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Warren 4 Secretary of Everything
Clinton1996
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 27, 2012, 01:24:37 AM »

Ronald Reagan was as conservative as anyone and it was never a problem.

Back in his day, yes. Nowadays he'd be considered a socialist.

What?
He's making a comparison of Obama and Reagan. Conservatives keep making the claim of Obama being a socialist, with little to no evidence backing it up. Reagan nowadays would be considered a moderate conservative. He proposed amnesty to illegal immigrants, an assault weapons ban, and the closure of tax loopholes on the rich. He sayed "a millionaire has no business paying less than a bus driver in taxes." in other words, Obama has proposed a lot of things that past Republican Presidents and party members supported. but now that Obama supports them, they are bad and "European Style Socialism."
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Warren 4 Secretary of Everything
Clinton1996
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 5,208
United States


Political Matrix
E: -1.94, S: -4.70

« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2012, 01:41:42 AM »

Ronald Reagan was as conservative as anyone and it was never a problem.

Back in his day, yes. Nowadays he'd be considered a socialist.


What?
He's making a comparison of Obama and Reagan. Conservatives keep making the claim of Obama being a socialist, with little to no evidence backing it up. Reagan nowadays would be considered a moderate conservative. He proposed amnesty to illegal immigrants, an assault weapons ban, and the closure of tax loopholes on the rich. He sayed "a millionaire has no business paying less than a bus driver in taxes." in other words, Obama has proposed a lot of things that past Republican Presidents and party members supported. but now that Obama supports them, they are bad and "European Style Socialism."

Well I think Obama tries to make it sound like he's a moderate in order to get elected. "At some point you've made enough money" and "I'm just looking to spread the wealth" sound very socialist. The GOP has moved to the right since Reagan was in office and the Democrats have moved to the left. Really the only past Republican Presidents that pass for conservative are Reagan and George W. Bush in terms of today's GOP.
Obama really is moderate. If you think of all the things he's attempted to pass in the past 4 years, the deficit would probably smaller than it is right now. Hillary Clinton was more to the left of him, and that's one of the reason working class people liked her. Think about it, the watered down stimulus that was 2/3 tax cuts to people and small businesses. Every President (including The Gipper) use stimulus to get out of recession. Republicans called it reckless spending. But that's what they plan on doing in the White House, billions of dollars in tax cuts. Or the watered down Health Care bill that was originally the Republican alternative to HillaaryCare. He's not some far leftist, he's more left of center like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
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Warren 4 Secretary of Everything
Clinton1996
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 5,208
United States


Political Matrix
E: -1.94, S: -4.70

« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2012, 01:19:00 PM »

I agree no one's going to give a damn about Romney's tax returns.  This election is about the U.S. economy.

Besides, Obama is hiding a lot more records than Romney.  Romney has already released a year of his tax returns.  He should say that he'll release another when Obama releases a year of his education records.

Obama is hiding more because he hasn't released his education records? It comes off as really desperate that those on the right feel that Obama needs to prove that he's an intelligent individual.
Is there a precedent for doing that? How many past presidents/candidates have released their grades when running?
Really, who gives a $h!t if Obama made an A or a C in history class 30 years ago. He's not running as a constitutional lawyer trying to fix an economy which his policies nearly destroyed. He's running as President trying to fix an economy against the policies that the Rominee is advocating nearly destroyed.
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