Half of Democrats Think Obama Should Face Primary
An AP-Knowledge Networks poll finds that 47% of Democrats think Presidential Obama should be challenged for the 2012 Democratic presidential nomination while 51% say he should not be opposed.
"A real Democratic challenge to Obama seems unlikely at this stage and his re-election bid is a long way off. But the findings underscore how disenchanted his party has grown heading into the congressional elections Tuesday."
Tuesday should be a bloodbath for Democrats.
They deserve it.
They have done little in this Congress to help middle and working class people.
They bailed out more banks - no strings attached.
They allowed the Obama administration to run a mortgage relief program that has caused more foreclosures than it has alleviated.
They have passed a corporate-friendly health care reform bill that mandates 31 million new customers buy garbage private insurance while charging workers with employer-provided health insurance a 40% tax on their plans.
They have allowed this administration to turn education funding into an exercise in some Ayn Randian "Compete or Die" competition model so that only the most "reformy" of states get money.
They passed an inadequate stimulus that was used for garbage like Race to the Top instead of spending the money on a jobs and infrastructure program that actually put Americans to work and actually rebuilt the country's crumbling Third World infrastructure.
Unemployment stands at 9.5% right now - higher than before Obama took office and higher than Obama and the Dems said it would be if the stimulus was passed.
Working and middle class people all across this country are worried about their jobs, their homes, and their debts while the wealthy and the affluent party like it's 1925.
Of course a Republican Congress won't rectify any of this. They will make things worse, especially for working and middle class people and union members.
Cutting the deficit, as they are vowing to do, when GDP is barely rising and unemployment is holding steady near double digits is CRAZY.
But Obama and the Dems brought this on themselves.
Congressional Dems will pay for this on Tuesday.
Unfortunately Obama will not.
He deserves the most blame for this mess and given the findings of the AP-Ipsos poll, it seems a sizeable part of the Democratic Party feel the same way.
Somebody from the left SHOULD challenge him in 2012.
Let's get this movement started.
PRIMARY OBAMA 2012
Send the corporate whore back to Chicago where he can be chief of staff for Rahmbo.
Or maybe there's an opening at the Gates Foundation he can interview for.
Either way, time to send him packing in 2012.
Obama has let teachers and educators down. Tuesday will be a reforendum on his policies and all democrats who supported him will pay at the polls. The democrats should plan a credible challenge to him in 2012. I think Hillary could defeat him in the primary. He ran against history in 08, now he runs on his record.
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately that is true, goopDoggy. That is ONE Dem I am rooting for - anti-war, anti-spying, anti-NCLB. We'll see what happens to him. Crossing my fingers, but I think from the polls, he's gone.
ReplyDeleteI also think that it would have been Feingold's time but things have swung so far to the right that his time came and went. Unfortunately, he represents many points of view I too agree with. People like us have absolutely no representation in government. The only solution is to form a new party. However, that's almost impossible in New York State, which has no democracy. It will have an absolute dictatorship with Cuomo in Albany and Bloombug in New York City. Either that or bring back SDS and the Weathermen from the '60's. Speaking of revolution, there was a lot of domestic terrorism back then. I have personal stories; I lived around the corner from a bank whose front was blown out by a FALN bomb. This occurred on Irving Place and 15th St. in Manhattan. Revolutionary groups were blowing up branches of the Bank of America in California. Teenaged children here were being drafted to kill children in Vietnam. I do wonder where the rage is these days. I guess electronic distractions are the latter day opiate of the people.
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