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In reply to the discussion: So, which candidate do you think that Obama could handily defeat...Romney, Gingrich, or Paul... [View all]Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)41. "A" reason? Like just one???
This is my same old copy and paste response to all these rather insane posts. It is over a year old now and could be updated but I don't see why I should bother, seeing how you only need one reason.
you seem to be ignoring:
Two great choices for Supreme Court.
The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
The Matthew Shepard Hates Crimes Prevention Act (which they said could not be done)
Children's Health Insurance
Tobacco Regulation
Credit Card Reform
Student Loan Reform
The Stimulus (including the largest tax cut ever, the largest investment in clean energy ever, the single largest investment in education in our country ever)
Health Reform
Wall Street Reform
The New G.I. Bill
The Food Safety Modernization Act (the most expansive food reform bill since the 1930s)
The Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal
The New Start Treaty (even when the (R)s said he would never be able to get it passed)
Locking up over half the loose nuclear material in the world in less than half of his first term, something most (R)s thought impossible.
Most of that list is from The Rachel Maddow Show and is included in this clip
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#4077 ...
In that clip she also estimates that ~85% of what President Obama said he wanted to accomplish in his first term had been accomplished in the first half of his first term.
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So, which candidate do you think that Obama could handily defeat...Romney, Gingrich, or Paul... [View all]
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
OP
obama has to give people reason to vote for him instead. don't count your chickens... nt
msongs
Jan 2012
#1
He only answered with some vague "transition" that's never going to happen in reality.
Amonester
Jan 2012
#17
I think that Obama would win against Paul easily but have problems down ticket.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#13
Haha! OWS doesn't exist for Paul's version of 18th centrury robber baron America.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#19
Colbert is the most sincere of the field. Still and all, there's that anti-French prejudice. n/t
dimbear
Jan 2012
#14
Any of them. The Republicans are even more adept at foot shooting than the Democrats.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#38
People are generally pissed off at all politicians...and their bosses.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#40