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CURL: Obama now in combat mode
Washington Times ^ | February 5, 2009 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 02/05/2009 5:58:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount

President Obama, fresh off his first Washington apology tour, grew combative Wednesday, asserting that America voted for him, not the other guy, and demanding that lawmakers "put aside politics" -- well, Republican lawmakers, anyway.

A day before he headed to a luxury resort to meet behind closed doors with Democrats, the Harvard graduate lectured the less economically astute, ridiculing the Reaganomics Doctrine held dear by Republicans, who prefer tax cuts to new spending to bounce America out of its financial mess.

"Now, in the past few days I've heard criticisms of this plan that echo the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems," the president said at the White House. "I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."

The statement, the first of its kind in public, was reminiscent of what Mr. Obama said in private just days after taking office. In the White House's Roosevelt Room, he told a Republican senator who opposed an element of the stimulus package that "I won. I will trump you on that."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: COUNTrecount

Yesterday someone posted an animation of a baby stomping around in his diaper..i wish someone would put Obama’s face on one of these baby graphics..

It’s like...
Nah Nah Nah, I WON...now do what I say.


21 posted on 02/05/2009 6:14:11 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: COUNTrecount

Telling a politician to “put aside politics” is like telling a carpenter to “put away carpentry”.


22 posted on 02/05/2009 6:15:04 AM PST by Crawdad (Barack Obama hates black people.)
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To: AmericanVictory

“Ain’t affirmative action just grand?’

I wish it were just a grand instead of a billion grand, one thousand billion = a trillion. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode “The trouble with Tribles” Only it’s now the Trouble with Trillions. They just keep on multiplying.


23 posted on 02/05/2009 6:16:06 AM PST by dblshot
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To: cartan
I thinks that the current crisis has been caused by tax cuts? Is he knowingly lying or just really stupid?

Either way, the Republicans need to correct the record.

24 posted on 02/05/2009 6:16:18 AM PST by jersey117
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To: COUNTrecount

25 posted on 02/05/2009 6:17:08 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: COUNTrecount

The marxist is getting upset because the dems couldn’t push the socialist spending bill (with the neat-sounding “recovery” title) through before we, the people had a chance to read it. Sorry, Bambi - we’re on to this trick. And now that some of the drones that made a major voting error in November are starting to see what’s really going on in Washington, they’re going to be watching like a hawk as well.


26 posted on 02/05/2009 6:19:41 AM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: COUNTrecount
"the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems,...I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."

When I heard a clip of Obambi saying this it was clear he has lost touch with reality already. God help this country for the remainder of his term.

27 posted on 02/05/2009 6:20:23 AM PST by McGruff
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To: meyer

Remember,

to defeat the left,
it’s a simple matter of exposing the left.

Their ideology is unacceptable to the majority of Americans.

They’re working on fixing that, but at this point, it’s still true.


28 posted on 02/05/2009 6:22:08 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: free-n-TX

http://www.kingsmill.com/index.asp?detectflash=false&;


29 posted on 02/05/2009 6:22:49 AM PST by maggief
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To: McGruff

bttt


30 posted on 02/05/2009 6:24:27 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: Machavelli

“He is not what America is about. Viva la resistance!”

Worth repeating!


31 posted on 02/05/2009 6:25:14 AM PST by bricklayer
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To: COUNTrecount
President Obama, fresh off his first Washington apology tour, grew combative Wednesday, asserting that America voted for him, not the other guy,

I didn't vote for him.

32 posted on 02/05/2009 6:26:13 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: COUNTrecount
the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems

If he'd just set fire to this gigantic straw man he could warm the while country.

33 posted on 02/05/2009 6:26:18 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: COUNTrecount

Oh, let me guess... the zero has found his Acorns.


34 posted on 02/05/2009 6:27:07 AM PST by ScottinVA (Make my world PURRRFECT, Lord Obama!)
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To: Joe Boucher

He looks more like a sock monkey


35 posted on 02/05/2009 6:27:35 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: cartan
"I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."

For one thing chump, people who voted for you, by an overwhelming majority, had no conscious thought at all on this matter. They voted for you because you are "black"....which is also not entirely true.

So if you want to get all huffy and self righteous, you would do well to remember that little fact.

36 posted on 02/05/2009 6:28:02 AM PST by libs_kma (F.U.B.O.)
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To: cartan

“Is he knowingly lying or just stupid?” Rhetorical, right? This is the same agenda that got him elected, so don’t expect his pop culture audience to see through the empty suit.


37 posted on 02/05/2009 6:28:02 AM PST by sarasota
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To: maggief

http://www.kingsmill.com/index.asp?detectflash=false&;;

Thanks, Maggie. This makes me ill.


38 posted on 02/05/2009 6:28:09 AM PST by free-n-TX
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To: mgc1122

let’s just hope the Republicans keep their nevre and stand up to dear leader...


39 posted on 02/05/2009 6:28:12 AM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: free-n-TX

Etta James’ words:

“During a concert in Seattle, James, 71, told the audience, “You know, your President, the one with the big ears - he ain’t my President”

You go, Etta!! You just won a fan!!


40 posted on 02/05/2009 6:31:05 AM PST by ScottinVA (Make my world PURRRFECT, Lord Obama!)
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