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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 05:40 PM Original message |
Here's some of DU'ers Problems with Obama "Acting" as President |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. If Lakoff is so great at communication |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 06:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Since a large majority of Americans are scientifically illiterate- |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Why doesn't he frame science correctly then? |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. If you read his material, he does |
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Moochy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
39. How comes he's not on the Tee Vee box with Larry King and stuff? |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Never been as big a fan of Lakoff as our Dems in Exile were during Bush... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Read Steve Benen |
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Moochy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 08:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
38. Yeah stupid people wanna knows |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. "It's the game. The game, Ethan. I was so good at it. . . . . |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I do feel it comes down to: "It's the Game" and it's Up and "Set & Match" and |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. "But guess what. You taught me how to live outside of the game." |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 08:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. "Is it our fault for voting for him?" No, of course not |
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Cattledog (695 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. Obama is so afraid of the Right |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 06:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I think there are truly good reasons he "tiptoes" around the RW..BUT-that wasn't WHY he was Elected |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I don't think he knows it. |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. I remember how I felt being left out of the process for 8 years |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. What I read from your post is that Obama definitely needed to Move Rightward because |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. edited for spelling of the moment...... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
17. When was Obama ever a progressive? He ran as a moderate Dem, as did Hillary. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 07:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Jennicut...you say this over and over...but, many Dems who voted for Obama and Donated did NOT see |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. But he is not Bush light. He is a moderate Democrat, per the political scale in the United States. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #18 |
35. Idiots for taking change to mean anything and everything YOU wanted it to mean. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 07:15 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I think the campaign slogan was: "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU! |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:53 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Once again, NO. He played both sides of the street and using "blame the victim" schtick reeks |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 07:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Once again, I actually looked at his record in the Senate. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 12:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Yes, but he craftily went along with misconceptions and actually helped inculcate some |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. When people don't do their homework, they are not to blame? |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. A teacher skews and misrepresents the lessons and HE'S not to blame? |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
37. "Both Sides of the Street"...Yep he played it..but, at some point it catches up to you |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
21. I think part of Obama's problem is the totally unrealistic expectations that were thrust on him |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. But if somebody had, as you say, put the kibosh to it, he would not |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Obama is not a LEADER, Which is What We Need and Want. He is a Presider |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 07:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Excellent. Words DO matter, don't they? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Thanks, TG |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 07:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. he very much invited those unrealistic expectations |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
26. I find the analysis compelling, but it is too bad that Rosenberg used an overrated author like |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
32. Pundits will always be able to show what independent thinking dissidents they are |
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