Posted on 10/25/2010 6:59:19 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
WOONSOCKET, R.I. President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses. Nor was his greeting totally friendly in a state where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party's candidate for governor. Obama can "take his endorsement and shove it," declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a Rhode Island gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House.
In a little more than five hours in the state, Obama was booked for a factory tour and for a pair of fundraisers that party officials said would bring in $500,000. He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
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Quite a statement from Obama but sometimes I get the feeling they want to throw us off and run us over a few times.
Does he think there is no such thing as a middle class republican? geez.
Figures that this article wouldn’t mention the Republican candidate in the same breath — The Pubbie is John Robitaille.
Then, there's his American grandmother ~ she was a banker.
Is this what African Americans struggled for hundreds of years to accomplish? To still be poor and marginalized but stick it to the white population. What a betrayal of everything we've fought for.
He sounds more and more like Robert Mugabe every day. Any day now he will start confiscating all the farms in the country to give to his supporters Oh wait..that's pretty much what he already did with General Motors.
I have said from the time he was elected that we are all on the same bus, and those who disagree with his ideology are on the back of the bus. I am surprised, however, that Obama was stupid enough to admit it. I wonder if America is listening because they sure as heck weren’t during the election.
Repubs might have drive the economy into a ditch, but it was the progressives that dug the dang thing.
I think we found the writer of Rev. Wright’s sermons.
Sure they are listening, his words are chose carefully for a reason. Racial contentiousness is what he wants.
LLS
I’m driving the truck, BaCrock. That’s the way it’s going to be, bitch.
Political expediency.
He’s coming unhinged and the real Barry is finally coming out of hiding. Barry hates everyone except his most sycophantic supporters. I don’t recall any President calling for citizens that don’t vote for them to be treated as second class citizens. He’s a disgrace domestically and an embarrassment internationally.
That is exactly what he is doing, cause everytime I think he can't tick me off anymore than he already has, I read something like this & I know what a low-life marxist he is.
He's not fit to pick up dog crap in my yard!
0bama can come for the ride, but hell have to stay under the bus.
Gee, Obama, what kind of mental imagery are you trying to use?
Who else had to sit in the back of the bus?
Are you saying Republicans should be treated like southern blacks when the Jim Crow laws were in place? You want conservatives to be treated like 2nd class citizens?
I think Obama’s really starting to unravel, mentally. He cannot separate rejection of policy with rejection of himself.
Thank you. Perfect description.
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