Obama's choice of words when referring to his political opponents can be extremely offensive.
In discussing the debt ceiling during the Twitter Town Hall yesterday, Obama uses some irresponsibly and inexcusably violent imagery.
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OBAMA: But — but here’s — here’s the more basic point: Never in our history has the United States defaulted on its debt. The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, for oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high.
I mean, I’m happy to have those debates. I think the American people are on my side on this. What we need to do is to have a balanced approach where everything’s on the table. We need to reduce corporate loopholes. We need to reduce discretionary spending on programs that aren’t working.
"The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, for oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high."
A "gun against the heads of the American people"?
Obama doesn't sound like the president. He sounds like a partisan hack.
He talks like a class warrior, a violent one.
2 comments:
Nothing more than a two-bit community organizer.
So often, it seems Obama doesn't think before he speaks. When he's running on automatic, this sort of stuff comes out.
After all this time in office, Obama can be amazingly unpresidential.
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