As much as I like Obama, there's nothing I can say to defend him.

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22. SS had nothing to do with the deficit, why is he dragging it into these discussions? Why is he

perpetuating the Republican lie that SS had anything to do with the deficit? That is a lie.

No one is interested in whatever games he is supposedly playing, they are only interested in one thing, the SS belongs to the people, they own it, he has no right to use it as a bargaining chip for
ANY reason. I don't think those who are advising him, or he for that matter, understand this issue at all. If he thought he could drag SS into the problems of the Fed Govt, that he could use some deceptive terminology to try to deceive people into thinking that what he was appeasing Republicans with were not cuts, then all I can say is, none of them understand the disaster of any politician, for any reason, touching that fund. If there is one thing people across the board understand, it is SS.

I see that now we have a second Republican expressing 'shock' that this president would 'hurt seniors by proposing cuts to SS'. That makes two so far. What he has done is to give Republicans the opportunity to position themselves as the 'saviors of SS'. He just handed them a winning issue for 2014.

And yes, I know, we all know they are lying. And we all knew this is what they would do. Who is advising this president?? And why is he listening to them?

It's too late for him to try to save face now. We can only hope that Congressional Democrats will do what Elizabeth Warren has wisely done already, distance themselves now from this president, otherwise we will have a repeat of 2010.