President Calls Out Republican 'Madness'

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31 March 2012

Portland, Maine (CNN) – President Barack Obama wrapped up an afternoon fundraising swing through the northeast Friday, declaring his Republican opponents have a go-it-alone attitude that threatens to permanently stifle the country's middle class.

"They would gut things that we've always believed is at the core of making America great - education, science, caring for the most vulnerable." the president to chants of "four more years" in a packed Portland, Maine gymnasium. "They are wrong."


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'We won't win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if we cling to this same old, worn-out, tired "you're on your own" economics that the other side is peddling,' President Obama said.

'It was tried in the decades before the Great Depression. It didn't work then. It was tried in the last decade. It didn't work,' he said.

'You know, the idea you would keep on doing the same thing over and over again, even though it's been proven not to work. That's a sign of madness.'



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