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‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama in the Middle

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Posted on Dec 10, 2010
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What are we to make of Obama’s concessionary tax-cut move this week? Politically savvy or just another sign that what some of us bought isn’t what we got in our president? There’s definitely some disagreement about this point among the panelists in this week’s “Left, Right & Center.” Other hot topics: WikiLeaks, START, Russia ... and Prince Charles’ car trouble.  —KA

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By MarthaA, December 18, 2010 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment

Obama is the 2nd Best Conservative Republican President the United States has had, Clinton was the 1st Best Conservative Republican President ever, according to Alan Greenspan, a great Conservative Republican.  The more conservative Republican cooperating Presidents the United States has, the sooner the demise of the nation. 

Rome was once a great power, but is no longer.  England was once a great power, but is no longer.  France was once a great power, but is no longer.  Holland was once a great power, but is no longer.  Now comes the United States; the Republicans and Democrat/Republicans have destroyed the power of our nation, now the genteel United States is no longer a great power.  It is impossible to be a genteel great power on credit.  The United States of America is a genteel nation.

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By SteveF, December 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm Link to this comment
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Obama is a Republican mole and he has done more to subvert the electorial process than Richard Nixon or George Bush.  His disdain for voters who believed his campaign promises is unprecedented.  How can there be any relevance to voting after Obama?  Has any other political figure in history worked more diligently against the principles he voiced on the campaign platform?

Inside the power bubble the calculation seems to be that as long as the party can bring in vast sums of cash, it makes no difference what is done or said.  The calculation also seems to be that the left will have nowhere else to go, even if the Democratic label is a sham.

The two most important characteristics of a potential candidate today are:  possesses a law degree and a sociopathic personality—-two characteristics which are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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By MarthaA, December 12, 2010 at 11:56 pm Link to this comment

Obama may only be an educated savant, because he is easily used by the Republicans.

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By Amadeus Salitsbury, December 12, 2010 at 9:49 pm Link to this comment
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America’s political groups are just factions of the same political party. There is no left and right. They are all right-winged fascists. Obama is a puppet of the military-industrial-complex. The Bilderberg group is the head of this Satanic system seeking world domination.

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By DaemonNice, December 12, 2010 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment

As a Canadian asking the same question of my fellow constituents I liked what Mz. Huffington had to say. Why aren’t Americans protesting what is going on as the middle class are in Europe? 
Also as a Canadian I have a lot of respect for the American forefathers such as Thomas Jefferson when he said, ‘Better a free press and no government than a government with no free press’.
What your government has become was not what your forefathers intended.

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By DarthMiffy, December 12, 2010 at 3:44 am Link to this comment

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By SteveL, December 11, 2010 at 12:10 am Link to this comment

A press conference where a President deliberately chastises his base support is
unheard of.  The results of this will not be good politically.

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