Obama the Brave and Bold : Obama is learning to fight for his life in Confederate Ground - This was Segregation Territory, a few decades ago :
"Confederate flags, including one giant specimen a half-mile from the day care center in Brodnax, abounded. So did tea party protesters, present in small, vocal clusters outside several Obama events".
Obama is too much of a Gentleman and Intellectual, but he has to learn the subtle Art of Politicking if he wants a second term as President. Obama has to connect more with the White Working Class. I have no doubt that Blacks, Latinos and Minorities are going to vote for him in Big Proportions or Bigger than in 2008.
Obama has to learn to be more easygoing and relaxed with "Enemy" audiences. Of course Obama is fighting for their Economic Well Being, but these people are accustomed to vote against their own economic interest ( for the Republicans ).
"Obama ventured into areas that will never vote for him, something few politicians have the guts to do. He appeared in places a liberal African-American politician seldom treads, including the North Carolina hamlets of Millers Creek (pop. 2,071; 99 percent white) and Jamestown (pop. 3,088; 87 percent white), which both went two-to-one for John McCain in 2008".
Why Do Republican enemies say that Obama is a Sissy, Weakling and Coward before Enemies, Bullies and Dictators ??
"Confederate flags, including one giant specimen a half-mile from the day care center in Brodnax, abounded. So did tea party protesters, present in small, vocal clusters outside several Obama events".
Obama is too much of a Gentleman and Intellectual, but he has to learn the subtle Art of Politicking if he wants a second term as President. Obama has to connect more with the White Working Class. I have no doubt that Blacks, Latinos and Minorities are going to vote for him in Big Proportions or Bigger than in 2008.
Obama has to learn to be more easygoing and relaxed with "Enemy" audiences. Of course Obama is fighting for their Economic Well Being, but these people are accustomed to vote against their own economic interest ( for the Republicans ).
"Obama ventured into areas that will never vote for him, something few politicians have the guts to do. He appeared in places a liberal African-American politician seldom treads, including the North Carolina hamlets of Millers Creek (pop. 2,071; 99 percent white) and Jamestown (pop. 3,088; 87 percent white), which both went two-to-one for John McCain in 2008".
Why Do Republican enemies say that Obama is a Sissy, Weakling and Coward before Enemies, Bullies and Dictators ??
POLITICO.COM
Obama: Alone on the bus
By GLENN THRUSH
October 22, 2011
Obama: Alone on the bus
Some Excerpts :
“He is not out here campaigning for himself or for other candidates,” Carney explained to reporters on Wednesday. “The president is focused on the important matter at hand, which is getting the American Jobs Act passed and signed into law.”
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One Democratic operative, otherwise skeptical of Obama’s itinerary, told POLITICO: “Give him credit. … It’s the equivalent of [House Speaker John] Boehner and [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell spending a day in Harlem. Can you imagine those guys doing that?”
In speeches throughout the trip, Obama gave himself credit for his audacity, in what has become the most popular passage of his evolving stump speech.
“Now, a number of people have been asking during the course of this road trip, why have you been visiting some of the most Republican parts of North Carolina and Virginia?” he asked an audience of about 400 in a Richmond-area firehouse. “And what I’ve had to remind them is that I’m not the Democratic president, I’m not the Republican president — I’m the president of the United States of America,” he added to hoots and applause.
The president seemed happiest and most relaxed during the couple of hours his wife was around. Not surprisingly, his most buoyant stops came in the areas surrounding Greensboro, N.C., and Emporia, Va., which have large African-American populations.
On Tuesday, the motorcade pulled into Brodnax in southern Virginia, and the president plunged into a crowd gathered at the local post office and a day care center.
“Obama shook my hand,” crowed Shabaka Crayton, a supervisor at Home Depot, echoing the adoration lavished on Obama in 2008. “I won’t wash my hand. Barack came to Brodnax.”
Other stretches of road offered no such solace. After a decades-long Democratic presidential drought, Obama in 2008 won Carolina by a few thousand votes, Virginia by seven points. But there were reminders that the fast-changing region isn’t entirely friendly terrain.
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The consensus among the traveling press was that the crowds, even those supportive of Obama, seemed smaller and less enthusiastic than on the Midwest trip, perhaps due to the rain that descended on Virginia late Tuesday.
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The best event for Obama turned out to be the smallest, the one where everything went wrong.
Two thousand or more people had been expected outside the North Chesterfield Fire Station Nine if the sun had been shining Wednesday, but the rain forced everyone to cram inside the small firehouse bay. It was hot. The lighting was so unflattering that Obama’s sleeveless T was visible under his dress shirt. He read from notes, not the TelePrompter. And the national media, watching it all on TV, thought he looked worn out.
But, for the first time on the trip, Obama really connected with a blue-collar white audience in a GOP-dominated suburb, with firefighters and other municipal workers who support federal spending to preserve their jobs.
“Let’s focus on what will actually put people back to work. Keeping first responders on the job — that’s a jobs plan,” he said, interrupted by applause.
The crowd was buzzing, but pool reporters were rounded up and quickly ushered out, another stop on the “Pack up guys!” express.
The president worked the crowd briefly, but he was soon gone, too, wheels up on the 17-minute flight back to Washington.
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