Obama: GOP ideas better ‘for the last century’ ("You might as well have watched it on a B & W TV")
Source: Yahoo
Obama: GOP ideas better for the last century
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket 8 hrs ago
URBANDALE - President Barack Obama, in Iowa to kick off a campaign swing, mockingly charged Saturday that the just-concluded Republican convention had showcased policies "better suited for the last century."
"You might as well have watched it on a black and white TV," Obama told a cheering crowd of thousands in Urbandale, outside Des Moines. The president was in Iowa a pivotal battleground state on the first stop of a push that will take him to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Obama recalled how his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses four years ago had revived his campaign at a time when pundits were predicting his political demise. "And it will be you, Iowa, who will choose the path we take from here."
The president took several shots at the Republican convention in Tampa, noting Romney did not mention Afghanistan in his acceptance speech on Thursday, and accusing his political foes of having outdated ideas. "It was something to behold. Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century what they offered over those three days was, more often than not, an agenda that was better suited for the last century," he said. "It was a re-run. We'd seen it before."
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)I have yet to see a theocratic state that wasn't incredibly violent toward its own people.
eppur_se_muova
(36,275 posts)More like W TV.
Chemisse
(30,814 posts)But Obama's way too classy to say that.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Try silent movies... at the end of the 19th Century. They'll be gobsmacked when the 'talkies' come along.
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)President Obama was too kind. The GOP agenda should be carved into stone tablets, or perhaps painted on cave walls. It has no business being broadcast in any way.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)The RNC speakers: "Ugh,me a Rethug!"
underpants
(182,854 posts)well done
krkaufman
(13,435 posts)The Republican platform is a relic from before the Great Depression, a full century regressed, denying historical economic reality just as stubbornly as it denies scientific evidence.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)and best viewed on a kinetoscope at the nickelodeon.
Yesterdays ideas moving us back to the day before.