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ELECTION 2009 |
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2009 Election -
Mixed Bag- Did Obama Lose His
Magic Touch? by Jerry Pippin
We can hear it already
and I am writing this at midnight but I know what
Fox
News and the Right Wing talkers will be
saying and they will be saying it with a straight
face and loudly. The Liberals have had it,
President Obama has lost it mama! The magic has
faded to dust and the Grand Ole Party is back!
That's the spin, now the
real facts. It is true in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, a red state that
turned blue for Obama, went red big time. First time
in 12 years the Governor's chair has gone
Republican. And what a Republican? Far far to the
right but no one in Virginia noticed because his
campaign was main stream and he pretended that he
never said those far right things when he was
Attorney General and the press let him
pretend and the audience, voters of Virginia, didn't
want to hear about it. He was talking a good story
now.
Then there was that US
Attorney Guy in New Jersey. How could he beat and
unseat a Democratic Governor? Obama won that state
by 15 per cent majority over McCain, yet a McCain
clone seems to have won there too. Then there was
that former Democrat who turned Republican, a rich
rich man for sure who won after spending more money
on media than many third world economies have in
their treasury all year any year.
Now that 23rd district
Congress race ..in a place where no Democrat has won
in over a Century, he beat the conservative
candidate. This was an interesting race and one that
shows where the heart of the Republican Party is,
along with their jewels and soul, darlings of the
far right now, no longer a party of less government
and government closes to home, but a party that
seems to think that
Rush
Limbaugh and Glen Beck are statesmen.
So the lessons: As
always off year elections give rise to the other
party. Some thought it might be different this time,
and it might have been. But Obama somehow thru his
magic away in a world of compromises. The Electorate
had voted for change, and Obama was giving them a
somewhat kindler and gentler version of the same.
The lesson for the Democrats is that you can't play
fair with an ideologue. They will do whatever they
can to win because compromise is not in their
vocabulary or their understanding.
So the lesson here is a
simple one, if Democrats are going to be Republican-lites,
the the voters will go back to the real thing. Obama
and the Democratic party have kissed off a golden
chance to really bring change and it has been more
of the same. War and Terrorism talk that really is
an excuse to make a lot of money, compromise on
health care policy which means you let the insurance
and hospitals for pay still play and that means it
is impossible to get real change for a population
that is getting older and sicker all the time.
Ah, and that brings us
to the real lesson of the election, in Virginia and
in New Jersey the young voters had evaporated. In
2008, the youth led the charge believing change
would be what it says it is, change and seeing that
no change is just a little adjustment in the course
that takes us from cradle to grave as captives of
corporate whelms and profit taking.
So the lesson in this
election is not what well-dressed over-paid pundits
in Washington are going to be saying, the lesson is
one that I fear Obama will not get, Change means
stop helping the bankers, the huge corporations and
start helping the people.
Exit polls said it best, it's the economy and
these voters don't care how we got here, what
mistakes they made in voting for the wrong people,
they want a quick fix, and Obama probably can't get
that done in today's bought and paid for..DC.
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 Christopher
J. Christie, a Republican former U.S. attorney who said he would
attack corruption in
New Jersey,
won out over Gov. Jon S. Corzine. |
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 Bill
Owens the Democratic candidate who won in New York's 23rd
Congressional District, and his wife Jane leave their voting
station in Plattsburgh on Tuesday. |
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 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg buys a third term as New York City mayor. Race was closer-than-expected against Democrat William Thompson Jr. |
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