Yes, exactly...By winning over the moderates
Posted By: Exactly right........ on 2009-02-04
In Reply to: Let's break this down for you, MT. - O has explained this strategy before. sm
O minimizes and weakens the power of the terrorists. The voice of the people (the moderates)is a very strong voice.
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Obama won moderates over
during his campaign and continues to win over more and more.....
Most moderates might be able to agree on this...
As I've said elsewhere, moderates of both parties agree on many of the important things that need to be done, needing only to have folks in government who will sit down together in good faith and hammer out the compromises needed to get them done and who will work on OUR behalf instead of their own.
The system in Washington has, over the years, become a festering sewer of entrenched power and self-interest - on BOTH sides of the aisle. It must be cleaned out, disinfected and set back on the right path, or we will only go down in history as yet another nation that held the fire of promise in our hands but could not keep it.
The only solution, as I see it, is to send new representatives to Congress. We must ship the current residents of Washington back home to find real jobs and perhaps to re-learn (if they ever knew) what it really means to live as ordinary citizens and the daily struggle with the realities of life that the "common man" who has no special privileges must deal with.
The place where this happens is in the PRIMARY elections wherever an incumbent of either party is challenged by others in their own party. I can quite understand that Democrats will want to send a new Democrat to Congress, and the same for Republicans - and that is FINE, so long as the following conditions prevail:
1. No incumbent is returned to office, period. If this means that we must throw out a few "good" people, so be it. All of them - even the best - are infected with this corruption and believe that Washington "works a certain way".
2. The new people we send must be moderate in their views, meaning that we must believe that they are not "party zealots", who believe that only their party has the answers. We must believe that these are people of good sense, good will, and a deep interest in finding solutions that Americans of similar mind can support.
3. (Here's the hard part!). IF we believe that "our" party is not providing us with candidates that meet the qualifications in #2, we MUST be willing to support the candidate of the other party if that candidate does meet the conditions. In other words, we must tell Washington that it is not PARTY that matters most, but CHARACTER, COMMON SENSE, and the ability to REASON TOGETHER.
If all of this were to happen, we will have mounted the most peaceful revolution against a corrupt, oppressive government that has ever occurred in human history. It would transform this nation and it would break the backs of the political parties' power over us. Today, the decisions about our fate are being made in smoky back rooms, by way of sly agreements. We can change this if we ourselves can first shake off the fear and hatred of the "other" party that the rulers in Washington have so carefully instilled in us while we were looking the other way.
It really doesn't matter who moderates - sm
Because, no matter what, any misstep Palin makes will be magnified a thousand fold by the left wing, then mocked on SNL, then replayed ad infinitum on Leno and by the harpies on The View and by "I've-got-a-crush-on-Obama" Letterman.
And any blunder Biden makes will be laughed off as, "Oh, that whacky Joe."
Hopefully, moderates in both parties will begin to assert themselves.
We've swung far to the right and now far to the left. It will be a good thing if the true majority of Americans re-take control of their government, and I think you'll begin to see that happening in the 2010 Congressional election cycle. With any luck, Obama will be a one-term President unless he can manage to once again hoodwink the American voters into believing he's a moderate. Can we be fooled twice? I hope not. Let's get a true moderate into the White House in 2012 - of either party, I don't care which.
What I'll be doing in 2011 is trying to find out which moderates will be running for office in 20
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You are so right, we are winning and
It will be a better world with Obama. He will restore our image around the world and loosen up our finances a bit, ensure we have health care, etc. Nobody has ever addressed these important issues. It's refreshing and touching, encouraging and a long time coming.
STEALING is not winning!!!
Blogger responses to the rigging of Ohio's voting system:
The law growls a bit but comes up toothless for the common man most of the time--at all levels. Take the Supreme Court (please! as Henny Youngman would say). It was right down there in the gutter, snarling over the bone, which it wrested away in the 2000 election and handed over to George W. Bush. Democrat John Kerry did not attempt to even test this right-leaning court (with its Bush appointees) over the foul voting-day thievery in Ohio that cost him the election in 2004--his resolve no doubt already weakened by the vicious "Swift Boat" slander that had had been slathered over him during the preceding months. Consider, if you will, the eventual condition of our court system all across the country due to the appointment of federal judges at all levels. It's bad enough after 8 years of George Bush. Do we want another 4 or 8 years at the hands of McCain and/or Palin? Start by considering the decisions concerning just the environment--pollution, land-use, etc. They come up on a regular basis. We are fortunate to still have some long-time judges with integrity who date from earlier times. But this, too, could pass. Palin, in addition to being a Creationist, also doesn't believe in Global Warming. McCain, despite his inane campaign remarks, is right there in the hip pocket of big oil, opposes alternate energy sources (check his Senate record) and isn't really much concerned about the melting of the polar ice cap and glaciers everywhere. Not to mention the extinction of species (eventually our own?) and old-growth timber, the conversion of the Pacific ocean into a floating garbage dump that is a bird and fish killer. The country and the planet just can't stand the theft of another election by the Republicans.
Man alive.....there's no winning!
Now it's the republicans fault the bailout went through. Now, if they had held firm and NOT voted for it, and things continued to look bad for a while, you would have blamed them for NOT voting for the handout.
You just can't make up your mind.
obama winning
scares me in so may different ways... this would be one of the many reasons.
SEATTLE, WA — Joe Biden says he’s certain that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis to test his strength within the first 6 months of his presidency.
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.” he told a fundraising crowd in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday. “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
“He’s gonna have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/biden-if-elected-the-world-will-test-obama-with-a-crisis/
Obama winning BECAUSE he's black?
Do you hear yourself? You need a time out.
Wisdom and humor too. A winning combination.
nm
Let's face it, he stands no chance of winning. However, with the
econmy in mind, he would definitely be the guy to fix this horrible situation we find ourselves in. My whole intention in giving my vote to Mr. Nader is this: I am not going to give up my right to vote, I will be at the polls and I will cast my vote. That being said, I am sick and tired of being lied to and manipulated. I am tired of having my intelligence insulted over and over again by politics as usual in Washington. I will cast a vote and send a message. I know that my tiny vote and its tiny message won't be heard, but I will have satisfaction in knowing that I followed my heart and I did not vote for any Washington liar. We need a change alright and neither McCain or Obama is going to bring it.
If the McCain/Palin ticket has any chance of winning...sm
the election, they need to about face, stop the negativity, stop talking about Obama, and tell the American people how life would be better if he were elected president. If he doesn't, he does not have a chance. John McCain needs to stop pandering to the religious right and go back to the maverick that he used to be, representing middle America.
Who was rude? I just said she sounds young. You are just mad cuz Obama is winning
so everything i say is hateable from your point... well you can kiss my grits lady...you cannot come to my victory party... no snotty argumentative loser rednecks allowed.
I don;'t think McCain/Palin are the ones winning by hook or CROOK,
That would be Obama/Biden
Why does Obama winning make Americans clueless?...nm
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and "the polls" said Kerry was winning on election night
but you probably still think those polls were correct, so I just wasted my breath.
Is Obama losing support or winning support?
John Clodfelter of Mechanicsville, Va., whose son was among the 17 sailors killed in the Cole bombing, said he arrived at the meeting with apprehension over the decision to close the prison. But after listening to the president and being assured that the terrorism suspects would not be released, Mr. Clodfelter said his opinion changed.
“I did not vote for the man,” Mr. Clodfelter said, “but the way he talks to you, you can’t help but believe in him. He left me with a very positive feeling that he’s going to get this done right.”
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Intense public scrutiny?
Wed, 09/10/2008 - 16:38 — Anonymous (not verified)