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Republicans will make US a 'Third World' country: Obama
Yahoo ^ | 4/15/11 | Mira Oberman - AFP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: country; obama; republicans; thirdworld
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A sick thought.. He really believes it.

as Granny use to say.. Nobody lies like a dead chicken.

cluck.

1 posted on 04/15/2011 11:53:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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“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.


2 posted on 04/15/2011 11:54:06 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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I’m beginning to think Obama has a really refined sense of humor.


3 posted on 04/15/2011 11:55:02 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: NormsRevenge

No, that’s President Malcom X, Junior’s dream.


4 posted on 04/15/2011 11:55:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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After all your 0bamagic, we’ll be lucky to see 2.5 in my lifetime.


5 posted on 04/15/2011 11:56:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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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.


6 posted on 04/15/2011 11:57:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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“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.”


7 posted on 04/15/2011 11:58:33 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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Is the GOP really a Foe of Obama? Or a convenient foil.


8 posted on 04/15/2011 11:58:55 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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Delusional_JKR
9 posted on 04/15/2011 11:59:20 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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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.

No, Mr. Soetoro...we actually became a "Third World" country on January 20, 2009. You may remember that date for different reasons, however.
10 posted on 04/15/2011 11:59:49 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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Which side of him was saying that?


11 posted on 04/15/2011 12:00:30 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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Uhhh,, It says.. Yur Fired!!

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)


12 posted on 04/15/2011 12:00:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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A step up from his dragging America into fourth world status.


13 posted on 04/15/2011 12:00:42 PM PDT by Carley ( TYPICAL STREET THUG, NASTY BULLY, THAT'S OUR PRESIDENT.)
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There ya go projecting again.


14 posted on 04/15/2011 12:01:10 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Prepare for battle and never forsake the Lord...unknown)
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This is worse than psychosis. People tripping on acid make more sense than this.


15 posted on 04/15/2011 12:02:00 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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Trump was on Rush today and had an interesting point, that the GOP should not get too far out front in this fight--His point was that this budget is Obama's responsibility. He and his "plan" should be made the issue, not Ryan or the GOP. It would be much better to be on offense, fighting to dominate and fix obama's half-assed offerings rather than having to defend the GOP plan and letting the 'rats make us the issue. Use elements of the Ryan plan to counter-attack.

I think he's right, and it is an insight that none of the pundits and politicians have had.

16 posted on 04/15/2011 12:02:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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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.


17 posted on 04/15/2011 12:03:14 PM PDT by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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“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.


18 posted on 04/15/2011 12:03:38 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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Republicans will make US a 'Third World' country: Obama

Well at least Obummer will feel right at home


19 posted on 04/15/2011 12:03:40 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Somebody needs to smack some sense into that stinking commie rat.


20 posted on 04/15/2011 12:03:41 PM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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