Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push (Republicans "gotta sit in back")
Yahoo News ^ | 10/25/10 | DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

Posted on 10/25/2010 6:59:19 PM PDT by Chi-townChief

WOONSOCKET, R.I. – President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses. Nor was his greeting totally friendly in a state where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party's candidate for governor. Obama can "take his endorsement and shove it," declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a Rhode Island gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House.

In a little more than five hours in the state, Obama was booked for a factory tour and for a pair of fundraisers that party officials said would bring in $500,000. He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 2010; frankcaprio; johnrobitaille; liberals; lincolnchafee; obama; rats; rhodeisland
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last
To: DBrow

Quite a statement from Obama but sometimes I get the feeling they want to throw us off and run us over a few times.


21 posted on 10/25/2010 7:26:12 PM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats need to go)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TribalPrincess2U

Does he think there is no such thing as a middle class republican? geez.


22 posted on 10/25/2010 7:26:27 PM PDT by HollyB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Figures that this article wouldn’t mention the Republican candidate in the same breath — The Pubbie is John Robitaille.


23 posted on 10/25/2010 7:27:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: FlyingEagle
Obama is typical of his class. Remember, in an era when almost all Africans were still half naked and lived in homes made from branches and cowdung his father killed himself in an automobile accident.

Then, there's his American grandmother ~ she was a banker.

24 posted on 10/25/2010 7:27:36 PM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: janereinheimer
Political discourse has devolved to this shameful stage. "Sit in the back cracker. Because Obama is in the White House now and its paypack time for all you white folk." That's what he means.

Is this what African Americans struggled for hundreds of years to accomplish? To still be poor and marginalized but stick it to the white population. What a betrayal of everything we've fought for.

He sounds more and more like Robert Mugabe every day. Any day now he will start confiscating all the farms in the country to give to his supporters Oh wait..that's pretty much what he already did with General Motors.

25 posted on 10/25/2010 7:29:01 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: ConservaTexan

I have said from the time he was elected that we are all on the same bus, and those who disagree with his ideology are on the back of the bus. I am surprised, however, that Obama was stupid enough to admit it. I wonder if America is listening because they sure as heck weren’t during the election.


26 posted on 10/25/2010 7:29:40 PM PDT by All Blue State
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

Repubs might have drive the economy into a ditch, but it was the progressives that dug the dang thing.


27 posted on 10/25/2010 7:30:18 PM PDT by infidel29 (Since 0bama is NOT a uniter, can we change the acronym to just plain P.O.S.?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: infidel29

I think we found the writer of Rev. Wright’s sermons.


28 posted on 10/25/2010 7:32:33 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: All Blue State
I wonder if America is listening ...

Sure they are listening, his words are chose carefully for a reason. Racial contentiousness is what he wants.

29 posted on 10/25/2010 7:34:06 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief
Photobucket

Suck it, Obama.

30 posted on 10/25/2010 7:37:04 PM PDT by CommieCutter (A Centrist Democrat is now defined as: between Socialism and Communism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief
I will not sit in the back of the bus kenyan... fubo... f your daddy... and your wh0re mother... and granny and grandpa too... you pos traitor.

LLS

31 posted on 10/25/2010 7:37:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservaTexan
“Racial contentiousness is what he wants.”
This is just crazy. It's not that I disagree with you, but he is mixed race. He is as white as he is black. Why does he reject the part of himself, his white grandparents, who raised him in a seemingly privileged way.
32 posted on 10/25/2010 7:44:17 PM PDT by All Blue State
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

I’m driving the truck, BaCrock. That’s the way it’s going to be, bitch.


33 posted on 10/25/2010 7:44:17 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Tim Walberg, a true conservative republican for Congress - http://www.walbergforcongress.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All Blue State
Why does he reject the part of himself...

Political expediency.

34 posted on 10/25/2010 7:46:32 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

He’s coming unhinged and the real Barry is finally coming out of hiding. Barry hates everyone except his most sycophantic supporters. I don’t recall any President calling for citizens that don’t vote for them to be treated as second class citizens. He’s a disgrace domestically and an embarrassment internationally.


35 posted on 10/25/2010 7:47:23 PM PDT by purplelobster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: truthfreedom
Is he trying to motivate the Republicans?

That is exactly what he is doing, cause everytime I think he can't tick me off anymore than he already has, I read something like this & I know what a low-life marxist he is.

He's not fit to pick up dog crap in my yard!

36 posted on 10/25/2010 7:59:43 PM PDT by blondee123 (Illinois ELECT Adam Kinzinger - http://www.electadam.com/( rid US of marxism!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

0bama can come for the ride, but he’ll have to stay under the bus.


37 posted on 10/25/2010 8:01:18 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists act as though the world is as they wish it to be; conservatives try to improve what exists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

Its OK. Its alright.

We want to sit in the back anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hq43cnLfeo


38 posted on 10/25/2010 8:09:33 PM PDT by Psalm 144
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

Gee, Obama, what kind of mental imagery are you trying to use?

Who else had to sit in the back of the bus?

Are you saying Republicans should be treated like southern blacks when the Jim Crow laws were in place? You want conservatives to be treated like 2nd class citizens?

I think Obama’s really starting to unravel, mentally. He cannot separate rejection of policy with rejection of himself.


39 posted on 10/25/2010 8:10:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chi-townChief

Thank you. Perfect description.


40 posted on 10/25/2010 8:16:47 PM PDT by hershey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson