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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Have Moved to the Right, Not the Left [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)98. I'm going to need to get one of the "Obama is evil" decorder rings.
Hiding in every Obama statement, there is a secret evil message ... but you need the decoder ring to spot it.
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Are you claiming that Obama and other Dems haven't called for Social Security to be slashed?
MannyGoldstein
May 2012
#45
Please post the video of Obama calling for Slashing Social Security. There must be one.
JoePhilly
May 2012
#48
must be entertaining to live in an alternate reality... where the debbil obama slashes SS...
dionysus
May 2012
#77
Are you claiming that Obama hasn't called for cuts in Social Security benefits?
MannyGoldstein
May 2012
#79
The quote you posted from the 2011 State of the Union says the exact oppoiste of what you say it
JoePhilly
May 2012
#97
It seems that our political spectrum spans from the John Birch Society to the Republican Party
myrna minx
May 2012
#2
So ProSense, are you saying that you fundamentally disagree with a major point
bullwinkle428
May 2012
#20
The Obama administration doesn't deserve credit for declining prison populations.
Comrade Grumpy
May 2012
#32
Democrats in office have moved right on foreign policy, economics, health care, and energy
YoungDemCA
May 2012
#91
As Bill Maher said: Democrats have moved to the right, and Republicans have moved to the asylum.
marmar
May 2012
#7
Yep, they have. Only I would say they have moved right on all but social issues.
20score
May 2012
#11
Correct.....They're for anything that doesn't cost money...Yes, the Dems have moved to the Right
whathehell
May 2012
#99
I dont agree. I see the Democratic Party moving right and becoming the Centrist Party
rhett o rick
May 2012
#56
If you look at if from a bourgeois liberal viewpoint it certainly seems that way..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#13
"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2012
#19
There, in a nutshell, is my rationale for being adamantly independent and anti-partisan.
TahitiNut
May 2012
#26
+1. just another rentier class "solution". the money men make money, the rest of us pay for it.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#94
some of us will be fortunate enough to live next to those who bought pollution credits
yurbud
May 2012
#102
From what I understand the Democratic party are third-way (centrism) party. (nt)
MichaelMcGuire
May 2012
#37
xchrom doesn't deserve this nasty reply, nor is simply posting this article from Mother Jones
myrna minx
May 2012
#59
This is a discussion board. Please don't engage in personal attacks against DU'ers.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#67
"and try to get other democrats to vote third party, in order to help republicans win elections"
marmar
May 2012
#106
Endless War, War on Drugs, Mandatory for profit insurance, Bankster bailouts...
Romulox
May 2012
#60
Since there's a consensus that the Left has been ineffective at influencing the Democratic Party
Telly Savalas
May 2012
#109