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Barack Obama, all in
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/7/12 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 09/07/2012 9:27:04 AM PDT by SmithL

Charlotte, N.C. -- "First shot, straight through, that's how you perform under pressure." said Barack Obama said in 2008. They played the quote with a video clip of Obama making a basket at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

Obama knew how to make it look easy, even though it wasn't.

. . .
Barack Obama is not backing down. He is not moving to the center. He is not going to reach across the aisle. He is not going to try to unite the country.

This convention was on fire because the Democratic base knows: One way or another, he's all in.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; dnc; election2012

1 posted on 09/07/2012 9:27:07 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Obama: “ Vote for me because there are still some of you who think you have have to work for a living”


2 posted on 09/07/2012 9:30:34 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

If we can’t defeat this guy, we deserve him.

There’s certainly no illusion of “moderation” about Baraq 2012, if America votes him in, the US has permanently changed.


3 posted on 09/07/2012 9:32:44 AM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: SmithL

Yeah, the base loved it.

But the middle is turned off.

Clint Eastwood spoke for the middle.


4 posted on 09/07/2012 9:33:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: SmithL

Obama is holding a 2 and a 5.


5 posted on 09/07/2012 9:40:23 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: nascarnation
if America votes him in, the US has permanently changed.

I forget where I read it, but some foreign newspaper / official / something said that the scary thing about this administration wasn't Barack Obama, but that the American people could actually elect such a man.

6 posted on 09/07/2012 9:43:31 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SmithL

The convention hall was filled with leftist lemmings who are willing to go charging off of the cliff with their Beloved Leader.

The brain trust, however, will bail out. Liberalism will have to be salvaged to these select few and that means throwing Obama under the bus if he is in jeopardy of losing to Romney.


7 posted on 09/07/2012 9:56:38 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: Izzy Dunne

Editorial in a Czech paper, couple years ago.


8 posted on 09/07/2012 9:59:21 AM PDT by henkster (We're the slaves of the phony leaders...)
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To: SmithL
All In ♪♫ The Grouch & Eligh
9 posted on 09/07/2012 10:27:06 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: SmithL

Barack Obama is not backing down. He is not moving to the center. He is not going to reach across the aisle. He is not going to try to unite the country.
This convention was on fire because the Democratic base knows: One way or another, he’s all in.( yep)

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Hes bent on destroying the neo colonial culture of the United States and its capitalist economy. He certainly is ALL IN.

And we will but him ALL OUT!


10 posted on 09/07/2012 10:49:49 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: nascarnation

“If we can’t defeat this guy, we deserve him”

I agree. I think he’ll lose. I don’t understand the closeness of the polls now.

Now that the conventions are over the competition starts in earnest. I’m optimistic.


11 posted on 09/07/2012 11:44:42 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Izzy Dunne

That is a great statement. and a fact.Obama is just the boil, the people that elect him are the pus in that boil.


12 posted on 09/07/2012 11:55:50 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: cymbeline
I don’t understand the closeness of the polls now.

Its all in the sample used to create the poll results. Quite simply, they are oversampling Democrats at +6, +9, and sometimes +10. But the results are the same.

Obama knows this. So does Romney.

As time goes on, they need more and more Democrats in the polls just to keep Obama competitive.

13 posted on 09/07/2012 1:34:04 PM PDT by superloser
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Obama knows this. So does Romney


Maybe some truth to this with his plea to in effect get out the vote for him


14 posted on 09/07/2012 1:59:35 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: superloser

“Quite simply, they are oversampling Democrats”

The oversampling is supposed to reflect the fact that in the past election, a higher proportion of Democrats turned out to vote than Republicans. Is that correct?

If so then the oversampling concept is valid, correct?

But one can argue whether the amount of oversampling used in current polling is realistic. It’s possible that in the upcoming election Republican voter turnout will be higher than Democratic, in which case they should be oversampling Republicans.


15 posted on 09/10/2012 5:07:30 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline
The oversampling is supposed to reflect the fact that in the past election, a higher proportion of Democrats turned out to vote than Republicans. Is that correct?

Yes, but not by 6, 8, or 10 points. If you look at the polls, if they oversample by three or four (which is the traditional number) then Romney is up by one.

Some polls they oversample by 10 now and put Obama up by *one*.

It is almost as if the pollsters are being paid to find data to fit a desired result.

16 posted on 09/10/2012 8:05:59 AM PDT by superloser
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