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 Michael Medved

Obama's Most Dangerous Promise

September 4, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

In a lengthy piece comparing the Obama campaign of 2012 to his triumphant 2008 campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president told aides that his most important first term mistake involved his efforts to work with Republicans and he promised he'd never repeat that mistake in the future.

Ironically, a simultaneous report indicated the president's plans to spend less time campaigning for Congressional Democrats, in view of fading prospects for his party to recapture the House. In other words, Obama insists he won't try to work with Republicans even while his own campaign acknowledges the GOP is likely to hold the House. This guarantees more gridlock if Obama wins-a good thing, perhaps, in preventing disastrous legislative initiatives, but a very dangerous situation with America speeding directly toward fiscal crisis with burgeoning debt and looming national bankruptcy.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    And still his minions claim it's the republicans who won't work with HIM>
    September 4, 2012 7:03 pm
    And as any sense of reality seems to be leaving, the president seems to be morphing from the Wizard of Oz to Caligula. .. Do we next get a Praetorian Guard?

    But as far as congressional democrats are concerned, they'll probable have better chances as long as Obama does NOT campaign for them.

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  • rational wrote...
    Dictatorship...
    September 4, 2012 7:23 pm
    That's what Obama is promsing...and progressives will vote for him anyway...idjits.
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  • Hayduke wrote...
    Good. Kick the GOP to the curb.
    September 4, 2012 7:56 pm
    The GOP blatantly abused the filibuster. They did significantly more filibusters than any other congress in history,all to deny Obama and the Dems any kind of victory. They threaten to default our credit rating if they didn't get their way on all spending cuts and no tax increases.

    That's how children play.

    It's time Obama and the Dems give them a taste of their own medicine.

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  • rational wrote...
    Hayduke
    September 4, 2012 8:18 pm
    If republicans openly planned to establish a dicatorship the left would be caterwauling...that progressives are actually encouraging a dicatorship says volumes. You don't like congress doing their jobs then vote them out and replace them.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Here's a question for you Rightys
    September 4, 2012 8:36 pm
    Who is the smallest spender since Dwight D Eisenhower? Barrack Obama, don't believe me? Check with Forbes Magazine.It makes a prominent mention of the Budget that was left him by George W Bush.Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Medved
    September 4, 2012 8:41 pm
    He gave the Right a chance to negotiate and they spit in his eye.Old saying is Fool me once shame on you fool you twice shame on me.I attempted to find the story Medved is referring to with no success.He should have provided a link.My guess is that its Medved up to his old (and regular)trick of spinning and LYING.If the story does have a link but no names to verify take it as normal gOP propaganda
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  • RonJ wrote...
    Messy I hope
    September 5, 2012 9:15 am
    you get back on your meds soon otherwise I'm worried for the safety of the public.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    RonJ
    September 5, 2012 3:30 pm
    I take my Blood Pressure meds daily Thank You for showing your concern
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  • Kief Sloberman wrote...
    I'm with Hayduke
    September 5, 2012 5:50 am
    but Obama shouldn't just kick the GOP to the curb. In a national emergency he can arrest them with Executive Order and confiscate their property. He can initiate the emergency with a financial meltdown. This would be the patriotic thing for him to do so that we can rid the country of right wing opposition to his dreams for us. All of the government agencies now have stockpiled enough ammo to accomplish this cleansing.
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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Romney and Ryan promise
    September 4, 2012 9:16 pm
    Via Ted Kennedy debate "I'm pro-choice" or young fellow running mate can run a marathon in less than three hours
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    WSJ
    September 5, 2012 4:06 am
    Rupert Murdoch says something negative about President Obama? Shocking! Medved prepares his latest batch of "fear" kool-aid for his fellow rightwing nutcases? Shocking! Drink up!
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  • Kief Sloberman wrote...
    Obama promised he will have more flexibility in his second term
    September 5, 2012 5:33 am
    He will finally be able to finalize his father's dream for the USofKKK. He won't need Congress to do it. He has the power of Executive Order. The President's EO authority is even greater when we are at war, so a just war may be helpful to rid the US of right wingers. FDR issued Executive Order No. 9066 that forced 100,000 Japanese residents in the United States to be rounded up and placed in concentration camps. The property of the Japanese was confiscated. He could do the same to the teabaggers. Once Republicans see what can happen to them, they will be more cooperative.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    The Dear Leaders most dangerous promise?
    September 5, 2012 6:04 am
    To Fundamentally Change the U.S.!
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  • HLC wrote...
    You lefty fools don't get it.
    September 5, 2012 6:37 am
    Coke head Obozo has never worked with the right. Do you remember his words? It's my way or the hiway? If the left ever told the truth it would be a total shock to the american people.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    HLC???? So if they didn't mention it on talk radio today, it never happened?
    September 5, 2012 7:36 am
    Fer instance: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/us/politics/22fiscal.html

    Obama and leading Republicans came very close to resolving some of the budget problems. Obama was willing to cut spending, including social programs, if the Republicans would go along with a modest tax increase. Republican leaders, like Boehner, were pretty much on board *until* they were taken to the woodshed by their party superiors.

    "What the heck are you doing? First of all, Grover Nordquist will bury you, politically, if you agree to any budget solution that raises taxes for anybody even one cent! We want and need this budget crisis! Don't work with Obama to try to solve it! It's our way back into the White House in 2012."

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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @HLC
    September 5, 2012 9:26 am
    Actually it was Mitch McConnell who said that defeating obama was their single most important goal. Here's Mitch himself saying what you said to the rightwing Heritage foundation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gM-1HbK4qU
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    "What the heck are you doing? First of all, Grover Nordquist will bury you, politically, if you agree to any budget solution that raises taxes for anybody even one cent!
    September 5, 2012 9:00 am
    Chuck you remember the TEA, Tax Enough Already, Party? We Americans sent them there not to compromise with the regime but to stop the promised Obama tax increases. Those people were only doing what we told them to do. Or not to do!
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    HAHA, self government by a free people will always involve compromise
    September 5, 2012 9:42 am
    What you think you want is as important (to you) as what somebody else thinks they want is important (to them). Our form of government works when the people find a way to resolve differences and craft a solution where nobody gets everything they want, but nobody gets sent home completely empty handed.

    If we can't do that, we will wind up with a "strong man" who will impose *his* (or her) will on the rest of us. Been there, done that, decided against it back in 1776.

    If you value democracy, learn to accept compromise. It's how people with differing agendas and priorities move forward, there is no other way.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    They threaten to default our credit rating if they didn't get their way on all spending cuts and no tax increases.
    September 5, 2012 9:02 am
    Hayduke which party was it that got America to that point?
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