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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Sully- who wrote (77326)2/9/2010 9:17:18 AM
From: Peter Dierks2 Recommendations   of 90947
 
Dialogue is helpful, Obama's progressivism is not
By: Cal Thomas
Examiner Columnist
February 2, 2010

Obama was right to converse with congressional Republicans last Friday in Baltimore. Cynics may label it as political theater, but I suspect the public appreciated the give-and-take.

The president was given a 26-page booklet containing Republican ideas on the economy, jobs, energy and national security. That should put to rest the fiction that Republicans have presented no ideas on these and other subjects.

If the president wants to demonstrate he is seeking common ground with Republicans, he might embrace at least one Republican idea and prod his party's congressional majority to go along.

"I am not an ideologue," the president claimed, but of course he is. Dictionary.com defines "ideologue" as "a person who zealously advocates an ideology."

Obama is a self-described "progressive." A progressive is a throwback to the early 20th century.

Progressives use government to impose their worldview on others. Progressives generally seek ways around the Constitution ....

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