David Axelrod: Tea Party to blame for credit downgrade (CBS Face the Nation interview)

[alp227]

Run time: 10:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma_0H31ia58   Posted on YouTube: August 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: CBSNewsOnline Views on YouTube: 168   Posted on DU: August 08, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 1304

 
Bob Scheiffer spoke with President Obama's campaign strategist David Axelrod on what caused Standard and Poor's to downgrade the U.S. credit rating and what Mr. Obama needs to accomplish during his campaign to secure a re-election. (Expanded summary, Transcript)

[JAnthony]

1. David, Barack, you UNDER-estimated the power of stupid in America

That's what you should have been fighting since day one.

You thought Fox News was just another news channel, now they re-write history every day, and still have people calling Barack a racist on their channel, still mis-state the history of this mess daily, and make unions look like Nazi's!

You thought Michele Bachmann was just another tea party patriot who didn't stand a chance to run against anyone in the Republican Party primary, now she's about to outshine Romney in Iowa

You both thought all those people who voted for Obama were as smart as Obama.

You both thought America's financial crisis would subside when Obama came to office.

You both thought the Congress of the USA was filled with smart people or at least MOSTLY smart people.

You thought business and industry would hire people and pay them fair wages instead of continuing to ship jobs overseas and profits to the Cayman Islands to be protected from taxation.

You quit studying what was going on under Bush, and thought it would magically stop under Obama, but you didn't bother to look at reality for the last 2.5 years, you just ASSUMED things would get better.

And then you let the Republicans win a major tax extension battle at the end of the last Democratic controlled Congressional session.in 2010, BEFRE the Teahadist Republicans were even sworn in!

And then you caved to pressure from teahadists, much as Chamberlain compromised with the Nazi's in 1939.

You have failed as elected political figures, failed on so many major points of perception, and negotiation.

Let's let the nation decide why you should remain in the White House........maybe we need to Tea Party to actually put us back in the ditch before you (and we) wake up.

[DiegoUK]

2. Embed disabled?

Disabling embed is pathetic. No idea why YouTube even gives that option.

[wake.up.america]

3. What will it take to take off the gloves with the RW? They are destroying the country and Barack...

sits idly by.