The 2010 Election Returns' Worst News for Obama, Democrats

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The most troubling aspect of yesterday's election was the GOP success in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Democrats lost both governors' races and several House incumbents in each state. Both states also elected new Republican U.S. Senators. Barack Obama won both states in 2008 and needs to win them again to stay in the White House. 

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We need a much more aggressive economic policy to win back hard pressed blue collar workers.

Yesterday's exit polls indicate that hardly anybody is concerned about the federal deficit. So Democrats have to put concerns about the budget deficit aside to spend money to create new transportation and energy jobs which will lead to a green economy and increased tax revenues.

 

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Bill Hedges. Thank you very much. You made some excellent points.

Terrorists have been around for a long time attacking us at all opportunities. They do this because they have been taught from an early age to hate and kill and be cruel to basically everyone. They buy into it because their lives are miserable and they're looking for someone to blame. They are taught this by people PRETENDING to worship the God "Allah". But those so called religious leaders are just sadistic liars. Proof? Is it logical for Allah to ask men to kill other men just because they are nonbelievers? Think about it. If Allah was truly God and all powerful, he wouldn't need man to kill other man. He could do it himself in the blink of an eye. Poof all "infidels" would be gone. Only muslims would remain on this planet. For that matter, why would God want all those POTENTIAL followers dead anyway? So let's see. God wants man to worship him. Wants lots of worshipers. So he asks muslims to kill an untapped market of billions of people. Nope. Doesn't make any sense at all. Why not just convert them all instantly instead.

What does make sense is this. Terrorists do not kill for Allah. They kill for MAN. Some evil filthy sadistic wife beating scumbag with a long beard claiming to be a man of God tells other men to kill themselves and as many nonbelievers as possible in the name of Allah. And those men, being of weak mind and immoral character DO IT. This isn't the way of God, it's the way of Jeffrey Dahmer. Of Adolf Hitler. Of Saddam Hussein. No. Osama Bin Laden and Anwar Al Awlaki are not men of Allah. They are false prophets, mass murderers, evil people and abusers of the weak. If anything, they are men of Satan. And they will continue to attack us as long as they have a clan of followers.

As to the democrats and WMD's. You're absolutely correct. Democrat and Republican alike as well as ALL the worlds political leaders, believed Iraq had and was developing WMD's. And those WMD's could fall into the hands of the terrorists who had just attacked us. Everyone believed it. And now, nearly a decade later, those same politicans are misrepresenting the facts to distance themselves from the war and to save their own jobs. They are hypocrites and liars.

As to the Bush haters and Obamazombies, or perhaps Obambies would be a better word, even two years after Obamanation came about, I still, every single day, hear people stating that Obama is wonderful and Bush was terrible. And now that we've had two years of Obama, 50% of his probable presidency and 25% of his possible presidency, I ask those people to elaborate. State the reasons WHY you think Obama is great and Bush was terrible. Give reasons. Include data. There should be plenty by now. And you know what? No one ever can explain why they like Obama and dislike Bush. It all goes back to two rather ridiculus pseudo-reasons. 1) race and 2) heresay.

MNIN of IL 1:45PM November 04, 2010

“Oct. 12, 2000 - A terrorist bomb damages the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.

Aug. 7, 1998 - Terrorist bombs destroy the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Nairobi, 12 Americans are among the 291 killed, and over 5,000 are wounded, including 6 Americans. In Dar es Salaam, one U.S. citizen is wounded among the 10 killed and 77 injured.

In response, on August 20 the United States attacked targets in Afghanistan and Sudan with over 75 cruise missiles fired from Navy ships in the Arabian and Red seas. About 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from warships in the Arabian Sea. Most struck six separate targets in a camp near Khost, Afghanistan. Simultaneously, about 20 cruise missiles were fired from U.S. ships in the Red Sea striking a factory in Khartoum, Sudan, which was suspected of producing components for making chemical weapons.

June 21, 1998 - Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the U.S. embassy in Beirut.

July 27, 1996 - A pipe bomb explodes during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and wounding 111.

June 25, 1996 - A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S. air force installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. military personnel are killed in the Khubar Towers housing facility, and 515 are wounded, including 240 Americans.

Nov. 13, 1995 - A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training. The "Tigers of the Gulf," "Islamist Movement for Change," and "Fighting Advocates of God" claim responsibility.

April 19, 1995 - A car bomb destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding over 600.

February 1993 - A bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,042“

. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090109115744AA8pVBc

Well known Democrats were saying WMD existed in Iraq. When political correction changed they forgot their quotes a bashed Bushed:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

Bill Hedges of MO 10:35PM November 03, 2010

Well done Obama!!! You've held onto the senate and passed the largest socialist health care program in the world. And FOOLED the tea party into thinking they've made significant gains! HA HA HA! Time to go on a tax payer funded trip to India. Obama deserves it, he's AMAZING! And brilliant!

If the tea party was a serious movement they would have taken the senate. But they're just a bunch of wackos in the countryside able to win a few strangely shaped house districts...

The tea party can't repeal Obamacare or investigate the fed without the senate. Obama won. He's a genius. He passed the largest socialist program ever and now he's defending it superbly by holding onto the senate. Meanwhile he's placating the tea party by claiming the house win was a big deal. it's really not. The major legislation has been passed. Obama won and now the senate will make sure it's defended. HA HA HA.. Tea party members aren' able to see this which is soooo funny!!! C'mon fed, keep the printing press going and the bailouts coming!

Obama outsmarted the tea party of MA 10:12PM November 03, 2010

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Brad Bannon

Brad Bannon runs Bannon Communications Research, a political polling and consulting firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups, and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. Brad guest hosts Leslie Marshall’s nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a commentator on America’s Radio News Network. Follow him on Twitter @BradBannon.

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