Does anyone think Obama will be re-elected?

[HeartBroker]

I've been watching some pretty damm funny political vids so far this election year (Pro Obama and for Romski too) and I have to ask you all if you seriously think Obama can be reelected, based on his accomplishments over the past 4 years?

It would have to be from some weird sort of "he sucks but he's my man" kinda logic.

Every President since Kennedy has been voted out of office for the same kind of foolishness Obama has demonstrated in his first term.

Will it change this time?




:dunno:

 

[DJCowboy]

I've been watching some pretty damm funny political vids so far this election year (Pro Obama and for Romski too) and I have to ask you all if you seriously think Obama can be reelected, based on his accomplishments over the past 4 years?

It would have to be from some weird sort of "he sucks but he's my man" kinda logic.

Every President since Kennedy has been voted out of office for the same kind of foolishness Obama has demonstrated in his first term.

Will it change this time?




:dunno:

I think Obama could have easily been beaten but for some reason the Republicans allowed for a bunch of douchebags to compete for their nomination and they chose one of the biggest d-bags in the country as their man to run for their party

Obama will win

 

[Rey C.]

I think Obama could have easily been beaten but for some reason the Republicans allowed for a bunch of douchebags to compete for their nomination and they chose one of the biggest d-bags in the country as their man to run for their party

Obama will win

I don't know if Obama will win (though it's looking pretty likely), but the quote in red above is 100% dead on the mark! Had the Republicans not been so keen to make their candidate do the crazy dance and pass the wingnut test, they could have probably attracted a sane, intelligent, rational, half way honest candidate, that a majority of voters (especially Independents) could and would vote for. We don't vote Presidents out in this country - there's no circle on the ballot that says "in" or "out". And if Romney can't convince enough people in the swing states that he deserves to be President, it really doesn't matter what Obama has or hasn't done, Willard will still lose.

 

[Mayhem]

I consider the President's re-election to be inevitable. Romney is going to make an ass out of himself in the debates and that will be that.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

his accomplishments are poor because the republicans have refused to pass any of his job growth bills in order to keep the economy down so they can win the election

 

[xfire]

Anyone who says Obama, "hasn't accomplished much", only gets their news from republican outlets.

 

[bobjustbob]

I consider the President's re-election to be inevitable. Romney is going to make an ass out of himself in the debates and that will be that.

It looks like the strategy of the GOP party for the past few weeks was to save something for the debates. I hope they do but I have no faith that it will be anything new. If Mitt will put some concrete ideas out there then he will get a boost. If they try the failed attempts to make him likable with the same old rhetoric then he falls more. Right now I say bet Obama and give the points.

 

[Dman25]

Median household income down.
Unemployment up.
Over 16 trillion in debt.
Growth stagnant.
Gas prices through the roof (and rising).
The Middle East in flames.

Would any "normal" president have a chance at being reelected? No.
But Obama talks better and has a better personality than Romney, naturally appeals to blacks and Hispanics, and has the unions, the mainstream media, and Hollywood on his side. So there is a good chance we will have him for another 4 years (God Help Us).

 

[abrogate]

I'm pretty certain he will be re-elected.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I think Obama could have easily been beaten but for some reason the Republicans allowed for a bunch of douchebags to compete for their nomination and they chose one of the biggest d-bags in the country as their man to run for their party

Obama will win

Pretty much. I think Huntsman was one of a couple that would have had a chance at Obama. I don't see Obama losing though.

I'm voting for either Gary Johnson or Virgil Goode most likely, but I haven't committed entirely yet to either.

 

[Rey C.]

Median household income down.
Unemployment up.
Over 16 trillion in debt.
Growth stagnant.
Gas prices through the roof (and rising).
The Middle East in flames.

Would any "normal" president have a chance at being reelected? No.
But Obama talks better and has a better personality than Romney, naturally appeals to blacks and Hispanics, and has the unions, the mainstream media, and Hollywood on his side. So there is a good chance we will have him for another 4 years (God Help Us).

