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‘Wasn’t Advertised Properly’: Fewer Than 200 Reportedly Show Up for Pro-Obama Rally Featuring Stevie Wonder

Nov. 3, 2012 6:30pm Erica Ritz

Fewer Than 200 Show Up for Obama Rally Featuring Stevie Wonder at Cleveland State University

Stevie Wonder also performed at a campaign event with Michelle Obama in Jacksonville, Florida on November 1, 2012. (Photo: AP)

Cleveland.com is reporting that fewer than 200 people showed up for a unique get-out-the-vote rally for President Obama featuring legendary musician Stevie Wonder.

Located at Cleveland State University, Brandon Blackwell of The Plain Dealer writes that the event was primarily to encourage early voting, but that perhaps Obama supporters weren’t given enough warning to clear their schedules for the mini-concert.

Blackwell relates:

Obama for America Ohio, which hosted the rally, informed its nearly 34,000 followers on Twitter about the event around 10 a.m.

“Perhaps it wasn’t advertised properly, but the people who are here are fired up,” said Bill Milhoan, of Mentor.

Milhoan, who said he supports Obama, was one of the few people in the crowd who have not already voted.

“It would be disingenuous to say I am here because of Obama,” he said. “How do you pass up a chance to see Stevie Wonder?”

The event did start pretty early, with Wonder reportedly taking the stage at around 10:30 a.m. Many just followed the music, apparently, and had no idea they were walking into an early-morning get-out-the-vote rally.

However, apparently the Obama campaign has had high hopes for the impact of the president’s Hollywood backers. ABC News wrote today that the president is finishing his campaign with a “star-studded blitz” and “banking on a final burst of star power to boost his get-out-the-vote effort.”

To that end, Wonder reportedly told the roughly 200 people in the crowd: “I do a song. You go vote. You come back. We do some more music.”

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Black Midge
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:07pm
Advertising an Obama event does not matter ya gotta call the unions to get a turn out every one knows that.

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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:48pm
  Was just on the Drudge and it showed a guy in the Rockaways with a bow saying he would not hesitate to use it…..awesome….a bow is the perfect weapon for the patient hunter….almost silent and always lethal….good hunting brother.
  
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- mrspeedwagon
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:51pm
  Maybe all da busses wuz stuck in the Hurricaine
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:20pm
  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL This is funnier then anything I have heard today. I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody showed but that is a pipe dream of mine. But then I am a patriot & can’t tolerate a leader who will not defend our own people. I’m talking about Benghazi. This is a music video tribute about why you should respect our flag & all those who watch over us and give their lives to keep us free! We lost 4 good men who gave their lives for nothing because this administration would not try & save them.
  http://youtu.be/lJXb0LLkx1Y
  
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- db321
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:33pm
  Unbelievable! Can we just get this guy out of the White House. America has work to do. 1st on the list is to find out what Coward gave the “Stand Down” order for the support of those two brave Navy Seals in Libya.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:17pm
  Bluefish-
  Also, hard for CSI to prove you did it after the fact…as long as you “leave no arrow behind”.
  It is sad that a bow is only real weapon they are allowed, and Bloomberg probably has a law against those as well…
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:54pm
  I’m pretty sure that Stevie Wonder could get more than a crowd of 200 to stop and listen in an unannounced street concert. The Obama rally was the people repellant. Everything turned out fine. They told Stevie there were millions of people there and he left happy.
  
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- Hobo Boondocks
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 11:09pm
  Due to security and crowd control concerns, it was necessary to keep the rally small and intimate. I hope no one told Stevie Wonder about that though. He’s probably taken nearly that many as staff and crew on concert tours with him in years past. Let’s hope those that showed up were not on his payroll in the past.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:34am
  @HOBO BOONDOCKS
  “Due to security and crowd control concerns, it was necessary to keep the rally small and intimate.”
  
  If that was the case, why would they send out Tweets announcing the event to 34,000 people and feature entertainment by someone that should ensure a large turnout? What puzzles me is that Stevie Wonder gave a free concert on a state university campus and only 200 bothered to attend. Granted there was short notice, but even so, it wouldn’t be out of line to expect at least a couple of thousand to show up.
  
