POTUS Obama stated Obama'My Policies Are So Mainstream' I'd Be A 'Moderate Republican of the 1980s" (Reply #50)

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Sun Dec 23, 2012, 05:47 PM

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50. POTUS Obama stated Obama'My Policies Are So Mainstream' I'd Be A 'Moderate Republican of the 1980s"

Obama On Charges Of Socialism: 'My Policies Are So Mainstream' I'd Be A 'Moderate Republican' In 1980s

President Barack Obama rejected the notion that his policies rang of socialism on Thursday, arguing that his platform was more similar to a "moderate Republican" of the 1980s and that most Americans realized that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/obama-socialism_n_2300998.html

Most of the Nation's problems are the result of "Moderate Republican policies of the 1980s" compounded for the last 30 years.

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80 replies	Author	Time	Post
Look at the Offers. Look at what was never on the table. Real change cannot happen [View all]	woo me with science	Dec 2012	OP
Ok, then please tell me;	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Dec 2012	#1
Seize the assets of the rich, distribute them to the rest	leftstreet	Dec 2012	#2
+1,000,000,000,000	KansDem	Dec 2012	#36
Why do you assume that our offers must start where Republicans are?	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#8
Why are you	ProSense	Dec 2012	#9
Why do you claim a "debt reduction plan" as a victory?	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#24
POTUS Obama stated Obama'My Policies Are So Mainstream' I'd Be A 'Moderate Republican of the 1980s"	PufPuf23	Dec 2012	#50
You might have missed the small point that...	TreasonousBastard	Dec 2012	#34
Do you realize the Alice in Wonderland logic of that?	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#37
No. It is the reality based logic that it is the law...	TreasonousBastard	Dec 2012	#39
No deal is better than a bad deal.......	socialist_n_TN	Dec 2012	#59
Ok I hear what you, and several others, are saying	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Dec 2012	#60
Stop defending this garbage.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#61
You have no solution.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#62
Exhibit A. nt	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#63
Shouldn't you be demanding that	ProSense	Dec 2012	#64
More mocking and contempt, and meanwhile...	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#65
More attempts to avoid dealing with reality:	ProSense	Dec 2012	#66
I HEAR YOU WOO ME	Skittles	Dec 2012	#69
Raise the taxes on income over $250,000. It's that simple.	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#56
The Departments of Defense and Homeland Security come to mind.	xtraxritical	Dec 2012	#76
Are you panicking?	ProSense	Dec 2012	#3
I think Woo is being highly disingenuous - his chart (unsourced)	coalition_unwilling	Dec 2012	#5
Not only that, the	ProSense	Dec 2012	#6
That's nonsense.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#11
Your claims have been debunked many times and in many threads, so I see	coalition_unwilling	Dec 2012	#13
No, they haven't.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#15
Wait, you're	ProSense	Dec 2012	#16
Please. No large cuts to the military will happen.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#40
Here:	ProSense	Dec 2012	#17
If we do nothing, we get triggered austerity.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#41
"If we do nothing...	ProSense	Dec 2012	#42
Compare to Clinton? No, look at the whole package.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#43
You mention taxes on the rich, and	ProSense	Dec 2012	#45
You are right, of course, "until we are honest about what we are being fed here" real	AnotherMcIntosh	Dec 2012	#21
You are right on and have wooed me with science and overwhelming logic. We have	indepat	Dec 2012	#68
Please point me to the official word that chained CPI is still not on the table	MotherPetrie	Dec 2012	#31
Here is your source	Luminous Animal	Dec 2012	#35
Yes you responded but you were wrong then and you're wrong now.	byeya	Dec 2012	#20
Nonsense.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#22
Austerity is the agenda item for both parties. It'll cause pain among workers but the untra wealthy	byeya	Dec 2012	#23
$425 billion in stimulus and	ProSense	Dec 2012	#27
Yes, It Is Panicking, It Is Realizing There Will Never, Ever Be The Cuts It's Been Predicting Since	Skraxx	Dec 2012	#72
Read a little Howard Zinn. It has always been thus.	OffWithTheirHeads	Dec 2012	#4
Well said. That's why we need to keep saying, "Look at the Offers."	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#14
.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#7
"Offers" don't equal signed legislation....	OldDem2012	Dec 2012	#10
Of course they don't. But they set the terms for the debate.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#12
More attempts	ProSense	Dec 2012	#19
Look across the ocean: Austerity has brought recession to Spain and the UK.	byeya	Dec 2012	#18
Very important post. People in other nations have already seen how austerity kills.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#44
Anybody calling themselves a Democrat	JEB	Dec 2012	#25
When you put it that way,	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#51
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire	Tierra_y_Libertad	Dec 2012	#26
Marvelous quote.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#49
And that is how good cop bad cop works.	zeemike	Dec 2012	#28
Yep. It will take unity and a willingness to	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#47
Your despair is noted. n/t	backscatter712	Dec 2012	#29
Mocking "despair." Interesting that that's the new meme	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#46
Oh, is this the part where I flame back?	backscatter712	Dec 2012	#48
Excuse me? I respond to your drive-by snark	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#54
Under Section 4 of the 14th Amendment the president has an independent constitutional obligation not	byeya	Dec 2012	#30
When Congress returns from holiday, Boehner	ProSense	Dec 2012	#32
The presidential election of 1912	sulphurdunn	Dec 2012	#33
Socialists	byeya	Dec 2012	#38
Then I guess	sulphurdunn	Dec 2012	#70
"Austerity is damaging to economies and deadly to people"	NoOneMan	Dec 2012	#52
it's the product of the same good cop/bad cop, faux duopoly, janus-like condition in DC	stupidicus	Dec 2012	#53
"Too many of us have been interested in defending programs as written in 1938" BHO - 2006	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#58
I am angry at Obama.	Evergreen Emerald	Dec 2012	#55
I thought we didn't negotiate	JEB	Dec 2012	#57
"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years,	Egalitarian Thug	Dec 2012	#67
Perhaps it's not so much a lack of intelligence as it is working 2 or 3 part time jobs;	byeya	Dec 2012	#71
I'm with you, woo! So long as Dem leaders don't even	snot	Dec 2012	#73
Corporate pockets are deep,	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#74
Fabulous data. Thanks for the Post!	Demeter	Dec 2012	#75
Why is Social Security in ALL of Obama's offers, when it ADDS NOTHING to the deficit???	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#77
^^^^^Phone numbers to call the White House and Reps here ^^^^^	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#79
Not quite true	mgraveman	Dec 2012	#80
I say drive right off the "cliff."	mgraveman	Dec 2012	#78

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