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Coatesd, before I went off on

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:12:22 +0000

In reply to You think the American people

Coatesd, before I went off on a sarcastic tangent that had nothing to do with your blog entry I should have mentioned that I read it and have given some thought to what you have said. I always expect to get some good ideas from what you write.

You think the American people

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:28:45 +0000

In reply to Lots of good ideas here and

You think the American people are shallow and fall for easy deception. You are wrong. Furthermore, the American people are not as lazy and disconnected as you seem to think. They want the American dream and they will have it. One way or another from sea to shinning sea. In their wisdom they will choose the man to be President who will best maintain their deep seated values. One who thinks like they do. One who 'gets it'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M

Lots of good ideas here and

ocean-kat — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:11:41 +0000

In reply to Why Promising to Save the Middle Class May Just Not Be Enough!

Lots of good ideas here and as a liberal I agree with most of them.

But I think you're giving way too much credit to both campaign's strategies.

Romney can't run on his record at Bain or in Mass so his basic strategy will be the economy sucks and so does Obama.Obama can't run on his record either because, well, the economy does suck. He'll run on, Oh yeah, well you suck even more. Both will be using the Pee Wee Herman I know you are but what am I strategy.

The voters will vote for which ever candidate they think is the least sucky and hold their nose and try not to get sick while voting.

I don't even blame the candidates for that. I blame the people.

People watch 5 or 6 hours a TV everyday. They can't give up one measly half hour a day to read about the candidates positions? No, they've made it pretty clear that their limited attention span is just enough for a 30 or 60 second ad. None of the ideas in this post or the other posts on DAG will fit in a 30 second attack ad.

Does anyone really think the average person wants more policy oriented news? So people were so disappointed with the main stream media that they abandoned it to go to, what? Fox News.

This is what people want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8-_vIplso

The STOP OBAMA Republican

NCD — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:52:45 +0000

In reply to Why Promising to Save the Middle Class May Just Not Be Enough!

The STOP OBAMA Republican Plan for America:

1. Cut food stamp aid for the poor.

2. Cut health care funds for children living in poverty.

3. Vouchers for Medicare, with future plan to eliminate the program.

4. National vouchers for K-12 schools, privatize and profitize education.

5. Default on the trillions built up by workers payments into the Social Security Trust Fund, make workers send their retirement money to Wall Street.

6. Bomb Syria.

7. Green light a pre-emptive war on Iran.

8. Cut taxes on the rich, and raise taxes on the middle class.

9. Roll back or stop government regulation of Wall Street and big banks, trust them to regulate themselves as they did under GWB before the Wall Street crash.

10. Cut funds for the EPA, prevent the issuing of rules on clean water standards.

I'm impressed as always with

Michael Maiello — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:28:06 +0000

In reply to Why Promising to Save the Middle Class May Just Not Be Enough!

I'm impressed as always with your writing and reasoning Coatesd. But, here's the thing... I suspect that a lot of voters want a restoration of the pre-2008 economy or the 90s economy. They don't want to look back so far as you're suggesting. Obama seems to be running for Clinton's fourth term.