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I don't believe it will be

Aunt Sam — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:29:38 +0000

I don't believe it will be Obama who won't follow through, but he needs a great deal of support from all of us. He's been blocked, harassed and disrespected consistently. I meant what I wrote, we have to be positive and work hard too.

I don't quite know what you mean by:

But if we need people we can trust to be out in front of him (assuming we'd be willing to get out there and give it a shot ourselves) who would we want with us?

Please expound,'cuz I really am interested.

Thanks!

It is amazing, isn't it?

erica20 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:26:02 +0000

In reply to dd, I posted this already on

It is amazing, isn't it? People really are hungry for change, so hungry that when the President even talks about it, the crowd goes all in.

Now if they don't deliver on this stuff, I don't know what will happen.

I was thinking about Resistance's comment in response to your "The President will lead, but we have to do the work." He did not think it would happen. I don't know if he is right or not, but it made me wonder if we might have to outrun our President.

In sailboat racing, there is so much to think about and it is very technical (like chess except on a moving board with the possibility of seasickness.) Racers always say that when they do get into the lead, it is absolutely terrifying because they can't watch what the best sailors they know are doing, and use that information to eliminate some of the possibilities.

Obama is so smart. But if we need people we can trust to be out in front of him (assuming we'd be willing to get out there and give it a shot ourselves) who would we want with us?

Maybe worth thinking about and blogging on, someday.

dd, I posted this already on

Aunt Sam — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:14:17 +0000

In reply to 50 Million Americans Liked the SOTU speech.

dd, I posted this already on another (erica's) blog but it was last entry and you hadn't seen it This is very good.

SWING VOTERS AND SOTU SPEECH - FYI

Copied from Andrew Sullivan's Dish on 'The Daily Beast'

Stan Greenberg's results from watching 50 swing voters in a focus group respond to the speech.

As noted on Sullivan's site:

The dials spiked when the President made his strong populist pitch for the “Buffet Rule,” with Democrats exceeding 80 on our 0-to-100 scale and both independents and Republicans moving above 70. There was no polarization here, as voters across the political spectrum gave Obama high marks. And Obama’s framing of the economic challenges facing the country through the lens of post-World War II America was particularly effective. He also received high marks for his proposal to change the tax code to encourage “insourcing” instead of “outsourcing,” his call to change our “unemployment system” to a “re-employment system” and his appeal to make it easier for entrepreneurs and small business to grow and create jobs.