XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.elections, alt.politics.obama
XPost: alt.politics.usa
From: NoBody@nowhere.com
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:43:42 -0400, NoBody wrote:
>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.
>>>
>
>Citation required.
>>> --
>>
>>>
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