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To: FJB who wrote (631978)	10/17/2011 11:58:07 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575354

>>" POLL: CAIN 43% OBAMA 41% "<< Please nominate him. There goes the "Solid" South...Bye, bye Obama in a landslide...

To: FJB who wrote (631978)	10/17/2011 12:33:07 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575354

2012 Presidential Matchups Cain 43%, Obama 41% Monday, October 17, 2011 Whether Herman Cain’s surge in the polls is temporary or has staying power, he’s enjoying a big enough bounce to take a very slight lead over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. At the moment, the Georgia businessman is the only Republican with a lead of any kind over Obama, although former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has held a similar advantage several times and is currently trailing the president by just two points. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Cain attracting 43% support, while Obama earns 41%. Given such a matchup, eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate, and another eight percent (8%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Cain is tied with Romney for the lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Nobody else is even close at the moment. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/2012_presidential_matchups

To: FJB who wrote (631978)	10/17/2011 12:51:30 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1575354

2012 Landslide Ahead Charles Rapp · 13 hours ago To those professional pundits and political prognosticators who are warning us that Barack Obama could still win the presidential election next year, I would like to point out that, not only can they not see the forest for the trees, they cannot see the trees for the bark. So let us raise our heads and hike back one mile and re-examine Barack Obama. Barack Obama is a political imbecile. Starting with his minor inanity, putting his face in front of the voters too often. Barack Obama does not know the aphorism, "Familiarity breeds contempt." His latest address to both Houses of Congress fits this truth quite well. Now on to more serious shortcomings. I was aghast at how he, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid frogmarched Democratic legislators to vote for Obamacare. Hardball politics is childishly stupid and self-destructive. Witness the election results of November, 2010. Barack Obama has no grasp of the long-term consequences of his actions. Its not that he dismissed these consequences, he didn't even realize they existed. Now Barack Obama is treating the Solyndra and "Fast and Furious" as irrelevances. I can understand why he is, what with the liberal MSM willing to play along, soft pedaling the stories. But this tactic does not take into account the rise of the Internet and Fox News. A politically astute president would follow the example English king Henry II. After the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, Henry II took public penance for this murder. If Barack Obama did the modern equivalent of taking the blame ("the buck stops with me," "I failed to provide sufficient oversight," etc.), then these issues would be dead by next summer and unavailable to his Republican challenger. (I am assuming that there are no similar issues going to arise. But with Barack Obama, this may well be an incorrect assumption.) Instead, Barack Obama is taking the worst course. He is ignoring the issues, hoping that they go away. This guarantees that the issues will only grow worse and will reach full impact at the height of the presidential campaign. Facts regarding these two issues will slowly come out, each fact more damning than the last, keeping the stories alive and growing them over time. The MSM will try to ignore the stories as long as they can, but at some point they will have to address them lest they lose their cover as Barack Obama's shills. Barack Obama's political incompetence will add up to a Republican landslide on November, 2012. His actions will inflame his opponents and turn away independents. That is one way to create a landslide: encourage your opponents to vote and discourage your supporters from even showing up at the polling place. Aside: If Barack Obama is a political imbecile, then why was he elected president in 2008? Because: His political experience was short and limited to the legislative branch where his short-comings would not be evident; The MSM did not bother to closely vet Barack Obama's short political career and, in fact, portrayed Barack Obama as he wanted to be portrayed and Barack Obama was running against a weak Republican opponent. Points 1 and 2 will no longer be in play in 2012, while point 3 is still undecided. But even so, Barack Obama is in over his head and I fully expect him to do himself and the Democratic party even more harm over the coming year. It is not so much that the Republicans will win but that the Barack Obama will self-destruct. ricochet.com

To: FJB who wrote (631978)	10/17/2011 1:35:10 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1575354

Flags with the face of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are everywhere; the only American flag I saw was hanging upside down. The “occupiers” openly refer to each other as “comrade,” and just about every piece of literature on offer (free or for sale) advocated socialism in the Marxist tradition as a cure-all for the inequalities of the American economic system. New York’s Marxist epicenter ................................................................................. October 16, 2011 by Charles Gasparino nypost.com