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Obama: I Need New Yorkers to Move West and Vote Democrat
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Posted on 05/15/2014 8:33:43 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: I Need New Yorkers to Move West and Vote Democrat

by Charlie Spiering 15 May 2014, 7:41 AM PDT President Obama joked during a New York fundraiser that he needed the attendees to move west to increase his support.

During his speech, Obama told a story about a woman who asked how she could help him, and he joked that she should move to North Dakota.

“If I could just get about a million excess votes in Brooklyn out to Nebraska, Wyoming, we’d be doing okay,” Obama said as the crowd laughed. “I don't need 80 percent of the vote here.”

Obama complained about “structural disadvantages” with the political system, pointing out that although Republican ideas did not have support from the majority of Americans, the political system kept Democratic majorities out of reach.

“We have a congenital disease, which is: during midterms our voters don't show up. That's what it comes down to,” he said. “That and population distribution and gerrymandering.”

Obama said he had been stymied in trying to enact his agenda because "Washington doesn't work."

Obama said:

The challenge we've got is very simple: Washington doesn’t work. It's not as if we've got no good ideas on policy. We've got tons of them. I've got a drawer full of things that we know would create jobs, help our middle class, boost incomes, make us more competitive. But we have a party on the other side that has been captured by an ideology that says no to everything because they cling to a rigid theory that the only way to grow the economy is for government to be dismantled and let the market sort things out, and folks at the top doing very well will somehow automatically trickle down to everybody else.

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To: Sub-Driver

The white house clown can save the effort. There are moron governors out there with functioning economies actively recrruiting liberals in New York and California to move to their states. Because you really want people moving to your state who have fouled their own nests.


21 posted on 05/15/2014 8:42:05 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Sub-Driver

To me this is proof enough that there is a master plan.
Open the borders in CA to illegals and H1B...
CA residents ready to retire sell their homes and move to cheaper places east...
Former CA residents transform new locations into mini-CA...
30 years from now, the USA looks just like CA

This is clearly been happening in OR, AZ, NV and CO for 20 years.


22 posted on 05/15/2014 8:42:30 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: bandleader

Lol!


23 posted on 05/15/2014 8:42:40 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Never happen because the effete lib NYers suffer from flyover anxiety - the fear that if they venture into the hinterlands they'll be caught up in a Straw Dogs or Deliverance scenario.

Maybe it's not so unreasonable...

24 posted on 05/15/2014 8:43:34 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why? He has his 2 for 1 voting machines and cemeteries.


25 posted on 05/15/2014 8:44:36 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

Unfortunately for Obuttboy, the New Yorkers and other folks from the northeast who are moving out West tend to be Conservatives who have had it with Socialism. They are moving West to escape statism and find like-minded patriots.


26 posted on 05/15/2014 8:46:04 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: Sub-Driver

Relocation camps. It is what big government leftist all dream about.


27 posted on 05/15/2014 8:46:58 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Actually, the reverse is also true: imagine if the interior of California or the Illinois population outside of Chicago emigrated to Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont....we would see a much more Republican New England.

Or, if they moved to so-called PURPLE states to tip the balance.


28 posted on 05/15/2014 8:47:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Here in Arizona, I live in an overwhelmingly Republican town. It and the other heavily Republican, military, (and Mormon) dominated area of the state were fed to the Democratic wolves by a Republican legislature.

It’s absolutely criminal, a district of patriots in Yuma overwhelmed by minorities from Tucson on the other side of the state, and represented by Mo Udall, Ed Pastor, and now Raul Grijalva. The district and my own was approved by Republicans deliberately and decisively limiting their own power.


29 posted on 05/15/2014 8:48:25 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Sub-Driver

During the Soviet era, millions of Russians were deliberately resettled in the other republics (the Baltics, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in particular) to reduce the political strength of the local populations and the threat their nationalist inclinations presented.

Perhaps Obama is thinking of a similar plan.


30 posted on 05/15/2014 8:48:33 AM PDT by Loyalist (Now available in organic fair trade gluten-free probiotic industrial strength!)
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To: Sub-Driver

He smirks when he says it but he is NOT joking.


31 posted on 05/15/2014 8:49:00 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: sickoflibs; All

The Anti-Children, Free Stuff Greedy Voters.

Your Family Dynasty list
Is well intended,
Of that I’m very sure.
What is lacking are the reasons
That these family jobs endure.

We-who vote them in,
Must have our reasons?
We-who re-elect them,
Must have reasons too?

What the reasons are
It is obvious to know:
We all like to LIVE LARGE,
As we pursue what is good and free,
“Charge everything to our kids:
charge, Charge, CHARGE!”

“Politicians will be politicians,
Just as boys will be boys.”
Is what we laugh and say,
By those who hate their kids
And vote to make them pay, Pay, PAY!

“No!” You say, “NO!
You’re not talking about ME!
I LOVE my kids!” is your reply - - -
But who will be stuck
To pay your greedy free stuff bills,
When you die, Die, DIE?

__________

In 2014 it is time, - - - time for a change.


32 posted on 05/15/2014 8:49:22 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Obama: I Need New Yorkers to Move West and Vote Democrat..."

.... So ... It's all about what Obama needs eh? ... Guess in his narcissistic mind that's supposed to be the same thing as what America needs? Oh ... I get it .... "I and America ... are One, and all others are zeros"

33 posted on 05/15/2014 8:49:49 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Sub-Driver

I wish he would move west - west to Red China where he belongs. And take the liberal New Yorkers all with him.


34 posted on 05/15/2014 8:50:21 AM PDT by ZULU (https://www.facebook.com/freejustina)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s not joking. Unfortunately for him/dims, it’s too late to affect 2014.


35 posted on 05/15/2014 8:50:26 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Sub-Driver

In other words, spread the infection.


36 posted on 05/15/2014 8:50:49 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought that’s what the illegal aliens were for. Why do we need New Yawkers out here. We don’t have a lot of sidewalks.


37 posted on 05/15/2014 8:51:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Funny..he telling you the reason dem also want illegals in..flood non dem areas with excess dem voters from other areas..
so why would a dem voter want to leave a dem controlled area..then have there majority there they have there policy there it should be the paradise they say it creates.

You ever notice how the foot traffice flows..we run from there socialist paradise. But they also run from their socialist paradise...


38 posted on 05/15/2014 8:52:42 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just looking at the headlines, and considering the day’s stories - foreign policy, economy, takeover of health care- the campaign, the 2014 and ever looming 2016, that is, the race seems to be between BO and Cruz.

How strange.


39 posted on 05/15/2014 8:52:43 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Loyalist

Putin has probably suggested it to him during their private chats.


40 posted on 05/15/2014 8:55:28 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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