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Mitt a new one last night over his being the consummate chickenhawk- even highlighting travel management services a photo of young Mittens on a French beach, seated next to a big "I love Ann" heart carved in the sand while given a deferment.
He does say that those who have answered the call to serve are owed -- at bare minimum -- a simple "thank you" from a man who is auditioning for the role of Commander travel management services in Chief of the current generation also called to serve.
In the end though, you can feel the love. You don't have to agree with Obama on everything, it's that you want him to succeed. All the likability polls show that. His job approval remains evenly split, but when it comes to "Do you want good things to happen for him?" and "Do you like him personally?", he scores very high still.
That's the miscalculation of Republicans. Just because 40% hate him, it doesn't mean that they can get the rest to follow. You have to actually have a plan, but with less than 40 days to go now, their plan all along has been to just hate Obama.
This is being talked about. James Fallows has a post up over at The Atlantic , where he refers travel management services to a post by Andrews Sullivan who suggests, "The Obama campaign would be smart to get this into a few ads for areas with high numbers of veterans" and also has part of the transcript.
I had been so eager to post this vid here when I finally found it after hours of searching, that I wasn't aware of the "embed" feature here (the sites where I usually post work so that you post the url link and then publish and then the vid embeds itself) but on here you just have to go to youtube, and under the vid is a button that says "Embed".
So I let it be, and when I came back to it I thought, "Maybe it's on YouTube but "Jim Webb" isn't in the title since many intro speakers don't get mentioned. So I typed in "Obama" and "rally" and finally found it.
I'm glad to hear Sen. Webb act like a real Democrat, as I have seen and heard little of it over these past six years. Of course, here in Macaca land, land of the Confederate flag and embarrassingly stupid people, you have to be Republican-lite to get elected. I have no respect for this man. His cutsie remark about disagreeing with the President weekly is all too true. And he voted accordingly. travel management services This is the type of "Democrat" we get in Virginia. God help us. This is the first time since he was elected that I've heard him speak like a Democrat. Too little too late, sadly.
travel management services Finally, I want to tell you why I believe this election is so important, and why it is my honor to introduce our President. travel management services Our very system is being challenged by a handful of economic monarchists who are throwing tens of millions of dollars into this race. This is America; they are welcome to their views. travel management services But their flood of money is perverting our democratic process. This is exactly what our campaign travel management services finance laws were designed to prevent. It is not healthy. We are being challenged, as Americans. We must either meet this challenge or accept that the United States of America has descended into a financially based aristocracy.
travel management services Let us remember another era. The principles that founded today's Democratic Party were first enunciated by Andrew Jackson, a self-made leader who was both a combat veteran and an orphan at the age of thirteen. travel management services Andrew Jackson believed in the American dream and lived it. But he also hated aristocracy and never forgot the roots from whence he came. He was the first President to argue that we measure the health of this society not at its apex but at its base, and that the role of our government leaders should be to provide a voice for those who otherwise would not be heard in the corridors of power. He built the foundation of the modern Democratic Party on a base that he labeled the farmers, the mechanics and the laborers. He once said that "the rich and the powerful can take care of themselves. But the poor and the humble require the arm and the shield of the law."
More clearly today than at any time in recent travel management services history, that arm, and that shield, can only be found in the Democratic Party. And those who truly care about recapturing the spirit of balance, and erasing the false notions of aristocracy that have grown ever deeper year by year over the past two decades should join together and help us re-elect Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States.
There have been several moments in American history where the tensions between travel management services the "economic monarchists" as Webb called them and the common folk have come to a head. The time of Andrew Jackson was one such moment. travel management services FDR faced such a moment travel management services as well. FDR himself came gradually to recognize the historical context in which he found himself, writing in 1936, "It is the fight of Jackson against the U.S. Bank all over again with concentrated capital travel management services in the place of the bank."
President Obama is not a natural populist. travel management services His tendency is to find consensus. But whether he likes it or not, he is now at the center travel management services of another travel management services historic clash between the economic monarchists or economic royalists (as FDR called them) and the people. FDR did not quickly come to that conclusion either in his day. But after spending his first three years trying to save capitalism and bending over backwards to work with business, the rich, and finance to "keep them from committing suicide" as he once put it, all he got in return was vilification and ingratitude travel management services from the wealthy class. As a result, FDR came to the conclusion that it was not so much that he'd betrayed his class as they had betrayed him. Thus as Arthur Schlesinger wrote, as 1935 became 1936 FDR had "passed out of the George Washington mood of the First New Deal. Now he saw himself increasingly as Andrew Jackson."
Well I think Obama is more than ready to complete his transformation from his own "George Washington" phase of his first three years in office to the Andrew Jackson phase. Because as I said, whether he likes it or not he's in the middle of the latest edition of a struggle between economic aristocracy and the people that Jackson and then FDR faced. He might as well embrace it.
George W. Bush won by less than 3% in '04, but he went and governed like he was given a whopping mandate in the name of stupidity. Meanwhile, Obama wins by more than 9 million votes, but then gives up half of everything on every policy issue before he even gets to the negotiating table.
travel management services If we wins this time, he needs to govern like he's got nothing to lose, since after all, he will have absolutely nothing to lose. This is his last election. Hopefully he will continue to be the tougher version of himself that we've witnessed these last 12 to 18 months instead of the wishy-washy conciliator he was in the first couple years.
I agree completely. Of course I support the President, but I am all too fearful that he'll fall back on his "let's travel management services all be friends" mistakes of the past. I pray he has taken enough hits by Rethuglicans that he now understands they are not to be trusted or bargained with. And I also pray that he never wavers on Social Security and Medicare. I think that is my biggest fear. After all, why vote for him if he's going to give away my future just like Mittens?
I am going to call the White House on Monday and ask them to relay my concern to the President. It feels stupid and futile, but I HAVE to do something. My God, I am going to hate myself travel management services and, sadly, President Obama, if he caves on SS and Medicare. He has disappointed me several times in his first four years, but I'm willing to dig deep and find Hope again. I'm just afraid one more betrayal will be the last for me. I've been a political junkie since I was a kid, and I'm certainly not naive, travel management services but I don't think I have another campaign in me if I am duped again. In a very few years I am going to NEED social travel management services security travel management services and medicare, and if they are not there I don't know what my middle-aged husband and I will do. So, if the President does some grand bargain with the 1%, it will be a betrayal of everything Democrats travel management services have worked for since FDR. This cannot happen, and he says it will not. But like MovieJay, I've seen him cave so many times that my support is tentative, worried, at best. I WISH I believed every thing he says. I WANT to believe that he has turned a corner and no longer wants to give away whatever Rethugs want, just so he can be called a great conciliator. He has my vote, but he needs to earn my trust again. And that makes me angry and sad.
There's a garage sale. A Republican is selling, a Democrat is buying. How much do you want for that tv? Republican: travel management services $100. Democrat: $10. Republican: $100. Democrat: $20. Republican: $100. Democrat: $30.
Sometimes, you just have to be able to put your foot down and call crap out