2012 Troubles Ahead for Obama in Prized Florida?
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama has problems in Florida that he didn’t have when he won the prized state in 2008.
The state’s economy is worse than elsewhere. Foreclosures are high. Property values are low. As president, Obama could be blamed.
Voters’ shifting attitudes show the degree to which the atmosphere has changed since his first campaign. Florida Democrats made gains in 2008 with Obama on the top of the ticket, but the GOP won big two years later.
All that explains why Florida Democrats are redoubling their efforts to re-energize the rank and file, including at the state party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner Saturday night.
And it‘s why Obama’s campaign team has been on the ground training volunteers 17 months before the election and why the president has been such a frequent visitor to the Sunshine State.
Over the past 10 months, he has played mini-golf and hit the waves in Panama City Beach, eaten a corned beef sandwich at a Miami Beach deli, visited Cape Canaveral, addressed community college graduates in Miami and headlined fundraisers for Florida politicians.
He’s set to return in the coming week for three fundraisers.
Florida offers 29 electoral votes, more than 10 percent of the 270 he needs to win a second term.
“The president can win the White House re-election without Florida, but it’s certainly easier if he does win Florida,” said Steve Schale, Obama’s Florida director in 2008.
Florida’s unemployment rate was 10.8 percent in April, or nearly 2 percentage points higher than the national average. The state has been hit harder by foreclosures and loss in property values than most of the country.
After Florida Democrats made gains in 2008, voters went quickly in the opposite direction in 2010. Republicans won the governorship, a U.S. Senate seat and three other statewide offices, plus huge majorities in the Legislature.
Obama’s job performance rating in Florida has hovered between 44 percent and 47 percent, except for a slight increase to 51 percent in a Quinnipiac University poll after Osama bin Laden’s death.
The sluggish economic recovery is to blame.
“Things haven’t gotten better,” said Christian Ferry, a Republican who was Sen. John McCain’s deputy campaign manager in the 2008 presidential race. “And it certainly hasn’t gotten better in Florida. He’s got some big challenges to explain how it is that his economic messages, his economic plan is improving the situation in Florida for Floridians who are still struggling.”
For all the troubles, Republicans acknowledge it won’t be easy defeating Obama.
“The pendulum swings so fast now,” said Tallahassee-based GOP strategist David Johnson. “You can’t underestimate that guy. You do so at your peril.”
Plus, he added, “he’ll have the powers to come down here on that big blue plane, and that big blue plane excites people.”
Democrats hope that the GOP wave of 2010 is dissipating. They’re betting that voters will be turned off by the conservative agenda pushed by Republicans in Florida and Washington.
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freeweever
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:35amHe’s not welcome here anymore says us.Stay out of America huessein obama go back to new europe like chicago california or old york.
Report Post »Julie2010
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:13pmHow about he just move somewhere outside the United States?
Wait, they probably don’t really want him there either. He can’t balance a checking account.
Starting at the voting booth, I’ll be happy to help him pack.
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:33am@ XPAT48………….I agree with the Jewish thing……. I finely some years ago was told way most Jewish voters vote for the Dem’s………..The larger % of Jewish people go and graduate form our liberal colleges……..Our great learning institutions are turning our kids and all the Jews kids into mind numbing robots………………..
Report Post »threecats407
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:33amThe world is full of lapslappers who would rather vote for him again than to admit to themselves that they screwed up the first time.
Report Post »auburntaylors96
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:32amflorida folks should worry about obama visiting….seems like every time this guy stops in to visit a factory or restaruant the business is closed within weeks if not days. no one with an ounce of brains would vote for this guy again….unless they’re hoping for 20% unemployment, even more loss of value of their homes, more devalueation of the american dollar, more wars (he has 4 now!) and a total colapse of the american economy.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:32amObama “could” be blamed? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:21pmI read there has been an unprecedented cold snap in he11!
Report Post »ooooonooooo
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:30amIf this simple plan was enacted our economy would turn around on a dime, foreclosures would end and the world economy would begin to recover.
If congress and the president were to have a window period of 0% capital gains tax on any real estate purchased it would get the investors to let loose of some of the trillions of dollars they are sitting on and buy property which will create jobs.
* This should only be allowed for properties bought from the day it is passed moving forward for a window period of 3 months or 6 months or whatever. We should then analyze it and adjust the window as necessary. It should not be used for properties already owned because that would flood the market, we want people to want to buy instead of sell to create demand again so that prices will stabilize and consumers will begin to have confidence in their homes and begin to spend again to support the economy and create jobs.
