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msnbc print partner politico's top story this fine saturday morning:
Obama's new challenge: Disappointment - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com
almost every day on msnbc's coffee joe either mr allen or his close associate jim vandehei makes an appearance
(these people are almost without exception so extremely young, it's a big part of their problem, politically they are very immature)
this appeal to disappointment, according to jonathan allen, was most prominently displayed in the soul-searching question romney asked about halfway thru his masterful and reaganite acceptance
a question, by the way, politico picked out as romney's second most rousing line of the evening: you know there's something wrong when the best you ever felt about the guy was the day you voted for him
ie, it's all downhill since
rubio put it---he's not a bad person, just a bad president
romney---he didn't fail cuz he wanted to but because he doesn't understand how business works
what's really freaking out chicago is the foreboding phenomenon best employed by the pat caddell 64:00 video production, "the hope and the change," which features 40 former obama voters, both dems and indies, all from swing states, looking you right in the camera and TESTIFYING to their slowly evolved view of him whom one of them calls this "con artist"
Yahoo! Video Detail for The Hope And The Change - Official Movie Trailer
he sold us, didn't get what i expected, lost all faith, party's over, smoke cleared, no solutions, broken promises, credit rating, taxes, gas, food, housing, wages, we all got fooled, it's not working, buyer's remorse, let me down, we're divided...
i just don't wanna hear it anymore
republican and romney insiders believe their focus groups show that this imagery---the in-person TESTIMONIALS of broken hearted obama voters---is their most powerfully influential, even decisive strategy
it's also the gist of jonathan allen
and the white house worries at the approach, while a shiver runs thru the friendly enemies in chicago
this hyping of disappointment, allen maintains, transforms the debate away from sideshows like todd akin and puts this heartbreaking economy front and center
"mission accomplished," concludes mika's giggle buddy
the party in tampa reaches out, not in, all the hi profile women and hispanics and blacks on display
and the personal power and pointedness of their particular messages
susana martinez, first hispanic female governor in the history of the united states of america, from new mexico: i was asst da for 3rd judicial district, i chose for my emphasis the prosecution of child abuse crime, i saw some gut wrenching things, but standing up for those children is the honor of a lifetime
martinez continues: i testified against my boss, he fired me---so i ran against him for da and beat him in a landslide
condi rice---a little girl denied a seat at the birmingham lunch counter who always knew, thru the teachings of her parents, that if she put her efforts to it she, as much as anyone else, could conceivably become president
jonathan allen---this appeal to the disappointed is a reachout to the moderate middle, the reagan dem, the white collar no college, the catholic
it's western pennsylvania and east and south ohio, it's wisconsin and michigan, it's jersey and the all determinative I4 corridor
it offers a positive alternative to hispanics in virginia, colorado, nevada, martinez' new mexico
romney's convention demonstrated discipline, allen observes, romney is "workmanlike"
in contrast, roger simon's top young professional leftist sees an obama campaign in pivot, turning to issues arising from akin, one with very little room for maneuver
that's all politico's opine, people
ie, no spin, lynn
seeya at the polls
enjoy your abortion palooza in charlotte
say hi to sandra fluke, give her some birth control pills for me
Obama's new challenge: Disappointment - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com
almost every day on msnbc's coffee joe either mr allen or his close associate jim vandehei makes an appearance
(these people are almost without exception so extremely young, it's a big part of their problem, politically they are very immature)
The watchword of the Republican National Convention in Tampa was disappointment — as in President Barack Obama has been one.
You can hammer Obama on health care. Mock his golf outings. Demand to see his birth certificate and Harvard transcript, and call him a European socialist bent on turning the American Dream into a Belgian nightmare. He’ll throw his head back and laugh at you like a Bond villain.
But tell voters he’s not the man America fell in love with in 2008 — and pine, however disingenuously, about his unfulfilled potential — and a shiver runs through his Chicago campaign headquarters.
Obama’s team was spinning the convention as a complete miss, arguing that Republicans didn’t lay a glove on their man. Yet what emerged from Tampa was a subtle, clever shift in GOP messaging, a much more dangerous strategy for Obama than the kitchen-sink attacks that preceded the gathering. Republicans posed — rhetorically — as Obama 2008 voters, lamenting his unfulfilled expectations as if they had been with him all along instead of trying to block him at every turn.
Both sides recognize the power of the disappointment theme: that the hope Obama offered for mending the economy, transforming the political process and even saving the earth has faded.
this appeal to disappointment, according to jonathan allen, was most prominently displayed in the soul-searching question romney asked about halfway thru his masterful and reaganite acceptance
a question, by the way, politico picked out as romney's second most rousing line of the evening: you know there's something wrong when the best you ever felt about the guy was the day you voted for him
ie, it's all downhill since
rubio put it---he's not a bad person, just a bad president
romney---he didn't fail cuz he wanted to but because he doesn't understand how business works
what's really freaking out chicago is the foreboding phenomenon best employed by the pat caddell 64:00 video production, "the hope and the change," which features 40 former obama voters, both dems and indies, all from swing states, looking you right in the camera and TESTIFYING to their slowly evolved view of him whom one of them calls this "con artist"
Yahoo! Video Detail for The Hope And The Change - Official Movie Trailer
he sold us, didn't get what i expected, lost all faith, party's over, smoke cleared, no solutions, broken promises, credit rating, taxes, gas, food, housing, wages, we all got fooled, it's not working, buyer's remorse, let me down, we're divided...
i just don't wanna hear it anymore
republican and romney insiders believe their focus groups show that this imagery---the in-person TESTIMONIALS of broken hearted obama voters---is their most powerfully influential, even decisive strategy
it's also the gist of jonathan allen
and the white house worries at the approach, while a shiver runs thru the friendly enemies in chicago
this hyping of disappointment, allen maintains, transforms the debate away from sideshows like todd akin and puts this heartbreaking economy front and center
"mission accomplished," concludes mika's giggle buddy
the party in tampa reaches out, not in, all the hi profile women and hispanics and blacks on display
and the personal power and pointedness of their particular messages
susana martinez, first hispanic female governor in the history of the united states of america, from new mexico: i was asst da for 3rd judicial district, i chose for my emphasis the prosecution of child abuse crime, i saw some gut wrenching things, but standing up for those children is the honor of a lifetime
martinez continues: i testified against my boss, he fired me---so i ran against him for da and beat him in a landslide
condi rice---a little girl denied a seat at the birmingham lunch counter who always knew, thru the teachings of her parents, that if she put her efforts to it she, as much as anyone else, could conceivably become president
jonathan allen---this appeal to the disappointed is a reachout to the moderate middle, the reagan dem, the white collar no college, the catholic
it's western pennsylvania and east and south ohio, it's wisconsin and michigan, it's jersey and the all determinative I4 corridor
it offers a positive alternative to hispanics in virginia, colorado, nevada, martinez' new mexico
romney's convention demonstrated discipline, allen observes, romney is "workmanlike"
in contrast, roger simon's top young professional leftist sees an obama campaign in pivot, turning to issues arising from akin, one with very little room for maneuver
that's all politico's opine, people
ie, no spin, lynn
seeya at the polls
enjoy your abortion palooza in charlotte
say hi to sandra fluke, give her some birth control pills for me
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