Obama's "Read My Lips" Moment - Democratic Underground

lame54

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:40 PM
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Obama's "Read My Lips" Moment

Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 12:41 PM by lame54

Forget the fact that the spending freeze is a bad idea.
A terrible idea.
A horrendously atrocious idea.

It is just not feasible.

Somewhere down the line spending will take place.

Then Obama will have to spend his time explaining and defending his position.

It will come up constantly in any debate he has.

The media will be all over him for breaking a promise.

It doesn't matter if it turns out to be the right thing to do at the time.

He will be crucified.

This is a very dumb promise to make

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Cant trust em

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:44 PM
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1. I thought it was the Cadillac tax. nt

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Faryn Balyncd

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Tue Jan-26-10 01:19 PM
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6. “Any American will have the opportunity to enroll in a new public plan.”

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/HealthCareFullPlan.pdf

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Little Star

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:49 PM
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2. Wasn't there a consensus that we had to spend our way out of

this recession? Spend it out on Main Street not Wall Street? Am I mistaken? I really thought I heard people saying that. Maybe one of the people was Krugman? It sounded like the right idea to me, sort of like what FDR did.

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lame54

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:52 PM
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3. Krugman said the initial stimulus package was too small

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Little Star

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Tue Jan-26-10 02:32 PM
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12. Barack Obama: we must spend our way out of recession

I googled and found this from Jan 2009:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5478754.ece

One year later with Main Street having seen no relief and now he wants to stop spending? He is no FDR thats for sure.

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Democrats_win

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:58 PM
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4. Perhaps. Somehow this feels worse....?

But then again, we recall that Bush broke his promise so that he could get money to go to war. It's all bad. Really bad.

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jaxx

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Tue Jan-26-10 12:58 PM
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5. Well he's being crucified on here, that's for sure.

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bertman

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Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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7. If you don't know the difference between crucifixion and criticism you're in bad shape, jaxx.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Tue Jan-26-10 01:26 PM
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8. Looks to me like he knows the difference.

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jaxx

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Tue Jan-26-10 01:36 PM
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10. There is constructive criticism and there is bitching.

I meant what I said. He's being crucified on here. There is nothing constructive about second guessing everything.

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bertman

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Tue Jan-26-10 02:22 PM
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11. Hyperbole, pure and simple.

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alc

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Tue Jan-26-10 01:28 PM
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9. I thought the same thing when I first read about it

I think the article I read said the freeze "excludes defense and emergency spending". I immediately thought "we're going to be seeing a lot of emergencies", and each one is going to get lots of criticism. And each time Obama will either be accused of lying about the emergency to justify spending or lying about freezing spending and probably both.

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lame54

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Tue Jan-26-10 04:39 PM
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13. .

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