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And you think the GOP is bad?; Progressives threaten to pull out
Topic Started: Jul 16 2011, 07:30 AM (89 Views)
Mikhailoh
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It is curious just where the progressives think cuts are going to come from.
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee Threatens To Pull Obama Support Ahead Of 2012

07/15/11 03:19 PM ET

CHICAGO — A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters threatening to pull its support.

About a dozen people representing the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for Obama's re-election campaign if he cuts the entitlement programs.

"It's not a question of who they're going to support for president, they're going to vote for Barack Obama. It's a question of where their time and money is going to go," spokesman T. Neil Sroka said.

Obama has been taking heat from the left over the debt ceiling negotiations, in which he has been willing to target the long-standing programs. His approach is certain to sit better with independent voters, many of whom have told pollsters they want Washington politicians to work together to solve the big problems.

Sroka said the 200,000 people represent more than $17 million in donations to Obama's campaign in 2008 and about 2.6 million volunteer hours.

Protester Mary Ellen Croteau, 61, of Chicago said she's even ready to find someone else to support if Obama cuts Medicare and Social Security.

"I don't know who I'm going to vote for yet because there doesn't seem to be too many people on the horizon, but I will vote for someone whether it's a Green candidate, whether it's a communist, I don't care. Somebody who's going to stand up for people," Croteau said.

The Obama campaign's chief operating officer, Ann Marie Habershaw, accepted the group's petitions in the lobby of the downtown office building that houses the campaign.

"Americans elected the president in 2008 to take on the big challenges facing our country, and he's engaged in an effort to do just that," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
You love the Obama Presidency so much that you think it's bad for some group to threaten to pull support from Obama's 2012 bid? :blink:
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Mikhailoh
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I think that the left has as many extremists as the right, and our government suffers from it.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mikhailoh
Jul 16 2011, 08:02 AM
I think that the left has as many extremists as the right, ...
Categorically wrong.
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Mikhailoh
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Au contaire. You, sir, are categorically wrong.

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Copper
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Well they want "their" money no matter what.

The grandchildren can fight for whatever is left.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Luke's Dad
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You should here the absurd pro medicare and SS commercials playing here in DC.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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ivorythumper
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Axtremus
Jul 16 2011, 08:19 AM
Mikhailoh
Jul 16 2011, 08:02 AM
I think that the left has as many extremists as the right, ...
Categorically wrong.
I am compelled to agree with Ax, the left has more extremists that the right.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Luke's Dad
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Heck, AFL-CIO has over 12 million members by itself.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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jon-nyc
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And you think the GOP is bad?



Big swathes of it anyway.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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