* This should qualify for any buyer of any property whether it be an investment, owner occupied or commercial. The goal is to get the big investors with their trillions of dollars of cash they have on the sidelines to start buying to stimulate the recovery and also to make it widespread so to have a quick effect. This will bring quick money into the treasury by quickly creating jobs and consumer confidence.
* The new property purchased should have no restrictions on when you sell it, if sold in 1 day, 1 year 10 years or 100 years it should be exempt from capital gains
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:30amFlorida voted for a Republican in 2010 and so far I think he is doing a decent job. To those that speak of The Jewish vote, I disagree. I believe they are not as liberal as most. They don’t want their lifestyle changed by Obama politics. He won’t win Florida, Marc Rubio will help get the message out. Have faith in us Floridians !!!
Report Post »Gail
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:27amI live in FL and I don’t know ANYBODY who supports Obama! Very few will even admit to voting for him.
Although, the media is doing EVERYTHING they can to blame everything on Rick Scott. He is cutting everything that he possibly can……must of them needed cutting. Just one example, there is an office building in Tallahassee the state was paying rent of $384,000 a month while the state owned offices that were empty! He moved them to that office and saved all of that money….and there were MANY offices like that we were wasting money on…..but no more….AND he had the prisoners do most of the moving of furniture ect. People who have state jobs are concerned about losing their job. I don’t want to see anyone lose their job…..but, cuts must be made. My sister may lose her job and I would hate to see that happen…..however, we have to do something to save the state and our country!
The Tea Pary and 912 Groups are very active here in FL.
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:25pmHere in the town known for harboring Muhammed Atta you will find the majority of lemmings fawing over this embarrassment in chief! Even the city council is set up much like the definition of a Soviet:
* A soviet is a system of councils that report to an apex council and implement a predetermined outcome, often by consensus, affecting a region or neighborhood.
* Members of a soviet council are chosen by virtue of their willingness to comply with that outcome and their one-mindedness with the group.
* Soviets are the operating mechanism of a government-controlled economy, whether it be socialism or government-corporate (”public-private”) partnerships.
Change agents are working with opportunists and other foolish people by coordinating government, business, NGO, and “non-profit” partners to implement a soviet system in your county, too.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 1:29am@ GAIL
I lived in St.Pete Lost job and home, moved to AZ for work, sure like Florida
Report Post »better, Voted for Obama, not again !!! Checkout this link !! shows Bamas record..
Check archives on right, Jan2009 to June 2011 Send link to Friends
http://stutteringmessiah.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-flip-flops/
ooooonooooo
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:26amIf this simple plan was enacted our economy would turn around on a dime, foreclosures would end and the world economy would begin to recover.
If congress and the president were to have a window period of 0% capital gains tax on any real estate purchased it would get the investors to let loose of some of the trillions of dollars they are sitting on and buy property which will create jobs.
* This should only be allowed for properties bought from the day it is passed moving forward for a window period of 3 months or 6 months or whatever. We should then analyze it and adjust the window as necessary. It should not be used for properties already owned because that would flood the market, we want people to want to buy instead of sell to create demand again so that prices will stabilize and consumers will begin to have confidence in their homes and begin to spend again to support the economy and create jobs.
* This should qualify for any buyer of any property whether it be an investment, owner occupied or commercial. The goal is to get the big investors with their trillions of dollars of cash they have on the sidelines to start buying to stimulate the recovery and also to make it widespread so to have a quick effect. This will bring quick money into the treasury by quickly creating jobs and consumer confidence.
* The new property purchased should have no restrictions on when you sell it, if sold in 1 day, 1 year 10 years or 100 years it should be exempt from capital gai
Report Post »@10storyfallguy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:24amAs a native Floridian who now lives in Texas (for good) I can say that thanks to me, especially on FB & Twitter, all of my family & friends in Florida now know he’s a Marxist. They now know about all of his sick friends, Kevin Jennings, etc… The only people in Florida are the dumba**es how’d vote for him even after he put them in jail. He only won Florida because a lot of people were upset with GWB. I don’t care what the media says. He would lose to anybody if the election were today & if Rick Perry jumps in he’s really toast!!
