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Obama Makes ‘Socialist’ Quip During Debt Town Hall
The Blaze ^ | 7/22/11 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 07/22/2011 10:59:59 AM PDT by Nachum

During his town hall meeting in Maryland today on the debt crisis, President Obama found time to answer critics who think his position (and positions) have a socialist flavor. And he joked about it.

“This isn’t just some wild-eyed socialist position, it’s the position being taken by people of both parties and no party,“ he said with with a smirk as the audience chuckled and after talking about ”shared sacrifice:”

Obama seems well aware of his critics. For example, on radio today Glenn Beck labeled the president a “Marxist.”

Less than two weeks away from a debt ceiling deadline, President Barack Obama sought Friday to pressure House Republicans to come around to a deal that he insisted must include new taxes — which he calls “revenues” — as well as spending cuts.

At the same time, even with no clear end in sight to negotiations that have dragged on for weeks, the president asserted that the U.S. has never defaulted on its debt and won’t do so now.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; debtdeal; democrats; makes; nobama2012; obama; obamadebttownhall; obamaspeech; quip; socialist; socialistdemocrats; umd
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To: thouworm

So then he DID lie!


41 posted on 07/22/2011 11:55:43 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: celtic gal

“I would go further..He is a Communist.”

If it quacks like a duck...


42 posted on 07/22/2011 11:58:46 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Nachum
“This isn’t just some wild-eyed socialist position, it’s the position being taken by people of both parties and no party,“

IOW, it's not JUST a wild-eyed socialist position, it's also a position held by other people as well. But it IS a wild-eyed socialist position.

That's what he said.

43 posted on 07/22/2011 12:00:06 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: celtic gal; Nachum

44 posted on 07/22/2011 12:04:33 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: EternalVigilance

45 posted on 07/22/2011 12:08:36 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: SparkyBass

46 posted on 07/22/2011 12:10:35 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: Major Matt Mason
Beck is 100% correct.

Actually, I think he's more fascist than marxist. Marxists have a plan.

47 posted on 07/22/2011 12:17:18 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Nachum

Cant wait to get rid of this guy. Purple lips and all.


48 posted on 07/22/2011 12:20:13 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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49 posted on 07/22/2011 12:27:42 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: Nachum

This fits the pattern, make a joke about a real concern, laugh about it with his supporters and the media. A complete inoculation against this criticism, it won’t be brought up again in any serious context.


50 posted on 07/22/2011 12:30:29 PM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: Nachum

http://www.facebook.com/electdemocrats here is a nest of these flipping idiots. Just read the comments its enough to make you sick.


51 posted on 07/22/2011 12:33:36 PM PDT by linn37
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To: Son House

An actual, diagnostic characteristic of Malignant Narcissistic sociopaths is joking at inappropriate times about inappropriate subjects. To Barry, the golf course is serious, and the economy is funny. As long as he gets his tax-payer funded super-jet, hundred-dollar-a-pound taxpayer funded Wagu and million-dollar taxpayer funded parties, the economy is a lark. Just don’t tell him he has to skip his weekly eighteen holes—he’ll go ballistic.


52 posted on 07/22/2011 12:44:28 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Nachum
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53 posted on 07/22/2011 12:52:45 PM PDT by kara2008
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Cliche has more on the ball than Precedent Erkel Mugabe !

Hope yer stayin chilly young lady !...:o)

Stay safe !


54 posted on 07/22/2011 12:53:17 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Nachum

A major clue that he is a Marxist/Socialist was when he announced that we are only four? days from a fundamental change in our country. How true, we are seeing the death of the American Dream because of this rotten POS


55 posted on 07/22/2011 12:53:33 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: loveliberty2

Leave these old dead white guys out of it, they just confuse the issue.

We are on a better path, soon to be admired by all the Euro-weenies.


56 posted on 07/22/2011 12:53:33 PM PDT by itsahoot (--I will vote for Sarah Palin, even if I have to write her in. --He that hath an ear, let him hear.)
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To: Squantos

Air conditioner running, double paned windows, UV blocking shades... ;^)


57 posted on 07/22/2011 1:06:50 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Going into Rehab means never having to say you are sorry....)
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To: Rome2000

“But that “Coalition” headed by Bachmann, is as useless as tits on a Bull, because they have no unity, and no leadership.”

Au contraire. She is, but waiting in the wings.


58 posted on 07/22/2011 1:21:38 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Nachum

Shared Sacrifice? Obama’s BD PArty at 35 grand a seat? Yeah right.

Obama needs a lesson in shared saacrifice.


59 posted on 07/22/2011 1:37:44 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Nachum
The stone cold easiest way to know 100% for sure that this IS a wild eyed socialist position is to hear Barrack Hussein Obama (hmmmmm hmmmmm hmmmmm) say “This isn’t just some wild-eyed socialist position, it’s the position being taken by people of both parties and no party,“
60 posted on 07/22/2011 1:37:48 PM PDT by libs_kma (When I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool)
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