Notice how Mr. "Poor Me" Obama keeps referencing his own "political pain" . . .

. . . while steadfastly avoiding the subject of the very real economic pain that SS and Medicare cuts would inflict on seniors? And then he has the gall to refer to it as "shared sacrifice." Complete and total moral bankruptcy in my view.

Politically stupid. Economically stupid.

Stupid.

pain, hungry children and old people second. He will not be a great president but I am sure he will tell himself he will be. Or he will use his tax cut to hire someone to tell him he is.

Tune into Lawrence O'Donnell and let him explain Pres. Obama's strategy to you:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1468342

Or read the transcript.... very slowly.

always insult people when trying to make a point, yeah that will work. :sarcasm:

It supposedly pains him to trash our values as Democracts...but he does so every chance he gets!

If he continues in this vein and gets voted out of office.

I can't believe I've gone from breaking down crying (from joy!!) while voting for him to maybe not voting at all in 2012.

It's the unwashed masses who are screwed (screwn?1!!!1).

He will be well rewarded.

Apparently about the only thing Candidate Obama said that President Obama still believes is that he wasn't worried about being a one term president.

They have not been raised in 25 years.

But not me, dude!

great point. But it's not just Obama. Have you listened to the talking heads like Cook on the Diane Ream(I really don't know how to spell her last name, so I went with the most obnoxious just because her show has pissed me off so much lately) Show going on and on about how "everyone" acknowledges Social Security and Medicare have to be scaled back in order to save the programs? Well, even the Republicans claim that!

It's all bullshit. I'll prove it. Take the defense budget. Cut it in half. Use about a tenth of the savings to fund Medicare and it's fine. Use another 40% of the savings on, oh, I don't know, directly hiring people, maybe? And just don't replace the other 50%.

Yes, I'm playing fast and loose with the figures. But I'm damned sure the budget can be balanced if Defense is cut in half. But nobody can talk about THAT, now can they? The fact is, Medicare does not HAVE to be cut, or "adjusted," to balance the budget. Harumph.

You rock. I especially loved the subject line. :loveya:

I would add that if we could get a real accounting of the whole Homeland Security boondoggle (much of which goes unaccounted for due to "security considerations"), we could really make some serious headway on the national debt. But hell will freeze over long before we ever see that happen.

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when he called our safety nets "entitlements" and talking about "job creating tax cuts"...

He sounded just like a Republican.

Like Rush does?

So lay off.

as usual