John King: Obama Needs To Worry About Being Too Liberal

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. A) Bite me and B) Obama's a centrist. He better not go right of that

[colsohlibgal]

7. No, No, No

John King is way off base, a comfortable majority of people want real change that benefits the people not just the powerful, in other words liberal policy.

[YOY]

2. Yeah...wouldn't want to piss off Kansas fundies and cowboy hat wearing seniors in Texas.

:eyes:

[snappyturtle]

5. ummm....be careful. Mr. Snappy is a senior cowboy hat wearing Democrat

who is a Texas native. No broad brushes...please?

[YOY]

6. I was referring to what looked like an odd majority at the GOP convention.

Dopey looking white cowboy hats on pasty looking fat senior citizens who look as though they wouldn't know the first thing to do with a horse.

Sure thing about the broad brushes. Much love to Texas Dems: putting up with more shit than any human being should have to.

[snappyturtle]

14. Sorry...I wasn't looking for an explanation, really! You are right about

the dopey looking white cowboy hats and so forth. We thought the same thing and wished we could knock the hats off their heads! Bush is one of those people...not fat but he's afraid of horses...pathetic. I am not a native Texan. Moving here was a leap of faith having lived my last 15 years in northern MN. We do put up with a lot....BUT we converted a handful this election and that was very satisfying.

[ihavenobias]

3. I saw that live and I was so pissed n/t

[snappyturtle]

4. John King ought to ask himself why the people voted for PEO in

the first place? Obviously, the conservative maverick didn't fit their liking. imho

[demigoddess]

8. the propaganda starts so early, this is what they use to force people think

the dems are too lefty and also to force them farther to the right than they really want to be. I would love to ignore the bums.

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. The Big Myth

They keep perpetrating it.

That America is a Right-of-center nation.

even though a majority want:
out of Iraq
universal healthcare
social security
public education

They always take two marginal issues
Gay marriage and abortion rights
(yes these are important to those that are affected by them, but my point is what affects the majority)
And they use these two issues where the majority is to the right, to claim America is a right wing county as a whole.

Totally false. I wish someone would challenge these numbnuts the next time they spew that garbage.

[gwinnettdem]

10. King's logic is flawed

I was screaming at the TV yesterday as I watched this live. The logic he uses is completely flawed. He compares Barack Obama county by county to Bill Clinton. Then he shows tons of counties, especially in Texas and the deep South, where Clinton won but Obama did not.

So far so good, right? HELL NO!!!!

Why did Bill Clinton win all those counties in the South? Hell, why did he win at all in 1992? Because H. Ross Perot cannibalized the Republican vote. Take Perot's vote, give 80% to Bush and 20% to Clinton. What do you have? A second Bush term in 1992. Scary, but true.

Now, I'd LOVE to see Obama's counties vs Clinton's counties after dividing the Perot vote up 80/20. I think we'd see WAY more blue on the map this time around than in 1992. It just goes to show how the media distorts the story to fit their needs. Obama has a mandate that Clinton never had. Bill Clinton was popular with Democrats, but he never received a majority of the vote; not even in 1996.

Anything the next administration does will be viewed as leftist because of how far to the right the past eight years have been. Obama should ignore that and do what is best for the nation.

In summation- John King can stick it.

[nikolaas]

11. ic

intresting

[AsahinaKimi]

12. No one told George Bush ..

"Well, You can't be too right wing now that your pResident." This is so bogus..

[underpants]

13. "Without a doubt the electorate voted for Obama but they percieve him as a liberal"

BUT???

and how does that lead you to the conclusion that he shouldn't be liberal???

King is a moron he and Campbell Brown conveniently forgot about one party rule....THIS decade

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x234636

[Bippity Boo]

15. Obama BEWARE: you won by DOUBLE the electoral votes

:sarcasm: one wrong move and it's all over, buddy :sarcasm: