Members ReddFoxx Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 Trump visited Louisiana to campaign for the Republican candidate for Governor, but it turns out it didn't really help because the Democrat just got re-elected tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 After liberals on Twitter spent all day bitching about how much they hate Obama and how Obama is a sellout and wants them to lose, we get an election that shows exactly what he was talking about. John Bel Edwards is very conservative, but he's the right fit for Louisiana, and he will at least help some people in the state with his Medicaid expansion. His reelection also seems to have stopped a supermajority from happening in the stage leg. Twitter liberals have become the new Beltway echo chamber. They only listen to themselves and are completely unfeeling toward actual human beings. As for Trump, this was another example of just how much his ego takes precedence over common sense politics. He could have shaped this as being a win for him - saying Bel Edwards sucked up to him in order to win. Instead he made it into a personal loss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 Also, 'Progressive Twitter' was railing on Obama for something that was a partial quote/misquote in a newspaper. It reminds me of how many went bonkers on Kamala Harris over something she didn't even say. That full transcript of what Obama actually said was very consistent with what he has said repeatedly over the years, especially about the need to expand and improve Obamacare, which was always supposed to the start of something, not the final version of healthcare, but people only hear what they want to hear. I also found his somewhat oblique remarks on his campaign in '07-08 to be very enlightening, particularly when he mentioned how far down and out he initially was in the polls and how he was virtually counted out, but I doubt most people read that much of his remarks to get that. People will run with their particular narrative of choice. Speaking of false narratives, it should become crystal clear that the narrative of prosperity that Trump's Tax plan spread was patently false, at least the one that claimed that ordinary people would somehow benefit. Many of us knew from the start that that was a lie and that corporate America would be the beneficiaries. Here's one example of just how much corporations benefited from the sham Trump Tax law. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 "Trickle down economics" has Never. Worked. I wish people would catch onto that fact. However, I doubt they ever will. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roman Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 I read the comments yesterday and found them sickening. they sounded like children who didn't get their way. yes, let's blast the man who won election and re-election and start calling him every name inthe book because he isn't in lock step with you. they showed that they are no better than the ultra right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 Wait, what did Obama say or not say to get these people so worked up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/16/20968290/obama-2020-democratic-presidential-primary 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 Well, if you ask me, I think he should've made his case more bluntly. The "activist wing" of the Democratic party is gonna sink the rest of us, because they are too far up their own asses to understand how the real world works. Thanks, @DRW50! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) How has John Bel Edwards sucked up to Trump. He hasn't . If anything he focused on the kitchen table issues democrats in many districts in 2018 focuses on. Yes his anti abortion stance is problematic IMO, but that doesn't mean he fell into the Trump dungeon. Obama did a robocall for voters in LA before the election to get voters in the state out to vote. I know the leftists on twitter hate Obama. So what. They don't speak for the electorate. Edited November 17, 2019 by JaneAusten 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 John Bel Edwards had this to say about Trump 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 I hope people here know this is one of the ultimate southern insults and is not Bel Edwards sucking up to Trump. He also won by 3 points. Not a squeaker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 I didn't know that. It's amazing to watch the left act like trashing Obama is a winning strategy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted November 17, 2019 Members Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) This is why it bothers me when people come here parroting right wing talking points. Don't we see them enough watching the MSM and reading most of the mainstream press. This was mot Mississippi where the candidate had ZERO connection to the AA community. Bel Edwards got elected to begin with, with the support of that community . There is no way they would have had those Obama robocalls set if they weren't trying to leverage that base. No one trashing Obama is going to win. He's the only one in years that has put together a multi gender multiracial multi age coalition. It's amazing that it seems only the candidates of color and Biden seem to get this. While not a Biden supporter, I am relishing the fact he knows how the black vote is going to keep him in play while Warren, Sanders, and Buttigieg keeps dismissing them and Harris is quietly picking up even more endorsements. Edited November 17, 2019 by JaneAusten 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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