Is Barack Obama a Republican at heart? Absolutely Not !

[kentuck]

You say.

He was a community organizer in Chicago. How many Republicans do you know that are community organizers? Was he a registered Republican before he met Michelle? After all, he went to college during the Reagan years and many college students were influenced by Ronald Reagan. He has shown himself to be a big admirer of Abraham Lincoln. That doesn't make him a Republican, however.

And how many Republicans would have attempted to pass a healthcare bill such as the one he guided thru the Congress, you ask? Some might argue that he did not even attempt to pass a Democratic bill, a single payer or a public option, but opted for the same type of plan that had been proposed previously by Republicans, such as Bob Dole.

But what about the wars? Has he ended them in a satisfactory way to Democrats or has he acted like a Republican Commander in Chief? What about Guantanamo? Why didn't he close it? Would not a real Democrat have done that already?

What about taxcuts? He has passed two taxcuts already. Do not most Democrats put more faith in jobs programs than taxcuts? But he passed the stimulus, you say. Most of it went for taxcuts to the middle class and to states in attempts to save their public workers - teachers, firemen, and policemen. But very little for new job creation.

Did he really extend the Bush taxcuts because he was worried about those long-term unemployed not getting benefits? Where are those long-term unemployed now? Forgotten and still unemployed? Or did all of them get jobs?

Did he expand government or shrink government? There are reports that the Executive Branch has shrunk in size since the President took over. However, there is no rule that says Democrats cannot be frugal. And he has offered to cut government more than any President in history. He has offered to cut Medicare and Social Security by $3 trillion dollars over the next ten years. How many Democrats would make that offer? He has out-Republicaned the Republicans.

Is he a Democrat? Why would anyone have any doubts?

[dionysus]

1. ah, todays obama is a republican thread. been a long time since one of those...

[CrossChris]

2. I wonder why they're just popping up out of the blue like that?

Do you think it has anything to do with Pres. Obama's actions?

[in_cog_ni_to]

Nah. Duers just like to make shit up for no reason.

It keeps the Obama apologists on their toes! It's kinda fun reading the spin that's going on though. It's a new excuse every day. Never a dull moment around this place.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. President Obama has a nt woth of 10.5 million dollars

[bigwillq]

6. So?

:shrug: That proves what exactly, or am I reading your post wrong?

[Ozymanithrax]

12. While in Law school he served as a community organizar...

After law school, he left the trade and did things such as Civil Right attorney. Along the way he made a great deal of money. When we hype one bit of his history we should to be aware of others.

[bigwillq]

19. Nothing wrong with making money.

He did have a family to support.

[Enrique]

4. hes above democrats vs. republicans

were not red states and blue states, we are the United States and we all pray to the same scary God who says marriage is between a man and a woman.

[somone]

7. Yep

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gIQznJqVLpM/SVveDUYiyCI/AAAAAAAAEsc/LBULTEDzbGI/s400/warren+obama+50.jpg

[Armstead]

9. LOL

[CrossChris]

15. If only there were a third way to get things done in Washington.

Or maybe some kind of new Democrats that were above the fray.

[jaxx]

5. McConnell thanks you for helping to put down the President.

Unrec for ignoring that big bunch of people called the US Congress.

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. I don't care what he is "at heart." I care what he's actually doing

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. I don't believe he is a Republican.

But that doesn't mean he is a Democrat.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. No. Just another ambitious, professional, politician on the campaign trail.

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795.

[ixion]

13. Every single pResident from Ray-Gun on forward was a corporatist, including Obama

the rest is just theater.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. If he's a Republican

What does that make the Republicans? Obama is way to the Right of any Democrat I have heard of.

[TheKentuckian]

16. Turd Way, all the way just isn't firm on a branch.

[grahamhgreen]

18. Excellent, "Turd way" - taking a dump on America.

[WinkyDink]

17. I really don't care what he was before becoming President.