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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 22:07:48 GMT -5
You thought "fundamentally transforming America" was going to happen without cutting a few corners along the way? Here’s Obama’s original statement, in an October 2008 campaign visit to Columbia, Mo: "Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that's taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
"In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor."That "fundamentally transforming America" thing has been repeated for the last seven years in a deliberately isolated and misleading way IMO.
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Post by Doug on Feb 26, 2015 22:58:27 GMT -5
You are right James. It is taken out of context. Looking at the whole thing he just said that he wouldn't sell out to Wall Street. Proving once again that the murder is also a lying.
But then I don't have as much problem with him lying (he's a politician) as with the fact that he's guilty of murder.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 23:01:04 GMT -5
And the reining in Wall Street thing isn't really going too well.
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Post by aquaduct on Feb 26, 2015 23:19:49 GMT -5
The whole steaming pile of shit isn't working out too well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 23:45:18 GMT -5
I think it's more a case of a few conspicuously steamy areas within the pile. People will always disagree about which those are.
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Post by millring on Feb 27, 2015 6:44:32 GMT -5
The context changes nothing. I knew the context.
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Post by theevan on Feb 27, 2015 7:35:28 GMT -5
The president has been dramatically effective at the transformation thingie.
Whether that's a good or bad thing is a matter of opinion
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Post by millring on Feb 27, 2015 7:53:49 GMT -5
I think the transformation thingie is inevitable. The difference is that this president is unabashedly for it and doing all he can to hasten it. We've already jumped off the cliff. Some soon day we'll discover whether we landed in the water or if that beach below was wider than we thought. I'm guessing the latter. Krugman et al are predicting the former.
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