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 Number of times this President has cut Social Security: Zero (Original post) |
11 Bravo | Mar 2014 | OP |
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:58 PM
1. Number of times Obama bombed Iran and/or Syria back to the stone age? Nil!
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:00 PM
2. Number of times he named Summers to head the Fed. Zero.
Response to JoePhilly (Reply #2)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:06 PM
11 Bravo (23,653 posts)
4. I should have added: Number of reliably liberal SCOTUS justices ...
Response to truedelphi (Reply #20)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:04 PM
lillypaddle (9,514 posts)
43. Unrec, negative nabob! nt
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:06 PM
3. That is such twisted logic. If the news is Obama supports
Response to upaloopa (Reply #3)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:13 PM
11 Bravo (23,653 posts)
5. Twisted logic is accusing him of something that hasn't happened.
Response to 11 Bravo (Reply #5)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:16 PM
6. We are reacting to news reports that he supports something.
Response to upaloopa (Reply #6)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:25 PM
11 Bravo (23,653 posts)
12. If you believe that everything the corporate media calls "news" ...
Response to 11 Bravo (Reply #12)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:28 PM
14. Are you saying we should take your word instead? nt
Response to upaloopa (Reply #6)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:56 PM
George II (67,782 posts)
60. "we all know"? Just how do we all "know" that? I don't!
Response to Glitterati (Reply #8)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:44 PM
Progressive dog (6,578 posts)
22. I'm on social security retirement and the ACA
Response to SidDithers (Reply #28)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:32 PM
30. So sweet!
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I absolutely love the concern and compassion you exhibit for your fellow man!
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Response to Glitterati (Reply #8)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:58 PM
George II (67,782 posts)
62. That's simply not true. We don't tolerate him being bashed for something he hasn't done but...
Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #72)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 12:08 AM
sheshe2 (78,134 posts)
92. Oh yeah...
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Response to upaloopa (Reply #3)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:53 PM
24. There's a difference between saying "I don't support it" and speaking as if it already happened.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:18 PM
FSogol (43,650 posts)
7. Something is an outrage, I tell you! Grrrrr.
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:21 PM
9. Some others ... the President was never going to ...
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:21 PM
10. This bullshit talking point again? That the threats to cut SS have done no harm?
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And this TEMPORARY suspension of the threats, of course during an election year, and of course simultaneously repeating Republican lies about how the deficit will cause them to return in the future....is the obscene Third Way cherry on top. This President has advocated vicious cuts like this since 2006, and he knows they are vicious. HIs own words then acknowledged that they are vicious to human beings. Barack Obama in 2006: "This is not a bloodless process."* [font size=3][font color=brown]Trash thread. Let the garbage propaganda sink. [/font size][/font color] _______________________________________________ Barack Obama in 2006, advocating SS cuts and globalization: "This is not a bloodless process," and: "Too many of us have been interested in defending programs as written in 1938." Here's the chilling video, in his own words: More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1540315 |
Response to woo me with science (Reply #10)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:44 PM
11 Bravo (23,653 posts)
21. OK, I'll try to woo you with a little science. If something has not occurred ...
Response to 11 Bravo (Reply #21)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:46 PM
37. There is nothing scientific about narrative.
Response to 11 Bravo (Reply #21)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:20 PM
45. When is the "appropriate time" to speak out about such things?
Response to woo me with science (Reply #10)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:43 PM
35. Too bad he did not say that to us before the election.
Response to woo me with science (Reply #10)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 11:16 PM
87. chilling woo, just terrifying!
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Response to woo me with science (Reply #10)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 03:40 AM
96. How's that "Paul Ryan pick leading to austerity" conspiracy working out?
Response to Glitterati (Reply #105)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:52 AM
106. I've said all that I'm going to say...
Response to Jeff In Milwaukee (Reply #55)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 08:27 AM
100. Tell the folks presenting these threats and including them in budgets to cut it out and
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:32 PM
15. technically, no he hasn't cut SS
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but if IIRC, he did put a freeze on cola increases for a few years. So has it been cut? No, but seniors have less than they would have had if they had gotten their annual cola increases.
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:36 PM
17. Semantics is the name of the game.
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Response to rhett o rick (Reply #26)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 11:29 PM
90. hit too close to home, didn't it?
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can you spell "hit a nerve"? I thought that you could.
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:13 PM
27. The only thing suckier than Strawman Obama...
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:21 PM
29. The Wheel of Outrage must be spun every day...
Response to SidDithers (Reply #29)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:42 PM
34. And those waiting for Godot 'have not yet begun to suffer.' The rest who suffer today, and have
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:38 PM
32. Number of times he's offered to put it on the table in a COLA adjustment... MORE THAN ZERO.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:41 PM
33. The TPP and Keystone are still in the planning stages and in progress, Obama DID offer a chained
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:44 PM
36. No cola for years was a pretty effective reduction of Social Security.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 07:59 PM
41. Well, he DID offer up Chained CPI to the Republicans.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:13 PM
marble falls (47,684 posts)
44. Thanks.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:32 PM
48. this your first dance? ever heard of a "trial balloon?"
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:52 PM
George II (67,782 posts)
59. Thanks! I've been thinking just that for months, haven't put it so succinctly.
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 09:27 PM
73. Is President Obama a great president or the greatest president EVER?
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 09:29 PM
74. And Yet... All It Takes... Is Once...
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 09:45 PM
78. The proof will be in the pudding: what is to come will come
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Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 11:14 PM
85. and he would have done it, too, if not for those brave 3rd party DUers who stopped him!
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 04:34 AM
Hekate (82,717 posts)
98. Enter "brazillion" into your calculator. Not sure if a hand-held can take the zeroes necessary tho.
 So many posts are about fear and fear-mongering. All of us here are political junkies to one degree or another, or we wouldn't be here in the first place, and it's so hard to go day to day with the little accurate information we can glean from the media while the usual RW suspects are doing their utmost to divide us and destroy this president.
That's what I hold to: the certain knowledge that I voted for the man based on his character, and the equally certain knowledge that the VRWC and its tentacles are corrupt to the core. Under those circs, who do you think I'm gonna believe? We are impatient with his deliberate nature, but on the whole he gets the job done and keeps his promises. Just for one example: If all the people who claimed he was throwing them under the bus in the first months of his presidency would stand up now and admit that by the end of his second term their marriages will be recognized (not performed, but recognized) in every state in the nation, in the military, and federally, it would fill a DU stadium. Our troops ARE returning home, though not fast enough, and he has not started any new wars, either. And Bin Ladin is dead. |
Response to 11 Bravo (Original post)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:17 AM
103. Um. 11 Bravo? Will you marry me?
