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Related: About this forum5 Brilliant Things Barack Obama Did In His Convention Speech
5 Brilliant Things Barack Obama Did In His Convention Speech
President Obama did a lot of good things in his convention speech, but here are the five brilliant points in his acceptance speech.
1). The Republican Obsession With Tax Cuts
What Obama Said, Now, our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didnt have much to say about how theyd make it right. They want your vote, but they dont want you to know their plan. And thats because all they have to offer is the same prescription theyve had for the last thirty years: Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!"
Why it was Brilliant: The President could have made some dry argument about tax cuts, but instead he made a joke that was completely true. No matter what the problem is, the first Republican and sometimes only Republican solution proposed is tax cuts. Obamas tax cut humor was not only true. It is going to be replayed and repeated for the next 24 hours on every newscast.
2). Mitt Romney the Blustering Bumbler a.k.a George W. Bush
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5 Brilliant Things Barack Obama Did In His Convention Speech (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Agreed. Short and to the point.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)2. I like to see the issues broken down so nicely
in short digestible sections!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. Yes, the right wing editors will have trouble clipping those to distort it.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)4. Excellent perspective and true!
Great read.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)5. every GOP sentence has a noun a verb and tax cuts.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)6. His speech was great. President Obama nailed them to the wall tonight.
The "tax cut prescription" was brilliant.
I hope they run cuts from his speech all this weekend like they did Romney's rambling stammering crap for 3 days after the RNC convention.