OFA State Director Mike D’Armi to Address PDD Meeting Tomorrow
In addition to hearing form Delaware Lt. Gov. Matt Denn tomorrow night at the monthly meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware Wednesday night, we will also hear from Mike D’Armi, the Delaware State Director for Obama for America. As you know, President Obama announced his plans to run for reelection in 2012, and Mike will inform us of their plans over the coming weeks and months in building the campaign.
All PDD meetings begin at 7 pm and are held at the Democratic Party Headquarters in New Castle, located at 19 E. Commons Boulevard. Progressive Democrats for Delaware(PDD) is a grassroots Liberal action group pledged to support a wide range of progressive legislation and candidates at the local, state, and federal levels. PDD meetings are open to all like-minded voters.
“remember how awesome 2008 was? Okay. Go!”
Yeah, that’s right. He’s done nothing.
Sometimes I wonder why I align myself with such petulance.
I’m going to have mercy on you and not comment or post on Obama anymore so you don’t have to pretend that he is teh awesome.
All I can say is Obama has already created more American jobs than did Bush. OVER THE ENTIRE 8 YEARS HE WAS WORKING FOR CHENEY!
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/longjobs1.gif
Remember how cutting taxes and squishing down government was supposed to create private sector jobs? Well, if it weren’t for all the government jobs created by Bush/Cheney, we wouldn’t have jobs.
This chart shows Jobs created by Private Sector versus Public Sector
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/longjobs2.gif
Finally, since the passage of the much aligned Health Care act, where are the jobs coming from….
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/longjobs4.gif
You guessed it, Health Care.
So, if the Republicans succeed in eliminating Health Care, succeed in their attempts at budget slicing government workers, succeed in any of the changes they’ve proposed…. jobs go from zero into negative territory…
And there is nothing any conservative think tank can do, or say, to refute this data. It came from Business Week. It is based on truth, on what really happened, Not some rosy scenario of how someone sitting at their computer, thinks he “remembers” how it happened….
Jason, there is a happy medium. I think you hate Obama and think he has done nothing. You think I love Obama and think he is God.
As always, the truth is in between. Obama has done some good, some bad. He has done somethings he has promised during the 2008 campaign, and he has broken his promises on other things.
I am smart enough to look at the whole picture, and also look at Obama himself.
You just reject him because he is not pure enough. Childish.
Obama has done plenty, it’s just that some of it has been extremely damaging. I wish Obama had done nothing instead of signing tax cuts for the rich. Right now I’d rather be arguing with Republicans about middle class tax cuts and extending UI than about cutting Medicare and Social Security. Actually it would probably be done by now and would have kept Boehner busy with something useful this year.
Obama has forced the entire political debate onto Republican territory, and has taken the clown shoes off Paul Ryan and replaced them with respectable wingtips.
This has done incalculable damage to Democrats and to future options for the economy. Obama and some supporters maddeningly just shrugs and accepts this as the new reality without ever acknowledging responsibility for creating the situation. Which leads me to understand that it will keep happening over and over again.
DD, Your comment held so much promise, then crashed into a wall of bullshit:
Please. I think I have been very consistent. I don’t care about purity. I care about Democrats winning elections. The purity argument is so far beneath you that I have to say that I am taken aback. What next? Ponies? “Off my meds?” I mean, jeez. That was weak.
Holding Obama to the fairly simple standard of doing what he said he was going to do on some major issues is hardly evidence that “you hate him and think he has done nothing.” More accurately, I am ambivalent about him and think he has done too little. We are talking here about enthusiasm. It’s hard to work up enthusiasm for the audacity of compromise.
Tell me this, DD: Have you seen any evidence of a point at which Obama will say, “beyond this line we will not retreat”? Because I haven’t.
Obama has a HUGE strategic flaw in that he NEVER stakes out his territory and defends it. His political skills as a deal maker/compromiser do not work well as President. He is too busy respecting both sides of the argument to state plainly to Boehner et al, that their policies failed and unless they have a new idea or show a little regret, you need to sit down and shut up.
The biggest failure is in 2008 there was a total aversion to ever saying elections have consequences. Not sure if it was just Obama or the entire Democratic Party, but since Nov the Repbulican’ts have been repeating it over and over.
The good news is Obama is 7 points higher than Regans polls at this point in his presidency.
I totally agree with Geezers statement “It’s hard to work up enthusiasm for the audacity of compromise.”
The incumbent should win. I agree that it is too late for the incumbent to retool, so we’ll have to hope that the GOP remains on its current trajectory.
Delaware Dem made the point in some thread here that we live in a two-party, winner-take-all political system. Because we don’t have a parliamentary style of government we, as voters, don’t get to choose one from column A and one from column B. That means we’re always going to have presidents who please us part of the time and displease us the other part of the time. It is intrinsic to the design. The founders built in these stresses; and I’m not sure if it was deliberate but it keeps us from just loving our presidents so much that we want to make them king. We’re always ready for a change when the time comes to change. There’s alway the hope for change that somebody will do it better. And, after eight years of constant pummeling by the faction of the day, the presidents are also hoping for change and ready to get out of DC.
One thing I KNOW. Obama has been so superior to anything that McCain could even have imagined and the country is so much better off than if the election had gone the other way. We DID get change. Perhaps not as much as we wanted but we got change.
OTH, we’ll never even approach the level of change we want without Jason330 and anon. holding up the Portrait of Dorian Grey for all to see. You don’t get to the presidential level of politics without developing a whole lot of warts, and passionate citizens have a duty to point them out. As I’ve said repeatedly, the natural tendency in politics is to drift right because it is so much safer. We need to keep hammering to slow that drift.
I believe in passion, but I also believe that this is politics and things turn on a dime, overnight. Nothing stays static and nothing is forever. It will change. Pulling to the left is a noble endeavor that has an impact on that change. It will never, ever, move as far left as we want but inches count in politics as well as horseshoes.
Delaware Dem keep bringing the wise counsel. Jason330 and anon. keep that Overton Window open to the left. We need you both.
Oh and, if we ever do get a perfect president we just might be in trouble.
The audacity of compromise.
Great one Geezer.