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James Carville Has A Word Of Advice For Obama: ‘Panic!’

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Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville has penned an op-ed piece offering a simple bit of advice for our Commander-in-Chief: “Panic.” Specifically an organized sort of panicking that requires multiple, specific steps.

“We are far past sending out talking points,” write Carville. “Do not attempt to dumb it down. We cannot stand any more explanations. Have you talked to any Democratic senators lately? I have. It’s pretty damn clear they are not happy campers.”

To address these unhappy campers, Carville offers a list of suggestions: Fire somebody (Preferably “a lot of people” because “This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm.”), indict people, make a case like a Democrat, and hold fast to an explanation.

Carville also expresses mild terror at what Obama’s failure to get re-elected might mean for the future of the nation:

As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.

The course we are on is not working. The hour is late, and the need is great. Fire. Indict. Fight.

Take a look at Carville’s piece and let us know what you think. Good advice? Can Obama win back Democrats at this point, or are things for him beyond repair?

h/t CNN.com

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  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    somebody better report Carville to AttackWatch.com

  • Anonymous

    A longtime pol like Carville knows failure when he sees it , as we all do .

  • Anonymous

    Carville should have his own show on MSDNC, the alternative reality channel. Telling Obama to panic is like asking the captain of the Titanic if he knew he hit an iceberg. No doubt Barry would say “But it was built by GE in China and the NYT says the ship is unsinkable.  I will go back to the First Class cabin and raise more money from Wall Street.”.
    James, the country panicked a while ago and started electing “tea party” Republicans, it will get far, far worse for the Dems, public employee unions and the gaggle of left wing pressure groups financed by Dem members of congress with our tax dollars.

  • Michelle

    The only way he can win them back it to go back to his ultra-liberal, socialist tendencies and stop trying to pretend he’s a centrist.  The problem with that is it turns off the I voters and his support from them has already plummeted to 31%.  He’s toast.

  • Michelle

    The only way he can win them back it to go back to his ultra-liberal, socialist tendencies and stop trying to pretend he’s a centrist.  The problem with that is it turns off the I voters and his support from them has already plummeted to 31%.  He’s toast.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with one thing.  Fire most of your team, Pres. Obama.  Talk to Bill Clinton for advice as well, not Carville.  

  • Michelle

    Start with Eric Holder.  The man is a disgrace.

  • TruDat

    Of course he feels that way about the Republican candidates.  This far left loon, like all far left loons, delusionally believes that they are in the mainstream, that they are the norm.  Sadly, their delusion has overcome any sense of reality.

  • Anonymous

    also, it’s not panicking.  You look at the results, and bring in people with new ideas and true experience and achievement. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZSBLMFUWURV3HGRKCYOALCORSM Eric Robertson

    If Obama grows the monstrous size of the government any bigger, then the voters will panic.

  • TruDat

    Why are liberals always so f-ing ugly?

  • Katty

    Although I very rarely agree with Carville I do respect his intelligence and fear it.  Lets hope Obama continues in his stupidity and listens to those offering him his to do list…those he’s been listening to from day one.
    We really need to oust this abomination from office and get this country back on tract while we still have a country.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    that would be admitting that he was wrong and Obama never admits that he’s wrong.

  • Anonymous

    My word of advice is: RESIGN!

  • Ralph

    I noticed that AttackWatch.com went live the same day that news of the FBI investigating Solyndra appeared.  Republicans have overstepped on wanting to put Bernanke on trial for treason, but I see no harm in appointing a special prosecutor to investigate him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    It’s not the first time Carville has told Obama to get off his ass..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1lO1CVkTE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL5E051D3C04C61726

  • Bob

    says the part of Phil Gramm, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Egon Cantor, etc

  • Anonymous

    Right James…we should:

    Fire Obama
    Indict Obama
    Fight Obama

    For once James we agree on something.

  • Anonymous

    I never did get around to going to Attack Watch to read what was submitted, but I imagine that Solyndra was mentioned a lot.

  • TruDat

    Janets Reno and Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton, Rosie O’Donnell, Whoppi Goldberg, Helen Thomas, and on and on and on and on and on . . .

  • Anonymous

    Carville’s op-ed should be very sobering to Obama and Democrats and make them rethink all the tactics they’ve been using and start actually listening to and learning from the public. They should pay particular attention to those who have accurately predicted the shape our Republic is in right now and why.
    With Obama and the Democrat’s track record, I won’t hold my breath waiting for them to give up the political power games and ideologies in favor of saving the nation.

