If Obama Moves Right He Loses Everybody -- and Everybody Loses - HuffPo

[WillyT]

If Obama Moves Right He Loses Everybody -- and Everybody Loses
Richard (RJ) Eskow - Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America's Future
Posted: January 19, 2011 09:02 AM

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The latest Democracy Corps/Campaign For America's Future poll http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2011010318/democracy-corpscaf-poll-jobs-and-economy on jobs and the economy has a clear message for the president and his party: Stand up for jobs, and protect Social Security and Medicare. The results couldn't be clearer. Yet it's still rumored that the president's State of the Union will emphasize deficit reduction over job creation, and the White House has refused to assure worried Democrats that the president won't also propose cuts to Social Security.

How many polls will it take to convince the White House that this is political suicide? How many expert analyses will it take to persuade them that its premature to make deficits the priority when the country desperately needs jobs and economic growth?

The latest poll is based on interviews with 1,480 people who voted in 2008, and was conducted January 9 - 12. It strongly reinforces the findings of earlier polls: Voters overwhelmingly want their government to emphasize job creation and economic growth over deficit reduction, and they are opposed to cutting Social Security or Medicare. The bottom line? The president's in danger of moving in a direction that will lose everybody he needs. Literally every demographic group he and his party needs will be alienated by a right-leaning set of policies.

Here's how the picture looks today, by demographic group:

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Much More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/if-obama-moves-right-he-l_b_810764.html

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:kick:

[bobbolink]

1. If? IF??? That ship sailed over two years ago.

[elocs]

2. So, he hasn't moved to the right yet? Wow! Just, wow! n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

3. I guess it was the leftist Bush poicies that Darth Cheney was talking about.

could have fooled me.

[Catherina]

4. Campaign for America's Futuren needs to catch up. Rec'd n/t

[emulatorloo]

5. Find me a quote where Obama advocates cutting Social Security for Deficit Reduction

(Hint: There aren't any)

[WillyT]

7. (Hint Back) We're Not ASSURED He's Not !!!

"Too clever by half" comes to mind.

be too clever by half (British)

to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people At school he had a reputation for arrogance. 'Too clever by half' was how one former teacher described him.

Link: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+too+clever+by+half

:shrug:

[emulatorloo]

10. Yes FDL and HuffPo opinion writers can be too clever by half

Now, where are Obama quotes?

[Cant trust em]

6. Moves to the right from where? nt

[Raine]

8. "Move to the right" ... been there, done that

long ago, can't get much further without actually officially joining. x(

[howaboutme]

9. Obama needs to move towards America first

The move should be towards commonsensical issues that benefit Americans instead of elitists. We've had 30 years of policies that favored sending our jobs to Asia that benefited Wall St bankers and CEOs. Both Parties are guilty.

We need policies that benefit most Americans and need to appoint those that will support such policies. Those with a resume of Wall St or Goldman should be excluded. The media and the corporate interests and bankers have the money to play it (propagandize it) their way but we the people must overcome and play it for America.

For starters we need to end the free trade pacts that favor the elite while punishing the country. We need to expunge the Harvard Goldman bankers from government. They are part and parcel of the decline in the standard of living for most Americans while this elitist group continues to rape and pillage and obviously get wealthy in the process.

If Democrats don't grab hold of the need to become rabid populists (vs corporatists) first, the Dem Party will be relegated to second or third fiddle.

There is currently a struggle between some in the Tea Party (the biggest group according to Howard Dean) that are fiscally conservative and not corporatists and not die hard Republicans and not racists that could capture the heart of American politics.

I heard Donald Trump on CNBC speak on China and I liked what he said. No namby pamby political BS like we heard from Obama and Clinton where China is our partner. They aren't our partner. Their gain is our loss.