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In final push, Obama casts election as Bush vs. Clinton
Yahoo! News ^ | Nov. 1, 2012 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 11/01/2012 5:00:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Do voters in 2012 face a choice between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush? That's how President Barack Obama, returning to the campaign trail with gusto after a break to respond to Sandy, cast the election during a final push in the battleground state of Wisconsin. He also looked to harness the bipartisan truce fostered by the devastating superstorm.

"We know the ideas that work. We also know the ideas that don't work, because in the eight years after Bill Clinton left office, his policies were reversed," Obama told about 2,600 people in Green Bay, Wis. Obama pointed to Bush's tax cuts that chiefly benefited the wealthiest Americans and charged that his Republican predecessor had given "free license" to the rich and corporations to "play by a different set of rules" than middle-class Americans.

The result was sluggish job growth, he said, and "an economic crisis that we've been cleaning up for the last four years." (The White House has struggled to draw a strong connection between Bush's tax cuts and the global financial meltdown of 2007-2008. Bush inherited an economy that was spinning down after the high-tech bubble burst and suffering from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes.)

"In the closing weeks of this campaign, Gov. Romney has been using all his talents as a salesman to dress up these very same policies that failed our country so badly—the very same policies we've been clearing up after for the past four years," Obama continued. "And he's offering them up as change. He's saying he's the candidate of change.

"What the governor is offering sure ain't change," the president quipped.

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1 posted on 11/01/2012 5:00:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sure doesn’t sound like a confident candidate.

He says the election is about Clinton and not about himself?

Wow. How pathetic.


2 posted on 11/01/2012 5:04:25 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

With the help of the press, it may be working. Every day we hear about Obama being ahead in some critical state. Earlier in the week it was FL and OH. Then WI and PA. Now VA and IA. While that doesn’t mean much for those on FR, we do not represent the undecided voters.


3 posted on 11/01/2012 5:08:28 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Free ThinkerNY

As opposed to Reagan vs Carter.


4 posted on 11/01/2012 5:11:29 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, that’s mighty white of him. I’m going to characterize it as Reagan vs. Carter.

See ya next Wednesday, Barry.


5 posted on 11/01/2012 5:11:31 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No Barry, it’s about you and Mitt Romney ... a contest you come up short in.


6 posted on 11/01/2012 5:13:41 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Reagan vs Carter

Bronco Bama says, "Oh, $4!t, I forgot about that one. I was stoned that year."

7 posted on 11/01/2012 5:15:34 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: West Texas Chuck

I am going to go a step further and categorize it as Chavez vs most of Venezuela.


8 posted on 11/01/2012 5:17:20 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Mark Landler@MarkLandler Obama crowd counts today: 2,600 in Green Bay; 4,500 in Las Vegas. Not impressive for the last week of a campaign."

BUT I THOUGHT he had the BIG MO after crispy kremes and Sandy...

9 posted on 11/01/2012 5:27:57 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And we say it’s Reagan vs Carter.


10 posted on 11/01/2012 5:29:47 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Actually, Bush and Clinton had mostly the same policies. After the GOP house takeover, Clinton was a center right president He reformed welfare, lowered taxes and talked about the end of big government. Both were supportive of the housing boom promoting home ownership.

Obama is the exact opposite of Clinton. Obama actually continued the worst of Bush’s policies...spending, government expansion, etc.


11 posted on 11/01/2012 5:30:24 PM PDT by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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12 posted on 11/01/2012 5:32:57 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: RoseofTexas
"Obama crowd counts today: 2,600 in Green Bay; 4,500 in Las Vegas."

Obama is so gone. Romney is drawing roaring crowds in the tens of thousands wherever he goes. Talk about the Chick-fil-A election!

13 posted on 11/01/2012 5:46:59 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: CatOwner

Where do you get your news? Early voting shows Romney up 52-45. Turn off your tv until 7:30 on Tuesday. They will reveal the final poll.


14 posted on 11/01/2012 6:11:34 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bush was a good man and I think Romney is too. Obama makes Clinton seen like a good man.


15 posted on 11/01/2012 6:39:40 PM PDT by willk
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Yada... yada... yada!!! Phhhhhhht!!!

I WISH DUBYA HAD SWEPT CLEAN WITH HIS NEW BROOM!!!

16 posted on 11/01/2012 6:41:24 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("The New Normal," is FAR from any normality!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wow, he was able to get 2600 to show up in Green Bay? What a master of crowds....

This is such a shadow of 2008 it isn’t funny.

Give it up Bambi...Americans know by now you’re a phony.


17 posted on 11/01/2012 6:42:26 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: crosslink
It's not me the GOP has to worry about. I've already submitted my vote by mail ballot (and yes, I voted for Romney - some here would like to believe otherwise). It's those who are trying to decide who to vote for. ABC/CBS/NBC/Yahoo/etc are all putting forth the stories that Obama is in control of the swing states. Just because *I* shouldn't read their articles or hear their sound-bite news blurbs doesn't stop millions from doing so.
18 posted on 11/01/2012 7:34:31 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: West Texas Chuck
2,600? WTF?
19 posted on 11/01/2012 10:00:50 PM PDT by CT
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