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   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:29:05 -0600, John Doe    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 10/11/2024 8:05 PM, 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.   
   >>   
   >>       The lack of energy some see around Harris’ campaign, Obama first told   
   >>       the smaller group, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”   
   >>   
   >> Mr. Obama then launched a fact-free attack on their motivations. CNN   
   reports:   
   >>   
   >>       “You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a   
   >>       problem with that,” Obama said. “Because part of it makes me think –   
   >>       and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that,   
   >>       well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president,   
   >>       and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for   
   >>       that.”   
   >>   
   >> The vice president’s significant role in creating a 40-year-high in   
   inflation   
   >> that ravaged incomes isn’t a legitimate reason to oppose her? And of course   
   >> there are many other legitimate reasons to find fault with the incumbent   
   vice   
   >> president in a world in crisis. Emma Bowman at National Public Radio has   
   more   
   >> on Mr. Obama’s insults to Pennsylvanians:   
   >>   
   >>       “On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you,   
   >>       went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy   
   >>       that comes from those experiences,” adding that Harris, who is Black   
   >>       and Asian American, is focused on policy that will benefit Black   
   >>       communities, such as affordable housing and health care. “And on the   
   >>       other side, you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not   
   >>       just for the communities, but for you as a person.”   
   >>   
   >> Maybe voters of all backgrounds have had just about all the Biden-Harris   
   >> “affordability” they can stand and are nostalgic about the real income gains   
   >> of the Trump era.   
   >>   
   >> It’s also very possible that Pennsylvania voters of all backgrounds don’t   
   >> think their communities will be well served by Ms. Harris, a San Francisco   
   >> leftist who has backed seemingly every zany idea favored by those California   
   >> donors, and then some.   
   >>   
   >> Regardless, it’s up to the voters to decide which candidates are most likely   
   >> to enable prosperity. Maybe Mr. Walz and Mr. Obama should try winning over   
   >> these voters, rather than trying to reduce their electoral power or tossing   
   >> them into a 2024 version of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables.”   
   >>   
   >> These days that basket is looking more and more like a broad, multiracial   
   >> coalition.   
   >>   
   >> As for the Democrats, the country desperately needs Mr. Obama and his party   
   >> to turn away from the poisonous ideological mindset which holds that every   
   >> setback for their political agenda represents a failure of our form of   
   >> government or our people.   
   >   
   >I personally can't imagine voting for Trump's stated plan of jailing the   
   >people who have criticized him. He's no longer using statements like   
   >Nazi Germany, he's virtually quoting them now. That should disturb   
   >patriots in every party.   
   >>   
      
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