Flashback: Obama Slams Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires and Billionaires [Video]

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/obama-bush-tax-cuts-video_n_793123.html

Over the past three months, Obama described the Bush-era program that he's now adopting as his own as "tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires" no fewer than 50 times, according to a review of his stump speeches, weekly addresses, and comments to campaign donors and members of the news media.

The rhetoric was deliberate: Obama was trying to cast Republicans as the party of the wealthy while his fellow Democrats represented the middle class.

He used that rhetoric at campaign events across the country, from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to Des Moines, Iowa, and Richmond, Virginia.

During at least three pre-election rallies, Obama, playing to crowds filled with die-hard supporters, railed against the tax cuts for the wealthy, eliciting rounds of boos from the audience, according to White House transcripts.



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[Enrique]

1. he didn't mean it

I don't think anyone in Congress thought he meant it either. They knew a deal was coming.

[tekisui]

2. The Bush/Obama Tax Cuts.

[DJ13]

3. Where did that guy go?

I havent seen him since he won the election.

[Edweird]

4. I guess that pretty much decimates the 'you weren't paying attention' angle.