Obama's reelection drive calls for "a compassionate America"

[somone]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-campaign-20110415,0,7582727.story

In his fundraising opener, Obama endorses 'a caring America'
By Christi Parsons and Rick Pearson

President Obama kicked off his reelection fundraising drive here Thursday, returning to his home base and exhorting supporters to help him sell the idea of "a compassionate America, a caring America" instead of the alternative he says Republicans are offering.

Before more than 2,000 supporters at an evening rally, Obama raised a basic message from his first presidential campaign — "I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper" — and added an allusion to the contemporary budget struggles consuming Washington. Prosperous Americans should be willing to pay a little more in taxes, he said, to help those who are struggling.

"We're individuals," said Obama, who is pressing for an increase in taxes for wealthy Americans. "But we also have this idea that we're all in this together … and that I'm looking after them, not out of charity, but because my life is richer, my life is better when the people around me are happy and the people around me have a shot at the American dream."

The new message evolved as Obama made his way from one high-dollar fundraiser to another, and then to a cavernous hall at the Navy Pier. Though he never specifically announced he was running for reelection, the fact was evident from the many appeals to help him repeat the victory his Chicago-based campaign achieved in 2008. By night's end, Obama had collected more than $2 million, on the way to a fundraising haul that some advisors say could eventually hit a record-setting $1 billion...

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Compassionate Conservative in a new guise...

I hope not.

It was bullshit with Bush.

[joeybee12]

20. My first thought...nt

[msongs]

2. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Obama, didn't we see this movie in 2008 lol nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. ...

:spray:

[Aerows]

22. I've seen this movie a few times

LOL. It was a fairy tale both times.

[inna]

3. heartwarming

[deacon]

4. Well, the freaking GOP can't use "compassionate" anymore so it's good he lifted it from them. n/t

[Newest Reality]

5. I have to chuckle.

Are we gearing-up now for a reprise?

Tired of waiting for hope and change? Well, you can look forward to the new, improved Obama 2.0. Here comes, (dat-da-da-da) compassion and caring! This time, he REALLY, REALLY means it because he's been practicing at gearing-up for the initiative to consider the potential for a more certain possibility of more concern about planning action.

No fooling around because this is more realer than before. Yes we can corn. We are the chains we've been wading in.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. 'This time, he REALLY, REALLY means it........'

:evilgrin:

[villager]

6. Nicer torture! Kinder wars! More friendly spying! Cooler pot busts!

Yowza!

[phleshdef]

7. Good. Its about time we started rightfully beating the GOP at that game.

The Democratic party should have owned the compassionate label ages ago. Its been rightfully ours all along.

[grasswire]

8. Karen Hughes must be working in the WH again.

And maybe Peggy Noonan, too.

[Bluebear]

14. You rang?

[Romulox]

9. "compassionate conservative"

Yet well before Mr. Bush began building his presidential campaign around the words 'compassionate conservative'--reshaping the image of his party to follow suit--a cadre of thinkers on the right had been trying for years to fashion a form of conservatism that rejected the welfare state but did not turn its back on the poor. And with his campaign strategist, Karl Rove, acting as his guide, Mr. Bush began reading their books and meeting them, even before his first race for governor.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush:_Compassionate_Conservative

[leftstreet]

10. Hope and Change just became Share Your Change

:puke:

This is a terrible, terrible theme

[Raine]

11. Same old, same old, where have I heard this before??? Hmmm Oh yeah

Poppy Bush and his "kindler gentler America". Next thing Obama will be calling for a "thousand points of light". :puke:

[emilyg]

12. LOL BS

[girl_interrupted]

13. Almost $5 A gallon for gas, is not compassionate

Not to mention $4.29 a gallon for heating oil. It's a nightmare out there.

[woo me with science]

15. How about a fair America?

Don't throw us handouts in a corrupt system. Fix what is corrupt about the system.

[Solly Mack]

18. Wow

[grasswire]

19. why are there so few responses to this story?

Why do Americans fall for this claptrap?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. "Compassionate"? Right. Sure.

http://costofwar.com/en/

[Zorra]

23. Compassionate actions: Federal recognition of gay marriage,

ending the prosecution of marijuana suppliers and users, ending the wars, and:

Increasing aid to the least fortunate among us

Talk is cheap.