Posted on 02/28/2014 10:46:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
Striking a decidedly partisan tone, President Barack Obama sought Friday to define this year’s elections as a stark choice between Republicans pushing failed policies from a bygone era and Democrats advocating freedom and opportunity for all Americans.
Rallying the party faithful at a Democratic National Committee summit, Obama rattled off a list of issues where he said Republicans were stuck in the past: gay rights, women’s equality, wages and health care, to name a few. Driving the midterm election campaigns across the country this year, he said, is a fundamental disagreement between the parties about the best way to secure America’s future.
“What they are offering is not a new theory,” Obama said, asserting that Republicans had advocated the same policies in the run-up to the Great Depression, the recent recession and the 2012 election. “And the American people said, ‘No, thanks.’” …
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Democrats advocating freedom and opportunity for all Americans. funny!
“Hey! Don’t look at what I’ve actually done. Think about what I promised to do and the Republicans wouldn’t let me.”
““What they are offering is not a new theory,”
Socialism is not new except to people who were born yesterday.
"Wuh, wuh, welllll... that's because PURE Communism has never been tried!!!"
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