Report Post »@10storyfallguy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:41amGot ahead of myself. Meant to say the only 1′s in Florida who will vote for him AGAIN, are the idiots who would no matter what he did or said…
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:40pmObama‘s done in ’12
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:49pmEvery stupid program this Prez put into place has been a total disaster. Can’t anyone see it? He paid out enormous amounts (like over $100,000+ per job cost) to get only a few jobs that paid slightly over min-wage. I’m not a high paid economist , but it doesn’t take one to understand simple math. He bailed out banks, the Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac debacle, GM should have reorganized and come back on it’s own; look at ‘em now, still a failure. This man is a reverse Midas, everything he touches comes out crappy. He’s in bed with GE and their kill America plans.
Report Post »Folks, look, see, listen and realize this Country is going broke with this man at the helm. We are close to being devalued again. There go all the food stamps & welfare programs. No money left, get it? No money left for anything, even the freebee lifestyles you expect to continue. Nope, they go with the rest of it, down the drain. Then we’ll have civil unrest.
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:22amWhen will the leftist liberals admit it, obama is the worst president is history, by a WIDE margin. 2012 cant come soon enough!!
Report Post »quicker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:34amYou8 got to remember that liberal democrats are kinda like childern,I didn`t do it ,It`s not my fault.LIL Jonnie did it it`all his fault.Need I say more.
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:22amHope so!
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:22amUnemployment at record levels, housing imploding, gas prices out of sight and going higher, refusing to seek fuel sources within our country, 3 war fronts and trying to start a 4th. front in Libya (without congress approval), foreign countries allowed to drill where American countries can ‘t, he has spent more in his first two years in office then all previous presidents “combined”, he gives high positions within his administration to admitted Communist and an x-con, has a VERY shady past inundated with shady associates, allowing companies that he have given large donations to his election campaign such as GE to make record profits and pay zero taxes, allows special consideration to union thugs and makes them a regular guest at the white house, besmirches America while traveling the world, him and his wife abusing the use of resources like flying Air Force One and opting to use the helicopter then the limo to travel less than 3 miles away from the white house, going out of the country while American people suffer with total losses due to storms, etc, etc.
Report Post »History repeats itself. Nero fiddled while Rome burned, obama golf’s while America burns.
GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOU A$S America, this is not a Demarcate Republican thing it’s just common sense. Let’s take OUR AMERICA BACK, it’s not his!
SUNBURST
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:20amWho in their right mind could STILL be supporting this knothead??
Report Post »That astounds me just as much as Barry’s breathtakingly damaging leftist policies.
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:24amSUNBURST
Report Post »thats just it. Liberals are not in their right mind. its the defination of liberal to be a shallow thinker.
Dale
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:20pmIts not that libs are shallow thinkers, they think high and grand thoughts, they just don’t think of consequences. They try to minimize consequences: “Oh, you mean I didn’t pay enough tax – it was just an oversight and I’ll pay them right away (no penalties or interest just the back taxes a la bonnie fwank, charlie wrangler, and others too numerous to name”. They are bothered and, dare I say, hate conservatives/libertarians because we consider consequences before making decisions. Notwithstanding bill clinton’s progressive lineage, he was, ultimately, a narcissistic pragmatist; favoring adoration above ideology. Unfortunately, many repubs have the same mindset: spend money we (the US) don’t have – let someone else clean up the mess later (and odumbo, [BIG EAR!] and all, can’t seem to find the mop – because a few principled conservatives are hiding it. I guess I’ve blathered on long enough, I hope it makes sense.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:20amGot to look out for voter fraud.Snowwhite and the Seven dwarves or Micky Mouse and Goofy
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:25pmYABUT they’re legal residents, correct?
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:03pmWe need to force the issue of cleaning out the voter roles nation wide.
Report Post »Purge the dead people and illegals.
We should have to show a drivers license before you are allowed to vote.
Everyone needs to have camera phones recording and video in case of intimidation incidents.
Then we need to count voters against ballots.
dizzyinthedark
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:19amI hope he does have trouble here, but in my town–I think we have trouble! There are many here that are staunchly D‘s and will go to their death banging the drum of ’It‘s Bushs’ fault. Obama is the smartest President ever!. The governor of Florida is a crook and where’s the jobs he promised to create? It’s the banks that are holding all the money unwilling to give it up.’ SHEESH! All I do is walk away shaking my head as it is useless talking to these idiots.
I’m currently painting my yard sign: “For Sale Because My Neighbors Are An A Z Z H O L E”
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:29pmHope that one works for you. I have a few neighbors like that, but thank goodness our HOA doesn’t let us put out yard signs or we would be the only sane people showing conservative signs on the block
Report Post »Lt_Taz
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:18amObama has shown his true colors, and the people aren’t blindly accepting what they see. He is to serve the people the people aren’t here to serve him.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:33amTo check out what Obama has done since 2009 checkout this link..
