Ok... Tonight's Transcript Of Obama's Remarks... Featuring The Part I Liked...

[WillyT]

The hard part is actually dealing with the underlying debt and deficits, and doing it in a way that’s fair. That’s all the American people are looking for -- some fairness. I can’t tell you how many letters and emails I get, including from Republican voters, who say, look, we know that neither party is blameless when it comes to how this deft and deficit developed -- there’s been a lot of blame to spread around -- but we sure hope you don’t just balance the budget on the backs of seniors. We sure hope that we’re not slashing our commitment to make sure kids can go to college. We sure hope that we’re not suddenly throwing a bunch of poor kids off the Medicaid rolls so they can’t get basic preventative services that keep them out of the emergency room. That’s all they’re looking for, is some fairness.

Now, what you’re going to hear, I suspect, is, well, if you -- if the Senate is prepared to pass the cap, cut and balance bill, the Republican plan, then somehow we can solve this problem -- that’s serious debt reduction. It turns out, actually, that the plan that Speaker Boehner and I were talking about was comparable in terms of deficit reduction. The difference was that we didn’t put all the burden on the people who are least able to protect themselves, who don’t have lobbyists in this town, who don’t have lawyers working on the tax code for them -- working stiffs out there, ordinary folks who are struggling every day. And they know they’re getting a raw deal, and they’re mad at everybody about it. They’re mad at Democrats and they’re mad at Republicans, because they know somehow, no matter how hard they work, they don’t seem to be able to keep up. And what they’re looking for is somebody who’s willing to look out for them. That’s all they’re looking for.

And for us not to be keeping those folks in mind every single day when we’re up here, for us to be more worried about what some funder says, or some talk radio show host says, or what some columnist says, or what pledge we signed back when we were trying to run, or worrying about having a primary fight -- for us to be thinking in those terms instead of thinking about those folks is inexcusable.

Full transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/22/remarks-president

Damn... look at me... posting from whitehouse.gov... LOL!!!

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[spanone]

1. Damn... look at me... posting from whitehouse.gov... LOL!!!....bwahahahahahaa

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[WillyT]

10. LOL !!!

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[Bluerthanblue]

2. K&R

thanks for posting this.

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[WillyT]

14. You Are Quite Welcome !!!

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[emulatorloo]

3. rec - thanks for posting this

I was wanting to read that part after hearing the press conference.

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[MineralMan]

4. K&R

See?

[freshwest]

5. +1,000

[freshwest]

6. K & R, but rest assured, there will be no backlash directed at the GOP from the RW owned media!

[mia]

7. Thanks for posting this. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

8. Cuts...

"We then offered an additional $650 billion in cuts to entitlement programs -- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
We believed that it was possible to shape those in a way that preserved the integrity of the system, made them available
for the next generation, and did not affect current beneficiaries in an adverse way."

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. I'm as pissed as you are, but they are off the table now.

This is going to be a ceiling motion as a standalone now.

We will be sucking wind for the next 2 years over the unfunded wars and Bush/Obama tax cuts, but SS/Med are (for now) out of the debate.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Well, he's not quite Eugene Debs just yet, but his words are

most welcome, especially the phrase 'working stiffs'. I wonder if Obama or Daley have been reading my posts at DU? :)

[Muddy Waters Guitars]

15. Yes, I had that reaction too

This was something like Obama's "Eugene Debs" moment, though I see it more as his FDR moment.

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. k&r That was well played. Kudos to POTUS

and what in hades was his Orange of Drunkeness thinking trying to follow that with his "NO TAXES EVAH" dribble?

WTG, Mr President!

[Tx4obama]

13. Here's a LINK to the Full VIDEO (31 mintues)

VIDEO: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x602673