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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:01 PM Original message |
serious question: How do you run for office on bipartisanship and saying all your proposal... |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. I like your question. |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. "never say a good thing about your own party"?!?!? |
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GOTV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 09:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Yes. It does not count if the words D and R are not uttered. Just like it didn't count in 2010 |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 11:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Blame the suckey candidates. Pres. Obama wasn't on the ballot on 2010. |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 01:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. true |
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GOTV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 04:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Right. Like Alan Grayson. Obama failed then, as he is failing now, to ... |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 09:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Sorry, but Alan Grayson failed to draw the distinction. Afterall, he's the one sitting at home. |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 08:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. That's just plain silly, sorry n/t |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. Obama is trying to solve complex problems |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I get that part, it just seems like it makes the election more technocratic and a tougher sell |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. It probably does |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 02:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. that is why including tax cuts in everything Obama does and going along with deficit ''crisis'' |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. When they don't vote for it |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Jobs Program is is weak based upon my |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. Good question. K&R for serious discussion. |
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mtnsnake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 12:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Ditto on that |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
13. You do it by appealing to the center to vote for you. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 12:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Wrong. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 01:21 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. From your link: |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
32. people prefer an honest choice |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Bullshit, in any historical context 69 seats is huge. |
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CrazyBob (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. "He sold "the center" on his agenda, he did not chase them" |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
16. i have always found |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 08:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Which is automatic political failure, his job is to sell an agenda not to play referee between |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
34. it is so nuanced, most people will miss it and get the louder ''both parties are to blame'' angle |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
24. Obama has been calling for bipartisanship all along, but even he must know |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
25. There are a number of districts\states that swing |
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YellowCosmicSun (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
26. You can't govern while acting like half of America doesn't exist. Obama knows this. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. How come it only applies to the left? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. yep. No matter how narrow a GOP victory, they act like it's a ringing endorsement of their ideas |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-13-11 05:20 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. It's not even so much that THEY do, but that WE do that bothers me |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Yes. You can. |
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YellowCosmicSun (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 08:02 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Will you eat your hat when you're proven wrong, |
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CrazyBob (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Sure you can! |
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YellowCosmicSun (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. So you want a President who acts like Bush? I see. |
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ItNerd4life (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
31. I think it's quite easy, but politicians won't do it. |
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