Posted on 08/12/2012 5:10:28 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: Ryan is Congressional Republicans ideological leader By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket 46 mins ago
In his first public remarks about Paul Ryan's pick to be the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate, President Barack Obama called the lawmaker "a decent man" but painted him as a champion of "top down" economic policies that favor the rich.
"Just yesterday morning, my opponent chose his running mate, the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress, Mr. Paul Ryan," Obama said at the second of five fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago. "I want to congratulate Congressman Ryan. I know him, I welcome him to the race."
"Congressman Ryan is a decent man. He is a family man. He's an articulate spokesman for Governor Romney's vision. But it's a vision that I fundamentally disagree with," the president said, arguing that Romney and Ryan were standard-bearers for "top-down economics."
Obama's main political vulnerability ahead of the election remains the economy, still sputtering and weighed down by high unemployment of 8.3 percent three and a half years after he took office. The president has argued he will stand up for the middle class, while Romney will help the rich at the expense of everyone else.
At the fundraiser, Obama highlighted private-sector job growth which has been painfully slow, but steady --- and policies like his rescue of the auto industry, but admitted "we've got a long way to go."
"All of us know friends, neighbors, family members who are still out of work or whose homes are still underwater," he said. "Too many folks are still burdened by enormous college debt. Too many folks still don't have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today."
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Good enough for me!!! GO PAUL!!!
Just WATCH the questions at the debate that those LOSER LEFTIES give to Mitt and Ryan!! OMG!! Their MOTHERS won't recognize them after the media gets thru with them!
And you Mr. President are the ideological leader for the Marxist left... I am behind the ideological leader of the right, Paul Ryan...
The leftists, through their actions, have already acknowledged that trickle down economics is the only way to go.
The argument now is who should be on top doing the trickling.
Ryan the ideological leader of the rich, meantime Obama is attending fund raisers at $4,000 dollars a plate given by rich movie stars, but he doesn’t consider them rich, only stupid enough to pay $4,000 dollars to eat with a Muslim.
But that money is actually flowing back out into the economy keeping it healthy. Bunch of loons, kinda like the Beagle Boys. They think it's better cycled by government where it goes in as a dollar and comes out as fifty cents.
Ryan wins by a landslide!!!
This may be one of the more accurate statements 0bama has made in 3 years.
Whether it is or not, I’ll take Ryan over Saul Alinsky.
St. Augustine is a charming town. If I ever move to FL, that’s where I would go.
Rush was very emphatic last Friday that we needed more idealogical leaders!!!
Thank God for little favors!!!
We have no ideological leader in Congress. Country club Republicans have long prevented real conservatives from having influence and us from leveraging all of our powers.
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