  • RW

    I shudder at the thought of one of these
    life begins at conception denying,
    global-warming-religion-following,
    immigration law breaking,
    income redistributing,
    human hating,
    immoral,
    Solyndra loan launderers running my country

  • Ralph

    I wanted to cry when I heard his response to the economic crisis would be a speech.

  • Ralph

    I wanted to cry when I heard his response to the economic crisis would be a speech.

  • Ajolily

    It is probably to late for Obama, I don’t think he can get elected no matter what but the fear is if the Dems get smart enough to impeach him and run Clinton. They need a face saving way to rid themselves of Obama before they do it but if they can pull that off Clinton could win.

  • Bob

    ah…I get it now. You’re afraid of women.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, come on “Serpent head.”. The sun is starting to shine brighter. There’s a new day coming Novenber 2012.

    Semper Fi

  • Anonymous

    Ah, come on “Serpent head.”. The sun is starting to shine brighter. There’s a new day coming Novenber 2012.

    Semper Fi

  • Silicondoc

    Carville is talking Soylandra damage control – it’s the word he didn’t say here – Obama is on a burning scandal that can take him DOWN to Davey Jones Locker – it’s Nixon time and Soyant Green Gate is Obama eating the people of the USA…
     Obama has to now find a scapegoat, make up a fucking lie, stick to it, and fire the poor damned dog he picked to throw under the bus… it is extreme and critical…
     Get ready libtards, the One is going to AX one or more and blame his dirty campaign soylandra green hole of half a billion dollar death on the poor excommunicated fall guy….
     LMAO -
     ”make up a story line and stick to it! Fire someone!” < INBRED Clintonite Carville the skull
    The waters may not be rising, but the ship of obama is SINKING

  • Anonymous

    The ONLY person Obama gives a flip about is himself! He’s “golden” no matter what happens- he’ll have his library and his foundation and the idiots who’ll pay to hear him speak in mellifluous tones. What the he## does HE care about the Democrat party or the country? He’s made his fortune.

  • Silicondoc

    Carville’s one of those real south inbred’s practicin that dixie voodoo magic- the real baby eater.
    That’s why he’s such a freak and could handle the Clinton Arkancide death list so effectively.

  • Anonymous

    Trust me James, they are panicking!!!
    However, they are too incompetent to know what to do!!!

    They have literally tried everything in the rules for radicals handbook and nothing has worked and they are too stupid to listen to the people because they think they are stupid!!!

  • Jason

    You call those people “women”?

    These women couldn’t give Ray Charles a boner if they got him drunk on a case of PBR and made him down an entire bottle of cialis.

  • Anonymous

    Some advice for Democrats – Hillary!!

  • gwgm

    The more the Clintonites slag Obama, the more I think they’re pushing Hillary to reconsider. I imagine he and Ed Rendell are all over her.
    Carville knows Obama is done. He may be a nasty piece of work, but he’s not a moron like the ones running the party now.
    Obama has no clue and Debbie Worstershire Sauce has nothing to offer other than to say NY-9 was a tough seat for the Democrats. That was about the weakest thing I’ve ever heard a spinner say. I can’t see the rank-and-file following these idiots off the cliff. There’s no prize for going down with the ship.

  • Bob

    So that’s what you look for in female leaders? The ability to get you hard?
    And all this time I thought it was based on ‘conservative principles’ and because they were mavericky hockey moms, you betcha.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Come on Bob – you’re not paying attention.  While he may be afraid, like me his fear centers around ugly women.

    Boy that was some laundry list of tree toppers there too.

    Thanks a lot TruDat – not sure I’ll be able to sleep tonight!

  • http://en.gravatar.com/robb714 Robb714

    Poor James, the fact that he is a contributor to CNN speaks for it’s self, like listing waiter on the Titanic on your resume. He has a good point; unfortunately on CNN only 37 people will ever hear it. Give ‘em hell, Skullitore!

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of global warming. Here’s another nail in the coffin that it is accepted by science.

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/?test=latestnews

    James. You’re just a well paid hack. And that’s all.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the link.

  • Anonymous

    So funny seeing conservative posters saying Hillary Clinton would have been better ….Hillary….Rodham….Clinton.

    Does anyone remember when the Clintons were the absolute WORST people EVER? Now apparently this Obama fellow is even worse? I mean, nobody is trying to say the Obamas had somebody killed yet, are they?

  • Anonymous

    The sad thing is that Carville is right.

