Obama: "A warrior for the middle class? I wear that badge of honor."

[Clio the Leo]

lol, looks like the Obama camp has focus grouped this whole "class warfare!" claim and has seen GOP will get nowhere with it....

Obama paints himself as proud middle-class standard-bearer

President Barack Obama on Tuesday painted himself as a proud defender of America's middle class even as some of his Republican rivals claim his tax-raising plan amounts to "class warfare."
"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a teacher makes me a warrior for the middle class, I wear it as a badge of honor," the president said.

"The only class warfare I’ve seen is war against middle-class folks in this country," Obama added, hitting out at Republicans' opposition to his jobs plan and plan to raise taxes on very wealthy Americans.

<snip>

"I intend to win this next election because we’ve got better ideas," Obama said. "I'm ready to fight and hope you are too."


Read more at: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/obama-paints-himself-as-proud-middle-class-standard-bearer-178982?cp

He ACTUALLY said "a teacher or a plumber" .... which is a DIRECT reference to Joe the Plumber, the one who started this whole "class warfare" BS to begin with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvwKVvp3-o


Great, now I'm gonna be humming that Patty Smythe song in my head all day. :)

"shootin at the walls of heartache bang bang! I am the warrior!"

[flpoljunkie]

1. Game on!

[bowens43]

2. if he has that badge he stole it......... nt

[YellowCosmicSun]

13. from Ralph Nader, right?

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[vroomvroom]

4. Wisconsin: Huh?

[ClassWarrior]

5. THAT sounds like the man I helped elect.

NGU.

[Doctor_J]

6. Who called him that?

:shrug:

wasn't me

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[ProSense]

7. Fighting for real ‘shared sacrifice’

here

[KurtNYC]

8. but...he wants to raise taxes on the job exporters !! n/t

[gordianot]

9. He is staying on message and is naming names without that compromise BS.

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. K & R

[Modern_Matthew]

11. ENCORE! ENCORE!

We need to distance ourselves from the cynics for the next 14 months.

[Beacool]

12. "A warrior for the middle class? I wear that badge of honor."

Seriously? Does he really believe it? Is that their new campaign strategy, pretending to be for the middle class? Funny how now that it's reelection time they started worrying about the middle class.

:eyes:

[SwampG8r]

14. yeah election mode in full display

tell em what they want now.......
oh well we beat crap out of tennessee saturday
i will let that be my smile focus this week

[Beacool]

16. Yes, we did.

Wasn't that a great game?

Go Gators!!!



:woohoo:

[Vicar In A Tutu]

15. While he hasn't been as flagrant as Clinton in his dismissal of the middle class..

...I can possibly understand some of the cynicism. With that said, I believe that Obama's biggest flaw has been a genuine belief that he could be the great negotiator who brought both parties and the country together in his first couple of years. Wildly over-optimistic at best, given the number of hideous 'Blue Dog' Democrats intent on denying him and the party the advantage it earned in 2008, and a GOP which is off the charts crazy. Since late 2010, his hands have been pretty much completely tied.

However, if this sort of form carries over into a second term, things cannot fail to get better.

[Number23]

17. Nice! Lots of good stuff in GD-P today. Stuff getting lots of recs

as they deserve.

[Arkana]

18. Calling out class warfare as the farce it is? That TRAITOR!

[MannyGoldstein]

19. Obama's currently fighting against Dems to pass three "free" trade bills

that Bush introduced. The Republicans are lucky to have such an ally in the White House!

Middle Class Warrior, my ass.

[ellisonz]

21. Free Trade has been a Democratic policy since World War I.

Free trade promotes international peace. Nothing is more destructive to mankind than unjust war. Woodrow Wilson knew this and every Democratic President since has followed it since; if you want to see the destructiveness of isolationism to a national economy look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points

The First Three

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
3. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

[autorank]

20. When did that stasrt? nt