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Topic: Will the Democratic Party survive Obama? |
Will the Democratic Party survive Obama?
Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/23/2013 1:20:40 PM
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| American Prospect editor Harold Meyerson writes in today’s Washington Post: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek,” candidate Barack Obama said in 2008. At the time, his comments came in for criticism: They were narcissistic; they were tautological; they didn’t make a whole lot of sense. But in the aftermath of Obama’s 2012 reelection and his second inaugural address, his 2008 remarks seem less a statement of self-absorption than one of prophecy. There is an Obama majority in American politics, symbolized by Monday’s throng on the Mall, whose existence
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Comments: I don´t really give a rat´s hind end if the Democrat party survives. What I care about is will America survive 0bama.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 1/23/2013 1:30:42 PM (No. 9134582)
What? So, they will then call themselves what they really are, Communists?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/23/2013 1:35:25 PM (No. 9134592)
I have watched the CPUSA website for many years. I remember when they decided that "communist" had a negative attached to it, and so they decided to call themselves "progressives" because it was more positive sounding. HOW many times has progressive spewed out of the mouths of Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, Reid, Biden?? They are telling us what they are.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
columba, 1/23/2013 1:42:44 PM (No. 9134605)
Will the Dems survive Obama? The wrong question is asked. Will the Dems survive themselves and their support of baby-killing and endorsement of abnormal marriages. The answer is No.
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wsdiego, 1/23/2013 1:46:45 PM (No. 9134617)
I don´t know if the old saying, give them enough rope, applies with this group! They´ve had miles and miles, for years and years!
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Mass Minority, 1/23/2013 1:50:38 PM (No. 9134623)
Once you accept the fact that Obama is the centerpiece of a cult of personality the whole political picture starts to come inmto focus. And the author is correct, never in history has a cult of personality survived past the demise of its central figure.
The death of Stalin was only overcome by an even more tyranical clampdown by government, which completed the collapse of the economy and eventually the break up of the Soviet Union.
Mussolini and Hitler entered into a devastating war, both ended up dead and the very utterance of their once popular political system has become anathema. Ex Soviets and both Italians and Germans who survived and/or escaped these personality cults often describe the process as an awakening, and look back on their own behaviour in a kind of bewilderment. How could I have been such a dupe? is an oft unsaid rhetorical question.
Those eample have one other universal consequence, the countries themselves did not survive the personality cult either, at least not in any recognizeable form.
Will America be any different? Stalin ruled for two generations, Mussolini for 19 years and Hitler for 12. Our cult nightmare is limited to eight years by law, will that be enough to save us?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 1/23/2013 1:56:21 PM (No. 9134633)
Of course they will survive, and thrive as long as hand-outs persist. Cockroaches have been around for more than 140 million years.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/23/2013 2:14:39 PM (No. 9134657)
What´s in a name? ...The democrat party has already been usurped and corrupted by the tenured ´60s-´70s radical statist militants. Surely these usurpers can think of another more appropriate name for their party, -word-spinners that they are!
Maybe others could make suggestions more descriptive, perhaps something along the lines using 0bama´s own stated reason to vote for him in the last election, ´´The Revenge Party?´´ Or maybe the, ´´Den of Thieves Party?´´ What about, ´´The Cult of 0bama?´´ ....Surely someone can appropriately rename the current leftist dem pols´ party.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
swarfer, 1/23/2013 2:22:59 PM (No. 9134678)
Remember that Obama won with less than 52% of the vote. Considering decades of liberal media propaganda, collge campus propaganda, a sitting president advantage and hundreds of billions in entitlement handouts, it was a terrible showing. Everyone accepts that a stonger Republican candidate could have easily won. A majority of the country including many Democrats realize that Obama is ineffective and his policies are counter to the American experience. Unfortunately they backed a second rate fellow and but had no choice to soldier on with a stiff upper lip. Ironically the Republicans may be losers in politics but they are winners in life. They have the values and qualities to achieve even greater success when competing in our watered down entitlement society. Liberal Democrats just don´t get it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Passion, 1/23/2013 2:25:46 PM (No. 9134687)
And 2 Beck obliged them.....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 1/23/2013 2:54:55 PM (No. 9134757)
Since 90% of the Democratic Party goes along with Obama (no matter what they may say in private) tyne Party, such as it is, WILL survive and flourish.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 1/23/2013 3:05:30 PM (No. 9134785)
Sometimes it takes two flushes and maybe a plunger.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/23/2013 3:55:38 PM (No. 9134862)
The Gimmiecrats, including all the new federal employees he is setting up with lifetime jobs and pensions will SEE TO the success of the Democrat party.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Memphis, 1/23/2013 4:03:48 PM (No. 9134880)
No....they will not survive under him. He is getting way to far left and will damage the party forever.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
roger h. cook,MD, 1/23/2013 4:16:28 PM (No. 9134913)
They will eaisly survive known as another name ie communist party that takes from the rich(those who don´t give their fair share) and give to those who are on the dole, now forty percent or more and are smart to keep the democrats in power so to keep cycle unchanged.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/23/2013 5:33:11 PM (No. 9135048)
The democratic party has survived slavery, trying to pack the supreme court with 15 and 4 presidential terms, johnson, carter, clinton, and now obama.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/23/2013 8:38:54 PM (No. 9135318)
Wouldn´t it be great if power was returned to the States and the National Government was greatly diminished? Much easier to keep Demonrats in line at the local level.
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