The End of the Obama Revolution

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,530129,00.html

The End of the Obama Revolution

Very interesting article

The euphoria is gone, the friendly fire has started: Barack Obama is suddenly looking less like a superstar and more like just another candidate. His message isn't hitting home with the three most important groups of voters: women, older Americans and blue-collar workers.

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All it takes to understand Clinton's appeal is to observe the way people react when she speaks with voters in small groups, as she recently did in a lecture hall on the campus of the University of Nevada. Hardly any college students were in the audience, but about 100 middle-aged women, some of whom had even dragged along their husbands, sat around the candidate on folding chairs.

Clinton told her audience about the hard work waiting for her in the White House, about responsibility and about her view of herself as a problem-solver. No one cheered, no one jumped up from her seat and there were no choruses of approval. But the women nodded quietly in response to Clinton's words. They didn't seem fired up, but they did feel understood.

Watching the group, I realized that perhaps this election isn't about visions at all, but about something even bigger: trust.

Hoo boy :eyes:

:sarcasm:

almost to the day than Clinton! MY VERY LAST CHOICE!! I WILL NEVER vote for her!

It's John Edwards, and NOBODY else! This old "broad" ain't STUPID!!

Going for the triangulating, warmongering, corporatist, racebaiting, smear merchant because she has a vagina doesn't make them good role models for me right now.

I wish people would stop generalizing!!

I also know plenty of older women who can't stand Hillary. They're the ones that pay attention and do their homework.

Poor Barak, he's going to lose the battle of the words. He will trip himself up because he is starting to believe his own spin

I don't think his influence was confined to Germany...

Daily?

Are you actually drawing a comparison between Marx and an article in Der Spiegel? This article will have no influence on the election here and neither will Germany. Whether or not the observations of the writer are accurate or not, is another story.

You don't have to be an American to have an insight into American politics...

wrote this article doesn't have a fucking clue.

They love him there.

I've been saying that all along.

They're all politicians... they all have their blemishes and mistakes and what have you... it all boils down to this:

Which candidate do you trust to do the best job once elected?

and we need as many threads as our bandwidth can handle about just those things.

I'm glad to see some Germans are as retarded as our press.

Americans love dynasties. Kennedy, Bush and now Clinton. This race is so over.

It's NOT over ... well unless we SURRENDER and CHOOSE to be sheep? :patriot:

Clinton now leads in 12 after leading just by 4 in Rasmussen's tracking poll on Sunday. And remember the Clintons have never ever lost any political campaign that they have ever fought directly involving them.

..it a dynasty?

and then only ONE CLINTON was President and you call that a dynasty?

OMFG, call the hysteria police....the sky is falling.

One Clinton and two Bushs equals Dynasty and Dynasty?

Three Bushes in politics (oops 4...grand dad ages ago) equals a dynasty?

We had one Kennedy as President and a few more in other offices. How many Clintons have we elected...two?

always will be.

"I'm glad to see some Germans are as retarded as our press."

I wish I could have said that! }(

in reality, Americans hate change. Look at how they have voted in the past.

"The Thrill is gone", as BB King sings it.

Otherwise it's just "wishful thinking."

Americans fought to break from UK royalty.

Fuck Dynasty!

Those of us who'll be paying for their retirement vs. those who will be collecting the checks.

Those of us who'll be fighting the wars vs. those who will be watching them on tv.

Those of us who'll be trying to afford to buy a house vs. those who refuse to build more housing in their neighborhood.

I hate divisions like this.

I appreciate what the generations before me have done, tried to do, and accomplished, but my generation faces a hell of a lot of challenges and we'd appreciate it if we weren't left out of the discussion.

the Huckabee treatment. Trying to fire up and rise above the fray is being dealt with toughly by rivals in both parties. And it works.

Along with older women and Hispanics/Latinos, Obama also fails to enthrall the LGBTQ community. Perhaps he should not have thrown that group under the bus in favor of the anti~gay vote.

:kick: and recommend

Part of any revolution is getting rid of the old, tired, corrupt, scandal-ridden past.

We're on it. Don't worry.

The following are polls from progressive groups, rating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, on how often they vote for progressive issues. For each group, http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011142.php

Clinton Vs. Barack Obama (progressivepunch)
Overall Progressive Score: 92% 90%
Aid to Less Advantaged People at Home and Abroad: 98% 97%
Corporate Subsidies 100% N/A
Education, Humanities and the Arts 88% 100%
Environment 92% 100%
Fair Taxation 97% 100%
Family Planning 88% 80%
Government Checks on Corporate Power 95% 97%
Healthcare 98% 94%
Housing 100% 100%
Human Rights & Civil Liberties 82% 77%
Justice for All: Civil and Criminal 94% 91%
Labor Rights 91% 91%
Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful 94% 90%
War and Peace 80% 86%