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Serial Liar

"Michelle Bachmann, the bastion of Republican family values and
Christian pulchritude, is nothing but a "Serial Liar". Her
"BIG LIE" began when she convinced herself that Marcus is a
straight guy, and went along with the cure the gays charade,
making sure she collected some of those gubmint dollars along
the way. That was the first one. Her whole life is a big lie.
She DID NOT raise 23 foster kids. Records prove the contrary,
yet she keeps repeating the same lie over and over on the
campaign trail, kinda like the "I said thanks, but no thanks to
that bridge to nowhere", by someone who shall remain nameless,
and who dept the money! If Obama is in trouble, then the whole
world is in trouble, if any of those people are elected. Perry
is a grifter, Romney is another liar. He could not care less
for the middle class and well paying jobs. His record proves
the opposite. I could go on, but the rest of them, like Cain
the hypocrite, will never make it."

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Is There Hope and Change

Democrats are expressing growing alarm about President Obama’s re-election prospects and, in interviews, are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House’s ability to strengthen the president’s standing over the next 14 months.

Elected officials and party leaders at all levels said their worries have intensified as the economy has displayed new signs of weakness. They said the likelihood of a highly competitive 2012 race is increasing as the Republican field, once dismissed by many Democrats as too inexperienced and conservative to pose a serious threat, has started narrowing to two leading candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who have executive experience and messages built around job creation.

And in a campaign cycle in which Democrats had entertained hopes of reversing losses from last year’s midterm elections, some in the party fear that Mr. Obama’s troubles could reverberate down the ballot into Congressional, state and local races.

“In my district, the enthusiasm for him has mostly evaporated,” said Representative Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon. “There is tremendous discontent with his direction.”

The president’s economic address last week offered a measure of solace to discouraged Democrats by employing an assertive and scrappy style that many supporters complain has been absent for the last year as he has struggled to rise above Washington gridlock. Several Democrats suggested that he watch a tape of the jobs speech over and over and use it as a guide until the election.

'Frustrations are real' But a survey of two dozen Democratic officials found a palpable sense of concern that transcended a single week of ups and downs. The conversations signaled a change in mood from only a few months ago, when Democrats widely believed that Mr. Obama’s path to re-election, while challenging, was secure.

“The frustrations are real,” said Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, who was the state chairman of Mr. Obama’s campaign four years ago. “I think we know that there is a Barack Obama that’s deep in there, but he’s got to synchronize it with passion and principles.”

There is little cause for immediate optimism, with polls showing Mr. Obama at one of the lowest points of his presidency.

Obama to Congress: Pass this bill

His own economic advisers concede that the unemployment rate, currently 9.1 percent, is unlikely to drop substantially over the next year, creating a daunting obstacle to re-election.

Liberals have grown frustrated by some of his actions, like the decision this month to drop tougher air-quality standards.

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And polling suggests that the president’s yearlong effort to reclaim the political center has so far yielded little in the way of additional support from the moderates and independents who tend to decide presidential elections.

“The alarms have already gone off in the Democratic grass roots,” said Robert Zimmerman, a member of the Democratic National Committee from New York, who hopes the president’s jobs plan can be a turning point. “If the Obama administration hasn’t heard them, they should check the wiring of their alarm system.”

Conciliation translating to weakness At a gathering of the Democratic National Committee in Chicago this weekend, some party leaders sounded upbeat after they toured the Obama campaign headquarters. But others expressed anxiety that Mr. Obama’s accomplishments were not being conveyed loudly enough to ordinary people, that Republican lawmakers were making it impossible for him to get more done, and that Mr. Obama’s conciliatory approach might be translating to some voters as weakness.

“Now that they’re slapping him in the side of the face, he’s coming back,” said William George, a committee member from Pennsylvania. “He needs to start stomping his foot and pounding the desk.” At the White House and at Mr. Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago, officials bristled at the critiques, which they dismissed as familiar intraparty carping and second-guessing that would give way to unity and enthusiasm once the nation is facing a clear choice between the president and the Republican nominee.

