WTF is Obama doing praising Paul Ryan?

[matmar]

Did you hear Obama "welcome him to the race"?

Message to Obama: You better eat this guy's lunch. He wants to destroy the social safety net.

Why aren't you attacking him for the radical regressive that he is?

[Lex]

1. He'll let Biden take him apart. nt

[ehrnst]

6. Yep. That's the job for Biden - who can't be called an Angry Black Man

who just hates white people.

[StopTheNeoCons]

2. He will erase ryand, let him work his own fight....nt

[Curtland1015]

3. "The first one's free".

Don't worry, Ryan is going to get his ass handed to him.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Taking the high road for the sound bite....doing what is needed behind the scenes.

[WCGreen]

5. Was he keeping a straight face and not outwardly showing his glee....

[uponit7771]

7. Fuck him, I hate the bastard isn't Obama's style, usually does a draw in statement for ...

...the appearance for non bias and then blast away at something indisputable...

Really hard to argue against those positions...

I wonder if they're playing more tax ads..

screw ryan, where are the damn taxes rMoney!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He's softening him up before surgically dismantling him....

........like the spider and the fly.................

[phantom power]

9. It is still disturbingly unclear to me...

whether the Democratic Party is The Party That Fights For the Social Safety Net, or has evolved into The Party That Promises To Destroy it Slower Than the GOP.

You'll notice that this great debate only features two competing ideas: the "drastic cuts in exchange for some small tax hikes for millionaires" and "drastic cuts." (I guess the perfect compromise would be "even smaller tax hikes for the millionaires and drastic cuts.&quot But no matter what, the one thing we can all agree on is that whatever ails our economy is nothing that firing a few more government workers can't cure.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-on-new-austerity-campaign.html

[ProSense]

10. Don't worry

a polite welcome isn't going to save Paul Ryan.

Obama Casts Ryan As Face Of Do-Nothing Congress
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021123345

New Obama Video Welcomes Romney To Florida
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021122456

[Lint Head]

11. Unlike the RW death salesmen Obama has class.

[YvonneCa]

12. When your opponent is busy ...

...shooting himself in the foot...get out of his way. Romney/Ryan are their own worst enemy. President Obama can just be presidential and watch this show.

[cbayer]

13. Just heard the radio clip - "Damn with faint praise", imo

He is going to tear him apart.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. 1. He is being polite

2. You don't hear him saying that about Palin, or Romney - do you?

And MOST important:

3. He is giving credibility to Ryan as the mastermind behind the GOP budget - which is diametrically opposed to the Dem vision of how to prime the pump for the economy. He NEEDS for people to take Ryan seriously - so that we can have the debate and people once and for all *GET* the whole "tax breaks for the rich, trickle down" Does. Not. Work.

If lowering taxes on the rich crested jobs - then where are the jobs? Gekko/Galt want to double down and lower them even further, and on the backs of the poor and middle class.

Worse mistake would be to gloss that over. It needs to be the centerpiece - so that it is treated as the odious plan that it is.

[spanone]

15. you welcome him in, then you have him for lunch

[ehrnst]

16. I sense a Lloyd Bentsen moment coming for Biden

when he smacks down arrogant little Eddie Munster.

I think that Obama is setting that up nicely.

[Major Nikon]

17. He's probably choking back tears of laughter

Rmoney just handed Obama Florida on a silver plate. Without Florida, Rmoney can't win.

[coalition_unwilling]

23. Bwa-ha-ha. RMoney may have just handed Obama Arizona! Can you say

LBJ-Goldwater 1964????

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Ya know, they also welcomed people to Thunderdome where two men enter and one man leaves.

nt

[SunsetDreams]

19. Seriously?

This is what you are worried about because Obama "welcome him to the race"?

Obama is already attacking Ryan, and I suspect that Ryan will regret he ever accepted Romney invitation.

[jillan]

20. He did it because he has class. Boxers shake hands before they beat the crap out of them and

I just watched Obama in Iowa and the gloves are coming off.

[coalition_unwilling]

25. Gauche Repigs don't understand the concept of 'class' (unless it refers to the

number of 0s on their bank and brokerage statements).

'Class' (and Obama's constant manifestation thereof) is one reason i said early on (before Bain-gate, Taxes and Ryan-gate) that Obama would wipe the floor with Romney. All but the most avowed racists cannot fail to be moved by the manifestation of 'class.'

Contrast Obama's class with what Romney does constantly to those with less power and influence than he possesses (Seamus, John Lauber, laid-off employees, and so on).

[DevonRex]

21. Welcome to the race is praising? ROFL. Try harder. Nt

[GoCubsGo]

24. Thanks. Beat me to it. n/t

[unblock]

22. he has to appear presidential and gracious, at least at first.

personal attacks are best left to surrogates, though obama will surely attack their policy positions.

fear not, obama has shown he knows how to throw a punch.

biden as well.

[HopeHoops]

26. That's Biden's job. Obama needs to focus on rMoney.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. The same reason a hungry lion "welcomes" an antelope with a limp.

[vaberella]

28. Obviously, you're a n00b to Politicking.

Calm down. He should be welcomed to the race. It's his first time.

[cali]

29. You should be embarrassed to post such nonsense.

You've been following politics long enough to have learned its fundamentals.

I suggest you read the op I just posted where Obama is eating Ryan's lunch as we post.

[librechik]

30. being polite. More than the opposition would ever do. n/t

[obnoxiousdrunk]

31. this may help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021118316

[matmar]

32. Then you have a problem with Matthew Rothchild

...editor if the Progressive Magazine....on today's Democracy Now he was wondering why Obama had to 2nd Romneys motion to select Ryan.

His words not mine.

[applegrove]

33. He tied Ryan to 'as a leader of congress' to the least popular House in history.

Go Obama!