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Obama to Press Centrist Agenda in His Address
New York Times ^

Posted on 01/22/2011 4:58:24 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama to Press Centrist Agenda in His Address By JACKIE CALMES and JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON — President Obama will outline an agenda for “winning the future” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, striking a theme of national unity and renewal, as he stresses the need for both government spending in key areas and an attack on the budget deficit.

Mr. Obama previewed the themes in a video e-mailed on Saturday evening to Democratic activists who had helped in his election campaign, mostly liberals. But the video made plain that his speech would be geared more broadly toward the political center, to independent voters and business owners and executives alienated by the expansion of government and the partisan legislative fights of the past two years.

“My number one focus,” he said, “is going to be making sure that we are competitive, and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future.”

Advisers said the president would describe five “pillars” for ensuring America’s competitiveness and economic growth: innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction and reforming government.

The annual address on Tuesday, with much of the nation watching, will pull together themes suggested by Mr. Obama over the past two months as he has moved rapidly following the midterm elections to retool his presidency.

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To: Sub-Driver

“”innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction and reforming government””

He has the most important one at the end....what the heck do we care? He doesn’t intend to implement any of it anyway but it sure sounds good to the “masses.”


21 posted on 01/22/2011 5:52:44 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Sub-Driver

He should tell the public his real name, where he was born. Admit he is not a natural born citizen..born to citizen parents.


22 posted on 01/22/2011 5:53:20 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Sub-Driver
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23 posted on 01/22/2011 5:55:15 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: SumProVita

Zero’s perception of “Centrist” is still far left.


24 posted on 01/22/2011 5:56:51 PM PST by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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To: Sub-Driver

Centrist agenda, leftist implementation.


25 posted on 01/22/2011 6:00:20 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Rome2000
Idaho is only one of 12 states not visited by the Kenyan muzzie in chief.

That means he's visited 45 states.

26 posted on 01/22/2011 6:02:12 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Sub-Driver

How about massive spending cuts, tax cuts, more drilling, repeal Obamacare, repeal the financial services reform, and reverse illegal immigration? I like my six better.

‘Deficit reduction’ is the only one of his I can go for—until I realize that’s just his euphemism for tax hikes!


27 posted on 01/22/2011 6:02:13 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: bushpilot1
Check out the hot sauce in the picture. Don't know the brand but it looks odd.
28 posted on 01/22/2011 6:03:41 PM PST by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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To: Catsrus
"The era of big government is over..."

(puke)

29 posted on 01/22/2011 6:05:41 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Cementjungle
shifty
30 posted on 01/22/2011 6:06:56 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: bushpilot1

Sharpton has more integrity and pales in comparison on the socialist crook scale to Hussein Barka from Kenya, although they are tied on the audacity scale.


31 posted on 01/22/2011 6:13:17 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Sub-Driver

You can’t change a liberal leopard’s spots. Obama will NEVER move towards the center. He is no Bill Clinton.


32 posted on 01/22/2011 6:18:27 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: Sub-Driver

I never watch or listen to Obongo Bozo — as soon as I see/hear him, I immediately click to something else.

I know that you are supposed to “know the enemy,” but since Obongo Bozo is a Kenyan born LIEberal/Socialiast/Marxist/Fascist/Muslim Bastard and a chronic liar to boot, why should I waste my time?

May I remind this audience that despite wearing a brand new shade of “moving to the center” lipstick, Obongo Bozo is still a pig?

Is it 2012 yet?


33 posted on 01/22/2011 6:20:07 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Rome2000

I’d just as soon he not ever come back to Floriduh.

Takes too long to disinfect the state after he leaves.


34 posted on 01/22/2011 6:24:39 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Sub-Driver

>>five “pillars”

MORE ISLAM, THANKS BOSS!


35 posted on 01/22/2011 6:29:19 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Sub-Driver
Americans are still like frogs in an increasingly roiling pot of water. What Obama is doing to the country makes 9/11 look like a convenience store robbery by comparison. Yet, there are no mobs screaming for his head of a pike.

And where does a nobody community organizer cum junior senator, with no real prior experience, come by the knowledge of how to destroy a country in plain view of its citizenry without provoking riots in the streets? And how does he hypnotize a huge chuck of its population when throngs of psychologists and Madison Avenue hucksters cannot, try as they might, do the same? And how does he create a Jim Jones-style cult without isolating the membership from the rest of humanity?

IMHO, the guy is thoroughly Satanic. Is the the AC or False Prophet or perhaps the Islamic Mahdi? I certainly don't know?

That said, and however much I cannot identify him by some prophetic name...Obama is more than just a Marxist, he is more than just a Muslim Trojan Horse, he is more than just a secular messiah.

I don't have a name for what he is, but he is the greatest personification of pure evil to emerge on the public stage in my lifetime. And the scariest part of it all is...he may just be warming up.

36 posted on 01/22/2011 6:34:13 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama and the Radical Left: 'People of the Lie')
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To: Sub-Driver

Ubama’s “five pillars”:

innovation = old, tired, meaningless horse manure
education = pander to education mafia union thugs
infrastructure = pander to pinky-ring trade union thugs
deficit reduction = confiscate more taxes from society’s producers
reforming government = old, tired, meaningless horse manure


37 posted on 01/22/2011 6:37:44 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Ubama’s “five pillars”:

innovation = old, tired, meaningless horse manure
education = pander to education mafia union thugs
infrastructure = pander to pinky-ring trade union thugs
deficit reduction = confiscate more taxes from society’s producers
reforming government = old, tired, meaningless horse manure


ya just need an, “un-”in front of each one.


38 posted on 01/22/2011 6:58:37 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Sub-Driver

“five pillars” eh. “57 States” eh. “Not a Moozie” eh.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!


39 posted on 01/22/2011 7:15:21 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Sub-Driver

More overspending, higher taxes, more government regulations - yeah, that’s real “centrist”....


40 posted on 01/22/2011 7:28:54 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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