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Obama on tour: ‘I make no apologies for being reasonable’
Associated Press ^ | 8/16/11 | Jim Kuhnhenn

Posted on 08/16/2011 8:20:26 AM PDT by Nachum

DECORAH, Iowa — Hitting back against an emboldened GOP, President Barack Obama launched a rare direct attack Monday on the Republican presidential field, criticizing his potential 2012 rivals for their blanket opposition to any deficit-cutting compromise involving new taxes.“That’s just not common sense,” Obama told the crowd at a town hall-style meeting in Cannon Falls, Minn., as he kicked off a three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.“You’ve got to be willing to compromise to move the country forward,” the president said later in the day as he delivered the same message at a town hall in Decorah, Iowa.

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No sorry for nada, nunca
1 posted on 08/16/2011 8:20:35 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.


2 posted on 08/16/2011 8:21:56 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Nachum

If he ever were reasonable, rather than being a strict ideologue, he’d feel the need to apologize...


3 posted on 08/16/2011 8:22:45 AM PDT by null and void (Day 935. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
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To: Nachum

Come on!
You should have issued a disclaimer about not hacing anything near your Puter you don’t want on your puter.

0dumob never xeases to amuse me with his blatant lies and media never calls him on them.

This kind of putridness makes me puke


4 posted on 08/16/2011 8:23:47 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Nachum

5 posted on 08/16/2011 8:25:48 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Nachum

6 posted on 08/16/2011 8:26:19 AM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Nachum
You’ve got to be willing to compromise to move the country forward

Even assuming this statement is true (and it is debatable), Obama hasn't ever made public what he wants as part of any compromise. At least the GOP has said "no tax increases". So, what's Obama's stance? If he wants tax increases, let him describe them.

7 posted on 08/16/2011 8:26:28 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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So lets see I’ll parapharse.... I have failed to deliver on my promises and I offer more of the same, taxing and spending and higher deficits in order to pay for unfunded liabilities like Obamacare, Social Security and Medicare. If you disagree with my approach and all you do is offer plans like Paul Ryans budget plan or God forbid something as radical as Cut Cap and Balance where politicians would no longer be able to use the public trust to bribe the electorate or pay back supporters, then I will continue to tell the American people that it is you who are radicals and unreasonable and let me be clear once I submit my tax and spend plan, if you don’t support it you will be labeled obstructionists and if some responsible people wish to refer to you as anti-American or terrorist I won’t deny it....

That’s about it ....


8 posted on 08/16/2011 8:26:28 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Ask a liberal to explain how tax increases create jobs in America)
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To: Nachum

Shoving Obamacare on US citizens, keeping a boot on our necks, villifying the people??

Does he even know what ‘reasonable’ means?

Meant to say: “I make no apologies for being reasonable - because I have never reasoned, had a reason or need one”


9 posted on 08/16/2011 8:27:34 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair: Man's surrender. Laughter: God's redemption.)
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To: Nachum

Well Howdy Doody, we won’t apo;ogize when we vote your pathological lying butt out of office in 2012. It can’t come soon enough for me.


10 posted on 08/16/2011 8:27:42 AM PDT by mardi59 (Cl)
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11 posted on 08/16/2011 8:27:42 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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Dear Mr. Zero:

Kindly modify you statement and replace the word “reasonable” with eith “an idiot” or “a moron”. Then, no one will take issue with your statement.

Kind thanks.


12 posted on 08/16/2011 8:27:51 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: Nachum

They should retitle this the “Obama Comedy Tour”, because he’s veering into self-parody.


13 posted on 08/16/2011 8:28:10 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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“[Obama] launched a rare attack”

Thanks, AP. Here I thought he attacked the GOP relentlessly, every time he opened his mouth. Thanks for setting me straight.

Crazed Obamabot moonbats; they’re what’s in the MSM.


14 posted on 08/16/2011 8:28:48 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Nachum

Farts on you, Obama!


15 posted on 08/16/2011 8:29:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Nachum
There must be some respectable psychiatrist out there who will speak up and declare Obama to be the Schizophrenic we all know he is. Then we can lock him up and call it a day.
16 posted on 08/16/2011 8:29:44 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: Nachum

“Dig deeper America, we need cash to cover my Screw-ups.”


17 posted on 08/16/2011 8:30:12 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Typical_Whitey

The Democrats need more money to toss away to their constituents.

More tax money will not solve our problem it will only cause Democrats to throw more money away.

The new tax’s they want will not go towards the deficit ,but to more entitlements.

We have too many entitlements now, That is the problem.


18 posted on 08/16/2011 8:31:18 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: baddog 219
Go get 'em Gilligan!.....
19 posted on 08/16/2011 8:32:44 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Nachum
I see he is wearing his Liar in Chief hat again.
20 posted on 08/16/2011 8:33:24 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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