20120--Where is Obama Going to Campaign?..in a phone booth???

[DemocracyInaction]

So campaign season gets into high gear!! Where exactly is Obama going to go to campaign? Is he going to address union crowds and tell them he's going to "put on his sneakers and walk with them" again? (More likely they will throw their sneakers AT him----thanks for remaining silent when the Teabagger govs began the national attack on unions).

OR, will he go to senior centers and retirement homes? Ohhhh, let's see...actually I don't exactly remember him doing that last time (guess that should have been our clue that they were meaningless dogs to him).

Perhaps he will speak to teachers about education. Ahhh, nope....already screwed them (see paragraph one)and public education is another dog he wants to see dead).

How about doctors and hospitals?---opps, gonna "f" them over, too.

Maybe he could do a "greet" at the doors of Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, not many customers because they just don't have the money anymore since they are just insignificant middle class dogs, too.

Guess he'll just have to settle for black tie affairs and bear their pain.

[tridim]

1. Democrats support the President.

DU isn't the real world, not even close.

[johnnie]

3. Sshhhh

You'll ruin it for a lot of people here.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Thank You. The bubble sometimes overestimates it's own importance. (nt)

[Tesha]

21. Then you've got nothing to worry about. Good luck in 2012! (NT)

[ThomWV]

5. Virtually all of my friends are Democrats, and all of them are mad at him

I mean really pissed. I am too. So at least in this area and among a good number of seniors your assessment is inaccurate.

[Name removed]

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[Autumn]

12. I do not know one person, family or friends

who are not pissed at him. These are people who voted for him and were so excited in 2008 and I would say 8 out of 10 will not vote for him in 2012.

[emilyg]

15. True - my family and friends are very mad.

[JoeyT]

45. +1

Most of my friends are in the 20-35 range, and virtually all of them are Democrats. One thinks he's awesome, but admits that he doesn't follow politics at all. The rest are pissed off.

[nadinbrzezinski]

52. Funny so are my friends

:hi:

[young but wise]

6. +1

It's a shame that people think a message board is real life.

[elocs]

18. I've never mistaken DU to reflect the real world. It's like an alternate universe

where DUers can fantasize whatever they like without the restraints of reality.

Take for instance wishing that Dennis Kucinich or Bernie Sanders would run for president. How either one of them would ever get elected is a nagging detail for those who fantasize about it. But this may be seriously done in the alternate universe that we affectionately call "DU".

[Eddie Haskell]

19. You wanna bet?

The OP's message is right on the money. This President can start packing his bags and the Democratic Party better start looking for options.

[tridim]

22. Yes, any amount

I'll even spot you points.

[Joe the Revelator]

47. I'll take some of that action

[FarLeftFist]

49. Isn't he polling at like 85% approval among Democrats?

[woo me with science]

28. ...

[tridim]

30. The President agrees with the people on every one of those issues.

The Republicans don't.

Woo me with the obvious.

[Wait Wut]

32. I wish this...

"Expressing intent to not vote or vote third party, or justifying defeat of any Democratic general election candidate (unless a non-Democrat is most likely to defeat the conservative alternative)."


...was enforced. It would make this place a bit more credible.

[tridim]

33. +1

[guruoo]

39. Did you

alert?

[MouseFitzgerald]

34. You are totally right

Thats why we did so well in 2010.

[Tarheel_Dem]

44. Was Obama on the ballot in 2010? Who knew?

:rofl:

Not very familiar with the history of midterms, huh? Do you think it was some kind of triumph for opponents of the president to give him less support in Congress? You do know that it didn't hurt him personally or financially, right? But the folks who did stay home are now regretting that decision bigtime, which ironically makes the prospects for 2012 even brighter. :hi:

[Taverner]

2. He's been raising funds from banks and investment firms

Chances are, he'll call on them

[tridim]

7. And millions of ordinary every-day Democrats.

But I guess it suits your goals better if you leave that fact out.

