011 11:16:54 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Marty62

There is no low to which the left is unwilling to go to secure power. They gladly pile up the bodies of the dead to use as a soapbox in order to spout their malevolence. Sick, twisted bunch.


11 posted on 01/13/2011 11:33:03 AM PST by DangerZone
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As long as there is nobody in the building with him......mmm mmm mmm


12 posted on 01/13/2011 11:39:26 AM PST by outhousepatrol
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To: DangerZone

And what the rally provide us was a view to level of ignorance in the youth that worship the ONE.


13 posted on 01/13/2011 12:28:14 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Marty62

He just said this in November too.


14 posted on 01/13/2011 12:29:49 PM PST by jersey117
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To: DangerZone

History proves you to be correct.

It’s not just that power, to them, is “worth” killing millions of people,

they actually seek power IN ORDER TO kill millions of their ideological enemies.


15 posted on 01/13/2011 12:31:51 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: jersey117

Wishful thinking of the rabid lefties. No one is bothering to question their WORDS.


16 posted on 01/13/2011 12:32:28 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Marty62

Why isn’t this being construed as incitement for the left to bring back their guy?


17 posted on 01/13/2011 12:33:08 PM PST by jersey117
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To: jersey117

Most Americans won’t “go there” , the American people are not ready to accept that the possibility of some sort of monsterous event would be used to promote a political career. Ofcourse the Left constantly WARNED Bush not to do such a thing. For me I think the Dummies had the template for a tragedy (odds were in their favor), just waiting for the right tragedy to implement. Plug in the villians, plug in the grand speech (missed on that one), and hope for a spike in the pool numbers. Rabid lefties are in fact very predictable.

The problem is reading their Bulls**t manifesto’s.
Once you clear out all that you get down to it. Get people poor and angry and they will riot for you.


18 posted on 01/13/2011 1:11:50 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Marty62

There’s been a lot of talk by newcasters and others about how they get “tingles” and “chills when they hear Obama speak. When I heard the Congressman make this comment, I got an absolute chill of horror! How much more blatant information could be expressed about the agenda they intend to follow? I first felt horror and then pure disgust! They’re a bunch of vultures sitting in their trees waiting for the next horrible event!

http://www.infowars.com/dem-congressman-if-violent-rhetoric-didnt-cause-this-shooting-it-will-cause-next-one/

I wonder what the next “Celebrate Catastrophe” will look like and what the slogan on the T-Shirt will be.

Were there free T-shirts at the Wellston Memorial or is that a practice to which they have recently devolved?


19 posted on 01/13/2011 3:34:05 PM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: SVTCobra03

Vultures waiting for more dead carcasses.

http://www.infowars.com/dem-congressman-if-violent-rhetoric-didnt-cause-this-shooting-it-will-cause-next-one/


20 posted on 01/13/2011 3:36:03 PM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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