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The Left's Lamest Defense of Obama Yet
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 08/28/2012 | IBD Staff

Posted on 08/29/2012 4:56:18 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Politics: Liberals now say the president can't be blamed for the lousy recovery because he couldn't get his agenda enacted even when Democrats held a supermajority in Congress. And we should be confident in his leadership?

On the stump, Mitt Romney has started a new and very effective line of attack against Obama. "He got every piece of legislation he wanted passed, and it didn't work," Romney told Politico this week. "I think (voters) want someone who has a different record, and I do."

Paul Ryan used the same attack line in his first speech as Romney's VP pick. "No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation," Ryan said. "And, in his first two years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn't make things better."

The argument cuts to the core of Obama's claim that Republicans have stymied his ability to get anything done. Which is why the left is so intent on squashing it, even at the expense of making Obama look inept.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; obama; republicans; stimulus

1 posted on 08/29/2012 4:56:20 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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the president can't be blamed for the lousy recovery because he couldn't get his agenda enacted even when Democrats held a supermajority in Congress

Sounds like we need a different President then. Why double-down on failure?

2 posted on 08/29/2012 4:59:12 AM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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Follow that with President Clinton worked with Newt Gingrich and the GOP to reduce spending, balance the budget and enact welfare reform.

President Obama is incapable of working with anyone.


3 posted on 08/29/2012 4:59:17 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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4 posted on 08/29/2012 5:10:47 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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How do you argue with imbeciles like that? Logic and facts obviously don’t even make a dent.


5 posted on 08/29/2012 5:40:13 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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It isn’t that the summbich didn’t do anything, it’s that what he did made things worse. Way worse.


6 posted on 08/29/2012 5:45:33 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey Low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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To: IBD editorial writer

THE CHOOM GUY

Obama was a Choom guy,
Puff, puff, puff.
Fried his brain,
Sure enough.

Sucking on his Nipple-weed
When things got tough,
Dumbing down his brain
To fit right in,
Getting into Politics,
Where there is no sin.

Then came the Con,
From Chi to DC,
Where incompetence can hide
AND be very PC.

Nobel Prize, and Corporate Jet,
Goes to the Choom guy,
Puff, puff, puff.


7 posted on 08/29/2012 6:14:12 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: The Sons of Liberty

They obviously don’t want to admit that their ideology WAS implemented, full-bore, and it caused misery and poverty, not utopian success.

The agenda is more important than 0bama, so they’ll throw him under the bus in order to defend their ideology.


8 posted on 08/29/2012 6:16:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I received a great one on another forum,

“Ted Kennedy was only available to vote 74 days during the 2008-2010 elections.”

The Tea Party blocked the Senate from passing a budget.


9 posted on 08/29/2012 8:22:13 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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They obviously don’t want to admit that their ideology WAS implemented, full-bore, and it caused misery and poverty, not utopian success.

It's not like their model was never tried. It was. It was called East Germany.

10 posted on 08/29/2012 10:05:25 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: IBD editorial writer

Romney is running a better campaign than I thought he would. Obama has been on his heels throughout.


11 posted on 08/29/2012 10:08:25 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
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