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- roselee71
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 10:50am
  Dare we believe theres onely 200 head in the sand and —s in the air supporters out there maybe the rest will see the light while sleeping,before all hell brecks loose from the sweet little man that leads iran.
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 10:58am
  Well at least Wonder couldn’t really tell how many people were there…I’ll even bet Obama lied to him and said there were thousands!
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:09am
  20,000 people showed up at a rally for Romney in Ohio and 200 for Obama and Stevie Wonder. Sounds about right.
  
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- WINSTONfSMITH
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:18am
  very superstitious……what a low life to use Stevie like that. He could draw a crowd on a deserted island ….the Barack Hussein Obama name brings down a super star, just as it has your income,your property value while increasing gas prices, taxes, and the unemployment. Even Stevie Wonder can see through the smoke and mirrors. 01212013
  
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- Chiron Pyrope
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 5:09pm
  You’re right, of course, but it also means that one of the two featured celebrities is a has been.
  
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- PeruvianMarine
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Just glad Stevie Wonder didn’t see how “huge” the crowd was. More than likely he was lied to about how big the turn out was. No surprise there.
  
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toomuchgovt
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:07pm
I love Stevie Wonder. He needs to come home to the conservative side and see the sunshine.

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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:40pm
  Gotta love Stevie when he goes whoring for Obama.
  
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- black9897
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Yeah. Some of the best music of all time.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:19pm
  great musician….maybe somebody should tell him Obama is white…
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:21pm
  @WARMUNGER
  great musician….maybe somebody should tell him Obama is white…
  —-
  Honestly, dude, Barack is so black in his mind, that he gratuitously threw his white grandmother who raised him under the bus without even batting an eye. He had to be cornered to do the same to his black mentor, Jeremiah Wright.
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:06am
  Did you really say that Stevie Wonder should “see” the sunshine? Ha ha ha…your bad.
  
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- TinaDenson
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:38pm
  He’s NOT going to see! Even if by some act of god he was able to see!
  
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QuincySmith
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:03pm
Wednesday Headline: “oblama Campaign Says it was Not Advertised Properly”

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:12pm
  somebody else’s fault
  
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- jamestoms
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:28pm
  And Sambo is running the country, what a laugh
  
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- phillipwgirard
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:47pm
  Sambo, lol, too funny, I have a sweet tooth for **** like this,,,
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:01pm
  Yup, hold dem’ der’ presses-
  Stevie Wonder & the Gutless Wonder on the same stage
  and only 200 wallabies show up for the festivities…
  nah, say it isn’t so !
  
  Wrap up Motown and roll out the re-election blues.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 2:38am
  NO you little twerps. SAMBO is not funny. it’s a racial slur. THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANY COLOR but RED, as in COMMUNIST or YELLOW as in COWARD or GUTLESS WONDER. NO ONE I know is upset with Obama about his race…whatever it is…it’s about his policies. YOU ARE PROBABLY PAID TROLLS here to make the decent people here look like racists. GOOD TRY, DOPES. NO CIGAR.
  
  GO back the HUFF PO.
  
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- Thatsenough
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:01pm
  As soon as I hear Hollywood, I run in the opposite direction…those people are weak in the head!
  
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- TexasTall
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 3:28pm
  The color of his skin is NOT an issue with me, and I don’t think calling him Sambo is funny. My problem with him is his Marxist policies.
  
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MarieC
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:00pm
I’d go see Stevie Wonder….blast from the past….I’d be boooooooin Obama though…

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- DenverKitty
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:28am
  How about Fats Domino “Whiskey Heaven? OMG, good memories! Ray Charles, Nat King Cole…Unforgettable!!
  
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Bluefish49
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:59pm
Come on everyone….lets ease up on Stevie…he was and still is a music icon who though misguided doesn’t deserve our ridicule……everyone gets an ugly “blind date” every once in a while….unfortunately Stevie’s was Barack.

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Eastinfection
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:55pm
I’m sure they were like, “We’ll Stevie is blind and the MSM does what we tell them to so…..
does it really matter if we sell tickets?”

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:54pm
I’ve been wondering where Gloria Allred went. Where’s her October surprise? Are they waiting for Monday to spring it?

