President Obama Struggles to Reignite Youth Voter Enthusiasm

It will simply not work this time round. Obama will find it tough to motivate the youth who have head it all before. What has really changed for them in the last 2 years?

That Hopey-Changey stuff is not working.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Biden and the rest of the liberals in Congress, along with the biased media and ACORN, based the entire 2008 campaign on lies.
Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history.
We need to replace all liberals in Congress.

increased Pell money and health care coverage on parental plans . . . to begin with . . .Posted by: Richard | Sep 27, 2010 10:31:19 PM
Is that really enough after all the promises?

IT NOW LOOKS LIKE THE YOUNGER GENERATION IS WAKING UP ON THIS LIER,THIEF,COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.THEY ARE THE ONES WHO WILL SUFFER IN YEARS TO COME.WE WANT A USA NOT A COMMUNIST SOCIALIST REPUBLIC,AND A DICTATOR.

The left leaning October rally in DC should draw people into the fold, I understand the following Patriotic
Americans are attending:
Below I have listed a mere handful of the plethora of leftist organizations which are backing this march:
•AFL-CIO
•American Federation of Teachers
•NAACP
•SEIU
•Jim Wallis’s Sojourners
•American Friends Service Committee
•American Rights at Work
•Campaign for Peace and Democracy
•Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
•Communist Party USA
•Democratic Socialists of America
•Safe Schools’ Czar, Kevin Jennings’ Gay,_Lesbian,_Straight_Education_Network
•Institute for Policy Studies
•International Socialist Organization
•Jobs with Justice
•People for the American Way
•Queers for Economic Justice
•Solidarity
•Unite Here
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The youth are probably sick of seeing their first job’s paychecks get decimated and aren’t seeing a reprieve from Obama anywhere in sight.
Kids aren’t stupid. They’re realizing for themselves that, ‘if my employer gets his taxes raised, there goes any hopes of a pay increase for me’. They’re wondering, ‘what is stimulating about overtaxing my employer?’

Posted by: Tom | Sep 27, 2010 11:59:30 PM
p.s. – you think kids thought their chances were better for a pay increase when 700,000 people were losing their jobs every month by the end of the Bush Republican administration? Major banks and financial institutions failing? Major auto companies failing? Small businesses going bankrupt by the thousands?

The youth want jobs. They want a future!
Posted by: kottaras | Sep 28, 2010 12:20:44 AM
You think that’s what Bush and the Republicans gave them?
With 700,000 people losing their jobs every month by the end of the Bush Republican administration? Major banks and financial institutions failing? Major auto companies failing? Small businesses going bankrupt by the thousands?
I don’t think so.

Posted by: kottaras | Sep 28, 2010 12:38:38 AM
You duck the issue. You say the youth want jobs. They want a future!
You think the youth want what Bush and the Republicans gave them?
With 700,000 people losing their jobs every month by the end of the Bush Republican administration? Major banks and financial institutions failing? Major auto companies failing? Small businesses going bankrupt by the thousands?
I don’t think so.

Posted by: kottaras | Sep 28, 2010 12:53:07 AM
For people raised in the television era, it might seem that channels and realities can be changed with the flick of a remote control.
Recovering from the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression is not as easy as flicking the remote.
It’s been only 20 months since President Obama took office – the President never promised the recovery would be swift or easy. In fact he said repeatedly that it took a long time to dig a hole this deep and it wouldn’t be easy nor fast getting out of it.
Put down your remote control reality and take a peak at real world.
You’d prefer what the Republicans delivered? 700,000 people losing their jobs every month by the end of the Bush Republican administration? Major banks and financial institutions failing? Major auto companies failing? Small businesses going bankrupt by the thousands?
I don’t think so.

But Obama was the one making the promises of quick changes.
Posted by: kottaras | Sep 28, 2010 1:14:42 AM
The President promised nothing of the sort on the economy. He said repeatedly – and from the beginning – that it took a long time to dig a hole this deep and it wouldn’t be easy nor fast getting out of it.
And you keep ignoring the question.
You’d prefer what the Republicans delivered? 700,000 people losing their jobs every month by the end of the Bush Republican administration? Major banks and financial institutions failing? Major auto companies failing? Small businesses going bankrupt by the thousands?

Stan you keep repeating how Bush was responsible for the recession. I do not agree with you. The recession was a global one brought about by many factors.
People are still losing jobs and their homes even after Obama promised them assistance.

Stan you keep repeating how Bush was responsible for the recession. I do not agree with you.
Posted by: kottaras | Sep 28, 2010 1:33:00 AM
Mr. Bush’s chief economic adviser doesn’t agree with you.
“As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February 2008, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a “rough patch.”
“The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.
“There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,” said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush’s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. “Had we, we would have attacked them.”

Stan,
Like I discussed with you yesterday, Obama inherited his own recession with omnibus bills that he voted for . . . one more time tierra:
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007, after winning the Senate since 2006, is the Democratic Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

Stan/tierra/Dan/Arnold/Allyson/One-0-One, inc/and any other aliases I’ve missed,
Once again, kids aren’t stupid. Congress – a Democrat controlled Congress since 2006 – has been on a massive spending spree since then. The Republicans weren’t much help – spending like drunken sailors themselves; however, Obama has racked up debt in the TRILLIONS. That’s 4x greater than what Bush delivered – QUADRUPLING the deficit. Government spending by Republicans was bad, but under the Democrats – it blows the lid off.

Posted by: EPU | Sep 28, 2010 1:58:38 AM
Kid’s aren’t stupid and they can do research.
Bush’s economic team dropped the ball on the near depression looming – and threw the country into near free-fall economic collapse.
Everybody knows this, including Bush’s own chief economic advisor . ..
Mr. Bush’s chief economic advisor doesn’t agree with you either EPU . …
“And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February 2008, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a “rough patch.”
“The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.
“There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,” said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush’s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. “Had we, we would have attacked them.”
They didn’t and they didn’t.

Of course he’s struggling to ignite youth voter enthusiasm.
What’s there to be excited about?

“Kid’s aren’t stupid and they can do research…”
Hubbard, Bush’s Chief Economic Advisor also says:
“he believes Obama inherited a mess but has made it worse with nearly every one of his major policy initiatives and general governing philosophy.”

Pres Barry is out spreading one of his favorites today about tax cuts for the rich, stating we can’t afford them and have to get rid of them because of the budget deficit. Those tax cuts cost $70 billion a year(if you buy the cost part that is); the budget deficit is, what, about $1.2 TRILLION dollars per year??
Pres Barry likes to say that the Bush tax cuts and two wars were not paid for and it was all handed to him…
Here’s some news for Pres Barry — The war on poverty is not paid for. Social Security is not paid for. Medicaid is not paid for. The Department of Education is not paid for. The EPA is not paid for. So why do you single out the tax cuts and the Pentagon/Military, Pres Barry?

Uh, Jake. I think the you meant “re-create” not recreate.
Sheesh. What a maroon.

“Since 2006″ is correct, meaning after 2006 (beginning 2007). Since 2007 would be incorrect – meaning from the beginning of 2008.”
ROFLMAO!
When you say since you include that time period up to the present.
This is how pathologically dishonest the right wing is.
When caught lying they simply make up new definitions for words.