The exact phrase Obama made was, "I don't want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats; we've done that in 2004, 2000."
That was Obama continuing his attack theme on Senator Clinton as his example of "politics of the past" in Central Iowa before the first Caucus. His extension of the "generation of the past" that he used extensively in New Hampshire. And he wonders why he has a problem with the Democratic base, mature adults and Seniors?
He received alot of criticism for those remarks from Liberals to Progressives. The only folks who didn't seem to mind were his campaign and supporters.
While the Obama camp has earned itself quite a bit of criticism over the last week or so for running to the right of his counterparts, if the Des Moines Register’s latest poll is correct, and although it has a very strong track record its conclusion that nearly 50% of Iowa’s Democratic caucus-goers will be independents and republican crossovers has understandably raised some doubts, that strategy may turn out to work for team Obama.
Trying to grab the center may seem surprising for a primary, but maybe not for a caucus like Iowa's.
He continued the strategy of cticizing Democrats while building up Republicans as he moved on to Nevada, after his loss in New Hampshire. As we remember his infamous comment and praise of Ronald Reagan,
I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."-Obama
And again, only his supporters thought this was a good tactic, like Lawrence O'Donnell, who has been an Obama promoter for over a year and a half said on Countdown when Keith asked him if this was a smart thing to say in the Democratic Primary.
"only on the John Edwards side of the Democratic Party would you feel comfortable condemning him, as John Edwards is, but John Edwards is not a factor in any of these races coming up"-O'Donnell.
O'Donnell got upset when Keith questioned his frame of thought, that we are talking UNIONS, a man, President, who busted Unions, Air Traffic Controllers, etc, before the Nevada caucus where he just received those Union endorsements, so Lawrence O'Donnell reached further down and said,[OF THE VOTERS] "I don't think they're that sharp". WHAT? The Union workers are supposed to be that stupid not to know what Reagan really stood for, but we are hoping the Republicans who do know better will rally around Obama as some message that he will be the same?
O'Donnell goes on then to take another shot at Democrats, Union and blue-collar workers.
"you have to look at the demographics of the union and their age group, people under 40 aren’t going to be all that sharp about exactly where Ronald Reagan was."
And, I guess, by default, those of us Democrats ABOVE the age of 40 that are sharp enough to know who and what Ronald Reagan was, is inconsequential and part of that "generation of the past" and therefore not the support Obama cares about. He just doesn't want to deal with us folks in the Reality based world.
Obama has really continued this pattern and has alienated much of the base of the Democrats that he didn't care about, but now has extended that lists of voters to a much larger block of voters that won't vote for him.
Obama has now alienated Seniors, mature adults, "the left democrats", the base, "small town voters", white-blue collar voters and hispanics".
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And its not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."-Obama
And then with his continuous loss of support, as results of the most important primary states show, Obama surrogate reveals,
BRAZILE: Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Paul. But, Paul, you're looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don't have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics.-Donna Brazile
So, when Obama made that statement, "I don’t want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats — we’ve done that in 2004, 2000,", maybe he actually meant he was going to alienate a majority of all American voters, period.
Truly, the only way we, DEMOCRATS, will win and have the change we NEED so desperately in this country, is by nominating Hillary Clinton to represent Democrats and go on to win the White House in November, to take back our country!
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