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- overthecliff
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:01pm
  October surprise was the kidnapping of the Ambassador to Tunisia and his release being negotiated by Obama. It didn`t work out very well.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:06pm
  @overthecliff,
  
  Kidnapping of Ambassador Stevens of Libya and trading him for the Blind Sheik.
  
  We find out about Obama saving Stevens before the election and the release of the Blind Sheik afterwards.
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:41pm
  Monday would be way to late…..
  
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- ahberns
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:59pm
  You are talking about the October surprise being the kidnapping of Stevens. That was most likely the plan. However, the SEALS blew it. That was most likely the reason that they were told to stand down. I imagine that Stevens was not in on the ploy so he then wound up dead. Now the CIA is claiming that they sent help within 24 minutes. But, the only response within 24 minutes was the two SEALS, Woods and Doherty. So I guess that now the story is not that they were told to stand down.
  
  Pitiful, just plain pitiful.
  
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- RobbieTLHughie
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Y’all are some sick puppies…
  
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noslave
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:54pm
free phones and sneakers brings em out of the woodwork.stevie wonder is like old timers lawrence welk??

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:50pm
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Look at how far back Stevie’s hair line is these days.
I think it’s time to lose what’s left of those dreadlocks.
He’s starting to look really ridiculous.

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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:54pm
  sssshhhhhh dont tell steevie, he’ll never know
  
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- jamestoms
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:31pm
  Looks like a canidate for a horror movie
  
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- Master.Debater
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:27pm
  Give him a break. He’s blind and can’t see how ridiculous he looks.
  
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Bluefish49
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:48pm
Good thing Stevie can’t see…he may have played “The Party’s Over” if he could.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:01pm
  Die Hard… John McClane:
  
  “Who’s driving this car, Stevie Wonder?”
  
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whiterightwingchristianmale
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:48pm
Because Both Stevie and Barry SUCK! I said after the 3rd debate that Romney will have a MANDATE. I still say that, and the polls show it. Carter is now the 2nd worst former President. Obama will live in infamy. History will not be kind. Everything hidden will come out. His eligibility, Benghazi, the lies, everything is going to come out. God Bless, President Mitt Romney! God Bless America!

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:38pm
  @WHITERIGHT – 0 is ineligible. An Attorney Mario Apuzzo, Esq. has done ALL the research on Article III and said “for he is neither a “natural born citizen” nor a “citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution.” He has all the proof and related court cases. The reading of it is intense and long…could take a week. But he has proved 0′s ineligibility to hold the office of President. What a mess. Can someone ineligible be tried for treason if he’s not even a citizen?
  This President is the worst longest terrifying nightmare imaginable.
  
  http://www.puzo1.blogspot.com/2012/10/barack-obama-is-ineligible-to-be.html
  
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- Palrak
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 10:58am
  I sincerely hope you’re right!
  
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Bluefish49
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:47pm
Mr. Potus….tick….tock….tick….tock.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:47pm
Twins! Both black, blind, and has-beens.

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Dde13
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:44pm
If you can’t tell people about all your success you attack your opponent….the only pres do brag about 6 trillion of new debt, 7.9 unemployment. The list would go too long. Barry is a FAILURE….

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oriondma05
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:42pm
They should have used Sandra Fluke, I heard she knows how to please a crowd.

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- gyro
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:06pm
  poor taist
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:22pm
  awesome…that was a perfect ten.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:40pm
  Yet very accurate
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:42pm
  Gyro….explain to me how she needs 3000.00 worth of birth control a year if she’s not pleasing crowds……fairly large crowds to boot. Just sayin.
  
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- oriondma05
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 10:23am
  Thank you all! Gyro, you’re delicious.
  
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- Vets and Vettes Rock
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Yuk who wants to taste that!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:42pm
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Stevie Wonder is a has-been. He lost his singing voice years ago.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:05pm
  LEAD: How could a man who wrote “Isn’t She Lovely” with all of that love and positive vibe, endorse a hateful Blamer like Obama ??
  
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Watermain
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:42pm
I love the part about not having time to clear their schedules. I’m sure that most Obama supporters have plenty of time on their hands.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:03pm
  WATER: Well, they might be busy running some OWS camp. Hard work….
  
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RealManDad
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:41pm
Apparently Stevie is not just physically blind . . .

