Obama criticizes Bush 's Econ Policy In Bush's Home State

[saracat]

Now this is more like it Mr. President! Go get'em!

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President Obama arrives to deliver remarks at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas,, August 9, 2010.
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By Ross Colvin

AUSTIN | Mon Aug 9, 2010 6:20pm EDT

AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush's home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in November 2 U.S. congressional elections.

At a fund-raising event for Democrats in Dallas, where Bush now lives, Obama said the former president's "disastrous" policies had driven the U.S. economy into the ground and turned budget surpluses into deficits.

Obama defended his repeated references to Bush's policies, saying they were necessary to remind Americans of the weak economy he inherited from Bush in January 2009.

"The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?" Obama said at another fund-raising event in Austin, referring to Bush's eight years as president.

In reminding voters about the policies of the unpopular Bush, Obama is trying to protect his fellow Democrats' majorities in . budget

[ProSense]

1. See, proves Glenn Greenwald is clueless

or pretends to be.

[geek tragedy]

2. No, you've got Glenn Greenwald all wrong.

Greenwald doesn't think Obama is Bush.

He thinks Obama is Dick Cheney.

You have him mixed up with Jane Hamsher.

[OutNow]

3. Bush's Home State - That would be Connecticut

Please, Texas has enough problems without being saddled with event. Bush was, is, and will always be an east coast elite.

[Zenlitened]

4. K&R for burying this notion of "bipartisanship"

"The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?" Obama said at another fund-raising event in Austin, referring to Bush's eight years as president.

Say out loud, say it often: Republicans' failed ideas have brought our country to its knees. At this point, they can either get with the program or sit down and STFU.

Bipartisanship with spiteful, demented idiots? No thanks. Don't want it, don't need it. Can't stand any more of it.

I'm confident Pres. Obama can find a way to say that with a smile, without sounding as belligerent as I. But that's really the bottom line.