Checkout the archives on the right !! God Help The USA !!
http://stutteringmessiah.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-flip-flops/
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:16amOdumbo must be boiled in oil!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:27pmDeep fried?
Report Post »getalong
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:23pmThe more people the Obama administration can get on the government roles (ie, food stampls, housing assistance, free everything), than the more likely the people will vote not necessarily for Obama, but so they can continue their entitlement lifestyle. Free, free everything is a very underhanded way of trapping people into government control. That is why Obama is so against job creation, because with job creation comes independence from the government, and more power to vote the way they would like to without fear of losing their homes, or food, clothing, etc. The progressive agenda is very much like communism.
Report Post »KA-BAR
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:15amHe wont win Florida. I keep seeing more and more Gadsden’s popping up everywhere. I think we’re starting to get our feet back on the RIGHT track.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:23pmYes .. TEA is STRONG in Sourthwest FL for certain .. and I think spreading throughout the state.
TEA!
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:15amI love Florida……spent three of the last four winters in Florida……..and yes it is a GOP stronghold and I believe it will stay that way. Matter of fact, if home prices come down another 7-10% I’ll probably buy a winter home there. I great lady friend there has seen her house go from a value of $244k in 2006 to $126k in the last five years. She is now under water by $14k.
Report Post »Funkeyfantum
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:14amOne and Done….Hopefully our country survives until then.
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:14amThe Jews down here will probably elect him again. They (the Jews)just don’t get it. The democratics do not like them.
Most of them are the liberal “Zydokomuno”. So……..they will vote for him.
Go figure.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:26amYes ,maybe the cuban vote offset them .Just let one of them little chicky show up in a Shia t-shirt
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:28amThe Jews are waking up, especially after his anti-Israel speech. And, as a former resident of Lee county on the west coast of FL. we NEVER voted demoRAT.
Bush won by a landslide in ‘04 in Lee county.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:01pmI support Israel all the way, but I am confused why the American Jews want to be led to slaughter again by the democrats. Didn’t they learn anything from their ancestors prior to WW11 and after? People, the dems are not in your corner. Please stop supporting them.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:13pmWe’ve had 11 world wars?! Where have I been?!?!
Report Post »tyler_durden
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:14amHmmmm well I hope for the best that the boyking gets voted out in a landslide but I’m not holding my breath. The sheeple are still sheeple and fall for the same old mainstream media garbage over and over. I have zero faith in the average voter these days. Why? Pelosi and Wiener keep getting voted back in when they should be in prison is just one example shall I list more examples?
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:36amJust shows that people elect the people they deserve…….look at Weiner’s constituents poll! 56% say he should stay…….
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:11amEvery state that has people with any since,will be tough for Udumbo..The guy is,and allways will be a disaster.Thank you Dems for electing this bafoon.You have awakened a sleeping giant,the American public.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:15pmRight on OAD .. people are awake … and some are having their eyes opened for the first time…..
TEA!
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:41pmAMEN, oldasdirt.
I just got this flashback. We‘ll know when HE knows he’s beat…when he starts SULKING around the rose garden like the spoiled-brat-bully-man-child he always has been.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:24amEvery Blazer should check out this link, and pass it on to your Friends..
Report Post »Covers everything Obama has done since his 2009 Inaguration..
You will be amazed !!
http://stutteringmessiah.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-flip-flops/
RepubliCorp
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:56amA special thanks to Repubic Rinos…….they suck too
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:07amI think he does have an issue but then again it’s ran by Jeb!
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:17amHe’s gonna lose in 2012, but it will be hard to defeat him.
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:23amIt is no longer run by Jeb.
And Obama won’t have a problem as long as Marco Rubio endorses his reelection……….. oh wait, don’t see that happening, I guess Obama does have problem in FL……… and TX, IA, MO, PA, OK…………………………………………………………………………………
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:26amIf the Republican party doesn’t get its act together soon and quit playing politics, Obama will be a two term (and then some) El Presidente. Let me answer that one in advance. The Republicans are just a “slower acting version” (by virtue of the fact they never stop, much less slow down the left’s implemented agenda) of the Democratic party when it comes to the progressive agenda. Obama will be a two term El PResidente. Mark it down.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:29amYES BO will have a problem in Florida because I WILL VOTE AGAINST HIM!!
