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How Obama lost his presidency in August 2009
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | August 30, 2011 | Andrew Breitbart

Posted on 08/29/2011 11:24:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When the history of Barack Obama's one-term presidency is written, August 2009 will be remembered as the turning point.

It was then that thousands of ordinary citizens began to rise up against a health care bill being forced through Congress. And it was then that the Obama administration declared war, through its union proxies, against the American people.

Obama had been elected to fix the economy. But Democrats had planned for years to use the first year of the next "progressive" presidency to push universal health care, according to the plan written in federal prison by convicted fraudster and Democrat strategist Robert Creamer. That plan declared: "To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion — fear, revulsion, anger, disgust."

The Democrats followed that plan to the letter and vowed to pass ObamaCare — then known as H.R. 3200 — before that summer's end. But when they dispatched members of Congress to town hall meetings to sell Obama's policy, they met unprecedented outrage — not just protests, but the simple, searing questions of their constituents: "Why should we pay for abortions?" "Does the legislation cover illegal immigrants?" "Have you even read the bill?"

Some of the opposition was organized by Tea Party groups that had sprung up in the wake of President Obama's massive stimulus in February 2009. But much of it was spontaneous. Then-House Speaker (now Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi called the protests "un-American" and falsely accused Tea Party members of carrying swastikas. That made the public even more indignant.....

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KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare; palin; teaparty
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
1. he's not voted out yet. We should not rest until he is definitely out.

2. We should work to not only ensure he is voted out, but, if he appears on the Democrat ballot, he must lose by the biggest landslide ever so that the Dims realize what disgust their policies created.

21 posted on 08/31/2011 1:13:09 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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