Posted on 07/30/2011 6:04:44 AM PDT by no dems
So much for hope and change. With the economy growing worse and worse, the grand promises of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign have faded as the reality of malaise takes hold.
Mr. Obama has vowed to spend $1 billion in advertising dollars to counteract the effect his policies have had on the nation. The GOP’s campaign chief met with The Washington Times on Friday to discuss why that’s not going to work. “I think this [election] is a referendum on Barack Obama,” said Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus. “The people in this country are going to ask themselves a question: ‘Am I better off than I was three or four years ago?’ And the answer is clearly no.”
Even liberals feel betrayed on a number of pet causes like torture and Guantanamo Bay, and they’re jumping ship. The Pew Research Center found Republicans were making huge gains among white voters. In 2008, 46 percent of this demographic group sided with the GOP while 44 percent preferred Democrats. Today, the Republican advantage has grown to 13 points, with the biggest gains found among those under the age of 30.
In other words, the young voters who once identified with the youthful, relatively unknown senator from Illinois are having a severe case of buyer’s remorse. The survey showed Republicans also made a small 2 percent gain among black voters, but larger inroads ought to be possible given the astonishing figure that 16.2 percent of blacks can’t find a job in Mr. Obama’s economy - double the figure for whites. “People are hurting,” said Mr. Priebus. “The problem that Obama has is that he has had results of his presidency, and these results are awful and people know it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
You'll probably see even papers like the WSJ side nominally against any attempt to "upset the apple cart".
Someone’s crying, Lord, kum bay ya
LOL!
My question is: Will Wall Street get on the Obama bandwagon this time? Did they ever really get off?
FR thread: Charlie Gasparino: Wall Street Is Terrified Of The Tea Party
F Wall Street
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. Govt has had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. Govt has had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. Govt has had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. Govt has had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. Govt has had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. Govt has had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. Govt has had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
Govt has FAILED in every "government service" it has shoved down our throats while throwing our tax dollars to the wind. Now GOVT WANTS AMERICANS TO BELIEVE it can be trusted with a higher debt ceiling, a multi-trillion dollar budget, and govt-run health care.
That ain't gonna happen.
we have a winner!
The comments are awesome.
How could anyone who had lived through the Carter Administration have voted for him?
Den of Theives
dunno.
my ‘lil wifie + i wonder that too.
why destroy this beautiful country?
They just get worse and worse.
Amen, Liz!
Ch. Gasparino was just laying into Wall Street on the Huckabee show (Fox)
He was laying into Goldman Sachs hypocrisy on this debt showdown
TY for ping. This info has the makings of an excellent article.
Good for Gasparino. I’ve read some of his work.
Frame that, right there.
Post of the year.
Yeah -- only, try East Germany instead. Look at him scowl, look at him lower his eyebrows when he talks about "typical white person" Americans, and think then whether he has Sweden in mind.
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