Obama Does Want to Cut Medicare and Social Security Benefits?

[Dept of Beer]

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/07/19/obama-wants-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security-benefits/

When President Obama first openly put cuts the Medicare and Social Security benefits on the table during the debt ceiling negotiations many of his defenders went full 11th dimensional chess. The claimed Obama wasn’t so much putting these on the table because he wanted them cut right now, but to prove he was the more sensible adult in the room when Republican rejected this grand bargain.


What do you make of this?

[Lil Missy]

1. Easy. Anything, ANYTHING, Obama puts on the table will be REJECTED by baggers.

That's been true from the beginning. So Obama used it against them, and they hanged themselves with the extra rope he gave them.

That's only about 2 or 3 dimensional chess.

[pinto]

2. I think it's BS from the same blogger that says "Maybe the 39% Aren't Wrong" who favor default.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/07/19/maybe-the-39-arent-wrong/

[robinlynne]

3. no. unfortunately it's bullshit from the president himself.

[Scurrilous]

4. Liar Liar Lake on Fire. n/t

[Forkboy]

6. Jeez.

I can see hating a site or whatever, that's cool, but "Liar Liar Lake on Fire"? Really? Are we really reduced to the types of things we would hear kids in the 1st grade say?

[johnaries]

5. Obama specifically said he was against benefits cuts.

FDL has made itself the Bizarro FoxNews. They both lie.