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AnotherMcIntosh

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49. When he gets re-elected, and he will be, why would he move to the left?

Reply to southernyankeebelle (Reply #32)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 10:37 PM

Jan 2012

From the time that he took office and appointed Goldman Sachs personnel to high-level positions, and from the time that he doled out $350 billion of his share of the TARP funds to the present, what do you perceive as being a move to the left?

Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) is the one who originated the idea of mandatory health insurance. President Obama agreed with that and adopted that. Providing more profits for the insurance companies with the adoption of the mandatory purchase of health insurance seems to be a move to the right, not the left.

As you undoubtedly know, that's just one example.

Why, when he is re-elected, would he move to the left?

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When he gets re-elected, and he will be, why would he move to the left? AnotherMcIntosh Jan 2012 #49

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