I have Splum on ignore, but someone quoted him and this post showed up. I think this part is hilarious.
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Originally Posted by Splum
"Obama got elected because he softened his message mid-campaign and tried to become more mainstream and move to the middle-left. It worked obviously"
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Softened his message and became more mainstream?
That's why like a month before the election he told Joe the plumber he wanted to "spread the wealth around"?
You right wingers went fucking nuts talking about "redistribution of wealth and socialism".
If he was moving to the center or even center-left or mainstream or whatever....he would have backpedaled, come up with a "oh I meant something else by that" line...like McCain did with "The fundamentals of the economy are strong" and then later "By fundamentals, I meant American workers, they're strong"
Anwyays, he never took it back, never qualified it, let it stand as it was.
He said he was running to
reverse the policies of the past 8 (or 28) years that said if you cut taxes for the wealthy, and deregulate the economy so businesses can do whatever they want, that everyone will prosper.
Now that he's doing exactly that, you idiots are acting surprised and trying to pretend he never said he was going to do these things, and that the voters were somehow duped.
Gimme a fucking break.