Jim Messina, the campaign manager for the president’s re-election, said the criticism was largely a “Washington conversation” that did not match up with the on-the-ground enthusiasm for Mr. Obama among his network of supporters. Yet even without a primary challenger, the campaign purposefully started its effort early to allow concerns from supporters to be aired.

To reassure nervous Democrats, the president’s campaign aides are traveling the country with PowerPoint presentations that spell out Mr. Obama’s path to re-election. Their pitch is that Mr. Obama’s appeal has grown in traditionally Republican states like Arizona, where there are fast-growing Hispanic populations, and that Republicans have alienated independent voters with “extreme” positions on popular programs like Medicare.

“We always knew

Obama will try to sharpen his difference­s with Republican­s who insist on spending cuts in virtually every area and who refuse to let tax cuts expire, as scheduled, for the wealthiest­."

How can Obama run on this??? He didn't fight for letting tax cuts for the wealthy expire when he had not one, but two golden opportunit­ies. And he offered far more spending cuts than the Republican­s asked for (multiples­, in fact) while asking little in return. Worst of all, he put entitlemen­ts on the table, without having been asked for them yet.

Using this in his campaign would be, at least to informed voters, like saying "The Republican­s are terrible. They tried to cut 1/3 as much as I did in spending for the people's benefit and just ignored the huge spending cuts I offered (multiples of what they wanted). And they refused to accept the sacrice of your Soc Sec, Medicare, and Medicaid that I tried to take from you to offer them."

He would be reminding voters that he has been more Republican than Republican­s in offering to cut things necessary for ordinary citizens, and that he has made no serious attempt to get corporatio­ns or the rich to pay a fair share or to cut subsidies to huge, extremely profitable corporatio­ns. That horse won't win in this race.

He better come up with a better strategy than this or just pack up and go back to Chicago.
HANG IN THERE. AMERICA!!

Obama and Labor and 2012

With a poor out look on our economy and millions out of work, and Obama's big promise of change and hope that never happened, its no wonder Obama is in trouble. The simple fact is Obama made a promise he did not keep, and instead of putting his focus on the economy and jobs he instead put his focus on healthcare and Pelosi's agenda, and guess what Pelosi's agenda failed and in the process wasted billions. The only thing Obama has done since coming into office is point to the right, get us downgraded for the world to see, while ignoring the very promise that got him elected in the first place, and with millions still out of work, high gas prices, and of course a housing market in the toilet, while giving billions in foreign aide to places like Pakistan who hid bin laden, its no wonder Obama is in trouble, with a 71% disapprova­l rating, I am not surprised and as someone who voted for Obama, I too am shopping for a new President and I don't care which party that is because Obama has done nothing but cave in and point to the right and not once own up to his own mistakes. His flip attitude towards those out of work with comforting words such as "bumps in the road" and not so shovel ready" is all I need to say enough is enough.

The PROBLEM with labor is NOT the Democratic party or Obama, the problem with big labor is, big labor's leadership­, or lack thereof.

Organized labor is using a organizati­onal model that is based on the issues that effected workers in the last century. Big business has changed its business model and labor has failed to adapt. When organized labor could not get workers at a Target in a New York City suburb to vote to unionize, right then and there I knew organized labor had bigger problems than what Obama was or wasn't doing.

Why didn't the workers at a Target in New York vote to unionize.

The majority of workers didn't view working at Target as a long term career. So when the labor organizers came around with their talk about we can get you more money, like an extra 50 cents an hour. The talk was falling on deaf ears and rightfully so.

If the unions want to get back to some semblance of importance in the lives of workers again, they need to get their heads out of the butts of the people in the beltway.

The Unions need to use their vast resources to help small businesses and show them how to compete against these large corporatio­ns (who are not on the side of small business) while at the same time creating opportunit­ies for their members.

The unions need to change their marketing to emphasize a new mission for the Union worker. A union worker should be equipped with the skills to save companies and make them grow, and share in that growth. Not what seems to be the perception now that Union workers take advantage of companies, extract all the wealth out of companies and get more out than they put in. I'm not saying that is true, just that is the perception­.