Thom Hartmann - Daily Take: Is Obama a Nixonian Republican?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 08:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6CgqiDutE   Posted on YouTube: December 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 69   Posted on DU: December 02, 2010 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1485

 
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[jaxx]

1. Who would go so low as to compare President Obama with republicans?

My gawd, is there no sanity left?

[whathehell]

3. Are you old enough to remember Nixon?...I am.

and honestly, crookery aside, He was no more "conservative" than BHO.

That's how much the democratic party has changed....There hasn't been anything like "real" democrat since Jimmy Carter.

[thereismore]

6. From what I know about Nixon (EPA, health care proposal), he and Obama are very close. nt

[whathehell]

7. Yes...Shows you how different "democrats" are then they used to be. n/t

[molly77]

17. Nixon's domestic policies would be called leftist today.

Obama has no say what so ever in policy.The clintons are controlling everything. If this sounds wild eyed...just think about it.

The clintons were not exactly nice to Obama during the primaries...or after for that matter. He was not asked to Chelsea's wedding ? Come on. ...That is just trashy...which is exactly what DC insiders thought of the clintons when they were in office.

So all of his major appts. and administration are clinton retreads. This was not his choice. I think they were working against him while holding their appointments as well. Doesn't seem like there are so many nasty comments about progressives from a high placed WH source since Rahm left.And Summers. LOL

[whathehell]

18. They probably would and that's frightening...

Not sure if I agree on the idea of Clinton's controlling everything....No one's very nice to anybody during the primaries...As for Chelsea's wedding, I believe he said that he was invited but turned it down because it would have been more "about him"...presidential buzz and all..then Chelsea.

I may be wrong, but I think Obama is as "in charge" as any other president has been.

[liberation]

5. "sanity" and "your narrative" are two very different things...

... not necessarily synonym.

[Meshuga]

9. ...

[axollot]

10. If the shoe fits....It's not like Thom was projecting! He based it on Obama's record to date!

Excellent commentary.

Cheers
Sandy

[fascisthunter]

12. I would.... sue me

anyone accepting the shit the way it is is disconnected from the masses, that or completely brainwashed by political speak.

[Celtic Raven]

15. Anyone old enough to remember Nixon

prior to Watergate.

[Taverner]

20. Yesteryear's GOP is not today's GOP

I was born in 1970 and I know that

[beforeyoureyes]

24. Thom Hartman is a true progressive and one of the few voices of truth in media

He made a very clear case.

If you don't agree, then dispute the facts of the case. Don't just accuse the person of being 'low'.

Obama is low for governing in such a manner. Thom isn't low for pointing it out.

[democracy1st]

2. Amen God Bless You Thom,Speak truth to power this guy is a fraud!

[Peregrine Took]

4. I wish to hell I could get my vote back. He is, was and always will be DLC'R

and went out of his way to deny it when he was running just to manipulate us desperate folks on the left.

[democracy1st]

22. yes they got us good! It's going to be very interesting to see how the rest of this month turns out.

[musette_sf]

25. And I thought it was HRC I had to fear

(re: DLC).

Well, when he chose Rahm instead of Dr Dean for his chief of staff, I saw which way the wind was going to blow.

[madrchsod]

8. since obama grew up politically in illinois i`d say a chuck percy republican.

hell i`d settle for a john anderson republican

his mentor would be ashamed of his student.

[unblock]

11. nixon would be considered a liberal, or even a socialist, by today's warped standards.

can you imagine ANYONE in congress proposing wage and price controls?
a negative income tax?
quota-based affirmative action?

sure, a very few might dream of such things, but they wouldn't dare actually propose such things lest they be drummed out of washington.

[Capt. America]

23. cash payments to families to get them to poverty line

[TheeHazelnut]

13. Thom should not use the word "Obamacare"

GOP buzzword, Thom... I'm not a fan of the watered-down crap Obama passed, but don't buy into their language.

[kjackson227]

14. +1

[CrawlingChaos]

16. K&R for much needed perspective

The time has long passed for us to face up to this.

[jjewell]

19. No, Obama is NOT Richard Nixon redux...

Richard Nixon faced a liberal Supreme Court and an overwhelming Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate during every year of his Presidency. Barack Obama has faced a conservative Supreme Court and a few recalcitrant "Blue Dog" Democratic Senators thus far during his Presidency. He needed to
fire up his "inner LBJ" during the time he had overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Congress, but failed to do so. His failure of Democratic leadership, along with the Senate Republican's utilization of the filibuster as their default position on any and every piece of legislation, leaves us in
political gridlock for the next two years, and portends the failure of his Presidency. You cannot be "bipartisan" or "compromise" with people whose only
agenda is to "kill" you, literally or figuratively (politically)...

[mmonk]

21. Nixon was more progressive. He was a Keynesian.