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Topic: Historian says Obama should work harder to connect with GOP |
Historian says Obama should work harder to connect with GOP
United Press International, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/25/2012 7:58:07 PM
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| WASHINGTON- Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose "Team of Rivals" is the basis for the film "Lincoln," says President Obama must try harder to connect with Republicans. "I think the most important lesson that the ["Lincoln"] movie illustrates by getting the passage of the 13th Amendment through a really fractious Congress, is you do everything you can, every means within your control," Goodwin said Sunday on CBS News´ "Face the Nation." Goodwin said past presidents, such as President Lyndon Johnson, were much better than Obama at using the White House as a political asset.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
tren9, 11/25/2012 8:09:31 PM (No. 9033628)
Did D K Goodwin really write ´Team of Rivals?´ or did she steal it from someone else?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 11/25/2012 8:15:10 PM (No. 9033635)
Hey Doris, take a hike and take your pal Zippy with you and away from US.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou, 11/25/2012 8:16:32 PM (No. 9033639)
I doubt that Obama has ever played well with others, unless they thought the same way he does.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury, 11/25/2012 8:23:37 PM (No. 9033645)
Yeah that´s high on his list.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 11/25/2012 8:33:04 PM (No. 9033650)
Don´t hold your breath.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hamrman, 11/25/2012 8:45:17 PM (No. 9033660)
My money is on that Barry can´t & won´t work harder to connect with the GOP...history will not be kind!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue, 11/25/2012 8:48:31 PM (No. 9033666)
Chief-Money-Laundering Thug should stop taking advantage of the feeble minded into voting for them! It´s not nice to take advantage of them!!!! But that´s what Marxist/socialists do, I guess!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 11/25/2012 8:57:35 PM (No. 9033670)
Doris, you don´t understand the pathological wreck known as president zero. He is trying to tear the U.S. apart. Lincoln was trying to do the opposite.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rochow, 11/25/2012 9:06:17 PM (No. 9033675)
This plagiarizing strumpet should just keep her mouth shut and go away!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gesundheit, 11/25/2012 9:19:32 PM (No. 9033684)
As a career-long member of the Chicago political machine, Obama does not know how to negotiate with people like Republicans who can´t be bought off.
The Republicans in Congress don´t need anything from Obama. Like all politicians, they want to be re-elected, and they can only be re-elected by honoring the Republican principles that their constituents sent them to Congress to represent, such as by refusing to raise taxes.
If Obama and the Democrats could provide any historical evidence that raising taxes did not lead to economic decline, there would at least be a basis for discussion leading to a possible compromise with the Republicans, but there is no such evidence.
When Obama perpetrated his Big class-warfare Lie that taxing the rich would help the country, he created the impasse he now finds himself in.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
fb2002, 11/25/2012 9:21:25 PM (No. 9033686)
Proof that she needs to copy others words to be lucid. Obama neither works nor connects with anyone except his dumbed down followers. This has to be from The Onion, right?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 11/25/2012 9:35:09 PM (No. 9033698)
Her Lincoln and The Real Lincoln share no characteristics. Lincoln´s great contribution to American history was to lay the foundation upon which Teddy R., Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ, The Peanut Farmer, the Blue Dress Kid and this current Marxist built the Machine that Destroyed America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ocjim, 11/25/2012 9:35:43 PM (No. 9033699)
FTA: ´´Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose ´Team of Rivals´ is the basis for the film ´Lincoln,´ says President Obama must try harder to connect with Republicans.´´
Doris, it´s painfully obvious from your statements that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of Obama, who he is, where he came from and what he is capable of. Many on the Left have this problem of their self-concocted, naive idea of Obama. He´s not that guy, Doris. That guy is who you made up in your overactive imagination. The Hope you came up with was in fact YOUR Hope. The Change you had in mind was in fact YOUR Change that you thought would be a great idea. So you see, Obama pulled a little slight of hand on your brain. Obama work harder to connect with GOP??? LOL. Doris, you poor self-deluded thing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/25/2012 9:36:52 PM (No. 9033700)
Sorry Doris, Alinsky won´t allow it. Is she the last person to know the truth about the Marxist in charge?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 11/25/2012 11:11:08 PM (No. 9033757)
With zero work ethic and zero work experience, how would this president even know how to work harder. Destruction of our economy doesn´t really count as work since he obviously enjoys it so much.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NotaBene, 11/25/2012 11:53:36 PM (No. 9033778)
Ms. Plagiarist.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/26/2012 12:53:37 AM (No. 9033803)
No he doesn´t. The republicans are busy catching up to him and his brilliant ideas.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/26/2012 4:41:32 AM (No. 9033857)
Doris, he has no interest in connecting with the GOP.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/26/2012 10:35:24 AM (No. 9034195)
Did Lenin and Hitler come to power with a bona fide intention to "connect" with their political rivals? That right there is your answer Doris.
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