Re: Bob Kerrey "Obama is a delusional liar who manipulated Americans to get Obamacare passed."

Kerrey was the one interviewed, not Kerry...  Two different people...

On Thursday, January 1, 2015 10:00:20 AM UTC-5, Ragnar wrote:

That's great kerry...it does not take a whole lot of skill to whine from the sidelines. kerry is a lobbyist who should know it is virtually impossible to negotiate with fascist terrorists whose only constituency are kocksuckers and only agenda is obstruction (and attempted defeat of Obama) since January 2009. 

On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 11:12:24 PM UTC-6, jgg1000a wrote:

The Daily Mail were the ones doing the interview....  That is how the Daily Mail characterized Kerrey's statement...

On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:41:44 PM UTC-5, Lobo wrote:

<<3) Not elected to do class warfare

Another of Obama's failings, according to Kerrey, is an inflated sense of Americans' appetite for programs to correct what the White House calls 'income inequality,' through new taxes and other income-shifting initiatives that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor.

The president's re-election 17 months ago wasn't a mandate to conduct class warfare, he said.>>

Since that's not a quote, there's no telling what he actually said. But if it was anything close to that, it's hard to imagine an assertion more completely, 180-degrees opposite the truth. Over the last 3 decades, and especially over the last 14 years, including the years Obama's been president, we've been furiously transferring all of the wealth and income in the country from the middle to the top. Since the Bush Depression began alone, essentially all (95%) of the income gains have gone to the top 1%, with well over half of that going to the top 0.01%.

Kerry's apparently been hobnobbing with the wrong sort of billionaires.

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On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:10:14 PM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:

What is even more damning, in my opinion are these three items

1) Obama is not President enough to break the Congressional log-jam

Asked how to break the congressional logjam, Kerrey thought for a moment and said, softly, 'It takes a president. It takes a president.'

Is Barack Obama that president? Kerrey stayed silent but shook his head.

'I'm shaking my head "no,"' he acknowledged, finally.

'If he was up to it, he would have done it. He can't run for re-election.'

2) Not reforming Social Security

In his Washington, D.C. days, the former Nebraska governor often stood out as the rare Democrat who publicly lamented U.S. entitlement programs' seemingly unstoppable march to insolvency.

'We're robbing from the future to pay for the past,' he told MailOnline on Wednesday. 'We just are.'

'And we're shoveling more and more money to people over the age of 65.'

A lack of political will and a healthy dose of electoral fear, he said, has virtually guaranteed a climate inside the U.S. Capitol where no one will take the first step toward cutting benefits or ratcheting up the national retirement age.

'It's the one thing "R"s and "D"s can agree on,' Kerrey explained. 'Don't screw with seniors.'

The result, he said, is a set of financial chains clamped tightly on future generations.

3) Not elected to do class warfare

Another of Obama's failings, according to Kerrey, is an inflated sense of Americans' appetite for programs to correct what the White House calls 'income inequality,' through new taxes and other income-shifting initiatives that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor.

The president's re-election 17 months ago wasn't a mandate to conduct class warfare, he said.

On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 5:20:22 PM UTC-5, Kamakazee wrote:

Yep, but I still don't like the guy.

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