President Obama on Deficit Reduction Talks

[alp227]

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President Obama describes talks on deficit reform as productive in a statement to the press following a meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House. July 7, 2011.

[MineralMan]

1. Good to see the President make a statement on this.

As I expected, no details were forthcoming. None should be at this point in the process, really. We will learn more after the next meeting on Sunday. Speculation in the media is just that - speculation. Unnamed sources are just that - unnamed and could be anyone. Facts are just that - facts. We need the last, not the previous two things. We need to tell our legislators and our President what we want them to do. Then, we need to find out what they actually propose, not what some pundits think they propose.

[alllyingwhores]

10. How does it stand up like that without a spine?...

...oh right, green screen.

[alllyingwhores]

11. Ohhhhh...I forgot, he's just playacting...pretending that he's...

...not completely owned by his corporate masters.

[plcdude]

2. okay

so it seems that there are still a wide range of disagreements and we will have to let staff figure this out because the people making the big bucks are unable to get along or act like adults.

[neoralme]

3. He aleady knows what he's going to do. And the pain he spoke of

is cutting entitlements. After he cuts them, further speeches until his ouster are useless.

[damntexdem]

4. And Neville Chamberlaine described talks with Hitler as productive.

nuff said

[JTFrog]

6. I always guessed that Kevin James posted on DU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvG7jmk_rXk">Chris Matthews vs. Kevin James

[Fearless]

8. +1

[Ozymanithrax]

5. He doesn't even know where the bottom line is?

Well, the bottom line is no cuts to Social Security or Medicare.

[LaloBorges]

7. Blah, blah, blah....

I have a very hard time believing anything Obama says nowadays. Productive for whom?

[blank space]

9. Ho wmany times does it have to be said

Obama does not have to negotiate on anything, not raising the debt ceiling would be soooo beneficial to the democrats, it would ensure them victory at the next election, and if it is imperative that they feel the need to raise debt then the Constitution and the legal precedents allow them to raise it without congressional approval

see here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4910792


So if Obama negotiates then there can be no possible doubt - he is a turncoat of the very, very, very worst kind and should not be allowed back into a Democratic ANYTHING.

[bowens43]

12. more words....

nothing that Obama says can be believed, might as well be watching FOX.....