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Obama: Ryan is Congressional Republicans’ ‘ideological leader’
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Posted on 08/12/2012 5:10:28 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: Ryan is Congressional Republicans’ ‘ideological leader’ By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 46 mins ago

In his first public remarks about Paul Ryan's pick to be the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate, President Barack Obama called the lawmaker "a decent man" but painted him as a champion of "top down" economic policies that favor the rich.

"Just yesterday morning, my opponent chose his running mate, the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress, Mr. Paul Ryan," Obama said at the second of five fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago. "I want to congratulate Congressman Ryan. I know him, I welcome him to the race."

"Congressman Ryan is a decent man. He is a family man. He's an articulate spokesman for Governor Romney's vision. But it's a vision that I fundamentally disagree with," the president said, arguing that Romney and Ryan were standard-bearers for "top-down economics."

Obama's main political vulnerability ahead of the election remains the economy, still sputtering and weighed down by high unemployment of 8.3 percent three and a half years after he took office. The president has argued he will stand up for the middle class, while Romney will help the rich at the expense of everyone else.

At the fundraiser, Obama highlighted private-sector job growth — which has been painfully slow, but steady --- and policies like his rescue of the auto industry, but admitted "we've got a long way to go."

"All of us know friends, neighbors, family members who are still out of work or whose homes are still underwater," he said. "Too many folks are still burdened by enormous college debt. Too many folks still don't have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012veep; bho2012; gop; ryan
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To: Sub-Driver

Good enough for me!!! GO PAUL!!!


21 posted on 08/12/2012 5:51:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AlphaOneAlpha
Neither Mitt nor Ryan can wipe out Obama because of the MEDIA!!!! Obama could KILL someone and they would COVER IT UP!!

Just WATCH the questions at the debate that those LOSER LEFTIES give to Mitt and Ryan!! OMG!! Their MOTHERS won't recognize them after the media gets thru with them!

22 posted on 08/12/2012 5:54:31 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And you Mr. President are the ideological leader for the Marxist left... I am behind the ideological leader of the right, Paul Ryan...


23 posted on 08/12/2012 6:09:02 PM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I want someone to ask Obama the question, if top down economics do not work, what kind of economics do work and why haven’t they worked in the last 4 years.

The leftists, through their actions, have already acknowledged that trickle down economics is the only way to go.

The argument now is who should be on top doing the trickling.

24 posted on 08/12/2012 6:09:29 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver
Hmmmm...Seems the bottom-up economics where the homeless and poor hire everybody isn't working so well...... gonna take a little more time then Obama thought......../s
25 posted on 08/12/2012 6:10:56 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: dps.inspect

Ryan the ideological leader of the rich, meantime Obama is attending fund raisers at $4,000 dollars a plate given by rich movie stars, but he doesn’t consider them rich, only stupid enough to pay $4,000 dollars to eat with a Muslim.


26 posted on 08/12/2012 6:12:14 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver
When Obama and his minions talk about top down economics, they think of Scrooge McDuck swimming in a vault of money.

But that money is actually flowing back out into the economy keeping it healthy. Bunch of loons, kinda like the Beagle Boys. They think it's better cycled by government where it goes in as a dollar and comes out as fifty cents.

27 posted on 08/12/2012 6:31:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Venturer
No comparison between Ryan's ideology and Obummer's ideology.

Ryan wins by a landslide!!!

28 posted on 08/12/2012 6:31:58 PM PDT by Keen-Minded
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To: Sub-Driver

This may be one of the more accurate statements 0bama has made in 3 years.

Whether it is or not, I’ll take Ryan over Saul Alinsky.


29 posted on 08/12/2012 7:14:27 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: AlphaOneAlpha

St. Augustine is a charming town. If I ever move to FL, that’s where I would go.


30 posted on 08/12/2012 8:24:55 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (ABO)
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To: Sub-Driver
"the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress, Mr. Paul Ryan"

Rush was very emphatic last Friday that we needed more idealogical leaders!!!

Thank God for little favors!!!

31 posted on 08/12/2012 8:26:49 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Government it'self is the REAL "Free Rider!" Obamacare will create burdensome "Free Riding!!!")
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To: Sub-Driver

We have no ideological leader in Congress. Country club Republicans have long prevented real conservatives from having influence and us from leveraging all of our powers.


32 posted on 08/12/2012 9:16:21 PM PDT by Woodsman27
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