    The happy thing is that Obama is such a dumbfuck that he thinks that his shit doesn’t stink, that the people love him, and that he is headed for a landslide re-election next year. Fortunately for America, he is living in a fantasy world.

  • Anonymous

    The sad thing is that Carville is right.

    The happy thing is that Obama is such a dumbfuck that he thinks that his shit doesn’t stink, that the people love him, and that he is headed for a landslide re-election next year. Fortunately for America, he is living in a fantasy world.

  • PATRICIA DAWSON

    Isn’t Carville the same person who appeared on television declaring that people in Louisiana were dying during the Gulf Oil Spill, which (I might add) was cleaned up in a fairly expeditious manner, resulting in ZERO deaths?  It is to laugh to see the bloviation among the news media today.  They pretend that everything that is important now will be important six months from now, much less fourteen months from now.  I think everyone needs to take a deep breath when it comes to the current economic situation.  We should get down off of our ideological high horses and care about the people who are really suffering from the economic downturn.  There are children and adults suffering economically.  Let’s champion legislation that helps them now.  Let’s give to organizations that help the poor now.  Trust me, if you run a reel of today’s news broadcasts fourteen months from now, they’ll probably resemble classic movies from Turner Classic Movies.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Obama is burnt toast. It’s just for obvious reasons it’s kind of hard to tell.

  • Jp7077

    well….the country’s on life support……isn’t that enough?

  • Jp7077

    well….the country’s on life support……isn’t that enough?

  • Jp7077

    pass the pop corn…THIS IS GETTIN GOOD!
     I can’t wait for Solyndra to play out…..

  • Jp7077

    pass the pop corn…THIS IS GETTIN GOOD!
     I can’t wait for Solyndra to play out…..

  • Jp7077

    They’ll toss Biden……replace him with Hillary?

  • Anonymous

    Harry Reid, Puff Daschle, Dick Turban, Chris(waitress sandwich) Dodd, Barbara Boxer, Bill Maher, John Kerry, Barny the Frank, Anderson Cooper “Cooper has never married and has actively avoided discussing his private
    life, citing a desire to protect his neutrality as a journalist.” So men and women with wedding rings are not neutral journalists? Journalists are not neutral. Reporters are.

    All women mentioned here. And I am afraid of them all.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, in NY-9 and NV. As well as the recall elections in Wisconsin. How did that go for the union thugs again? I’d say they are more popular than the liberals that they beat for the seats….

  • Anonymous

    Ugliness is skin deep. Liberalism is ugliness to the bone….

  • Anonymous

    When will the Left learn that you can’t build your platform for Hope and Change on constant mudslinging, character attacks, smears and race-card playing?

    The voters want to hear an honest public dialogue on the size and scope of government.  But the Left refuses to engage.  Liberal politicians stopped holding town hall meetings to avoid having to enter into this dialogue.  Liberal media relies on jokes and attacks to dodge this same issue.  Time and again, the Left runs away from debate, putting their faith instead in attempts to silence their critics so they won’t have to defend their intensely unpopular big government borrow-and-spend programs.

    But this won’t work, and even Democrat strongholds are turning into Republican districts.  Unless the Left engages on substantive issues, all the mud and race cards in the galaxy won’t be sufficient to keep them in office.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama doesn’t have a chance and the liberals are non believers anyway so their prayers are probably worthless.

  • Anonymous

    That’s Hillary Rodham Rodham. And because you are an ignorant liberal, Rush Limbaugh launched Operation Chaos in SUPPORT of Hillarude the cankle over this man-child, big eared, they love me, crybaby!
    Paula Jones thinks Slick Willey is one of the worst people ever. Ditto Monica Lewinsky. Ditto Eileen Wellstone. Ditto “Put some ice on it” Broaddrick. Ditto Carolyn Moffet. Ditto Elizabeth Ward. Ditto Paula Corbin. Ditto Sandra James. Ditto Christy Zercher. Ditto Kathleen Willey.

    I’ll bet Vince Foster would be alive had he never knew the Clintons…

  • Anonymous

    Never trust a liberal who insists that it has evolved from apes. You can see it here, when the facts prove them wrong, they start throwing poo!

  • Anonymous

    Never trust a liberal who insists that it has evolved from apes. You can see it here, when the facts prove them wrong, they start throwing poo!

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t give them any advice. Obama has no chance of winning, zero, nada. Hillary on the other hand if handled right and the wrong Republican ran would have a chance.

  • Anonymous

    You do realize that by the current parameters defining right center and left, that your patron saint Ron Reagan would have been center left, and Dwight Eisenhower would have been a raving leftist? 

