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This (Should Be) So Easy

by: Dean Barker

Mon Apr 25, 2011 at 09:01:05 AM EDT
Holly Ramer:
[Indy Ron Morse] voted for Clinton in the 2008 primary and Obama in the general election but isn't hot on anyone this time and doesn't know what he will do come 2012.

"I switch when it feels right. Right now, I don't feel the president's doing a good job," said Morse, 60, as he had breakfast at a Manchester diner recently when Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stopped by. "There's nobody so far that I want to vote for." He said he "definitely" wouldn't back Romney. "And definitely not that Alaskan chick," he said, referring to former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin.

It turns out that Barbour doesn't sit well with him either; Morse said he was annoyed that Barbour brushed off his concerns about potential cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

Now listen to the guy in the red shirt for the first 45 seconds of this video:
This should be so easy.

Let's never underestimate, though, our side's capacity to screw it up.

(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)
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This (Should Be) So Easy | 3 comments
Governing is not easy. But, if we all share the obligations of (4.00 / 2)
citizenship, taking turns, it can be done.

Sharing is a central theme of the Obama campaign.  I like it.

http://my.barackobama.com/2012...

When Democrats Act Like Democrats... (4.00 / 2)
...Democrats do well.

We have decades of history of supporting working men and women, those who are the majority of this country.  We've shown throughout our party's history our opposition to corporate greed.  

We don't do well when we try to act like Republicans, or when we give them wiggle room to sound like they have answers.  

This latest trend of letting the Republican right-wingers adopt "liberty" as their standard bearer is an example.  The liberty they're talking about is the liberty to be greedy, to ignore our responsibilities toward others, to avoid respecting the rights of all.  

We can't compromise on Medicare or Social Security, nor allow or advocate cuts in education or our disadvantaged.  Nor can we de-regulate environmental protections or allow cuts in our Attorney General's Office that would result in less consumer protections and regulatory oversight.  

Democrats need to act like Democrats.  That's not only a winning strategy; it's the right thing to do.  

The important point to me is not this misinformation (0.00 / 0)
It is that they actually think it is just fine to do the stuff presented here. When there are Dems with which to argue, they try and refute the supporting information but really they believe that the Republicant plan of giving more money to the rich is the right one. I don't get into the motivation. It may be fatuous, it makes no difference. Cantservatives think that this is the function of government. That is why they are so surprised when you confront them. Even poor Republicants believe this. It is the main pillar of their program.  
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