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Silly Little Democrats ... so poisoned by hatred they can't even think.

To quote Barack Obama again,

Submitted by Roanman on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 12:57

 

 

"Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it.

And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives,

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.  And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

 

To quote Robert Reich

Submitted by Roanman on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 15:35

 

I will actually give you a speech made up entirely--almost at the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president.
 
In other words, this is what the truth is, and a candidate will never say, but what candidates should say if we were in a kind of democracy where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship, and they were educated in terms of what the issues were, and they could separate myth from reality in terms of what candidates would tell them:
 
"Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I'm so glad to see you, and I would like to be president.
 
Let me tell you a few things on health care.
 
Look, we have the only health-care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. [laughter] That's true, and what I'm going to do is I am going to try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people.
 
But that means you--particularly you young people, particularly you young, healthy people--you're going to have to pay more. [applause] Thank you.
 
"And by the way, we are going to have to--if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die. [applause]
 
"Also, I'm going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid--we already have a lot of bargaining leverage--to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs.
 
But that means less innovation, and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market, which means you are probably not going to live that much longer than your parents. [applause]
 
Thank you."

 

To quote Bill Clinton

Submitted by Roanman on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 09:16

 

                                                                                                                                        

 

 

                                                                                                   

To Quote James Carville

Submitted by Roanman on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 07:04

 

                                                                                                             

                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                

 

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