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   From: skeeterweed@photonmail.com   
      
   In article , bax02   
   _spamblock@baxcode.com says...   
   >   
   > On 10/17/2024 3:48 AM, NoBody wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:12:16 -0600, Skeeter   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> In article <_yQPO.13137$Vuz4.920@fx08.iad>, katt@gmail.com says...   
   > >>>   
   > >>> On 10/16/2024 3:43 AM, 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.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>      "I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have   
   some very bad   
      
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