Report Post »kyuss80
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:29amJeb’s been gone for a minute…
Jeb Bush was FL’s Governor from 1999 to 2007, then we had Charlie Crist (R) from 2007-2011.
Crist was awful, and he ran for Senate in 2010, but lost to Marco Rubio.
The current Governor is Rick Scott (R), and he’s doing a great job thus far.
Report Post »Conservativeman
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:30amObama has a problem in all 57 states.
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:32amMy retarded, gay, liberal brother lives in Floriduh and loves bama. He hates Rick Scott, but my retarded, gay, liberal brother never did like listening to adults……….
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:32amI hope that he’s lost the Jewish vote but that remains to be seen.
Report Post »@10storyfallguy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:36amJeb left the governor’s office in Florida in 2007.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:39amIt is no longer run by Jeb.
Yep – now it’s Rick Scott of nearly 2 billion-dollars-Medicare-fraud fame.
Report Post »http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-05-20/news/fl-rick-scott-governor-hca-20100520_1_medicare-fraud-case-hospitals-in-el-paso-hospital-giant-columbia
Bear
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:42amWow,,for A President that blames BIG Business for every thing from Oil,Coal,Banks and every CEO that ever lived he sure is raking in a lot of private sector money taking an awful lot of trips in his Presidential Plane on the Tax payer Dollar to BUY back states for a second term he said he did not care if he won as long as he did the right thing for the Country???? What a clown,,the States aren’t laughing any more,,Florida,,,,get your head out of your A$$ and all you older voters and Jews,,Grow up,,man up and stop voting for people that hate you and keep you a slave! Its about the economy stupid,,,and your Country,,,it’s not all about you and what you can get from it,,leave a little freedom for the rest of us you Stupid ,Liberal,Hippie Morons!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:47amSee this on Fox? http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/poll-rick-scott-one-of-the-nations-least-popular-governors/1171680
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:48amWhile the representatives of every major international organisation on the planet meet in a hotel in Switzerland, the corporate media is still reporting on Anthony Weiner’s penis.
Down with Bilderberg.
Down with the New World Order.
Down with the Reptilians.
Down with Satan!
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:53amHopefully, those that voted for OBAMMY “just because he’s BLACK” have woke up and … won’t do it again. I don’t know … stupid is as stupid does. We’ll see.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:55amOur boy Barry is going to get his Ar$$ handed to him in all red and swing states.
Report Post »Only the die hard commie states like Kalifonia, Mass, Conn, NY, Vermont NJ Delaware. Maryland etc.
will go for him – too much incurable stupidity in those Staes
discardofevil
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:57amAny one that votes for Barry is voting for
Report Post »Cap and trade
Higher taxes
Killing unborn
No America b/c he doesn’t follow the constitution!
MORE Border chaos
More criminals running around free to do whatever
More stimulus with no one to pay for it!
Obamacare which now I am paying 30% more for my insurance
Obscene amount of debt!
And unions will be out of control
Higher cost of gas
Our right to own a gun will be taken away
Look folks here are some really concerning realities America will not have a future!! If you care!
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:01pmI think he has more than just a Florida Problem
Report Post »2010GOP
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:02pmJeb doesn’t run Florida – get a clue
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:05pmOBAMA, after all the damage he’s done to our precious USA, should have a serious problem in EVERY STATE…not just FLORIDA!!!
WHO else can you name in history has been involved in 4 wars, has over-ridden CONGRESS; has had COMMUNISTS as his closest Advisors (I used to have to duck under desks at the very world Communist) ; who tells BRAZIL ‘we’ll be their best customers’ while given them OUR MONEY to drill in OUR WATERS ?? Who else insults our closest Allies (UK and ISRAEL) at every opportunity; who else has MUSLIM PRAYER Dinners but can’t even mention Christian Day of Prayer? WHO else has run OUR DEBT UP MORE THAN ALL THE INCURRED DEBT FROM ALL THE ADMINISTRATIONS FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON UNTIL NOW?????
THIS Creep is a MUSLIM; he’s a SOCIALIST; he’s a LIAR; he’s a ONE-WORLDER; HE did not grow up in America, I don’t give a damn where he was born…Mars maybe… HE’S a punk who has been schooled and polished by backers (just like they did in E. Europe) to be their puppet so they can rape, rob, control AMERICA.
