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Blaming the Voters - Democrats embrace the Chris Farley school of political motivation.

Seeded on Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:20 PM EDT
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politics, obama, barack-obama, democrats, tea-party, joe-biden, john-kerry, left-wing, saturday-night-live, voting-public, democratic-attacks
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Democrats seeking to boost voter turnout this fall are beginning to sound like the late comedian Chris Farley's portrayal of a "motivational speaker" on Saturday Night Live. Farley's character sought to inspire young people by announcing that they wouldn't amount to "jack squat" and would someday be "living in a van down by the river."

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Massachusetts Senator John Kerry... "We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening." Bay State voters are surely thrilled to be represented by a man so respectful of their concerns.

This week President Obama chimed in with another uplifting message about the American electorate. Mr. Obama told Rolling Stone that the tea party movement is financed and directed by "powerful, special-interest lobbies." But this doesn't mean that tea party groups are composed entirely of corporate puppets. Mr. Obama graciously implied that a small subset of the movement is simply motivated by bigotry. Mr. Obama added that "if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the first place."

... most Americans don't like that (Obama) agenda and millions of voters in both parties wanted him to oversee an economic expansion instead. Blaming the voters is not unheard of among politicians, but usually they wait until after an election.

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Reply#1 - Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:25 PM EDT
TheAntiObama

Acorn is financed by the Federal government, and Soetoro is a Corporate puppet. The Pot calling the Kettle black.

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Reply#2 - Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:45 AM EDT
George-369262

I liked both Chris Farley, and John Candy, and was saddened at their premature passing....

    Reply#3 - Fri Oct 1, 2010 2:07 AM EDT
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