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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on September 02, 2012, 01:44:19 PM
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Youth enthusiasm for President Obama is nowhere near where it was in 2008 because of decisions made during the Bush years, according to Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs, who appeared this morning on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley.
Crowley asked Gibbs the President’s weakened support among young Americans under 30 who voted for Obama by by a 66 percent margin in 2008. Recent polling suggests that number has fallen to 48 percent today.
“This is not 2008,†Gibbs said. “What’s happened since then is that we’ve had a series economic calamities caused by bad decisions made before the president ever got there.†...
http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/09/02/gibbs-blames-bush-for-obamas-declining-popularity-among-youth/
Wow Bush was an evil super genius! :rotf:
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This is just a start of a week of blaming Bush.....And that is minor compared to what you will be hearing.
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http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/09/02/gibbs-blames-bush-for-obamas-declining-popularity-among-youth/
Wow Bush was an evil super genius! :rotf:
And owebuma fell into his evil super genius trap. Once again owebuma's purported super intellect falls far short of the traps Bush laid for him.
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Damn they sound more foolish everyday. Well foolish to sane folks anyway, the moonbats eat this shit up.
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So if Bush was President for the last 4 years, then obummer would have more of the young voter support today. Too bad the left didn't factor this in last 2008 election cycle.
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So if Bush was President for the last 4 years, then obummer would have more of the young voter support today. Too bad the left didn't factor this in last 2008 election cycle.
After owebuma promised he would change all the Bush policies, he kept many of them. Maybe owebuma could get some mileage out of that, but then people would ask, why are you blaming Bush, and Bush policy when you could have changed it. And by change I mean the hopey changey kind of change.
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Go ahead guys, keep blaming Bush.
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Go ahead guys, keep blaming Bush.
It's all they have
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No disrespect to them, it's just the way young kids live and experience the world, but very few of the 18-21 crowd would have any real memory of political events and policies from the Bush years, they will just remember all the excitement about Obama being elected and see everyone talking about how the country remains in the crapper four years later. It may not get them to vote for Romney, necessarily, but it sure doesn't give them any reason to turn out for Obama.
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To be fair, DAT--my first election was 1984 and I STILL have pretty vivid memories as to how things were during the Carter years. Would that the kids today have odd/even days, no heating oil, 15 percent inflation, etc.
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That's why I say 'very few' instead of 'all.' Does a 15-year-old have a stake in the real estate bubble and the related derivatives market disaster? That 15-year-old from 2007 is in the cohort of first-time Presidential voters this year. Not in any direct way they don't, some whose families were affected would have an opinion on it based on their own life experience rather than hearsay, but no, the vast majority don't have an experiential knowledge of it, only whatever filters down to them from media snapshots of memory and current retrospectives and discussion of it in family circles and school social studies classes. It is not real to most of them in the same way it is real to someone who actually had their life savings wiped out or lost their home. These are kids who really just remember two Presidents in their lives, G. W. Bush and Obama, and Bush is a fading memory.
And even to an inexperienced and unskeptical mind, with Liberal teachers and media trying to fill their heads with goo, there is a disconnect to the idea that one President has the power to make the economy turn to suck, but the next President somehow doesn't have any power to make it not suck in four long years.
The Blame Bush game isn't going to move the needle on their turnout for Obama. I do hope the Dems waste a lot of effort on it though, rather than something that might actually work.
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To be fair, DAT--my first election was 1984 and I STILL have pretty vivid memories as to how things were during the Carter years. Would that the kids today have odd/even days, no heating oil, 15 percent inflation, etc.
As bad as it was under Carter, owebuma has made it worse.
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As bad as it was under Carter, owebuma has made it worse.
obama is definitely worse than Carter, but he is not the worst President in history. FDR is.