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Obama's enemies give him a political boost
« on: 2010-06-03 02:27:19 » |
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[Mo] Obama's repeated political victories seemed to have pushed the GOP right over the political cliffs into insanity and self-destruction. Its almost as if they are trying to disprove conventional wisdom yet again like they did when they actually lost congressional seats in 1998 in Clinton's lame duck election. While they were busy impeaching him for a blow job.
How Obama's Enemies May Give Him a Boost
By MARK HALPERIN Tuesday, Jun. 01, 2010
Quote:The late, longtime New Yorker critic Pauline Kael was said to have expressed confusion over Richard Nixon's landslide re-election in 1972 — because no one she knew had voted for him. To borrow that notion, conservatives today imagine that everyone views the current occupant of the White House as they do: Barack Obama is the worst President ever. Conventional wisdom posits that this potent right-wing, anti-Obama sentiment will diminish the President's power — enough for Republicans to vanquish Democrats in November, regain control of Congress and weaken the incumbent for 2012.
But this myopia has been created within an electronic cocoon of Fox News, talk radio, conservative websites and rhetoric from Republican leaders, all passionately reinforcing the message that the Obama Administration is disastrous on a historic scale. It's a message that is being transported as gamely by rank-and-file Republicans as it is by erudite conservative columnists with national readerships. |
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Quote:| In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, we have already seen that the anti-Obama forces are expressing their disagreements with the Administration in terms far more personal than political, tinged with an apocalyptic irrationality. The centrifugal force exerted on conservative leaders toward the extreme wing of their party is bound to lead to even more magnified rhetoric in the next few years. The contrast between those excessive attacks and Obama's famous cool will serve him, and the Democrats, well. |
A woman holds an anti-Obama sign at a Tea Party rally in Parker, Texas. (just a short drive down the highway from Mo)
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1993050,00.html
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