Yet another sign to obama that he will no doubt ignore.

[Bubblehead1980]

The unabashed and unwarranted arrogance of Barack Obama is yet again even more obvious as well as disturbing.Tuesday's special election in which a NY congressional district that has not voted in a Republican in nearly 90(!) years went to a Republican candidate is even more writing on the wall for the failure in chief, yet he along with his propaganda minister as well as other supporters in denial such as Debbie Wasserman Schultz etc refuse to see this, admit failure and change course.

The 2010 mid terms were a "shellacking" as Barry put it, yet no change in course.Dipping polls and negative economic news are yet more warnings but Barry and his cheerleaders refuse to admit they are wrong and change course.Now a district that has been safe fro nearly 90 years is gone and they refuse to admit it was a referendum by their own on their lousy job on pretty much all fronts.Again, no course change will be made as barry tries to shove more spending(the "jobs" act) down our throats.These people have the nerve to go on TV and claim the district is actually conservative(lol) so the election was about Weiner and not the Democrats and/or their joke of a President, how far out of touch can they get?

Best part of all this is able to see so many people who were stupid enough to fall for obama's crap last time regret their vote and admit it.Sad part is, many of us are suffering due to the mass stupidity in 2008.

[CCIP]

Yet another thread that yubba will no doubt not ignore

[AVGWarhawk]

In before yubba!

[Hottentot]

In before the 10th page.

[Blood_splat]

[Oberon]

Yubba deployment imminent. Clear the area.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Meanwhile in Europe according to German Marshall Fund survey conducted in 12 Eurepean contries Obama is still very popular in Europe. Three of four persons who answered to survey were happy into Mr. Obama's way to handle international issues. He is most popular in Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.

In comparison during last year of President Bush's term only about 20 % of Europeans participating in the survey were happy into his performance.

Source is Helsingin Sanomat newpaper's article which is in finnish and available here. Finnish speakers please correct me if I missed something or did translation error.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

Finnish speakers please correct me if I missed something or did translation error.

Correct as far as I can see. The only thing I'd stress is the part about international matters, which of course to us mean the most. Obama might be a better diplomat than Bush, but not necessarily a better president.

[vienna]

There was a lot more to the loss of NY9 by the Democrats than a "referendum" on Obama. The campaign for the seat took a particularly vicious turn via GOP mailer:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/polit...en-ugly/42347/

The truth is, aside from voter anger over Weiner's action's and the associated taint it put on any potenetial Democratic candidate for the seat, there were a great many local issues within the district and the City of NY influencing the voters. To take the loss of one House seat out of 435 total seats as a sign of the rise of the GOP and the fall of the Democrats and Obama is a bit premature. The GOP has only to look back at the heavy loss they took after the launch of their "Contract with America" during the Clinton administration (including the loss af two consecutive House Speakers within a month's time after demonstrating their adherence to 'family values') and the losses suffered during the midterms in George W's last term to realize that any gain, is at best, tenuous. Add to the this recent polls, by all types and stripes of pollsters, while showing Obama's approval and popularity falling to 50% or below, the approval and popularity of Congressional Republicans is half that of Obama. Regardless of what Russ, Sean, et al, would have the public believe, the foot of the GOP is very shaky and unless they provide voters with tangible results and not just rhetoric, one seat may be the best they can look forward to....

[Takeda Shingen]

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[mookiemookie]

More well reasoned and completely impartial political analysis from General Topics.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

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Okee dokee.

[joea]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

More well reasoned and completely impartial political analysis from General Topics.

[Bilge_Rat]

special elections mean nothing, never have never will.

Obama is in trouble, no one can deny that, but the election is still 15 months away, which is several centuries in politics.

The 1st key is the economy, if it does'nt get better and there are no indications it will, then Obama is in DEEP trouble.

The 2nd key is the Republican nominee, can Romney or Perry beat Obama? Those are the only two who have a real shot. Perry, right now, actually looks like a weaker candidate than Romney.

Romney, to me, has the best shot to beat Obama, since he will be able to point to his credentials as a businessman and to his moderate record as governor of Massachusetts (i.e. pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, government health care that works) to appeal to independent voters. Don't forget independent voters will decide the 2012 election. Romney's only negative is the fact that he is a mormon which still scares a percentage of the electorate that view it as a sect.

The 3rd key is money. Obama should have between $500 million and $1 billion to spend on his re-election, certainly more than the Republican. However, he cannot win on this alone. He needs 2 out of 3 of the keys.

[Platapus]

Hmm so a special election went to a Republican.

I think that Obama should just resign and the entire Democratic party fold.

The signs are unmistakable.