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In reply to the discussion: This is politics: No permanent friends | No permanent enemies. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)35. Exactly wrong. Not friends. Not enemies. Leader & constituent.
That's part of the problem. Obama isn't a junior high school girl whose social circle we're all in. He's the President we elected to serve our interests.
The "cliff" is a synthetic emergency, and the suggestion that there is now somehow no choice but to attack SS to appease Republicans is false as well.
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nashville_brook
Dec 2012
OP
that is true, but he was on point with Clinton as that was watershed for me.
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#51
never snuggle your electeds -- first off, if you're not a millionaire, they get angry
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#67
AARP is the largest private health insurer in America. Let's just say they have a dog in this fight.
Romulox
Dec 2012
#43
Thanks. There is no reason for picking on Social Security and the elderly people, present and futur
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#18
Lord Palmerston's famous quote-- Use it often when teaching history...it's timeless
Malikshah
Dec 2012
#25
beautiful -- i had no idea this activist saying had a classic precedent.
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#41
K&R. If President Obama doesn't care about seniors - and he obviously doesn't - then
forestpath
Dec 2012
#27
the deal our dems wanted was chained-CPI in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#70
the payroll tax cut starved Social Security -- I can afford $30 a month
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#42
you better believe that when Wall St says "figure this out" they hop to it.
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#54
our current leadership seems to think that privatization of education will "solve" the funding
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#64
I have nothing to add - either to the OP or the most excellent posts that follow
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#37
and, this morning he using that terror as evidence of his "seriousness"
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#63
sam stein via Twitter -- dems traded away seniors for a higher debt ceiling.
nashville_brook
Dec 2012
#69