Forum Post: Obama Campaigns for Tea Party Votes
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 22, 2011, 8:52 a.m. EST by aahpat
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So the Super Duper Committee has lived down to its expectations, it failed. Now come the draconian budget cuts demanded by the loony toons tea party cult in Congress.
Democratic(?) president Barack Obama has immediately issued a position that he will veto any bill that attempts to mitigate or roll back the tea party compelled draconian cuts to social programs.
Barack Obama proves, once again, to be the right-wing tea party candidate.
Barack Obama = Neo-Con
From what I've read the cuts to social programs are spread out quite a bit. The largest specific reduction is aimed at the Department of Defense.
That too is spread out over ten years. The nitpicking of items is not the point. The point is that the cuts in this piece of legislation were the ideal alternative of the tea party and now Obama is defending them with his veto power.
That is the point. He is also saying he will veto attempts aimed at thwarting the defense cuts. Congress is gridlocked there won't be any legislation coming out of the house that aims to only thwart the cuts to social programs.
Ron Lawl has a plan to cut 1.2 trillion dollars without cutting ANY medicare or SS benefits. Just saying.....
Obama is a centrist. It is our skewed view of what is the mainstream that makes us believe he is a right or left wing president.
Obama campaign propaganda.
I did not believe the Obama campaign propaganda in 2008 and i will not believe it in 2012.
What you believe isn't really important. The truth is the man is a centrist.
As long as there are Americans like me denouncing Obama for what he is what we think is important, TO OBAMA COME ELECTION DAY.
I'm not saying he is my ideal president but labeling him as a right-winger is just stupid. We got what we voted for. Would we be better off with McCain? No! Will we be better off with one of the clowns from the GOP this time around? No!
You can rationalize voting for the lesser evil. You still voted for evil.
McCain was one of the few who voted against the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Obama has done nothing to reinstate Glass-Steagall.
Obama has militarized and escalated the War on Drugs giving America the second highest prison population of mostly poor black men, in American history. right behind right-wing authoritarian Bill Clinton. And Bloody Barack Obama's Drug War has killed tens of thousands of innocent Mexicans.
Obama, who was elected on the legacy of ASSASSINATED social justice activist Martin Luther King created and maintains lists of people who he wants ASSASSINATED.
This is pure evil. The Republicans are no better. But they are also no worse.
Bin Laden and other terrorists deserved what they got. So your assassination complaint will fall on deaf ears. In our form of government the POTUS can't just inact or reinstate legislation so Glass-Steagall is a moot point and if we consider that dems have pushed to re-regulate the banks we see that the lesser of those two evils actually helps as appose to the greater evil who only help themselves. Now unless you have a more viable candidate I still say the best way to advance the 99% agenda is by voting especially in our local elections.
Very disingenuous of you.
You offer nothing but partisan denial.
Voting out both Democrats and Republicans is the best way to advance the agenda of the 99%. Both of the dominance parties are equally culpable in the financial rape of America.
I'd love to vote out every incumbent member of both houses and the POTUS but that just isn't going to happen. Point blank. We have to deal with reality and the reality is that we will have to build influence. This cycle starts with a handful of candidates and we build from there. Let that first group be our watchdogs in DC and our voice on the floors of Congress and Senate. Once the entrenched members of both parties see this they will work with our reps and if they don't our reps can call them out on it. Public humiliation is a hell of a motivator.
I understand the desire to dream big but we have to do what we can with the cards we are dealt... and considering we just bogarded our way into the game every win will be a hard fought battle. Let's not do what the Tea Party did and get a bunch of legislative idiots elected. Instead we should focus on getting the best of our best elected and build from there. Another good strategy would be to start taking over local legislative bodies and the political groups at the state level. We need to influence this system from the bottom up. We already know trickle down doesn't work.
That is all that I am talking about doing. But I don't believe that it can be done within the two parties. See what happened to the tea party getting co-opted. Many of the 29 supposedly tea party members of Congress are really just Republicans spouting tea party crap to keep the TPers in the fold and voting GOP.
I would be happy to find a dozen or two OWS minded Americans who hate the parties and would be willing to run Independent Write-In campaigns. Get enough people to promote them throughout the Internet and in their local communities from now until Nov. 2012. I am sure with the energy that we see within the OWS movement we can get some of them into Congress. And maybe a couple in each state house.
One thing that the tea party debt limit default insurrection taught America was that the POTUS is ineffectual today so I don't give a damn about it. I'll vote third party, Independent or Write-In NONE OF THE ABOVE rather than vote for Bloody Barack Obama.
McCain was also the only candidate in the last election to try and introduce some rationality with discussion of the national debt, lobbyists, a corrupt Congress, earmarks, etc. The Dems rolled right over these; the issues were ignored, and now these issues are central.
As much as I dislike the GOP as a whole, you are right about McCain.
Reality has a way of slapping people in the face. No, Obama is not some TEA Party, right wing sympathizer, but he is smart enough to see that we are on an unsustainable path of spending. Even if the taxes on the wealthiest are raised (which they should), it still wouldn't bring in enough to make up for how much we are in the whole. It will take a real leader in DC to make the hard choices needed to save this nation, but neither party would support such a leader as it would hurt too many pet projects or special interests. I had heard a funny analogy this morning saying that Nick Cage makes close to $20 million a movie but filed for bankruptcy before. Now, did he have a revenue or spending problem?