ANYONE who votes for OBAMA in 2012 (if he’s not impeached before then) isn’t worth the powder to blow them to hell. THIS IS NO AMERICAN, folks…this is the MUSLIM TROJAN HORSE as I’ve been saying since 2008. Even I didn’t know how TRUE that was!!! This is our LAST CHANCE to save this country from these immoral Atheistic, Socialistic, Islamic Cultist Dictators. Seriously.
Report Post »WE must ALL work to get Patriots elected and throw these
CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:21pmObama has a problem all right .. at least on the west coast of Florida .. and it’s not just the economy either .. TEA is strong on the west coast of Florida and we don’t like what he is doing to the Constitiution …. shredding it and the country as a result. WE are the same people who threw out the Republican RINO Crist and elected Marco Rubio .. and we will defeat Obama as well.
TEA!
Yes I am a Florida Voter!
Report Post »gulfstream41
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:24pmWant our country back:
I have been asking the same question for some time now: Why worry so much about Israel when a large majority of jews vote left ?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:37pm@REDISTRIBUTOR
Oh and by the way .. Jeb isn’t governor of FL anymore (he was a good one — out due to term limits) we have replaced the Obama hugging RINO Charlie Crist (who got defeated for Senate by the TEA party and Marco Rubio) .. with the TEA Party supporting and supported by — — Rick Scott!
TEA!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:42pmSooooooooo, Mitt, Jon, TPaw?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:51pmRon Paul 2012.
Everyone else has major irreconcilable baggage.
Report Post »SEC777
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:04pmI live in Florida. Anti-Rick Scott is SO high right now, that I don’t believe President Obama will have much of a problem against any Republican there. Rick Scott is going to have to do something to turn the tide, because Republicans aren’t thought of too highly right now in our state.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:05pmThe Sentiment in 2012 will be “Obama has failed and has no plan on the table that has any chance of succeeding. Let’s give someone else a try. Anybody else.”
The issue isn’t even what caused the crisis anymore because every prominent Democrat including Obama and Clinton voted for every economic decision that got us here.
What is the issue is that Obama obviously has no solution to get us out of this except for Government Spending. It has been proven that spending by the government did not provide ANY growth in the private sector and those private sector companies that saw influxes of cash were coincidently tied to union jobs almost exclusively or local governments spent their money on shoring up union jobs for Teachers, Firefighters or Policeman. All may be necessary at some level, but they do nothing to drive the economy or any growth.
Even if Obama’s “driving into the ditch argument” made any sense, he obviously does not know how to get us out of the ditch or even how or where to drive the car when it does get out. All we will have is a broken car and a leader that does not have enough real life experience to call for a mechanic or use Google Maps to find directions. His analogy would have made more sense if he said:
1) We called a tow truck driver and he really knew what he was doing and he said we could be out of that ditch in 15 minutes. (Rather than the visual of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pushing the car out of the ditch or trying to lift it).
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:07pmEveryday i pray that Obama will be defeated in 2012 better yet impeached before then,i have stated this once or twice already on the Blaze but any Christain or Jew that votes for Obama should be ashamed
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:13pmLOL .. the MSM and Govenment workers (TEACHERS UNIONS) don’t like Scott .. because he is making the hard decisions to bring the state back from the Obama, Pelosi, Reid destruction. The MSM would like you to think Scott isn’t well liked (fixed polls and the like) but most in Florida just want a return to solvency .. and Scott is working on that … I have friends in Michigan and the same thing is happening there (only made worse by the AUTO UNION THUGS). Govenors are getting hammered over state budgets .. because of the Obama disaster .. people know who to blame!
TEA!
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:22pmIm a consevitive but i vote republican. I would vote for a black man, yea i’m white, but not obozo. get that jerk socialist out of our free country.
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:38pm“@Conservativeman
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:30am
Obama has a problem in all 57 states.”
It is sad how poorly educated people are easily led by morons on tv. There IS 57 states in the Country known as the “United States”. Any fool should know this. It is taught in ALL schools. Let me help the slackers understand. The country the “United States” is comprised of 2 distinct nations. One is republican under the Constitution comprised of the 50 States of America. The Other is Democratic (Art 1:8:17) and operates outside the Constitution and is comprised of “D.C., Guam,Puerto Rico,Virgin Islands,American Samoa, Palua, Micronesia.
