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From Daily Kos blogger Seneca Doane
When you watch the 7-1/4 minute "Forward" video spelling out the themes of the Obama campaign, which I've embedded below, it's easy to overlook something very significant. It comes through most clearly starting at about the 5:00 mark.
The Obama campaign ticks off a list of accomplishments that they presumably think is aimed straight for the heart, mind, and gut of the electorate. Each one rotates up on a panel, one of them every 2.5 seconds. 32 of them over 80 seconds. Here's the entire list:
-SNIP-
That's what they want people to think about. That's where they think we are as an electorate.
Do you notice something interesting about the list?
It is overwhelmingly a list of progressive accomplishments!
Where they think that voters are ... is where we here are!
Read the rest: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/30/1087710/-Notice-something-unusual-about-Obama-s-accomplishments-
evalu8tor
(8 posts)I didn't notice the Lily Ledbetter Law for equal pay, that he signed the first day in office.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Also, he signed it Jan 29 which was 9 days after taking office, but it was the first bill he signed.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)"o Equal Pay for women protected", seven up from the bottom of the list?
Lasher
(27,593 posts)About 30% of the electorate would never vote for Obama, even if their Saint Ronnie of Reagan were to ascend from Hell in a fiery chariot and command them to do so. If they have a lick of sense, campaign strategists have written these wingnuts off. The Obama campaign, including the list, should be accordingly structured to win support from the remaining 70% of us.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)From the way that some folks on here voice grievances about Obama not being liberal enough or being a "moderate Republican", and all the recent hubbub over marijuana, a fella would get the impression that he has had zero progressive accomplishments.