Why Obama's the Least Socialistic President in Modern History (And That's a Shame)

[loyalsister]

4. I wish this part were true

"In fact, one of the reasons Republicans really won in 2010 was because they ran a series of very effective ads around a so-called “Seniors' Bill of Rights” whose key proviso was a direct attack on “socialist” Obama's repeated attempts to negotiate entitlement cuts: “No cuts to Medicare to pay for another program,” the Republicans declared. “Zero.”"


because that would mean more people agree with me. Sadly it's not. There were a lot of people who supported HCR but were worried that it might rock their boat. The republicans successfully convinced middle class people that it would. The real discussion of Medicare reforms did not take place until 2011 during the debt ceiling controversy.

The attack ads that ran in my state were clips of Obama saying that he would have had a more effective HCR bill sooner if he had had Robin Carnahan in congress.