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Yes we are it's too bad the country has to suffer for it, blame Nancy and the superdelegates.

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Wow, this is a GREAT article!  Thanks, Rach.  May I call you that?

Here's some of it (all in quotes):

Are Hillary Clinton supporters murmuring I told you so?

by Marc Rubin

With a new NBC/Wall Street journal poll showing Obama hitting his lowest rating in that poll, and the poll showing that people are getting fed up with Obama, the Democrats and how both have handled health care,  ( how they handled it, not rejecting things like the public option) those who supported Hillary Clinton for president in the Democratic primaries are starting to say "I told you so".

Obama's had the biggest approval ratings drop of any first year president in history.  He has disappointed most of his supporters on the left. And he has accomplished little to nothing in his first year that has showed any concrete results in spite of him giving himself a B+.
 
 What he has done is make more speeches and had more prime time press conferences in his first year than any president has had in their first term. 
 
On healthcare reform most of his supportes are complaining that he sold out and was two faced in his capitulation. Which he was. But these are traits he exhibited not only during his entire 12 years of elected office, but were on glaring display during the Democratic primaries.
 
Now everyone is angry with him for showing a lack of principle, commitment, experience and expertise and a willingness to sacrifice a principle on a dime but that's who Obama has always been and he showed it repeatedly during the primaries, whether he was willing to sell out the voters of Florida and Michigan to help himself get elected, or reversing himself on a pledge to use public financing.
 
Now as Obama's approval ratings continue to hit record lows for a first term president, and he is bringing the Democratic party down with him,  as people are getting fed up with his handling of a propositon -- the public option and health care reform --  that 72% supported back in June, many Hillary Clinton supporters are starting to say "we told you so".
 
More and more of Obama's staunchest supporters, the same people who turned a blind eye to Obama's deep character flaws, lack of experience, and brazen political dishonesty, and deceit, are now complaining that he's not what they thought he was, that this isnt change they can believe in. But it never was in the first place. It was clear to anyone who paid attention that was nothing but a slogan.
 
Ed Schultz, Arianna Huffington, the people at The Nation, Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone, are just a few of Obama flag wavers now wavering in their support and scratching their heads saying  "what happened"?
 
The answer is nothing happened. Obama is just being the same Obama he always was, the same Obama that was apparent during the Democratic primaries, the same Obama that a 18 months ago after listening to a couple of speeches, write that he was a snake oil salesman and the most underhanded, deceitful politician since Richard Nixon.  But the press. who was in Obama's pocket, refused to see it.

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http://www.examiner.com/x-6572-NY-Obama-Administration-Examiner~y2009m12d17-Are-Hillary-Clinton-supporters-murmuring-I-told-you-so

This is shaping up to be a super-fun day!wink


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Yup!

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Yep Alex you can call me that.  That article sounds like someone from here wrote it!

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Great article I read it this morning was going to comment and wanted to share it but my computer had other ideas then I started painted and fell in the hole my landlord never fixed. 
It does sound like someone here wrote it..

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I know about acorn, the voting twice, the cheating, ect, but I will never understand how he got so many (mostly college kids) to buy that "yes we can" hope and change nonsense. We knew. How did he suck them in?

I hope and pray it doesn't work twice.

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Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

Great article I read it this morning was going to comment and wanted to share it but my computer had other ideas then I started painted and fell in the hole my landlord never fixed. 


Are you o.k., HMG?  That sounds painful!

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Rachel wrote:  Yep Alex you can call me that.

Thanks, Rach.  I appreciate that.wink

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Shadow wrote:  I will never understand how he got so many (mostly college kids) to buy that "yes we can" hope and change nonsense.

They really weren't paying that much attention, I don't think!  Just getting on the bandwagon...that'll be a lesson well learned, hopefully!


 



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The reason why that article sounds like someone here wrote it is because the author is Marc Rubin of The Denver Group. As far as I know, he doesn't post here at Hillarysworld, but he is very much one of us.

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