Party Meltdowns Among Democrats & CNN; Obama & Biden to VOTERS: “Stop Whining & Stop Being Irresponsible, Go Out and VOTE! Obama’s Freedom of Speech Attacks; “Fox News is Destructive to America!”
By Marc Chamot
A complete Democratic Party Meltdown, and again CNN, President Obama and company, are on the attacks against the conservative movement, GOP/Republicans and Fox News.
Apparently they never learned from the last time they did it, and they are still repeating those same, sad, and tragic ploys of attacking, but not only their BASE, they are attacking Fox News and everybody else.
If somebody ever yelled at me this way and especially coming from an American president, I’d tell them to stick it up! Where the suns don’t shine!
Obviously, this is the wrong tactic to get people motivated, into getting things done for you. All this shows desperation on your part and to your party. The voters can sense these kinds of out of control jargons.
Instead of encouraging voters to vote for you, they will do the VERY opposite of what you want.
(CNN) – Joe Biden isn't the only member of the Obama White House frustrated with the Democratic base.
So is the big man himself.
In his lengthy Rolling Stone interview, President Obama took the opportunity to express deep frustration with the low enthusiasm among Democratic voters this election cycle amid charges he has fallen short on a string of campaign promises.
"It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election," the president told the magazine.
Obama went on to describe his administration as the "most successful in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward," and said it was flat out "irresponsible" for Democrats to stay home on Election Day.
"The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base that people are sitting on their hands complaining is just irresponsible," he said. "Everybody out there has to be thinking about what's at stake in this election."
Obama's direct admonishment was published a day after the vice presidentturned heads when he told Democrats at a New Hampshire fundraiser that the base of the party needs to "stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives."
Obama's comments came as the president heads to four states this week in an effort to drum up excitement among voters who flocked to the polls for him in 2008 and remind them of his administration's accomplishments. To that end, Obama said he keeps a list of fulfilled campaign promises. The president claimed 70 percent of them have been met.
Democratic discontent has grown more palpable over the last several months as Obama has been forced to fend off charges that, among other things, he was too eager to compromise on health care, hasn't pushed hard enough for gay rights, and is advancing the same foreign policies as the hawkish Bush administration.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll showed that only 30 percent of Democrats are enthusiastic about the looking midterm elections, as opposed to 53 percent of Republicans.
(CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden has a message for Democrats this November: "stop whining."
At a fundraiser Monday in New Hampshire for three Congressional candidates, Biden said he thinks Democrats will retain control of both houses of Congress in November, but only if they are able to highlight their differences with Republicans.
Democrats should "remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives," Biden said, echoing the Democratic message this fall.
Voters have a right to be angry, he said, but the choice between parties is clear.
Part of that choice, he said, means voting against Republicans and the agenda of former President George W. Bush.
"Worst of all was the policies they had in place that decimated the middle class. That's the real catastrophe," Biden said.
Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Committee hit back at Biden's comments Monday.
"[We are] picking up the ball that this White House dropped when they refused to fight for the overwhelming popular public option, refused to break up the big banks, and demobilized Obama voters who expected this President to at least fight for big change," Green said in a statement.
(CNN) - President Obama is pulling no punches when it comes to Fox News, declaring the cable news outlet to be "destructive to [America's] long-term growth."
In a more than 8,000-word interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Obama compared the cable news channel to papers owned by William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the 20th century that unabashedly pushed the media titan's own political views.
"You had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition – it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view," Obama told the magazine.
Officials in the Obama White House have long made Fox News a punchingbag, launching a full blown offensive last year when aides declared the network to be "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said the cable outlet "operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," and top aide Valerie Jarret called Fox "clearly biased."
But the new comments from Obama constitute the president's most direct attack yet on the network owned by business mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Fox News pushes "a point of view that I disagree with. It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world," Obama said.
"But as an economic enterprise, it's been wildly successful. And I suspect that if you ask Mr. Murdoch what his number one concern is, it's that Fox is very successful."
Fox has yet to respond to the president. But during the administration offensive against the network last year, network spokesman Michael Clemente slammed the White House for continuing "to declare war on a news organization instead of focusing on the critical issues that Americans are concerned about."
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