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jillan

(39,451 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:37 PM Sep 2012

Do you remember this? When Obama went to a GOP retreat and ate their lunch?

He went there to talk to them about Obamacare. They were going to try and belittle him, and instead he made a fool out of them, and it was televised.

Someone called into the Randi Rhodes show today to remind us of this -

President Obama TRIED to work with them. He TRIED to answer their questions. But, instead, they wanted to destroy him - and our President put them in their place.

So the next time some goper says that this President is the most divisive President in history - this is a great point to shove down their throats.

Our President has been fighting for us all along. Unfortunately, his opponents have been sleazy Kocharoaches.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/obama-goes-to-the-gop-lio_n_442331.html

^^^^
That was a good day!!


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Do you remember this? When Obama went to a GOP retreat and ate their lunch? (Original Post) jillan Sep 2012 OP
I remember it. LeftofObama Sep 2012 #1
And Michelle was all like alcibiades_mystery Sep 2012 #2
LOL!!! Wish I could like this post!!! nt blaze Sep 2012 #4
Yes. I was remembering that just the other day. Thanks for the link. gkhouston Sep 2012 #3
Yes he did try, and there were other times too. Pissed me off. Avalux Sep 2012 #5
3/31/2010. I either missed it or don't remember. T/Y for posting. n/t K Gardner Sep 2012 #6
Knowing what we now know about their "meeting" Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2012 #7

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)
1. I remember it.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:10 PM
Sep 2012

I think it was Mike Pence of Indiana who stood up and started spouting off some right wing gibberish and President Obama said, "Is there a question in there somewhere?"

gkhouston

(21,642 posts)
3. Yes. I was remembering that just the other day. Thanks for the link.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:17 PM
Sep 2012

I remember how the GOP's "health plan" was a brief rehash of sound bytes, with no substance, on pages with wide margins and large fonts. It made me think of a kid trying to pad a book report.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
5. Yes he did try, and there were other times too. Pissed me off.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:33 PM
Sep 2012

I didn't want him to try and work with the assholes, I wanted him to clobber them. Of course that's not who he is and I've changed my opinion on it...he had to try.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,452 posts)
7. Knowing what we now know about their "meeting"
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:44 PM
Sep 2012

on the eve of President Obama's inauguration, I don't know how they can make such accusations with a straight face- yet they do and get away with it over and over again. This meeting needs to be publicized by every Dem candidate for Congress and brought up every single time they accuse Obama of "failing to lead" or of being "divisive".

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