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:00pm
  REAL: the Obama crowd brings to mind the old saying” none so blind as those who can not see.” Classic young Marxist. Filled with ” hate the rich/ capitalism/ America / ” whatever. Think they are mostly the young who never were taught the moral death trap of hatred, nor about their immortal soul . They weren’t told that when someone is appealing to your dark hateful side, you should run from them like you would from a murderer or a molester. They will kill your soul . The Obama Far Left Democrats are doing just that. RUN AWAY from them , America . NOBAMA 2012
  
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- Bob
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Genius post! LOL!
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:41pm
Gosh, what a bunch of genius’
Ironically this is how they run the country too.

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- Colklink1957
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:02pm
  Oh, how right you are!!! That, without a doubt, sums it up!
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:48pm
  The Blind singing to the Blind.
  
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Watermain
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:39pm
Really Stevie? Even if I vote for Mitt?

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BODYBAG
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:39pm
‘WASN’T ADVERTISED PROPERLY’

We can no longer adhere to the same old Bush-era advertising policies that got us in to this mess
in the first place.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:43pm
  Hi BODYBAG,
  
  Bwhahahahahahahahaha………….. nice :)
  
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The-Monk
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:39pm
‘Wasn’t Advertised Properly’… wasn’t that what Benghazi Barack said about his policies?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/07/13/biggest-mistake-of-obama-s-first-term-bad-storytelling.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2012/07/the-master-narrator-obama-the-nature-of-this-office-is-also-to-tell-a-story-to-the-american-people-2389750.html

“President Obama sat down with Charlie Rose Thursday–Michelle by his side–and told the CBS anchor that the biggest mistake of his first term was focusing too much on policy and not enough on creating a relatable narrative for the public. “When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well, the mistake of my first term…was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that’s important,” he said. “But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.”

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- Watermain
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:46pm
  I don’t give a crap about a “relatable narrative”, whatever that is. Your mistake Mr. Obama is that you want to turn America into a third world craphole as a penance for all the “wrongs” you think we have done to the rest of the world. If you would have presided over this great nation as though you love it, instead of denigrating it at every opportunity, in front of every tin pot dictator and communist in the world, we might have a much different opinion of your presidency.
  
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- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:53pm
  Hey, I speak BS!! Let me see now……what this says is……..”We needed to learn how to lie better!!!!”
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:56pm
  @Watermain, OBlamo’s vision for America is for it’s citizens to have to look upwards to see third world crap holes (nations). Another 4 years and his vision will become reality.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:02pm
  WATER: Bingo. Well stated !
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:38pm
  he must have forgotten that
  
  ——— In GOD we Trust ———
  
  not allah
  
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- rickroland
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:39pm
  D’oh! I forgot that one, the “It’s the story’s fault!” That’s going on my updated list of Barack’s “It’s … fault!”
  
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- celestialfire
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:28pm
  “But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.”
  
  The Interesting word in his statement is “story”. A story can either be the truth, or it can be a lie. No more stories, enough already!
  
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normalmom
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:39pm
Maybe if he did something that didn’t put emphasis on his racism.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:55pm
  Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem able to do that. These New Far Left Obama Democrats have been playing the Race Card since 2008. I remember stating that it wasn’t the color of his bi-racial skin that I objected to, it was the color of his policies which were Communist RED . Still feel the same. The Democrats have used Discrimination and Race to divide this country since the 60s. It’s the way they retain their power by keeping Blacks ” on the political plantation” and calling any Black who succeeds an Uncle Tom or an Oreo. Total Black Power racism . Sad for ALL of us . Obama was indoctrinated with the same hateful brainwashing by the old ” hate America ” Commie left overs from the USSR versus America days.
  
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LTinUT
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:39pm
Hmmm… Yesterday I heard on the news about the Stevie Wonder event as well as other events this weekend with Bruce Springsteen and JayZ… and I live in Utah! I guess those who voted for Obama last time are not paying attention this time around.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:33pm
Ha Ha Ha Ha ha HA Ha hA ha HA!

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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:38pm
  Really…when you have more press than supporters you need to go ahead and call Mayflower…
  
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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 6:49pm
  Looks like Ohio’s not voting for Obama this time around. Way to go Cleveland!!!!!
  
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