Rep. Frank: Obama not ready to ‘re-fight’ ‘90s battles

[SaveElmer]

Ain't it the truth!!!

Rep. Frank: Obama not ready to ‘re-fight’ ‘90s battles
By Sam Youngman

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), speaking on behalf of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), “misunderstands” the nature of partisan politics.

Frank said Obama’s repeated talk of bringing the two parties together shows a naivete about how fierce Republican opposition can be.

“If you try to be too conciliatory with that faction, you’re going to be in big trouble,” Frank said on a conference call Friday arranged by the Clinton campaign.

Frank said he will campaign “very enthusiastically for any of the three candidates,” but he repeated several times that Obama does not seem to understand the political realties of Washington’s partisan battles.

“I don’t understand how we don’t re-fight the battles of the ‘90s,” Frank said. “We re-fight them or we give up to a very entrenched (Republican faction).”

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/rep.-frank-says-obama-not-ready-to-re-fight-90s-battles-2008-01-25.html

[Mythsaje]

1. If our President doesn't cut the chains binding him or her

to the past, which means confronting them, he or she will be dragging them way into the future. NOT a good idea.

[sunonmars]

2. translation - he'll be eaten alive.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Re-fight the battles of the 90's? What fucking decade are we IN?

That's precisely why I don't support Hillary.

[Radical Activist]

4. We lost most of those battles.

I guess he forgot.

[MoonRiver]

5. In other words:

***Not Ready for Primetime***

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. INCLINED TO AGREE WITH BARNEY

THE REPUBLICAN IS SO VICIOUS AND CONCERTED THAT IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO SET HISTORY STRAIGHT ON THEIR LIES.


:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[featherman]

7. I'd rather marginalize the GOP of the 90's and make them and

their philosophy irrelevant to the present and the future. You do this by NOT returning to the 90's battlefield but moving ahead with a Dem president and larger majorities in the House and Senate.

And you only do this by carrying IND's and changing the political topography in your favor. I don't not believe Mr. Frank's candidate is capable of this and a Clinton presidency would inevitably lead us all back to the same old battlefields where we are again outnumbered by the GOP/IND alliance.

No thanks.

[Diane R]

8. Isn't Barney Franks' sister Ann Lewis a honcho in the Clinton campaign?

[tokenlib]

9. New GOPad--Refight the battles of the '90's with Bill and Hill!

That'll get them a lot of votes!