June 9, 2012
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I got your back...NOT
I got your back...NOT!
The recent recall election in Wisconsin brought to mind my opportunity to attend an event that featured motivational speaker Reggie Dabbs. Reggie engaged the crowd of young people by teaching them a song one phrase at a time. I Can! You Can! We Can! I got your back! By the time he is done teaching them this rather simple song, the young people are completely engaged and he has their attention. He then relates his own personal story to the audience which builds "street cred" with them. He shares with them that "You can never change your past, but you can change your future". I have attended three of his events to date and witnessed the impact he has had on audiences and giving young people hope and inspiring them to take personal responsibility in changing their own situation.
Having lived in urban areas, I understand the import of someone proclaiming "I got your back" and the potential implications of not doing so when the time came. Anyone who ever served in the military also understands this this. The same goes for business , politics and any personal, professional or public relationship people enter into.
President Obama has touted himself as the Union Workers president from the gate. He touted his credentials as a Community Organizer and standing on picket lines with union workers. He promised union workers he would be there for them . He promised workers he would fight attempts to weaken or repeal the Davis-Bacon Act (collective bargaining.) And of course, how can we forget the Vice President who credits his election to the Teamsters?
They have told labor over and over again, they would have their back. Yet, when the union organized a recall of Governor Scott Walker, the President and Vice-President weighed how it would look if they stood with those who supported them and lost. The dynamic duo of cheap promises failed to have the back of those who put them in office when they needed them most. Does it shock or sadden me? Of course not!
Can't you just picture those who placed their hope and trust in the dynamic duo saying "Where were you?".
In trying to play it safe and not get their hands dirty in a recall that they predicted would end in failure, the President and Vice President lost every bit of "street cred" they had with the ones that had their back. While I do not expect that these voters will all of a sudden become Mitt Romney supporters, I do believe the betrayal factor is being underestimated, and far beyond Wisconsin.
Union members nationwide witnessed a President and Vice President abandon them in the midst of a historic battle. So, in November, with the U6 unemployment rate at 14.6%, with 222,000 less people working than last May, and Obama and Biden's street credibility gone, what impact will it have on the election? I believe we will see less union members come out to vote and many of the first time voters who participated in the 2008 election have been disenchanted and also will not return to vote for Obama/Biden in November.
I would not be the least bit surprised to see these voters back door the ticket by giving no advance warning that they were staying home. They may return the favor of allowing the President to believe they have his back and abandon him when he needs them the most!
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I know some Dems who are still going to vote for Obama. I'm voting for Ron Paul... But yeah, I'd like to see some of them come over to vote for Paul.
Self serving comes to mind when I think of the leaders in the White House right now.. I guess that's the nature of the beast but we can choose to vote and hope for change.
So the Obummer thugs from the past will be the stay-at-home thugs of the future. Presently, they are still in shock and smarting from the flogging they took from the recall election. SO MUCH for loyalty to the unions, Mr. Obummer, the liar. As usual with a narcissist, it is a one way relationship. Empty suit, empty promises. I am smiling, how about you?
@firetyger - @winniezpoo - Good morning,
In Pennsylvania , we saw the first indications of this in the primary. The democrats , in a light turnout primary, which generally indicates it is the "super voters" coming out (people who vote in every election), had almost 14% of the voters not vote in the Presidential race, a practice known as voting down ticket. Nearly 20% did not vote for our US Senator, Bob Casey, a strong supporter of Obama. Instead, they voted for a unknown gentleman from his district who spent roughly 5000 on his campaign. The highest vote tally in the primary was for the third race, state attorney general, between a progressive and a center -left liberal, where the progressive was defeated soundly.
So even super voters did not vote for the incumbent President of their party who was unopposed. Even super voters did not vote for a well known US Senator and threw their vote to anyone else. Both are engaged in the progressive movement (despite Caseys's attempt to frame himself as a conservative democrat). But they did vote in a race to support the more traditional candidate in a campaign that was framed to make the attorney general a progressive voice in PA. Voters soundly rejected that.
In PA, where we have a million more registered democrats than republicans, the republicans hold the governorship, the house, and the senate, as well as the attorney generals office. The average registered democrat is more along the line of "your daddy's democrat", more conservative than today's progressive democrat. Yes, we do have progressives in urban centers, but the bulk of the registered democrats in the state are more interested in sustainable government than they are with party. And vote accordingly. Or do not vote when their party puts someone up whom they do not believe represents their values.
@mcbery - @winniezpoo -
He showed his true colors in terms even the lemmings can see. His greatest inspiration is him and his needs and they are just a tool to get what he wants. Of course, there are people who are willing to be used and those who are dependent on his policies that will vote for him no matter what his positions were.
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