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New York Democrats Looking for Replacement for Obama, Way to Ensure Huge Losses Next Year
You really got to respect the commitment that Democrats have toward absolute uncompromising failure. When America sent one of their own into the White House with record high popularity, a huge majority in the House and a supermajority in the Senate, did they give up and accomplish anything? No, they did not. They set their minds to the task of royally fucking everything up, and look at them now: A president with record low popularity, a minority in the House and the thinnest of majorities in the Senate. How did they do it?!Well, you can't really expect them to give up all their secrets, but this grass roots movement from New York City's upper west side to find a primary challenger for President Obama may offer some insight…
A longtime local Democratic activist, Bob Ginsberg, has sent around a mailing to about 1,800 New York Democratic leaders and activists, calling for a progressive challenge to President Obama.
Under normal circumstances, Barack Obama would have zero chance of even pretending like he might maybe have a thin sliver of a chance to win reelection. But, the Republicans aren't going to just lie there and win this one. Once they rolled out their clown car full of impossibly ridiculous candidates, Dems realized they'd need to step up their game. And, obviously, there is only one sure fire solution to decent odds of reelection…
"The solution is to find a credible progressive Democrat to run for President in a primary against President Obama. The best lesson comes from 1980 when another Democratic "middle of the road, compromising" unpopular president was planning to run for re-election," writes Ginsberg…
The strong primary challenger. Always works like a charm.
I am genuinely impressed.
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* Actually, under actually normal normal circumstances, an incumbent president would skate into a second term without having to break a sweat, but Barack Obama is way too smart to fall prey to that kind of good fortune.
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Barack Obama Not Quite as Unpopular as Jimmy Carter
President Barack Obama pulled off a major victory these past few months by managing t not be as disliked or disappointing as President Jimmy Carter was 32 years earlier…The president’s approval rating, which had leveled off near 47 percent over the previous three quarters, fell to 41 percent — a 5.8 percent drop from the second quarter and the administration’s worst rating to date…
Gallup noted that only Jimmy Carter had a worse 11th quarter in office, logging a 31.4 percent approval rating in 1979.
You know what? That would make a really catchy bumper sticker...
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John Lennon Might Maybe Have Been a Secret Republican
Get ready, hippy liberals. Because you are about to have your entire mind exploded to death!
Fred Seaman [Lennon's personal assistant] worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self…
He says, "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter…
"I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist… He enjoyed really provoking my uncle… Maybe he was being provocative… but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.
Wait a minute! Hold the phone! Do you mean to tell me that multi-millionaire John Lennon expressed support for Ronald Reagan — who took office a month-and-a-half after Lennon's death — at the tail end of the least effective Democratic administration in several decades? And he thought — during a time when Soviets were lining up in the driving snow for bread — that Communism is silly? According to some guy?
Well, that…
changes…
EVERYTHING!
I'm sure that a lot of liberals are pretty embarrassed right now in light of this new information. I'd expect a pretty big windfall of conversions to conservativism any time now.
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President Obama and Our Non-War "Squirmish" Type Thing in Libya
I think the takeaway from all this is, if you live in Charlotte, North Carolina, I'd keep my eyes open…
Coverage continues after the jump.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CNN, Dwight Eisenhower, Energy & Oil, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, John Kennedy, Jon Stewart, Libya, Military, Muammar Qaddafi, NATO, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, The Daily Show, Video, Wolf Blitzer -
The Daily Show Correspondents Explain Negotiating with Congress
Here's something you might not know: The U.S. Congress was created with two specific purposes in mind. To give the president an excuse for not accomplishing anything, and as a job-creation measure for people who were otherwise unemployable.
The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.
Tags: Aasif Mandvi, House of Representatives, Jason Jones, Jimmy Carter, John Oliver, Olivia Munn, Samantha Bee, Senate, TDS Correspondents Explain, The Daily Show, Video
