Barack Obama has been accused of a Cardinal sin: the act of praising Republicans. During an editorial board meeting with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Obama made a series of statements that have led to a slew of attacks by his primary political rivals, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinon attacked a portion of the interview during which Obama stated that he is not an "operating officer" and would not spend the presidency digging into bureaucratic details. Clinton replied that the presidency requires a "hands on" leader.
John Edwards attacked a part of the discussion during which Obama praised Ronald Reagan, citing his ability to change the political landscape. Obama also stated that the Republican party has been the "party of ideas" for the past 10 -15 years.
Edwards said that he would never praise Ronald Reagan, who has done "damage to the middle class and working people."
In the meeting, Obama made the following statement.
"I think it’s fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last ten, fifteen years, in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom," he said during the board meeting. "Now, you’ve heard it all before. You look at the economic policies when they’re being debated among the Presidential candidates and it’s all tax cuts. Well, you know, we’ve done that, we tried it."
Hillary Clinton had this response.
"That’s not the way I remember the last ten to fifteen years," Clinton said this week in Las Vegas. "I don’t think it’s a better idea to privatize Social Security. I don’t think it’s a better idea to try to eliminate the minimum wage. I don’t think it’s a better idea to undercut health benefits and to give drug companies the right to make billions of dollars by providing prescription drugs to Medicare recipients. I don’t think it’s a better idea to shut down the government, to drive us into debt."
Obama's campaign spokesperson, Bill Burton, quickly shot down the Clinton statement.
“It’s hard to take Hillary Clinton’s latest attack seriously when she’s the one who supported George Bush’s war in Iraq, the most damaging Republican idea of our generation," he said.
3 comments:
Obama is disgraceful. In an interview he said he models himself after Ronald Reagen. The same reagen that called King a communist. Obama is sickening.
Has Obama lost his freakin' mind? I guess he got his papers for the interview 2 minutes (or 2 days) before he had to speak. LOL.
That is a big no no. First, you are a DEMOCRAT. If you want to be Republican get your black ass over there and stop wasting our time. Second, during Reagan/Bush years you had the worst Recession, largest gap between black/brown & white people, Iran Contra scandal and the influx of cocaine/crack in our Black Communities by the CIA to fund the cold war, appointment of Uncle Tom Clarence Thomas to U.S. S.Ct., and more craziness.
This man (Obama) is a fake and phony and until you black folks start looking at the facts and track record of an individual instead of being blinded by his supposed "blackness" that he wanted to ignore when he initially ran for president, you will be bamboozled and hoodwinked like Bush did to many white, blue collar workers when he ran in 2000 and 2004. Unbelievable.
Most of you folks don't listen. You only hear what you want to hear. I am a democrat, however, I thought about voting republican during the Reagan days. Why, because I was a working young female and middle class. Plus I was getting so tired of the status quo. Wake up people. Not just Black people.
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