Obama's Toughest Audience: His Die-Hard Supporters

[cali]

(I guess the author doesn't read DU. - Oh, and Brent Rosenberg is obviously a racist piece of shit)

Brent Rosenberg was an early and enthusiastic Barack Obama supporter at a place and time when it mattered most: Iowa 2008, in the run-up to the first-in-the-nation presidential-nominating contest.


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So it's with evident pain that he now speaks about the president, on the eve of Obama's speech on military action against Syria, with disappointment, if not regret.

"This has been a squandering of a historic opportunity," Rosenberg said, referring to the promise he believed Obama — whose road to the White House was paved by those 2008 Iowa caucuses — brought with him to the presidency.

His discontent embodies perhaps the biggest complication the president faces Tuesday night: Obama's toughest, most skeptical audience is stocked with once-ardent supporters struggling to reconcile the man they see presiding over the weeks long, herky-jerky move to military action, with the young anti-war senator they worked tirelessly to put in office.

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"Watching all this from afar, it has looked very untidy," says Garry South, a California-based Democratic strategist. "I get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach; it's been a very bad first nine months of the second term."

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/09/09/220791937/obamas-toughest-audience-his-diehard-supporters

[tridim]

1. LOL

@ you.

Sucks being wrong all the time, I suppose.

[Capt. Obvious]

3. "Sucks being wrong all the time, I suppose."

[cali]

5. well it would if that were true

but it's not.

What would really suck is being someone like you- caught up in a cult of personality that precludes any critical thinking on issues.

[tridim]

7. No, I just know that Obama is a great man and a great President.

You, don't even know who he is.

You are wrong about everything, the proof is on DU's servers. Backups too.

You have destroyed your own reputation, completely and forever on DU. Nobody who cares about this forum will ever forget.

[Enrique]

2. i don't relate to these people

did people really see him as an "anti-war senator"?

And then the other guy saying, "we can't have a democratic president looking weak", I don't relate to that either. If any president, of either party, can avoid an unnecessary war at the price of "looking weak," I want him or her to do it.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Apparently the author of this article has never visited any right-wing websites. n/t

[Marr]

6. I was quite surprised to see MoveOn.org openly opposing the president's

Syria plans.

I suppose you can only amble so far to the right before even your most devoted supporters start to question you. That's encouraging to me in a way, though he had to amble a hell of a lot further than I'd like.