Obama: I don’t ‘bleed’ Democrat

Posted by | September 14, 2016 09:55 | Filed under: Politics

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President Obama says he doesn’t always agree with Democrats, even though he is the head of the party.

“Look, I recognize I am the head of the Democratic Party and that necessarily makes me a partisan,” he said at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) fundraiser in New York City on Tuesday night.

“But I’m not actually someone who bleeds Democrats. I think back to 2008, and I meant what I said. I don’t think any party traditionally has a monopoly on what’s right.”
Obama then cited past examples of bipartisan cooperation as proof that lawmakers can break gridlock in Washington, D.C.

“I come from the land of [former President Abraham] Lincoln,” he said. “[Former President] Richard Nixon set up the EPA.

“The Civil Rights Act was passed by [former President] Lyndon Johnson, but also [had] a whole bunch of Republican votes. So it’s not inevitable that this is what we deal with, but it is what’s going on right now.”

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7 responses to Obama: I don’t ‘bleed’ Democrat

  1. Mensa Member September 14th, 2016 at 12:17

    Obama puts America before party.

    That is one of the reasons I voted for him the first time. I thought such a president would help unify the country after the horribly divisive Bush years.

    Man was I wrong.

    • granpa.usthai September 14th, 2016 at 13:05

      I very seriously doubt that America will ever be fully united…hasn’t been yet, but that’s the whole foundation of our constitution. You don’t have to be in agreement with the rest -and supposedly without fear of any government repercussions (as long as you’re within the legal parameters). Something the GOP has become increasingly against.

      • Mensa Member September 14th, 2016 at 13:23

        I agree!

        Full unity has never happened and never will.

        But are you old enough to remember when there were Republicans who didn’t block American progress just because a Democrat supports it?

        I am.

        Take Gerald Ford, for example. I didn’t like him. But he was able to work with people.

    • jybarz September 14th, 2016 at 14:00

      Wow, if you think he failed in his “no red state and blue state but the United States” then your idol’s “Deplorables ” will definitely be not unifying and, Man, you’ll be wrong again.

  2. Bunya September 14th, 2016 at 13:46

    I wish he were more partisan. Then we’d have the Bush Administration in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and we’d have single payer healthcare.
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    Democrats are a bit more “forgiving” (although I prefer the term “sackless”). The GOP went after Clinton for lying about a BJ, but the democrats always give the republicans a pass – on almost everything. Like war crimes.

  3. amersham1046 September 14th, 2016 at 18:28

    Obama is a statesman in a sea of almost comic political hacks

  4. bpollen September 15th, 2016 at 06:02

    To quote Jesse Ventura – “I ain’t got time to bleed!”

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