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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 07:27 PM Sep 2012

President Obama Must Use the Convention to Tell the Unvarnished Truth

So basically counter every lie the rethugs have been spewing, and back it up with fact. Educate! I do worry too many people aren't paying attention.

http://www.politicususa.com/president-obama-convention-unvarnished-truth.html

President Obama Must Use the Convention to Tell the Unvarnished Truth

By: Dennis S
September 3rd, 2012s

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A Sunday AP story was headlined “Obama slams GOP.” The President said that Republicans have no new ideas. He added that at the convention, the Republicans wouldn’t tell you what their new ideas were. “Republicans will take us backwards to the age of ‘trickle-down, “you’re on your own” economics that begin with tax cuts for the rich but tax increases for the middle-class.” Heartfelt and true, but without additional context and stats it won’t gain Obama a single vote.

He needs to spell out the specifics of everything that happened in the preceding administration that led to such a mess
that it will take years to get back on track. He must explain what deregulation did to the banking and investment and mortgage industries. He must place the housing collapse squarely on the Bush administration’s deregulated shoulders. Obama should explain that privatizing sells education to the highest bidder. He must clarify debt and deficits in Economics 101 terms. He must make it plain what’s in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how devastating and incredibly ignorant it would be to repeal it. He must break down Medicare into its smallest component parts and again, show how destructive the Republican voucher plan would be and the brutal cuts to Medicaid. He must review the history of Social Security and it’s extraordinary success and how it’s not nearly as bad off as depicted and how easy the fixes would be. And how privatizing would turn SS into a crap shoot.

He then must explain the concept of dept and deficits and talk of relatively benign solutions based on the rich carrying their weight. He must explicitly tell how pollution has taken the country to the brink of not being able to reverse its affects. The Republican plan to hand the country over to the wealthy has to be exposed in addition to explaining voter repression laws. Billionaire purchases of the government should be identified…and names should be named. This next one’s for Biden. Press the hell out of Romney on his tax returns. Really push it.

List the Democratic bills that would have added jobs, reduced pollution and increased wages that Republicans blocked at every turn. Divide this effort up between the President and Vice-President. The media cannot ignore these speeches. The texts will show up everywhere.

Reviewing: 1. Here’s what Bush did. 2. Here’s how President Obama attempted to correct it. 3. Here are the Obama initiatives to benefit Americans. 4. Here is what the Republican legislature did to block every one of those initiatives.

If Obama does his bi-partisan nonsense in the face of hateful Republican 100% partisanship, he stands a very real chance of losing. Explaining and debunking. Those should be the only concerns in Charlotte.

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President Obama Must Use the Convention to Tell the Unvarnished Truth (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2012 OP
Partially daybranch Sep 2012 #1
Sounds like a good outline for the whole convention to me. Brigid Sep 2012 #2

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
1. Partially
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 07:33 PM
Sep 2012

When is Obama simply going to tell the American people what they must do to ensure control of this country does not go into the hands of a few billionaires whowould work to destroy its financial security to enrich themselves. Are you afraid to say it?

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
2. Sounds like a good outline for the whole convention to me.
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 12:47 PM
Sep 2012

It's time to get very specific about what the Repugs have done to make such a mess, and what Dems have done -- and tried to do -- in the face of their obstructionism.

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