Posted on 10/19/2014 10:44:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
At Rallies, Obama Casts 2014 as Key for His Legacy CHICAGO — Oct 19, 2014 By JOSH LEDERMAN
Marching onto the campaign trail for the first time this year, President Barack Obama cast Democrats' success in this year's midterm elections as a chance to further the policies he's fought for in the White House. "Don't give up now," he said. "Not after we've made this much progress."
Returning to the accepting embrace of his home state of Illinois, Obama told voters that Republicans mean well, but "just have bad ideas." He accused the GOP of recycling those ideas over and over, urging voters to take their future into their own hands by showing up Nov. 4 — and electing Democrats.
"The power to move our society, our government, it really is in your hands," Obama said during a rally for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn that doubled as a homecoming for the president. "You're the reason that I had the audacity to actually run for president of the United States."
Echoing many of the same themes as his own 2008 and 2012 campaigns, Obama said Democrats were fighting to give women equal pay, give children a good education and give all Americans access to decent health care. He contrasted that with the policies of Republicans, whom he claimed were living in the 1950s and belong "in a 'Mad Men' episode."
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I hope and pray that Obama will be right for the first time in his life - that 2014 is key to his legacy and the biggest republican (and mostly conservative) sweep in history.
I know from personal experience that living in the Eisenhower 50'a was a lot better than the Obama 2000's.
I’ve been watching a lot of Leave it to Beaver reruns lately. Makes me miss the America that died on August 19, 2009. Honor, respect, love, fun and optimism. Turned to . . . whatever it is we have now.
Guy on the left looks like he’s going in his pants.
Can’t say I blame him though.
The 1950’s? You mean back when Americans had jobs working in American factories?
POSOTUS Obola is re-living the 7th century in a nicer cave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8
It might be whatever Moochie is doing with her right hand.
If I could go back in a time machine I would go back to the 1950’s.
Unless you lived in that era like me, you simply could not imagine how good it was compared to what it is today.
What was the greatest change since the 50’s? Freedom, liberty, and adherence to the rule of law. We’ve lost it all.
I’d LOVE to go back to the morals of the 50’s!! Well, except for the black problem,.......
My neighborhoods too. And we never locked our doors in at least one neighborhood in which I lived.
You can blame Vatican II and the subsequent abuses for the deterioration of society. Liberals were so empowered by Vatican II that everything they touched was destroyed.
I would very gladly go back to the 1950s, when our families were intact, and most people worked hard and behaved decently.
Their phones must have run out of batteries.....
“The Republicans are living in the 1950’s.”As opposed to living in the 30's.
Obama C A T A P U L T - ing More Bodies Into U.S.
Obama's Coordinated Assault Targeting American People Using Lethal Terminal foreign citizens is necessary because:
"We have to get ebola to know what it is. Er.. make that you have to get ebola."
Next Obama will be saying the GOP is poopy heads. This man is as mature as a 6 year old.
Right.
If not for today’s technology and former KKK dominance, I would envy those days 100%. Back in 1950 we still maintained HALF of the world’s GDP. Could you imagine it? The gas prices back then? Everything was affordable. Jobs were easy to find. Education and housing was cheaper too.
People were more God-fearing. Freedom and world peace were poised to endure for centuries because we started off with an Atom Bomb monopoly {that was doomed due to Truman’s and FDR’s gullibility in espionage}.
Front doors were left unlocked, and parents trusted neighbors and teachers to paddle their kids. [Yeah, it was too rough on kids, granted, but look at how our nation’s sense of right-and-wrong is eroding.] Children were out on bikes and everywhere, generally safe and physically fit. Prisons were less common, and repeat offenses after Alcatraz were, if I remember correctly, only 10% or thereabouts. Immigration and quarantine policies were actually sane. Perhaps Truman didn’t bother to stop KKK lynchings and the DNC was utterly racist, but Detroit was incredibly rich, famous, and law-abiding [up until ‘Devil’s Night Out’].
[Deep sigh.]
That was America’s first ‘Camelot’ moment, which reached it’s peak under tax cutter and civil rights champion, JFK [who allied himself with republicans in congress].
NOW look at once-mighty Detroit. NOW look at prisons and failed ‘rehab’ programs [which were even worse when leftists had more influence over them]. Look at ‘world peace’ too. Painful! As for GDP, China is now #1 because businesses are treated like kings over there and kicked around here in the US. And our VISA policy of today is in the process of injecting us with ebola, the worst disease ever, even worse than the Black Death.
When President ‘B. Insane Ebola’ compliments the RNC about being ‘in the 50s’, they should THANK him! It’s their ‘50s’ mindset that supports frakking shale oil BTW, the only major achievement of this decade so far. Modern technology combined with old fashioned horse sense equals great achievements.
I’d like to go back to the 50s please...and imagine millions of other Americans would like the same...This time though..I want the truth told about the KKK, Crow laws etc
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