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2010-04-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2010-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Conservatives see him as the reincarnation of Karl Marx."

Naaahhh, we don't respect him that much.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-04 00:20|| 2010-04-04 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 "Some of the people, some of the time," don'tcha know...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-04-04 00:22|| 2010-04-04 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Some of the ~~idiots~~ people, all of the time, Mr. Murcek. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-04 00:25|| 2010-04-04 00:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The Washington Post doesn't yet list the disgruntled Dems who are supporters of Israel.

They also don't list the disgruntled Dems and independents who think the stimulus funds were wasted on Chicago like pork barrel projects.

The retirees who will lose their medical drug prescription coverage haven't even shown up yet but this is another incipient block of the disgruntled that will become a reality in the next 12 months.

Posted by lord garth 2010-04-04 01:00|| 2010-04-04 01:00|| Front Page Top

#5 It's the unemployment rate, stupid. If it doesn't get below 8%, he's a one-term president, regardless of anything else.

Posted by lex 2010-04-04 01:06|| 2010-04-04 01:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Explore the one term President concept. Explore the Doinks losing their majority after November.
And explore Obama drifting slowly down like a wet turd in the bowl for three long years...until he hits bottom.

Imagine Petraeus being drafted.

Posted by BlackBart 2010-04-04 05:45|| 2010-04-04 05:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps Obama is NOT socialist enough for the 'reality-based' activists, but is MORE than socialist enough to cause all kinds of economic and political problems? Not terribly perplexing, IMO...

Posted by Free Radical 2010-04-04 07:02|| 2010-04-04 07:02|| Front Page Top

#8 The Washington Post doesn't yet list the disgruntled Dems who are supporters of Israel.

President Obama lost Ed Koch, but the rest, lord garth?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-04 07:49|| 2010-04-04 07:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps it's the rare combination of South Side Chicago sleaze, arrogance, and narcissism that puts people off.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-04 08:23|| 2010-04-04 08:23|| Front Page Top

#10 TW,

from an election viewpoint we are probably talking about a lot of votes in Florida and New York

given that Florida is a purple state anyway, there are almost certainly enough disgruntled pro Israel dems there that Obama would lose that state in 2012 to almost anybody saner than Pat Robertson

however, there needs to be a lot more disgruntling before New York would be lost to Obama in 2012

Posted by lord garth 2010-04-04 08:33|| 2010-04-04 08:33|| Front Page Top

#11 In today's NY Post, tax hikes on small business amount to about 25%. That's causing a great deal of "disgruntlement."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/small_biz_big_tax_Tm9zntbp2I339WyBwwOgzK

Posted by Glomock Tojo6610 2010-04-04 09:32|| 2010-04-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#12 One more thing ... when the gas prices hit $4 per gallon, the weeping and gnashing of teeth commences.

Posted by Glomock Tojo6610 2010-04-04 09:33|| 2010-04-04 09:33|| Front Page Top

#13 This could have been a lot shorter if they'd talked about who is happy. Wall street, government employees, and....anyone? Bueller?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-04 09:47|| 2010-04-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Lord Garth,

Some of the extremely liberal members of my synagogue in Virginia are getting quite irritated.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-04-04 10:30|| 2010-04-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#15 rub their faces in it, Eric

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-04 11:05|| 2010-04-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Some of the extremely liberal members of my synagogue in Virginia are getting quite irritated. Posted by Eric Jablow

They put him in office! As often as you can, please remind the feckless bastards will you?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-04 11:23|| 2010-04-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#17 Wait until Barry grants amnesty to 12+ million ~~illegal aliens~~ undocumented democrats and they begin flooding the hospitals and health care system.

If you are currently being treated for anger management, do NOT click HERE!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-04 11:59|| 2010-04-04 11:59|| Front Page Top

#18 If you are currently being treated for anger management, do NOT click HERE!

And don't click there if you don't want to go to anger management, either.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-04 12:38|| 2010-04-04 12:38|| Front Page Top

#19 The difference between the two sides is that the left's complaints are more, as they liked to say in the days of George W. Bush, reality-based.

Yep, Obamacare is unreal, alright. Like the stimulus, cap 'n trade, amnesty, adding 10% to the Federal land, shutting down new offshore drilling, raising taxes, buying GM, etc. etc.

Posted by KBK 2010-04-04 13:09|| 2010-04-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#20 Rasmussen has Barry at 53 disapprove-46 approve in his last poll.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-04 14:52|| 2010-04-04 14:52|| Front Page Top

#21 "Obama Not Making Everyone Happy"

Bambi isn't making anyone happy ~~except his puppet-masters~~.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-04 17:05|| 2010-04-04 17:05|| Front Page Top

#22 Shades of Jimmy Earl Jr. By 1980 Jimmah had PO'd labor, left-libs, Jewish Dems, and conservative white southerners (including evangelicals alarmed by the IRS move to tax previously exempt fundie ministries). His only really loyal supporters were afr-americans.

The only hope for Barry -- aside from a steep drop in unemployment, which is v. unlikely imo -- is for the GOP to fracture. Could happen, and the MSM is desperately trying to play this up at every possible juncture, but I doubt it. Most voters know that the Dems under Barry have zero credibility on fiscal matters and next to no cred regarding reducing unemployment.

Posted by lex 2010-04-04 17:11|| 2010-04-04 17:11|| Front Page Top

#23 Conservatives see him as the reincarnation of Karl Marx.

No, we don't. We can go to a bookstore or library and find something that Karl wrote. We can tell the difference between an author and a carny act.

VWRC

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-04-04 17:43|| 2010-04-04 17:43|| Front Page Top

#24 Ya know, maybe the electorate will learn there is no such thing as a free lunch, and grow up to stop whining when they don't get their way all the time.

Just like they did after Carter....

Posted by Bobby 2010-04-04 17:57|| 2010-04-04 17:57|| Front Page Top

#25 Imagine Petraeus being drafted

From what I've heard, despite being an insightful strategist, Petraeus has a reputation for being a less than consistent and admired combatant commander among those who've served with him.

FWIW

Posted by lotp 2010-04-04 19:19|| 2010-04-04 19:19|| Front Page Top

#26 Sounds more like Ike all the time. Is he looking for a University presidency?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-04 19:32|| 2010-04-04 19:32|| Front Page Top

#27 CNN + FOX > PERTS > collectively, its gonna be years [short of war] before America sees an unemployment rate at or below FIVE PERCENT again???

HMMMM, HMMMM, wid UNIVERSAL JIHAD = ISLAMIST CONQUEST + SET UPS FOR PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US OWG-NWO, GLOBAL SOCIALIST-GOVTIST ORDER, etc, IMO a safe guestimate offhand would be minima 20-30 years???

Give or take a few Asteroids + Massive Super-Solar Flares.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-04 21:27|| 2010-04-04 21:27|| Front Page Top

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