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   XPost: alt.politics.usa   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:05:01 -0500, Ubiquitous    
   wrote:   
      
   >Worried that the presidential race may be slipping away from them, Democrats   
   >now express contempt for the people whose votes they need to win in November.   
   >Especially annoying to the party’s leadership is that they have to try to   
   >persuade Pennsylvanians. On Tuesday vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz   
   >(D., Minn.) lamented to wealthy California donors that their party has to win   
   >votes in Western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County, and also persuade people in   
   >York, in the eastern half of the Keystone State. To diminish the power of   
   >such voters, Mr. Walz wants to get rid of the Constitution’s Electoral   
   >College. Now former President Barack Obama has arrived in Pittsburgh to scold   
   >some of the locals for not supporting current Vice President Kamala Harris.   
   >   
   >Mr. Obama is now employing the rhetorical tactics he once used against   
   >congressional Republicans to attempt to shame voters into obeying his   
   >political instruction. Mr. Obama’s oratory has always been much more refined   
   >than that of either of his presidential successors—but at least as nasty. The   
   >standard Obama approach is to assume that no one could possibly have an   
   >informed and honest disagreement with him and therefore his opponents must be   
   >ignorant or driven by concealed base motives.   
   >   
   >Gregory Krieg, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Eva McKend report for CNN:   
   >   
   >     Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who   
   >     are hesitating to back Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential   
   >     campaign, telling them it’s “not acceptable” to sit out this election   
   >     and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for Harris because she’s   
   >     a woman.   
   >   
   >     The striking comments by Obama, made to a small group of voters in a   
   >     surprise stop at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh, were   
   >     part of a more forceful campaign message delivered by the former   
   >     president on Thursday as polls continue to show a neck-and-neck race.   
   >     At a rally in the city later that evening, Obama issued some of his   
   >     most searing public criticisms of his successor to date.   
   >   
      
   Nothing like an old, black man lecturing young black men that their   
   mysoginististic if they don't don't vote for Harris.  Somehow I think   
   this is falling like a lead balloon.   
      
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