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Old 07-22-2012, 08:06 PM
 
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i am not saying the same thing at all as obama- because i have respect for the citizens, for the private sector, and for the freedom that we have previously enjoyed-and i understand that we have been able to enjoy them because we had a vibrant private sector at one time-not because we had a big government.
Yes, you are. Just a different spin. You respect the same things as everyone does. Things aren't drastically different now vs. in the past with the exception that a bunch of idiot politicians, who you support, deregulated the banking industry and that led to a near global economic meltdown.

When you peel away the emotion and dogma that's the reality. Don't like big spending? If idiots hadn't deregulated the banking industry, then we wouldn't have nearly as much of it.
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Old 07-22-2012, 08:09 PM
 
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Really! You're kidding me! You're so SMART!

Funny how I went on to talk about how the tea party has blocked just about every piece of legislation he's tried to pass, all of it based on his policy agenda set out in the state of the union address. I'm assuming that part flew right over your head?
So you went on to show that you dont know that the Tea Party, cant block legislation either

Hey mb, why dont you list some of these bills Obama tried to push through blocked by the Tea Party..
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Old 07-22-2012, 08:46 PM
 
Location: it depends
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Really! You're kidding me! You're so SMART!

Funny how I went on to talk about how the tea party has blocked just about every piece of legislation he's tried to pass, all of it based on his policy agenda set out in the state of the union address. I'm assuming that part flew right over your head?
Obama has failed to get 50 Dem senators to vote for nearly every one of his initiatives. And he couldn't get 50 Dem Senators to vote for his income tax proposal--but I guess we'll never know for sure--Harry Reid won't let the Senate vote on the proposal to extend all the Bush-Obama tax cuts for everybody at $250k or less. Why is that?

How many seats does the Democratic Party have in the Senate? How many seats does the Tea Party have in the Senate? Are Democrat partisans just bad at math?

Obama and the Democratic leadership are out of step with the people. That is why they can't pass anything. It isn't because Obama needs to become a better story teller (as he recently alleged), and it isn't because of the Tea Party. He needs a better story to tell, then he wouldn't be facing powerful grass-roots opposition movements. But he keeps doubling down on failed ideas.
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Old 07-22-2012, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Orlando
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Give it up lol, the left will not get it, they can't and this is the exact reason they are poor and will remain poor even if Obama gets re-elected.


Something to be proud of Obama (see below)

Umm apparently the left is far brighter as we realize 10,000,000,000,000 came from the Repugs... and that's if you don't count their Trillion dollar TARP, their trillion dollar war with Iraq, their destruction of the US economy, and their unfunded Medicare Part D...

SO at best Obama responsible for $1,000,000,000,000 REPUGS responsible for $14,000,000,000,000 .... reality checks must suck for the non thinking right.

oh btw ....in his budget he has taken the war serious and delivered the heads of Bin Laden and 28 other top Al qaeda operatives serving them with almost total destruction.
He saved the auto industry
he saved the housing industry
he kept over a million people in their homes
he turned around the economy
and he created a national healthcare .... more than any repug can claim.

Had we had say a Romney... the auto industry would have been allowed to FAIL you would have seen unemployment exceeding 18% We would have had a world of hurt. The reality of the right is one we can't afford to have.
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Old 07-22-2012, 08:58 PM
 
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Obama and the Democratic leadership are out of step with the people. That is why they can't pass anything. It isn't because Obama needs to become a better story teller (as he recently alleged), and it isn't because of the Tea Party. He needs a better story to tell, then he wouldn't be facing powerful grass-roots opposition movements. But he keeps doubling down on failed ideas.
Not sure if you noticed, but the people elected both. Nothing gets passed right now because the senate has been essentially changed from needing 50 votes to pass something to 60 votes.
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Old 07-22-2012, 09:11 PM
 
Location: None of your business
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NO politician until NOW has EVER claimed that anyone built anything without the government first supplying the infrastructure.

The ONLY reason Moonbat Obama is saying that is because he cannot defend his own record on the economy and the economy being in the dumps is the entire reason anyone would even think of saying something that stupid.

Government doesn't do ANYTHING without those business people and corporations paying them TAXES!

Maybe you should hold up a sign at the nearest bridge thanking BUSINESSES for making that bridge possible. The government didn't even build it....private contractors did....government only handed them the money. Putting it IN CONTEXT is actually even WORSE!!!

He said it and even Ed Rendell said it was a stupid remark.
Yep, the government is the middle man. The government only Taketh from everyone then decideth what to invest in then has the audacity to claim that no one can do it without the government. The problem is that most times the government is not a good investor and in this case invested in companies outside the US who employed people outside the US.

It was a ridiculous remark that only fueled the people on the left. I saw a video of a woman screaming, jumping around, pointing her finger (she looked like total a**), as she repeated what Obama said. She looked like she ate too much sugar or something.

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Old 07-22-2012, 09:11 PM
 
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Not sure if you noticed, but the people elected both. Nothing gets passed right now because the senate has been essentially changed from needing 50 votes to pass something to 60 votes.
60 votes was always the standard..
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Old 07-22-2012, 09:21 PM
 
Location: None of your business
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Wrong again. Government BENEFITS from a vibrant economy, and gets punished when there isnt one, but that doesnt mean government has a ROLE in establishing one.

GOVERNMENT CAN NOT BOOST THE ECONOMY WITHOUT FIRST NEGATIVELY AFFECTING IT.. Where the hell do you think the money comes from?
They don't think. And because they are dependent on government or they just believe everything they are told to believe. Talk about buying votes.
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Old 07-22-2012, 09:24 PM
 
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Really! You're kidding me! You're so SMART!

Funny how I went on to talk about how the tea party has blocked just about every piece of legislation he's tried to pass, all of it based on his policy agenda set out in the state of the union address. I'm assuming that part flew right over your head?
Tea party blocked legislation???

LOLOL And there you have it! This is the typical Obama voter LOL
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Old 07-22-2012, 09:26 PM
 
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Umm apparently the left is far brighter as we realize 10,000,000,000,000 came from the Repugs... and that's if you don't count their Trillion dollar TARP, their trillion dollar war with Iraq, their destruction of the US economy, and their unfunded Medicare Part D...

SO at best Obama responsible for $1,000,000,000,000 REPUGS responsible for $14,000,000,000,000 .... reality checks must suck for the non thinking right.

oh btw ....in his budget he has taken the war serious and delivered the heads of Bin Laden and 28 other top Al qaeda operatives serving them with almost total destruction.
He saved the auto industry
he saved the housing industry
he kept over a million people in their homes
he turned around the economy
and he created a national healthcare .... more than any repug can claim.

Had we had say a Romney... the auto industry would have been allowed to FAIL you would have seen unemployment exceeding 18% We would have had a world of hurt. The reality of the right is one we can't afford to have.
What do you mean by "saved" the housing industry? Foreclosure rates remain high.
Economy? We could be heading into another recession.
National healthcare? He can keep the scam.
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