    In almost ever measurable policy stance, Obama is the the right of Ike, and he is to the right of Reagan in a number of stances as well.    I guess we can look forward to hearing about Reagan that Muslim Lovin’, America Hating Marxist.

  • Linden

    What an ugly comment. Wonder what you look like?

    And the Republican ‘debates’?  Wow! What intellectual extravaganzas!

  • Nature Freak

    Of course President Obama should be in panic mode.

    These are not the best of times here in the US. The mood is as rotten as I have ever seen it (I am 40). America is experiencing a major crisis. It started well before Obama became POTUS. President GW Bush helped lead our country into decline. America was also naive to think India, the countries of SE Asia and especially China would always remain uncompetitive and poor third world countries.

    Obama needs to become a fighter. He needs to make clear his achievements. And he needs to tell the American people what the Tea Party is about. He needs to show some righteous anger.

    America will very possibly not be the major world power by the end of this century. Or even 2050. I shudder to think how we will deal with this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    He was talking about the gulf states’ economies, not actual death. The jobs lost due to the Obama drilling moratorium have never come back. The floating oil rigs are gone and won’t return for decades, but Obama is focused like a laser on creating jobs in America. The only problem is that the jobs he wants for Americans are the kind that can’t survive even with massive taxpayer support.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    The Clintons are horrible people but they are more pragmatic in their hunger for power than Obama has shown himself to be. Only in the case of national security, where harsh reality has dictated that he follow the policies enacted by the prior administration, has he allowed facts to trump ideology. The truth is, anyone would have been better. Dennis Kucinich is completely insane and he couldn’t have done any worse.

  • Anonymous

    Look. If James is worried I’m guessing I should be too. As a liberal I’ve followed him for years and frankly I respect him. (expect for his choice of wives)

  • Broadhorizons

    I liked this guy when he pretended to be a politician in, “The Assassination of Jesse James.” Unfortunately, I don’t trust actors, so when he expresses his ‘expert’ opinion on television, it goes in one ear and out the other. 

  • Broadhorizons

    I liked this guy when he pretended to be a politician in, “The Assassination of Jesse James.” Unfortunately, I don’t trust actors, so when he expresses his ‘expert’ opinion on television, it goes in one ear and out the other. 

  • Anonymous

    OBAMO is running around, screaming to anyone who will listen (and those who refuse to): “Pass SOLYNDRA 2…Pass it NOW!!!”

    OBAMO is such an idiot…just like the people who adore him.

  • TruDat

    No, I don’t fear you.  Unlike you, I’m discussing the appearance of women; you apparently are attracted to men.

  • TruDat

    I do realize that’s the new liberal loon talking point.  All of a sudden the lefty loons love them some Reagan.  Next time their facing a horrible defeat they’ll be praising Bush and Cheney.

  • TruDat

    He’ll probably be indicted.

  • TruDat

    My one word of advice for Obama: JUMP!

  • TruDat

    Ask your old lady what I look like.  Oops, she can only describe my penis.

  • Anonymous

    God bless the tea party !

  • Bob Uda

    Carville, we already have a crazy person running our nation.  Wake up, man!

  • Bob Uda

    Corruption is just a common thread through all progressive officeholders.

  • Obamanation

    What happened to Obama’s hope and change?

    Consumer Hope for Future Hits Lowest Level Since 1980

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/4454884...

    Can we survive another 16 months of this failed POTUS?

  • Michael Charles

    You’d bitch about a sunny day if you thought President Obama had anything to do with it.  You’re a racist and a Rush listener.  Moron.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    Until the results of the last election dragged the Republicans to the right, there was not a party to the right of center. GWB governed to the left of JFK and the Republican controlled congress spent like Democrats and passed massive new entitlements. Today, most liberals, as the word is classically defined, are in the Republican party – center left. The blue dog Dems are big government leftists. The rest of the Democrats – the so-called “progressives” – are statists with more in common with Marx and Lenin than with party founders Jefferson and Adams.

  • PATRICIA DAWSON

    No, my friend.  People have to be made accountable for their words.  Read the interview transcript or watch the video.  Carville is on record saying: “people are dying” down here.  He wasn’t speaking in metaphors, as you would have liked him to be.  He speaks in hyperbole, like so many people do in connection with Obama.

    Can you read?

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/05/26/james-carville-slams-obama-oil-spill-were-about-die-down-here-stepha

    Can you comprehend?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1lO1CVkTE

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