Posted on 07/04/2014 5:13:53 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama has gone from “yes we can” to “so sue me.”
The president’s standoffish remark this week about a Republican lawsuit was a reminder of how much Obama’s rhetoric has changed since his 2008 campaign and its promise to deliver a new kind of politics.
These ten Obama quotations illustrate the transformation.
1. July 27, 2004: “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America. There's the United States of America.”
Obama vaults onto the national stage with a call for unity at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
2. Feb. 5, 2008: “We know that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored, that will not be deterred, that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, make this time different than all the rest. Yes, we can.”
Obama voices his hopes in a speech on Super Tuesday during the 2008 campaign.
3. Jan. 20, 2009: “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.”
Obama takes the oath of office in front of a record crowd on the National Mall.
4. Sept. 9, 2009: “The time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care.”
After a summer of protests against health reform legislation, Obama addresses Congress to make one more push. He acknowledges there has been opposition, but still hopes “both parties” can work
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“Begin to fundamentally change America” is the one that scared me and still does./
Obama is proof positive of the tried-and-true maxim, “Scratch a Leftist, find a dictator.”
#11. These handcuffs sho is tight!
So Boehner is suing him.
Well, he did ask for it.
Has obama “repaired this world” yet?
No. By every measure, the world is worse off. Especially in America.
Thank you for the quotes highlighting The Democrat’s lockstep loyalty to the CULT OF OBAMANATION.
Thank you for the quotes highlighting The Democrat’s lockstep loyalty to the CULT OF OBAMANATION.
” the ground has shifted”
that sounds like a declaration of some sort of revolution or ..another....
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