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Talks about how Republicans like Lincoln and Eisenhower invested in railroads and technology. How can these cans today call themselves pro business?

Great presidents support goals and vision, which is what President Obama and congress have done. We have a national vision.

So, why is this not self evident to the people? They aren't focusing yet, but after Labor Day they will compare, and as Mayor Kevin White used ton say, don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternatives.

This is not your fathers Republican Party, this is the Republican tea party. The voters are going to look at how the R's are offering more of the past - but on steroids. Step back and ask yourself what alternative has been offered. There has been no time in his lifetime where no major initiative has garnered no support from the minority. The Republicans have made a deal that they will not cooperate, he has been told by several Republicans that they made a deal to vote with their leadership on every procedural vote.

Their philosophical essence is to call the BP reserve fund a shakedown, and to call financial reform a nuclear bomb on an  ant. They want to repeal HCR.  They are out of touch with average Americans.

Embrace change, put steel in our spines. Where is it written that we have to yield our economic supremacy to China, or that we can't lead in technology?

This is our opportunity to lay out to the people what we have done, and what the alternative is.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Fri Aug 20, 2010 at 10:59:19 AM CDT

I think the Republican strategy was to deep-six health insurance (0.00 / 0)

industry reform and permanently damage the Obama/Biden brand to such an extent that the more critical financial reforms would never come up.  But, Obama fooled them by seeming to compromise on health insurance -- letting the middlemen continue to earn a buck for doing next to nothing, while setting up the "exchanges" and the community clinics that function as the public option on the Q-t.
Republicans were correct when they nattered about Medicare being "cut."  What they couldn't specify was that the exclusive and "preferred" Medicare, which was providing spa coverage and such, was going on the chopping block so really sick people could get served.  The "death panel" kerfuffle was also mis-directed but revealing in that conservatives are really afraid of death -- to the point where they even fear to discuss it.

Is the fear of death paranoid or is it somehow connected to very early life experiences?  I think it's the latter.  I think some people have a deep sense of precariousness, which also translates into deep suspicion of women, the givers of life.  Maybe they blame their sense of unease to birth-mothers having done something wrong--being somehow to blame for their sense of insecurity and frustration.

Anyway, health care reform is underway and that road-block having been over-come, there was little to stand in the way of financial reform.  Since Obama cut his teeth as a community organizer, the banks should have been better prepared to placate his concerns.  Instead, they tried to crash the system--like cutting off your nose to spite your face.  Now, reforms are coming, whether they like them or not.  Obama threw down another challenge when he brought up the deficit in corporate pension funds during his "chat" on economics in Columbus, Ohio.
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by: hannah @ Fri Aug 20, 2010 at 15:28:26 PM CDT

The media story the third week in October.. (0.00 / 0)

...will be how Republicans appear to have lost the lead everyone thought they had during the summer (Dean, bookpark this comment and re-post on October 21...)

As much as 'Joe America' may be upset with issues they associate with President Obama, they have a greater distruct of the GOP.  And when the smoke of election day clears, it will not have been the specifics of issues and tortuous explanations of the nuances of health care and deficits and TARP that rule the day: it will be a gut feeling about what the two parties stand for in general, regardless of the bumps encountered or caused by either party along the way.

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by: Thomas Simmons @ Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 06:31:28 AM CDT