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John2

(2,730 posts)
2. I notice
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 01:41 AM
Dec 2012

the media certainly likes to use him and Harold Ford Jr too for Democratic views. I suppose they just pick the ones that agree with Republican views while they think the others are the extreme Left and out of the main stream of America. Right now, neither are elected officials and don't speak for anybody in the Democratic Party. I would say this especially to Harold Ford Jr out of Tennessee, that you don't speak for most African Americans,Hispanics,Asians or Progressive whites. Those are the people who elected this President, and they don't agree with you on Social Security or Medicare. So I don't know why the media ask your views or even if it matters? So put faces on who you call the Left.

Most of those people do not consider earned benefits as entitlements. So why don't we start calling them what they really are. These are benefits, that are paid into. I know your Daddy was rich, but you need to understand the middle class and working poor. That is what I have to say to Harold Ford Jr.

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