Posted on 10/22/2010 7:45:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Friday branded Republicans as radical and reactionary, in campaign appearances for high-profile Democratic senators under threat in November's mid-term polls.
Obama rallied crowds in Los Angeles, California, and was to move on to gambling paradise Nevada in a bid to rescue wobbling Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid, on the third day of a four-day campaign blitz.
He charged that the first Republican president, his political hero Abraham Lincoln would not be able to win the opposition party's presidential nomination in the modern age.
"Seriously, can you imagine him trying to run with these folks?" Obama said, in a bid to portray the Republican Party as outside the mainstream ahead of November 2 congressional polls in which his Democrats fear heavy losses.
Obama accused Republicans of sitting on their hands while he saved the economy from a second Great Depression and of wanting to go back to the same lax regulatory regimes that caused the crisis in the first place.
"This agenda that poses as conservatism is not conservative. It resulted in a radical shift from record surpluses to record deficits, allowed Wall Street to run wild, nearly destroyed our economy," Obama said.
"This is a choice between the past and the future, between fear and hope, between moving backwards and moving forwards. And I don't know about you, but I want to move forward," Obama said, at a campaign event for under-fire Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.
"They are clinging to the same worn-out, tired, snake-oil ideas that they were peddling before."
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US President Barack Obama speaks during a DNC rally at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Obama on Friday branded Republicans as radical and reactionary, in campaign appearances for high-profile Democratic senators under threat in November's mid-term polls. (AFP/Jim Watson)
And John F. Kennedy couldn’t be nominated by today’s radical liberal Democrat party. What is the president’s point????? Harry Truman couldn’t be nominated by today’s Democrats.
“They are clinging to the same worn-out, tired, snake-oil ideas that they were peddling before.”
Uh, that’s called “projection” Barry, it’s something
democrats do all the time.
Omullah sounds shrill and looks demonic.
U.S. President Barack Obama waves as Nevada Senator Harry Reid (L) trails behind during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 22, 2010. .. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
Yet, again, he has insulted a huge segment of Americans.
Didn’t the communists, obamunisits if you will, brand enemies as reactionaries?
Yep, and that’s why they cleverly call themselves “progressives”. Because who among us will stand against progress?
LLS
Obama is totally F.O.S.
I believe you just took the words right out of my keyboard, wow! I was thinking this myself. Furthermore, I would say even Johnson or Roosevelt wouldn’t make it now in this hard-case Dem. party today, even as liberal as they were said to be.
Marxist Socialist Obama is an imbecile.
Compared to Obama, we are radically right.
Of course compared to Obama, the French would be on the hard right so it depends on what you’re comparing us too.
Didn't Dingy Harry just do this, too?
I wish he’d make up his mind then! He belly-aches that Republicans refuse to help him, they refuse to help him come up with ideas. Then when they do, he crabs that those ideas have been tried before, and they won’t work!
He says our ideas got us into this mess (Like hello Mr. Obama, those same ideas seemed to work just fine before your party took over!). I find myself not knowing whether to get angry w/him or to laugh mockingly at him, whatever!
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