Posted on 05/08/2014 9:58:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 9, 2014 12:17 AM
During his fundraising trip to Los Angeles Wednesday, President Obama discovered anew that the United States is in bad shape, and he was again left in puzzlement about what could be the cause.
“You get a self-fulfilling prophecy,” the president told supporters, urging them to help Democrats avoid potentially significant losses in both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections. “The people who have the most at stake in a government that works opt out of the system. People who believe government doesn’t work are most empowered. Gridlock reigns and we get the downward spiral of even more cynicism.”
Speaking to a group of millionaires during a $10,000-to-$34,000-a-plate dinner at the Bel Air home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, Obama explained that the Democrats’ problem is that they’re just too committed to the poor.
“The congenital problem that Democrats have is in midterms especially we don’t vote,” Obama told donors including living legend Barbra Streisand and Dreamworks SKG co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Our voters are younger, they’re more likely to be minority, and because they’re more likely to be struggling they’re not always paying attention when the president is not – the presidential candidate isn’t on the ballot.”
During his L.A. sojourn, Obama, whose achievements include stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, also received an “Ambassador for Humanity” award from Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. (“President Obama’s commitment to democracy and human rights has long been felt,” the powerhouse filmmaker said.) And his second-term fundraising has outpaced that of most or all previous two-term presidents.
Still, Obama is stumped as to whose mismanagement of national affairs has left the country in such a state of “disquiet” and “frustration.” In addition to speculating about his party’s “congenital” problems, the president has attributed his party’s fading hopes in 2014 to Republican obstructionism and theorized that Democrats usually “get clobbered” in midterm races.
Even more baffling about the Democratic stagnation is that Obama has boldly avoided the cautionary example set by Bill Clinton following the Democrats’ steep losses in the 1994 midterms. Clinton responded by changing course pursuing policies of welfare reform and reduced spending that contributed to an economic boom and the elimination of the deficit by the time he left office. Clinton won re-election in 1996 and defied both expectations and historic precedent by leading the Democrats to pick up congressional seats in the 1998 midterms.
By contrast, Obama has stuck to his principles, betting that “getting people talking” about Obamacare, using his “pen and phone” to bypass Congress, and appearing on web shows with Zach Galifianakis will win over voters. Yet the stiff-necked electorate has failed to turn its frown upside down.
The president remains optimistic that, come November, voters will show their dissatisfaction with Democrats by electing more Democrats.
“I’ve got to make sure we have a Democratic Senate, and I want a Democratic House of Representatives in Washington,” Obama told the audience, which also included Streisand husband James Brolin, who played Pee Wee Herman in Warner Bros.’ big-screen biopic. “My main message to you is feel a sense of urgency about this election.”
With a freer legislative hand after November, Obama may finally be able to persuade Americans that they’re better off than they were six years ago.
Yes, I’m sure it’s only coincidence that they support all the same policies you do, Won, and no one can stand them.
This guy is just phoning it in, throwing whatever against the wall to see what sticks. It’s like he’s just punching a clock and putting in his time.
After reading the first part of this I thouhgt this must be a satire. Sadly it is not.
“Obama explained that the Democrats’ problem is that they’re just too committed to the poor.”
“So committed, in fact, that I myself have made millions more of them...”
There is no reality in his perception of anything.
I wanted to make a post but I am speechless at such demonic sophistry. Oh boy, I am in trouble again.
“You get a self-fulfilling prophecy,” the president told supporters, urging them to help Democrats avoid potentially significant losses in both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections. “The people who have the most at stake in a government that works opt out of the system. People who believe government doesn’t work are most empowered. Gridlock reigns and we get the downward spiral of even more cynicism.”
Speaking to a group of millionaires during a $10,000-to-$34,000-a-plate dinner at the Bel Air home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, Obama explained that the Democrats’ problem is that they’re just too committed to the poor.
Well, I checked twice, and John Semmens had nothing to do with this...
...(yet).
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proof liberals do live in a fantasy world of their own desires.
He’s a nut.
Who promoted Brabra to living legend status? She has a big nose, her singing is ok, her movies were not memorable to me at least, and is dumb as a bag of hammers.
John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Bogart, Cagney, Stewart, Standwick, Ford, Gibson, Monroe, Newman, were/are living legends, she doesn’t come close, IMHO.
That is my gripe for the day. The President saying the Democrats worry too much about the poor while charging up to 34 grand per plate, ranks up there with his global warming and not a smidgen of IRS wrongdoing lies. That is all I can stand in one week of reading anything he says. I never watch him say anything on tv at all.
Not even the largest Obamphant, juiced on an OD dose of Kool-Aid could jeremiah Wright that and expect to be taken series-us-lee.
Every single one of them.
The problem was their voters were either too busy, too districted or insufficiently motivated to vote.
Obama has boldly avoided the cautionary example set by Bill Clinton following the Democrats’ steep losses in the 1994 midterms. Clinton responded by changing course pursuing policies of welfare reform and reduced spending that contributed to an economic boom and the elimination of the deficit by the time he left office.
No he didn’t you Jack as liar.
Welfare Reform and reducing the budget were ideas News Gingrich came up with.
He spelled out those pressing needs in “The Contract with America”
Clinton never proposed welfare reform and in fact, he vetoed the proposed legislation twice, for the sole purpose of ubstructing progress in reform.
The matter was taken to the people and the case made fir reducing the rolls and putting Americans to work.
The public demand was so great that Clinton was forced to sign the final bill with no changes.
News patted Clinton on the back and let him co-opt the agenda.
In Newt’s eyes it wasn’t important that he got credit but, if Clinton needed some sucking up to and a means for validating his existence, as well giving it relevancy, then so be it.
The country was served better for implementing welfare reform and that is all that mattered.
Same with deficit reduction. News proposed it, mapped out a plan and let Clinton take credit.
And ditto for Capital gains reduction.
At no time did Clinton put forward these ideas and he never put them to paper, as they never existed in his world, until certain expediencies made it possible for him to leverage the works of others, while never lifting a finger to anything more than pen his signature.
Are you telling me that whoever wrote that line, actually believes it? I thought it was a joke!
I wonder what color the sky is in barry’s world, it’s an alternate universe and surely he has a pet unicorn there too.
It does not matter who you are, take note wife and daughters, mac daddy will have no second thoughts about throwing you under the bus just like he did with the entire dumb-o-crat party.
Unlike previous elections, Clinton won with a plurality, and never a majority. In other words, if it hadn't been for Ross Perot, he would have lost.
And RINOs Bush I and Bob Dole were hardly conservative.
The economy rebounding due to Republican bills Clinton allowed, the media's defense of "It's only about sex." and Ken Star's demonization led to improved poll numbers by Clinton.
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