Obama frames populist theme for Dems in 2014
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Striking a decidedly partisan tone, President Barack Obama sought Friday to define this year's elections as a stark choice between Republicans pushing failed policies from a bygone era and Democrats advocating freedom and opportunity for all Americans.
Rallying the party faithful at a Democratic National Committee summit, Obama rattled off a list of issues where he said Republicans were stuck in the past: gay rights, women's equality, wages and health care, to name a few. Driving the midterm election campaigns across the country this year, he said, is a fundamental disagreement between the parties about the best way to secure America's future.
"What they are offering is not a new theory," Obama said, asserting that Republicans had advocated the same policies in the run-up to the Great Depression, the recent recession and the 2012 election. "And the American people said, "No, thanks.'"
In a boisterous speech, Obama seized the opportunity to mock Republicans to the delight of the Democratic officials, donors and activists who packed a hotel ballroom near the White House. While acknowledging early setbacks in rolling out his health care law, Obama ridiculed his political foes for trying time and again to repeal the law.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/speech-obama-seeks-unify-democrats-2014
Also reported by Politico, The Hill, USA Today, Reuters
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Hope the actions match the words.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Autumn
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(31,493 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Thank you, Mr. President.
And I like his initiative on minority youth. I think that it will have a good influence on all families in America. But minority youth will benefit the most and that is the only way our country can succeed -- if everyone has a chance.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I want it in writing.