Posted on 11/09/2008 2:56:12 PM PST by FocusNexus
WALLACE: But the question, of course, is what kind of change. I want to put up something that the liberal economist Paul Krugman wrote in a column in the New York Times this week. Let's put it up.
He wrote, "This year's presidential election was a clear referendum on political philosophies, and the progressive philosophy won." Do you agree?
PODESTA: Yes, I do. I think that the program that that - again, that was - that - that the Obama-Biden ticket put forth in the campaign focused on providing opportunity for everyone, focused on the common good.
And I think that's in the progressive tradition in this country. It was alive and well in both parties. It sort of got extinguished in the Republican Party over the course of the last couple of decades, but I think that that progressive vision of providing opportunity for people who work hard, providing for the common good, to helping people succeed in their own lives - I think was what he laid before the American people.
It's in that great tradition of progressive politics in this country. And it's a tradition of reform. And I think he'll deliver on all those elements.
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And what do you think "common good" is a code work for -- it's income and wealth redistribution.
The BIG QUESTION is will the Republicans "take the high road" and not criticize the socialist agenda of the Dems and Obama, or will they stand up and fight tooth and nail against it, which involves explaining to the people the REAL Obama agenda, BEFORE it's too late.
The Founding Fathers would gag if they were alive to hear this...
“PODESTA: ... what we do is open, plainly available. Go to our Web site, AmericanProgress.org, You see what we’re - you see what we’re for and what we stand for.”
http://www.americanprogress.org/
FOUR PROGRESSIVE PRIORITIES
Restoring America’s global leadership
Seizing the energy opportunity
Creating progressive growth
Delivering universal health care
The “common good” of course centers on reinstating the “Ban Free Speech Doctrine.”
It’salready too late to help the next 2 years. We better get our act together or we’re doomed to a Socialist/Communist country.
“It’s already too late to help the next 2 years.”
I don’t think so — a good fraction of the people who voted for Obama did not know they are voting for communism.
Republicans need to start explaining people Obama’s real agenda and what it means to the American people and our country NOW.
This must be the guy who taught obamination to give, uh, uh, uh, the the the speeches.
I’m reading “Liberal Fascism” by J. Goldberg right now. And this interview is just making me ill.
On the other hand - where do I get my free stuff?/s
“It’s already too late to help the next 2 years.”
I don’t think so — a good fraction of the people who voted for Obama did not know they are voting for communism.
So that's why 0bama needed to outspend McCain 8 to 1, bask in uncritical media coverage, and had to run to the center with his disguised “tax cut” message. Yeah progressivism is taking over. Keep believing your own PR, idiot.
Which now leads me to three things;
The drive by media will still cover for Obama and his fellow Commiecrats now matter how bad they run the country into the ground
That being said, if they were that ignorant to begin with they probably will still be blaming Bush two years from now when they are paying Obama's Global Poverty Tax and what is left over of their 401Ks will be rolled over into Social Security to keep the feeding the "spread the wealth around" slackers/Commiecrat voters.
When they finally do wake up (and that's a BIG IF) at least it will be my turn to constantly ridicule them with "Gee . . . I sure am glad Bush is out of office. Do you know how bad it would have been now if he was still in charge".
Just my two bits.
{Quoting him}: “I am of the belief that helping the mentally ill, the physically unable to work, the underemployed, the under-insured, the elderly and a host of others IS A LEGITIMATE GOAL of government.”
No, because then there is no end to the “legitimate role of government.” It's an endless list of “needs” - homes, food, transportation, medicine, entertainment, Internet access, etc. Equality might be a legitimate role of SOCIETY but not of GOVERNMENT. It's a job the churches have largely abandoned, but that's what they SHOULD be doing. What you are advocating is SOCIALISM just as Joe the Plumber pointed out. Oh but you posted endless hate messages about him, because he dared to question your plastic messiah.
Just how many “hosts” (your word) of people do you think you can support? Are you ready to take in the entire indigent population of South America including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc.? Gee you're a nice guy! (Or a sap!) They're gonna come flooding in with a sure-to-be-approved amnesty plan with your oh-so-generous congress.
Have fun working for the rest of your life supporting them too, if you can find a job! Foreigners who don't complain about OSHA, EEOC, Social Security, health insurance, minimum wage, labor laws and excess hours and who don't pay into any tax system are a lot easier to employ than Americans who demand all this protection plus expensive social programs that cost business time and effort to maintain. So guess who the employers are gonna hire first? Not YOU!
Oh and have fun working for the rest of your life supporting me too! I'm gonna enjoy staying home while you play all the office games trying to get ahead enough to support yourself and your family, and all the while us Baby Boomers will be bleeding you dry.
It's the bed you want to build, and I get to lie in it. Thanks!
As helpful as you may be trying to be, frankly, if I wanted to hear what Podesta said, I would’ve tuned in. Sorry - it’s probably “head-in-the-sand” -itis but there it is...
The Left’s gene pool in covered in pond scum.
Section. 8.I say inexplicably because in the Preamble they said promote not provide for:The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.A 1905 Supreme Court ruling (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11) said what is in the Preamble in and of itself is not enough, it also has to be in the body of the Constitution. Therefore, provide for the general welfare trumps promote the general welfare. Not that it would actually matter to these Marxists.
I hope they wake up then. However, the example of Western Europe has shown us that people who are slowly lead down the road to socialism become addicted to the security of the "Mother State."
It wasn’t such a referendum AT ALL.
The Obama campaign, aided and abetted by the dishonest Mediascum, did everything possible to avoid public scrutiny of the issues that are actually at stake.
It was merely proof that Mediascum propaganda can push a vapid “hope and change” agenda when there is stress in the economy and an unpopular President. Needless to say, the main reason President Bush is unpopular is due to the hand-in-glove Democrat and Mediascum campaign to vilify him for the past 8 years.
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