Although there have been some positives as well, and the trend in some of those areas has turned positive again, you do make an important point with that list. Remember how one of Ronald Reagan's nicknames was "The Great Communicator"? It seems that Willard Romney's nickname should be "The Great Non-communicator". He's committed more gaffes than Joe Biden after a three martini lunch. And he's completely failed to do anything other than point out Obama's negatives. What people (in the middle) want to hear is what he would do to fix these issues. And rolling out the same old, same old of "deregulate and cut taxes" just ain't doin' it. Most people realize that simple minded policy approach is a big part of what led us to the brink of a global depression and the worst recession since the 1930's. Recycling the same ideas that are still fresh in people's minds as failures is not real smart, ya know? Surely, a truly smart guy would have some Plan B's and C's in his arsenal. Right? :dunno:

We're just over a month out from the election and Romney is still promising to communicate his plan; the check is in the mail. His plan should have been fully developed at least by the time the GOP primaries concluded, if not before. But instead of that, he and his people just keep saying that he's "rebooting" and "resetting" his campaign. That's why so many Republicans are beating on him now and calling his campaign incompetent and a rolling calamity. Romney was picked, in large part, because most Republicans saw him as the guy with the best shot of beating Obama. Surely, in their hearts, they knew that he was not a "severe conservative". They knew that he was not representative of many of their views. So he played a part to get their primary votes, they were cool with that act and they trusted that he would put forth a real effort to win back the White House. And he's rewarded those people with... well, a whole lot of nothing thus far.

It boggled my mind a week or so ago when Romney sent Paul Ryan into the AARP conference. The one group that is with Romney is the elderly. And what happened? That fool managed to get booed by one of the only groups that had been in his corner. Did they not realize that Florida is a state full of elderly people? Did they not realize that if Romney doesn't take Florida, the fat lady will be singing? For the joke of a campaign that Romney is putting on, the GOP should have just drafted Sar@h Palin. She's dumber than a box of rocks and she'd lose too. But at least it would have been hella entertaining from start to finish.

 

[mikexmoran]

Median household income down.
Unemployment up.
Over 16 trillion in debt.
Growth stagnant.
Gas prices through the roof (and rising).
The Middle East in flames.

Would any "normal" president have a chance at being reelected? No.
But Obama talks better and has a better personality than Romney, naturally appeals to blacks and Hispanics, and has the unions, the mainstream media, and Hollywood on his side. So there is a good chance we will have him for another 4 years (God Help Us).

Pretty notable accomplishments. They shouldn't be dismissed or completely left on the doorstep of the guy who held the job before.

However, Mitt doesn't inspire much of anything in me.

 

[Rey C.]

Pretty much. I think Huntsman was one of a couple that would have had a chance at Obama.

Huntsman seemed like a genuinely interesting and intelligent fellow. Unfortunately the GOP is not a party that welcomes deep thinkers these days. When I mentioned the GOP needing a Jack Kemp type guy, Huntsman would be the sort of fellow that I was talking about. We just need to face facts: if Romney loses, the tea baggers and radical righties will never admit that they are at all to blame. They will say and think that the loss was a result of Romney not being conservative or radical enough... not that he was a moderate who had to act like a rad righty to get the nomination. As a center-right fiscal moderate and quasi-social libertarian, I honestly think Romney would have a better than decent chance of beating Obama. That's a guy who I might vote for. But he couldn't have gotten the nomination by being that guy. Any Republican who isn't far right enough on social and fiscal issues will continue to be called a RINO, challenged in a GOP primary and probably taken down by the tea baggers and Evangelicals.

I'm hoping this convinces more (one time) Republicans that hanging out with tea baggers, neocons, neo-confederates and Evangelicals, and letting them choose the GOP candidates, is not a smart way to go for the party or the country. I hope more of those people start drifting into the Independent camp or put a real push behind a viable 3rd party.

BTW, I don't know much about Gary Johnson. But I know a lot about Virgil Goode - I've met him. He's a flake. Truly a flake.

 

[Will E Worm]

With his record he should not be reelected.


With some many stupid people he just might be. Watch the video.

 

[Rey C.]

Don't worry, Will. Mitt is a shoe-in to win Mississippi with "intelligent" voters like this.

BTW, has anybody here ever been to Mississippi? I had to spend almost a year there several years ago for a job assignment. Every week, I'd have to fly into that giant ****-hole. Never before in my life have I seen such a collection of backward-ass people - and I've been to West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky a bunch of times! Seriously, this video is pretty much dead on the mark! Catfish farms and cotton fields. I'll take a job in Mexico and risk getting ********* by the Zetas before I'd even fly over Mississippi again.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Don't worry, Will. Mitt is a shoe-in to win Mississippi with "intelligent" voters like this.

