What would a second Obama term bring? (CNN trying to make Communist Obama out like a "Moderate")

cnn ^ | 3/5/2012 | Julian Zelizer

[tobyhill]

Republicans warn that if President Barack Obama wins a second term, he will push forward with an expansive domestic liberal agenda that makes his existing record look like child's play. During the victory speech that followed the Michigan primary, Mitt Romney warned that "a second term Obama would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election."

If you didn't like health care and financial regulation, the Republicans are saying, then you really won't like what happens when things turn leftward after 2012. No longer forced to think about independent voters and suburban moderates, Obama will allow his true liberal values to shine, the theory goes.

But there is little evidence that Obama would move sharply to the left in a second term, regardless of which party controls Congress. Most likely, the president would focus his energy on protecting the programs that Congress enacted in his first term, namely health care, while he would turn his attention to narrower issues, such as specific infrastructure projects, that seem politically viable. In addition, Obama might co-opt some Republican themes by moving forward on Social Security reform and deficit reduction.

[tobyhill]

Rip away

[traditional1]

NOTE TO SELF:

BUY MORE AMMO

[CainConservative]

“What would a second Obama term bring?”

Myself looking at oceanfront lots in the Carribean.

[tobyhill]

Julian E. Zelizer
Professor of History and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Email: jzelizer@princeton.edu
Office Phone: 609-258-8846

or contact

Kety E. McCoach, faculty assistant
Email: kmccoach@princeton.edu or
Phone: 609-258-4826

Please use “civil discourse”.

[KansasGirl]

I think a 2nd Obama term will bring mandated abortion coverage even for religious institutions and forced participation by doctors and nurses!

[Tenacious 1]

NOTE TO SELF:

BUY MORE AMMO

And a bigger boat.

[unkus]

May God have Mercy on the United States.

[tobyhill]

This guy is just another one of those Know-It-All Northeast Liberals, trying to convince us that Obama is “just like you and me”. “He cares about food and gas prices and will put politics aside for the good of the country”. (BARFAROMA!)

[ETL]

CNN trying to make Communist Obama out like a "Moderate"

"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"
--B.H.Obama, 2008

Yahoo search results for "Fundamentally Transforming The United States Of America":
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35&p=%22Fundamentally+Transforming+The+United+States+Of+America%22&SpellState=n-2204099546_q-bsN.LA3I3%2F%2FdGaQgkeauogAAAA%40%40&fr2=sp-top

[ETL]

CNN trying to make Communist Obama out like a "Moderate"

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....

A Landslide Mandate For Change

A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...

Change is Here, Change is Coming

Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.

In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.

We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.

We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.

In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.

Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.

Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?

Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?

And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?

All these things are within reach now!

http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[ETL]

CNN trying to make Communist Obama out like a "Moderate"

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling

[Disambiguator]

But there is little evidence that Obama would move sharply to the left in a second term

This would be laughable if so many people didn't actually believe it.

[Marathoner]

What would a second Obama term bring? I truly believe I’ll be heading to reeducation camp.

[Venturer]

What would a second Obama term bring?

DISASTER.

Financially, Domestically,Politically.

Our only hope is to get Harry Reid out of the Senate Leadership.

If we have the House and the Senate, it won’t be much better because the Republicans suck almost as bad as Democrats, but almost as bad is better than an Obama Congress and maybe we can hold down Obama excesses.

Once the Supreme Court is 5 to 4 liberals this country will be over with.

[jersey117]

Myself looking at oceanfront lots in the Carribean.

LOL. I feel the same way.

[TexasRedeye]

The news broadcast in Texas today was that gun sales are soaring across the state in the general fear that Obama will be re-elected.

[nhwingut]

Obama might co-opt some Republican themes by moving forward on Social Security reform and deficit reduction.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhht. When he ha to answer to no one. LOFL!

[tobyhill]

Second term

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw7W8hpDxnY

[Buckeye McFrog]

CW 2.0

[Fu-fu2]

Obama turned loose without concern about re-election? Look what he did his first term. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet......