Posted on 04/15/2011 11:52:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country Thursday as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4 trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign, and Obama sought to frame it as a "stark choice" between investing in the future or watching the country fall apart.
"Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.
"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."
Republican plans to shrink the reach of government is "not a vision that's impelled by the numbers" but a "choice" to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the rich rather than ask those who have been "blessed" to "give a little more," he said.
Obama said his vision was one of an ambitious, compassionate and caring America "where we're living within our means but we're still investing in our future."
"If we apply some practical common sense to this, we can solve our fiscal challenges and still have the America that we believe in," Obama told supporters at Chicago's N9NE restaurant.
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as Granny use to say.. Nobody lies like a dead chicken.
cluck.
“US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a “Third World” country Thursday as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.”
Oh, STFU, retard.
I’m beginning to think Obama has a really refined sense of humor.
No, that’s President Malcom X, Junior’s dream.
After all your 0bamagic, we’ll be lucky to see 2.5 in my lifetime.
What the heck was the stimulus dough spent on,, wasn’t that aimed at infrastructure?
We truly are ‘a nation of potholes’. uhh.. potheads.. at least the ones that elected him is no insignificant number any longer and add we are saddled with an ‘entitled’ generation(s) of needy sealing the nation’s fate.. may as well get rid of the border too.. O would approve.
“US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a “Third World” country”
He beat the Repubs to the punch with his “agenda.”
Is the GOP really a Foe of Obama? Or a convenient foil.
Hugs Donald (PS Let's do golf)
President Barack Obama reads a note given to him by a young girl upon arrival at O?Hare International Airport. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
A step up from his dragging America into fourth world status.
There ya go projecting again.
This is worse than psychosis. People tripping on acid make more sense than this.
I think he's right, and it is an insight that none of the pundits and politicians have had.
A “Third World” country??
Coming from an undocumented, third world immigrant, that’s a really laughable statement. The ‘President’ gets more and more incoherent and disoriented all the time.
“What the heck was the stimulus dough spent on,, wasn’t that aimed at infrastructure?
We truly are ‘a nation of potholes’”.
Obozo wants a Mulligan on that 862B (just like with his first budget “proposal” this year).
He’s going to turn us into Zimbabwe with his spending and destruction of our productivity- which last time I checked was a Third World country.
Well at least Obummer will feel right at home
Somebody needs to smack some sense into that stinking commie rat.
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