The former is called the “united States of America” while the latter is called the “United States” and they are 2 different nations with their own citizens, respectively “American” and “US” and there is no requirement that you be a “US citizen”…
Together they form the 57 states to which Obama refereed. They ALL participate in Presidential selection. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24839059/ns/politics-decision_08/t/nominating-not-voting-president/
Stop perpetuating ignorance while showing the degree to which it affects you. Peace
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:42pmHere’s hoping Florida is able to stymie the Dems one more time, just as they did in the Bush/Gore vote-counting debacle. Justice does prevail, and may Florida play a huge role in saving our country by ousting Obama in 2012.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:07pmIf Ron Paul is considered unelectable and does not win the Republican nomination, I will be voting for Obama. I’d much rather he makes things worse, so we can get a real candidate into office in 2016 then to elect some RINO, and who ever receives the nomination WILL be a RINO because all of you are so predictable. I‘d rather let Obama keep ruining the country so we can have REAL change instead of playing this back and forth games we’ve been playing for decades.
If a regular Republican wins, it’ll just be more of the same. And the left will give them three whole days to fix the mess which they’ll just end up screwing up even more. At which point the Democrats will sweep through in the mid terms and get the presidency back in 2016. I’m tired of this game.
We need to stop thinking inside the box. We’ve elected GWB, didn’t turn out so well. Now you’ll try to get another GWB into office, nothing will change. If not Ron Paul, someone of similar principles. Perhaps an Obama win in 2012 will set up for a victory for Rand Paul in 2016. Perhaps it’ll be worth the wait…..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:37pmI just wrote one of my Senators and asked how much time we have before Obama rounds up the right-wingers, conservatives, Christians, those who uphold the Constitution, veterans, and others considered by Napolitano to be “domestic terrorists” and puts them in 800+ Fema camps. The FEMA camps were supposed to be for “illegal immigrants,” but that can’t be true because we have had open borders for thirty years.
I ended it with a comment to the effect, “You know that if the Senate passes the Small Arms Treaty, that it will be all over for the United States, don’t you?”
Report Post »trodriguez4281
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:17pmJeb hasn’t been governor of FL for over 4 years.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 6:48pmConservativeman
Report Post »Obama has a problem in all 57 states.
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LOL – Thanks. However, your comment made me think that it is possible that he could get 57 states’ votes in only the 50 legitimate states. Be prepared and watch the polling places. ACORN is NOT dead.
Eblaze44
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:23pmFlorida is mostly run on tourism – and some agriculture – tomatoes, watermelons, and citrus – but Tourism and Mickey Mouse are the the real losers while gas prices still hover near $4/gal. and the economy is in the doldrums where people are scared to spend what money they do have on long trips. TSA keeps tourism down – as long as they run rough shod over people traveling. Most of the busing coming to Florida is full of Mexicans coming to look for work in fields and groves – no tourists. It’s also hot, dry and some of Florida is on fire, so the air is full of smoke. Cities are still charging bed tax to support their failing efforts at advertising. Now we have Obama coming to strip even more money from his socialist party constituents. Gas prices are 30 cents higher than at the GA border. Florida may have no income tax – but it taxes so much more further ripping off tourists. Who wants to stand in hot 90º blazing heat, long lines, sunburn, $5 ice cream cones, just to say they been to mickey mouse world?
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:36pmIf the folks in Florida are that stupid, then we have a serious problem; How‘s that OBAMA Care working out for you Sr’s. in Floadia?
Hope and Change = NOBAMA in 2012
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:53pmThe President isn’t going to win Florida, not with Scott as Gov and good people like Allen West in Congress. I hope America isn’t going to be made a fool a 2nd time.
Report Post »Bluenose177
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:14pmyou liberal types aren’t too bright are you
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:31pmOne more factor the article leaves out is how Obama threw Israel under the bus with his 1967 borders comment. Obama’s dismal record of support for Isael will certainly cost him many Jewish votes.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:45pmOBAMA is the PROBLEM
Report Post »RandomAmerican
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:48pm@wildbill_b
Thank you for the insult filled tirade.
In general discourse, when people talk about states, they are referring to one or more of the 50 states of the United States of America.
Of course, anyone who has seen the actual clip of what Obama said knows that he simply misspoke and actually meant to say 47 states, since he then went on to say he has one more to visit and could not make it to Alaska and Hawaii. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws )
Also, Washington D.C. is the nation’s capitol. Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are unincorporated territories. Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia are both sovereign island nations. None of these are considered states.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:00amJeb? Sorry, but you are wrong there. Christ was the Governor. Jeb was a potential GOP Presidential candidate without holding an office.
