Why are the right wing so 'stunned' BO could "triangulate"?

truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 02:58 PM
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Why are the right wing so 'stunned' BO could "triangulate"?

Why did they think he was so "incapable"? Watching this clip of Morning Joe this morning says it all.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#40565551

Did they REALLY believe all that bs about him being a "rigid FAAR left liberal" incapable of moving to the center?

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nxylas

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:01 PM
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1. Hard to answer your last question

Republicans will say anything to hurt the man they see as "that uppity n****r who stole the White House from us", so who knows *what* they actually believe?

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truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:04 PM
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3. True...

but their genuine shock...is shocking and funny to me.

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Ozymanithrax

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:03 PM
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2. For the same reasons the left is stunned that he WOULD triangulate. n/t

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truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:06 PM
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5. Why would anybody be shocked???

Did anybody actually read "Audacity of Hope" or did they just skim through it? lol

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tigereye

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:09 PM
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6. exactly - the man's an organizer and a compromiser - that's what he did

It's hilarious when the right pegs him as a "socialist" just ridiculous.

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Ozymanithrax

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:19 PM
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7. And yet, they are.

Just as the right created a fantasy socialist-Kenyan-Muslim-big-spending-liberal-facist image, the left constructed a progressive-peacenicky-hope-wielding-liberal-Republican-Dragon-hunter image. Niether is real. But the progressive left, seeing tha their image of Obama is wrong, are the most enraged.

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truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:28 PM
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8. Yup...

David Brooks had a brilliant piece on the 'misunderstanding of Obama' in the NYT a while back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12brooks.html?_r=1

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nxylas

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Wed Dec-08-10 06:40 PM
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14. At least progressives see that their image was wrong

The right still hold on to their Kenyan Muslim Socialist fantasy.

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Proud Liberal Dem

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:50 PM
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11. THANK YOU!!!!

Also, it seems like a lot of people also weren't paying much attention to his 2004 DNC Keynote address and what he was trying to communicate. I wonder if a lot of people just thought that it sounded nice- like a typical political speech- but that he didn't really mean what he was saying? :shrug:

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niceypoo

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:30 PM
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9. Clinton never embraced supply side

Supply side IS the core of republican ideology.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

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truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:41 PM
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10. Clinton also...

never had to deal with a "Great Recession" and 9.8% unemployment either...

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niceypoo

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:50 PM
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12. So you are saying that Clinton would embrace the policies that caused it all?

LOL

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truthspeak

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Wed Dec-08-10 04:04 PM
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13. I'm saying...

circumstances dictate certain decisions...you know like that big unemployment problem and an impenetrable obstructionist opposition.

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Hippo_Tron

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Wed Dec-08-10 06:42 PM
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15. Listen to right wing talk radio for 5 minutes

These people think Obama is Stalin reincarnated and that we will become a totalitarian state if he is re-elected. Granted, there was a lot of the same hysteria about Bush from the left, too.

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tanyev

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Wed Dec-08-10 07:06 PM
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16. Because they believe their own bullshit?

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