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Re: Ready for the Fight: Rolling Stone Interview with Barack Obama 

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Fri, 27 Apr 12 4:13 PM | 93 view(s)
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re: "You have a Republican Party, and a presumptive Republican nominee, that believes in drastically rolling back environmental regulations, that believes in drastically rolling back collective-bargaining rights, that believes in an approach to deficit reduction in which taxes are cut further for the wealthiest Americans, and spending cuts are entirely borne by things like education or basic research or care for the vulnerable."

That's Obummerspeak. In plain English, you have a Republican Party, and a presumptive Republican nominee, that believes in rolling government back in a controlled manner to a level that is sustainable, rather than letting it collapse on its own, causing unmanaged havoc for practically everyone and everything.

I hope that's the nominee's goal, anyway. The truth is that this is what the Republican Party MEMBERSHIP wants from their nominee. The Republican Party LEADERSHIP, however, is divided between those who adhere to these traditional concerns and those who cannot be distinguished from Obummer. The numbers are still with the latter, unfortunately, but the momentum is with the former.
 




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Re: Ready for the Fight: Rolling Stone Interview with Barack Obama
By: clo in FFFT
Thu, 26 Apr 12 5:05 AM 		Msg. 41181 of 65535

Given all that, what do you think the general election is going to look like, and what do you think of Mitt Romney?

Obama's reply:

I think the general election will be as sharp a contrast between the two parties as we've seen in a generation. You have a Republican Party, and a presumptive Republican nominee, that believes in drastically rolling back environmental regulations, that believes in drastically rolling back collective-bargaining rights, that believes in an approach to deficit reduction in which taxes are cut further for the wealthiest Americans, and spending cuts are entirely borne by things like education or basic research or care for the vulnerable. All this will be presumably written into their platform and reflected in their convention. I don't think that their nominee is going to be able to suddenly say, "Everything I've said for the last six months, I didn't mean." I'm assuming that he meant it. When you're running for president, people are paying attention to what you're saying. 

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ready-for-the-fight-rolling-stone-interview-with-barack-obama-20120425#ixzz1t6WqINHK

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