Report Post »That being said. Housing is an issue because of insurance rates, second homes, and people trying to “flip” houses there. Unemployment is because of the housing crash there. I don’t see anyone that is sitting in “good” position to win Florida easily, except maybe Cain, with the Fair Tax, which is the last hope for our declining dollar.
MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:15amEveryone from Florida, PLEASE take the time to checkout
This Link, This what Obama has done since 2009 Inauguration.
I lived in St.Pete. had to leave, No Work, lost Home, SUCKS!!.
http://stutteringmessiah.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-flip-flops/
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Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:37amMiketheTrucker
And Obama won’t have a problem as long as Marco Rubio endorses his reelection……….. oh wait, don’t see that happening, I guess Obama does have problem in FL……… and TX, IA, MO, PA, OK…………………………………………………………………………………
Report Post »AND DON”T FORGET ARIZONA !!!
MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:56amCaptainKook
Yep – now it’s Rick Scott of nearly 2 billion-dollars-Medicare-fraud fame
Liberals know how to CHANGE the subject, this is not about Scott, It’s
Report Post »all about Obama and Florida, I lived in St. Pete, Lost Job,Lost Home and
I know who’s fault it is..and its not George W. Bush’s..Checkout Link !!
You people need to get a clue… AGWWW !!!!
http://stutteringmessiah.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-top-10-flip-flops/
John 3:16
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 8:58amRon Paul is a bad choice. He is a proven loser and would lose again. Let’s see what our Tea Party candidates like Cain, Bachmann and Palin do in the coming debates. We do not need a proven failure running again. America will not vote for a proven loser and neither will I and my sphere of influence. Don’t be afraid to help your friends see the urgant need to stop the traitor in chief.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:01amMIBUGNU2, to Floridians, what will matter will INCLUDE Medicare. (Remember Allen West saying “I will take my hands off Medicare when there is NO MEDICARE…” ??) Scott and West will matter, in all the wrong ways for the Republicans. The election will be a referendum on Teapublican values vs. Democratic values.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:42amand MIBUGNU2, that list is BY FAR not “everything he’s done.” His policies have created more private sector jobs than IN ALL BUSH’S YEARS in office! Your taxes are the lowest they’ve been in over 50 YEARS! How about expansion of children’s health ins. and insuring more Americans, tax credits for new home buyers, Lilly Ledbetter (fair pay act for women,) VOLUNTARY disclosure of the names of the visitors to the WH, new hate crimes legislation, stopped torture of detainees, expansion of food safety, tobacco regulation, student loan/WallStreet/credit card reforms, lgst investments in clean energy and education EVAH, the stimulus (lgst taxcut EVAH and prevented another GREAT DEPRESSION,) improvemts in the GIBill, the long-overdue elimination of DADT, he put the cost of the wars ON THE BOOKS, signing the START treaty, and the largest elimination of AlQaeda operatives EVER, inc. Osama AND HIS THUMB DRIVES!
Report Post »Granted, there are things left, some of them on your list, like CLOSE GITMO, immigration and energy reforms, get our troops home, GET RID OF BUSH TAX CUTS!! And granted, there’s 20-some-odd% of Americans who HATE to see WallStreet regulated…but the majority of people believe that MILLIONAIRES DON’T CREATE A ROBUST ECONOMY, A ROBUST ECONOMY CREATES MILLIONAIRES!
My point is that your list is BY FAR not reflective of ALL that’s been done.
TomFerrari
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:15amROFLMAO!!
In their efforts to polarize and divide America for political differentiation and gain,
obama and pals are urinating on entire states! They are handing us the election on a silver platter!
WOOO HOOO!!!
This past week, we heard the EPA is going to mandate industry-destroying levels of mandates on coal.
So, they just tossed out any chance of getting a single vote in Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania!
ROFLMAO!
Well, they WILL get the guilt-ridden rich and the spoiled-rotten trust-fund self-important educated elitists.
Which leaves the rest of America to vote for ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
“We have a PLAN – all they have are empty SLOGANS” ™
“Let’s GET TO WORK!” ™
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 2:28pmTOM, 3/4 of those states voted R in 2008 anyway. PA we’ll wait and see :^)
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Posted on June 12, 2011 at 6:21pm“2012 Troubles Ahead for Obama in Prized Florida?”
Do you mean that ONLY ONE STATE (Florida of all places) has the Constitutional fortitude to hang that marxist illegal-alien Kenyan for treason or sedition or enemy combatant against the Unites States Of America? WHERE IS THE REST OF AMERICA?!?
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