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Related: About this forumObama Blows Up Fox News Lies and The GOP With Powerful Debunking In Indiana
President Obama took on Fox News/Republican Party lie machine with a powerful debunking of conservative fiction during a speech on the economy in red state Indiana.
First, the President delivered the facts:
By almost every economic measure, America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my presidency. That the truth. Its true. Over the past six years, our businesses have created more than 14 million new jobs. Thats the longest stretch of sustained private sector job growth in our history. Weve seen the first sustained manufacturing growth since the 1990s. We cut unemployment in half, years before a lot of economists thought we could. We cut the oil that we buy from foreign countries by more than half. Doubled the clean energy that we produce. For the first time ever, ninety-percent of the country has health insurance. In fact, a poll that was out just last week says that two out of every three Americans think their own familys financial situation is in pretty good shape.
Obama went on to debunk the story about the economy that Republicans are selling, Their basic story is Americas working class, Americas middle-class, families like yours have victimized by a big bloated federal government run by a bunch of left-wing elitists like me. And the governments taking your hard earned tax dollars, and its giving them to freeloaders and welfare cheats, and were strangling business with endless regulations, and this federal government is letting immigrants and foreigners steal whatever jobs Obamacare hasnt killed yet.
Later, President Obama add...
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Obama Blows Up Fox News Lies and The GOP With Powerful Debunking In Indiana (Original Post)
Stellar
Jun 2016
OP
riversedge
(73,124 posts)1. Obama seems ready to hit the trail for Hillary
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)2. Rarin' to go, isn't he?
Republicans, fueled by Fox News and conservative talk radio, have created a fictional America that needs to be saved from the Obama years. President Obama responded to the Republican myths and lies with a sledgehammer of reality to destroy the imaginary universe that Republicans are living in.
sheshe2
(87,469 posts)3. That was a thing of beauty, Stellar.
He sure did make good use of that sledgehammer!
Bravo Mr. President!
sheshe2
(87,469 posts)6. He is going to go out with a bang!
He isn't going to hold back his contempt for them. Payback.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)8. President Obama is 'ready to explode' onto the campaign trail
Obama is chomping at the bit to get out and "get people fired up," a White House source said, but the President will remain largely on the sidelines until the Democrats have a nominee.
DKos
He's ready beat the heck out of some butts!
brer cat
(26,258 posts)4. Take it to them! nt
sheshe2
(87,469 posts)7. As only he can.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,165 posts)9. K&R nt
Oh how I wish there was not a limit and he could continue to be our leader.