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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (68951)	2/3/2014 10:00:18 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

But yet somehow an article in which 1/2 of a basic premise, on which the other 1/2 hangs is completely absurd... is still somehow worth posting. DAK

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (68951)	2/4/2014 9:34:36 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Democrat candidates' actions underscore how Obama has become an albatros Oklahoman Modified: February 3, 2014 at 10:56 pm • Published: February 4, 2014 IN 2012, President Barack Obama carried Wisconsin, getting nearly 53 percent of the vote and nearly 5 million more votes than GOP nominee Mitt Romney. But this year, Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke didn’t join Obama when he visited. It seems she had a scheduling conflict — one that took her to the other side of the state. In 2012, Obama won Colorado with more than 51 percent of the vote, receiving over 137,000 more votes than Romney. But when incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., was asked by a CNN reporter if he planned to campaign with Obama when the president visited that state, Udall ducked the question: “We’ll see what the president’s schedule is; we’ll see what my schedule is.” In North Carolina, a state Obama carried in 2008 and narrowly lost in 2012, incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan also declined to appear with the president. Notice a pattern? It seems Obama has gone from being “the one” (as originally proclaimed by Oprah Winfrey, but parroted by countless liberals) to being “the one Democrats don’t want to be associated with.” Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, told CNN, “I don’t need him campaigning for me.” Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana insisted a scheduling conflict kept her from attending an Obama speech in her home state last November. Democratic unity was crucial to ramming Obamacare through Congress and later preventing repeal of any major aspect of that law. Now that unity is turning into an “every many for himself” scramble. Obamacare’s disastrous impact is a major reason. Congressional Democrats apparently hope voters will associate that law only with Obama, not with the political party that engineered its passage. The tales of health care woe created by Obamacare are legion and increasing daily. WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh recently had cameras rolling as employees of a local small business learned about Obamacare-forced changes to their insurance. The results were devastating. Those workers saw their premiums increase an average of 32 percent. Some employees’ deductibles increased 60 percent. Employees with children had deductibles increase to $4,000 per year. Co-pays doubled. The business owner didn’t make out any better; he faces a 63 percent increase in monthly premium. newsok.com