[Taverner]

11. The majority of his campaign donations have come from banks

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not of the 'Obama is a Republican' school of thought.

Obama is way more liberal and progressive than Clinton, and he ranks up there with Carter

Yes, there have been some mistakes, but there have been successes other than Lily Ledbetter

He does need to stop coddling the GOP though - and it looks like he's finally had enough

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Where is your source for your assertion...

That a majority (over 50%) of his contributions have come from banks?

[guruoo]

41. Reuters, 7/16/11: 65% were from donations of $200 or less, according to FEC filings

By Eric Johnson and Kim Dixon

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON | Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:31pm EDT

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of the $86 million cash haul raised by President Barack Obama for his re-election effort in recent months came from small donations of under $200 or less, according to filings released on Friday.

Earlier in the week, Obama released top-line data on his campaign from April to June, breaking a prior fundraising record by former president George W. Bush. The $86 million includes $47 million raised by Obama's campaign itself and $39 million raised by the Democratic National Committee.

The numbers underscore the campaign's promise of targeting small-dollar donations instead of powerful political action committees as the Democratic incumbent seems re-election in 2012.

More than 65 percent of the funds raised by the Democratic incumbent's campaign, Obama for America, were from donations of $200 or less, according to FEC filings.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/16/us-usa-campaign-obama-cash-idUSTRE76E71520110716

[Bake]

42. I'd say closer to Clinton than Carter.

Otherwise, you're spot on.

Bake

[Ineeda]

31. This ordinary Democrat

worked for him, donated to him, voted for him --- and I'm doing it again for 2012 with almost as much enthusiasm. And LOTS of fear of the alternative.

[Wait Wut]

40. Thank you for you service.

:patriot:

And your enthusiasm!

[guruoo]

17. He'll have to if his enemies are successful at discouraging small donation support

[madrchsod]

9. ohio got 900,000 signatures.....

but his team does`t give a shit...

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. I suspect he won't be around in 20120. n/t

[Liberalynn]

16. I don't think any of us will

unless we have some secret immortals among us. :rofl:

Thanks for the laugh. Only one I have had all day.

All laughter aside though, I do agree with the rest of the content of the OP.

[Enrique]

13. i predict protests

Charlotte (corporate HQ of Bank of America, by the way) will be hot.

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[tridim]

23. Why? And please be specific.

[jberryhill]

26. To make DU happy

Is that specific enough?

[tridim]

29. Yea, you're probably right about that.

It would only upset the 80% of real Democrats who support the President.

[Hippo_Tron]

38. That's impossible

Even if Obama resigned, DU would still find a way to be unhappy. Misery is what we do best.

[Tesha]

25. I realize you're trying to make a joke, but in fact, the Democratic Party could fare...

...much better in 2012 with a powerful Democrat at the
helm; the Compromiser-in-Chief is going to drag down
the efforts of good Democrats everywhere, just like
he did in 2010.

Tesha

[d_b]

20. 10 grand a plate rural diners

[11 Bravo]

24. I'm pretty sure that President Obama will have passed away sometime in the next 18,109 years.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. You think Obama is going to live 18,000 years?

[spanone]

35. he'll be pretty old by then.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. I don't think he'll be around in 20120.

:rofl:

[Raine]

43. He can go to big corporations and Wall Street hold campaign

rallys there, they'll give him all those big bucks he loves so much. x(

[BrightSideOfLife]

46. Too bad President Obama isn't an actual Democrat.

I must have missed the memo where he switched parties. Maybe he'll campaign in "Real America" and choose a running mate who matches his politics-John Boehner. What a team that'll make!

[bigwillq]

48. Is Obama the real Clark Kent?

:rofl:

[marasinghe]

50. nope; he's from a universe where they play 11 dimensional chess on the Earth motherboard.

we're the pawns.

:shrug:

[inna]

51. nice thought, but... not as if we live in a democracy.

[StreetKnowledge]

53. Preferably, he'll realize what a failure he is and not run. But that ain't likely. n/t