Posted on 01/29/2010 5:58:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BALTIMORE, Maryland (AFP) President Barack Obama Friday chided Republicans for portraying his health reform plan as a "Bolshevik plot" and for saying he wanted to do "crazy stuff that is going to destroy America."
In a highly unusual televised question-and-answer session, Obama told his foes they should not just oppose him for political gain, warning that elected officials should care more about jobs of voters than their own.
"I'm not a pundit, I'm just a president. So take it for what it's worth -- but I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security."
"They want us to focus on their job security," Obama said, at a retreat for Republican members of the House of Representatives in Baltimore.
Voters did not want gridlock, partisanship and obstruction, Obama argued, in an appearance which effectively used the symbolism of his office, in a week in which he has tried to reboot his presidency after a brutal political year.
"They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want."
"They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day."
Obama has repeatedly stressed that Washington politics are broken -- the issue played an important part in his campaign in 2008 -- but has been unable to make any progress in forging bipartisan consensus since he took office.
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YOU LIE!!
Let me be perfectly clear I am a Boleshevik, that is what the russisn KGb trained me to be when I was indoctrinated in 1981 while visting Pakistan. The KGB paid for my education at Occidential and I had to make a promise to utilize my British passport. I than found out that i forget to sign up for the Selective Servic registration also the Russisn KGb told me not to worry about as they had the approprite forms and USPS service stamps. See we have to read between the lines when Obama speaks. You know his mother did not get her Social security registration done until after 1965 but backdated it for in 1959, irregardless that the form was issues in 1965. You know those KGB guys were really on top things and always had the latest forms and latest stamps and such when making forgeries for their hand picked candidates to destroy the US. george Soros really strived to keep everything updated, the Hungary Jew excelled in his relationship with the KGB and Marshall Davis. Stanley Dunham stumbled into the Soviet occupied territory and he sold his soul to Stalin This is the hidden meaning behind the Bolshevik statement Notice he did not stutter on the word but was able to get it out with no extra pronunciation like Pakiistaan.
He’s extending an olive branch...wrapped in barbed wire laced with poisonous tips.
“...and for saying he wanted to do “crazy stuff that is going to destroy America.”
Correction please:
...and for saying he IS doing crazy stuff that is destroying America.
D*mn, you beat me to it.
You know I’ve not called it yet but since he mentioned it....if the shoes fits!
He was trying to goad them into a YOU LIE moment. They where smart to just eat their lunch and wait for November. Then in January we can begin the impeachment process.
Is this the 2010 version of VRWC?
"C'mon all you VRWC politicians .. STOP playing partisan politics RIGHT NOW and start agreeing with ME!!! After all, I just want the best for the American people and if we bicker and argue all the time then it is YOU who is playing politcs" !!!
Very bad faith appearance and lectire by Obama.
Obama is a parasitic touch hole pretend president.
Typical doublespeak. The Mensheviks were more abundant than the Bolsheviks.
“Work with me” from the other side of the door I’ve locked you out of?
What a punk
Thanks very much for thr help.
Why did Republicans agree to this charade? Obama stands in front of them behind a podium lecturing them like some expert professor and they sit there and politely listen like rapt undergraduates. Didn’t they consider the “optics” of this and how it would be exploited by Obama’s friends in the media? No wonder they’re called the Dumb Party.
It is like Glenn Beck said. The Dems have a super majority in both Houses so it really doesn’t matter if they show up or not. It’s the Progressives fighting against the Democrats that is preventing the One from getting his way. Yet he keeps demonizing the Republicans as blocking him from achieving his goals of fundamentally changing the Republic.
That’s what the cameras were for. Obowma was ready to cry on the shoulders of his muppets in the MSM that he was “the victim”.
Now just to show you that the AP was in it, the term “Bolshevik” was researched quite well and inserted into the stories.
To date, everything O has done has moved America towards it’s destruction.
It’s not as if he didn’t warn us. Too bad the despots stole the election which was financed with millions of dollars from abroad.
ACORN votes, and the dumbest bunch of ignorant fools known to man.
The perfect storm.
Would Obama even be at this retreat-conference if it wasn’t for Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts??? Methinks not.
Sorry Obama, we are not interested in Federalizing the country.
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