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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:50 PM Original message |
Does anybody here think anything positive could happen in a second Obama term? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. no |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
2. If this is what he's doing within 18 months of an election... |
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fredamae (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Yes, but only if We |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. There have not been 500 filibusters since 2006. |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
43. Not this again.... |
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montanacowboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:53 PM Original message |
Hell NO |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. President Obama's Supreme Court picks are mostly positive. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. He won't get to make any more. |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. "Supreme Reich" |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Don't be so glum |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
32. Nope. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancer and has announced |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 05:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
58. I feel you are wrong. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. As a lame duck he is not beholden to Democrats and voters... |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. That worked out so well in the second term of the last Democratic president. |
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laugle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. It's nice that someone |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #31 |
62. I don't see a legitimate third part challange... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
6. Koch Bros DLC and Obama turning party upside down -- NO in 2012 -- !!! |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. Of course positive will happen in a second term, it has in the first. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Surrendering on the tax cuts was half of the end. This would be the other half |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Ask the unemployed who got 13 more months of benefits. |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Funny how the poster... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
38. Ask the 99ers who got shit. |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Lay out your scenario... |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:28 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. I'm sure the millionaires were happy. The 99ers were screwed. |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Let's see your scenario... |
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haikugal (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. No |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
11. At one time I hoped he might become more progressive when he won in 2012 |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. Sure. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. I am the eternal pessimist. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. Nice to meet you...I bet there are a lot of us around some just unwilling |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. And I, at the same time, need those Panglossian reminders |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. no |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. About all I can think of is |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. Are you looking for a challenger? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
18. Nah |
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laugle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
63. It's called numb! |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
19. No |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. No. |
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laugle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
45. In hindsight, do you |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
50. You mean the great speaker - the great compromiser - |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
64. The UI was willfully made a football instead of just indexing the benefits to the |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
24. yes, supreme court nominees. Hello!!!!!!!!!! |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. It will only be worse...that's why he needs to be primaried...nt |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
27. Not really. Especially with all the new Republican Party gerry mandering. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. He'd be a lame duck from day one. nt |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
34. he`ll realize his legacy will not be what he thought it would be |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. "pin drops" |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
36. Unrec of a kneejerk reaction when we don't even know what will happen yet nt |
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Cattledog (695 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
37. No. Obama's too weak to lead. |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
39. Nope. |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
41. Sadly,I gave up a long time ago as "just another politician" |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
44. Only with a super majority.. or a correction to the filibuster debacle. . n/t |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
46. As much as you can count denying the whitehouse to repuke positive. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
48. DU's loudest whiner's would be derprived of the joy they would feel by his defeat. |
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samrock (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
51. Yes!! |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
52. Yes, if teabaggers are replaced by democrats in the election. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
53. No. |
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philly_bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
54. Definitely. Obama with an eye on history, not on Republicans! (nt) |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. IF we elect a supermajority of progressives (not corporocrats) |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
57. Yes. Lots. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
59. If it is half as positive as the first term it will be fantastic |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
60. "Could"? Sure... he "could" be abducted by space aliens and have a "progressive spine" inserted... |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
61. If this is how he governs with an election ahead of him, imagine what he'd be like as a lame duck. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:20 AM Response to Reply #61 |
65. After 2010 loss due to betrayals on MEDICARE FOR ALL, announced more compromise!! |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
66. Yes, of course. |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
67. You should get your facts straight. nt |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
68. Same Shit Different Term |
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