BTW, has anybody here ever been to Mississippi? I had to spend almost a year there several years ago for a job assignment. Every week, I'd have to fly into that giant ****-hole. Never before in my life have I seen such a collection of backward-ass people - and I've been to West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky a bunch of times! Seriously, this video is pretty much dead on the mark! Catfish farms and cotton fields. I'll take a job in Mexico and risk getting ********* by the Zetas before I'd even fly over Mississippi again.

I saw that show (and bit) on Maher. I found it real curious (well, not really) that in a state that is about 60-40 white-black that Maher didn't have one black person in that segment. Maher has absolutely no backbone when it comes to addressing race, and his pussy ass can and will only pick on whites, not Muzzies or blacks. I saw through his little spineless **** a long time ago.

While I would never in a million years want to live anywhere in the South, you pick the nastiest trashiest trailer park in the country and I'd still rather live there than I would - could - a place like South Central, Cabrini Green, parts of D.C., Detroit, Philadelphia or elsewhere. That's the reality.


And furthermore - getting back on the OP of this thread - the reality is that the vast MAJORITY of blacks in America voted for Obama on account of his being black, plain and simple. That's an undeniable fact. But of course that isn't racissss, is it?

 

[Rey C.]

the reality is that the vast MAJORITY of blacks in America voted for Obama on account of his being black, plain and simple. That's an undeniable fact. But of course that isn't racissss, is it?

That's odd. I thought the vast majority of Blacks had been voting for Democrats for a long time. But by being Black, Obama got back that 51% of Blacks that had been voting for Republicans for President, eh?

The difference between Mississippi and D.C. is that there are some REALLY nice sections in D.C. (most of NW and all of Georgetown). But in the entire year I was there, I didn't see a damn thing in Mississippi that made me want to do anything but book a plane OUT! But with that said, I did meet some nice people. The state is dirt ass poor and largely uneducated, but I did meet some nice people. Not their fault that they live in a **** hole.

P.S. The GOP needs to STOP trying to match its platform up with dumb 'necks like the ones in that video. Until they finally realize that those people are bubble dwellers and most Americans aren't like that and don't want to be like that, the GOP is going to continue having a harder and harder time attracting the votes of better educated, higher earning middle class/upper middle class people. Me and ol' Jeb up there jest ain't got nothin' much in common... ceptin' we both like to look at his ****** shuck off them thar panties!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

That's odd. I thought the vast majority of Blacks had been voting for Democrats for a long time. But by being Black, Obama got back that 51% of Blacks that had been voting for Republicans for President, eh?

The difference between Mississippi and D.C. is that there are some REALLY nice sections in D.C. (most of NW and all of Georgetown). But in the entire year I was there, I didn't see a damn thing in Mississippi that made me want to do anything but book a plane OUT! But with that said, I did meet some nice people. The state is dirt ass poor and largely uneducated, but I did meet some nice people. Not their fault that they live in a **** hole.

Like I said, I would never live in the South. I'm too much of a city boy and Yankee, and a trip to my ******'s land every year for a couple weeks is good enough for me.

 

[Friday on my mind]

Romney and his campaign have just been awful and is making what should have been a highly contested election into a comfortable margin win for Obama. Just wait till next week's debate, the pounding Romney is going to get over the 47% comment will be fun to watch.

 

[Straight Shooter]

I saw that show (and bit) on Maher. I found it real curious (well, not really) that in a state that is about 60-40 white-black that Maher didn't have one black person in that segment. Maher has absolutely no backbone when it comes to addressing race, and his pussy ass can and will only pick on whites, not Muzzies or blacks. I saw through his little spineless **** a long time ago.

While I would never in a million years want to live anywhere in the South, you pick the nastiest trashiest trailer park in the country and I'd still rather live there than I would - could - a place like South Central, Cabrini Green, parts of D.C., Detroit, Philadelphia or elsewhere. That's the reality.


And furthermore - getting back on the OP of this thread - the reality is that the vast MAJORITY of blacks in America voted for Obama on account of his being black, plain and simple. That's an undeniable fact. But of course that isn't racissss, is it?

You obviously don't watch his show because the week after that he did a segment where he went to NYC and he interviewed "welfare queens", all of which were black
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/alexandr...me-maher-says-it-may-make-liberals-go-insane/