According to Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, President Obama doesn’t have a “broad mandate” because……not enough uneducated white men voted for him?
If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That’s what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it’s possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000.
A broad mandate this is not.
In 2004, George W. Bush claimed a mandate (despite the fact that his administration spent so much time scaring the crap out of people & many people voted for his second term only on that basis):
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.
"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style.
President Obama won with a very broad mandate (332 to 206 electoral votes and by 3.2 million votes in the popular vote) with a majority of women, hispanics, African Americans, and educated white men, and the right wing can whine and bitch all they want, but it won't change the facts.
Adds........."Republicans, who have not won as many electoral votes as Mr. Obama did on Tuesday in 24 years”
I originally published this post in May 2011. Considering the current attempts by the Koch brothers and Veterans for a Strong America to swift boat President Obama using the death of bin Laden, I thought it was a good time to bring it to the forefront again.
We can rest assured that if George W. Bush had been responsible for the killing of Osama bin Laden, the right wing would have begun carving his face on to Mt. Rushmore by now, and we'd never hear the end of it. Instead, President Obama did the job, and the right wing wants to crucify him for it out of pure and simple jealousy, as well as a desire to defeat him in November.
Quotes by former President George W. Bush from Sept. 13, 2001 through March 13, 2002 regarding his intent toward Osama bin Laden:
Two days after the 9/11 attacks, on Sept. 13, 2001, George W. Bush said:
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.”source
Five days after the 9/11 attacks, on Sept. 16, 2001, George W. Bush said:
“My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.”source
Three months after the 9/11 attacks, on Dec. 14, 2001, George W. Bush said:
The right wing blogosphere is making a huge deal out of a remark made by President Obama, reported by the New York Times, and taken out of context by the right wing. The New York Times, emphasis by mmfa:
“Striking a very balanced, and in many ways, neutral approach is recognized by many people in the region as not being with them, or on their side," said J. Scott Mastic, the head of Middle East and North Africa for the International Republican Institute. "It's very important that we be seen as supporting the demands of the people in the region.”
How Mr. Obama manages to do that while also balancing American interests is a question that officials acknowledge will plague this historic president for months to come. Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, "No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao's words in Tahrir Square."
As you can see from the screenshot, Fox Nation blew it all out of proportion.
If you're president of China, people around the world who are fighting for freedom don't really expect you to help. If you're president of China, you don't have to put up with annoying off-year congressional elections, and then negotiate your budget with a bunch of gun-and-religion-clinging congressmen and senators. If you're president of China, you can fund your national public radio to your heart's content.
During his book promo tour last week, George W. Bush made an unsuccessful attempt to defer the blame for the lack of progress in Afghanistan to NATO, rather than to his own administration where that blame very rightfully belongs.
What happened in Afghanistan was that our NATO allies turned out — some of them turned out not to be willing to fight. And therefore, our assumption that we had ample troops, U.S. and NATO troops, turned out to be a not true assumption and so we adjusted. And I completely disagree with the take eye off the ball. I found that to be empty political rhetoric.
He’s ‘content’, so says George W. Bush talking to Matt Lauer on the Today Show about his presidency, his new book, and how historians will see him in the future.
[Now, there is a lot that could be said here, but, it would require more interest than I have to spend on the worst president of my lifetime.]
This may seem strange to you, I really don't care about perceptions at this point in time. I served, I gave it my all and I'm a content man.
George W. Bush on Sarah Palin, as reported by former Bush staffer, Matt Latimer, who in his 2009 book, reported that Bush 43 thought Sarah Palin to be very unqualified, and that she had cost Republicans the 2008 election. Bush’s reaction to Palin’s nomination was highly dismissive.
I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. I'm sure I must have. What is she, the governor of Guam?
This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for. She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out.
Former Senator Rick Santorum [R] defending Newt Gingrich’s intentionally stupid obsession with food stamps on Fox News, with a ridiculous lie about poverty during the George W. Bush administration:
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the lowest rate ever in the history of this country. So Obama’s policies are not working, Bush polices worked! For long a time as a matter of fact.
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