Obama Spars With An Activist Tea Party
U.S. President Barack Obama went head to head with an important conservative Tea Party activist, is a microcosm of the political confrontation that will play in the elections of 2012.
Ryan Rhodes, Executive Vice President, in Iowa, Obama took time out of the town hall meeting, which marked a new moment the intensity of the presidential campaign for a second term.
Rhodes yelled that the President calls for more civility in politics had little opportunity to spend later, "the vice president calls people like me, a member of the Tea Party, a" terrorist. "
Ryan Rhodes, Executive Vice President, in Iowa, Obama took time out of the town hall meeting, which marked a new moment the intensity of the presidential campaign for a second term.
Rhodes yelled that the President calls for more civility in politics had little opportunity to spend later, "the vice president calls people like me, a member of the Tea Party, a" terrorist. "
His questions to media reports that Vice President Joe Biden made the remarks during a private meeting with House Democrats at the height of a confrontation of debt earlier this month.
The clash occurred when Obama was finishing the meeting in the shadow of a red barn country wrapped in an American flag as the sun set on a corner of rural Iowa
The clash occurred when Obama was finishing the meeting in the shadow of a red barn country wrapped in an American flag as the sun set on a corner of rural Iowa
"I know that will not work if you get up, and asked everyone to raise their hands ... not what you see, what I do and avoid," the president said, but later turn to answer questions of Rhodes.
"I totally agree that everyone should try to moderate the rhetoric," he said, before going on to detail some of the most explosive allegations that the Conservatives were against it.
"I totally agree that everyone should try to moderate the rhetoric," he said, before going on to detail some of the most explosive allegations that the Conservatives were against it.
"In fairness, since I was called a Socialist, who was not born in this country, which is to destroy America and take away their freedoms, because I had a bill for health care, I have to lower the rhetoric ".
Obama Rhodes and later in lively conversation as he greeted supporters string line after the event, activists and journalists later that he thought Barack Obama was actually a socialist.
The president was the first day of a bus tour to three states where he is sympathetic to the Americans shocked and frustrated by the slow economic recovery and trying to repair his political position violated.
Obama Rhodes and later in lively conversation as he greeted supporters string line after the event, activists and journalists later that he thought Barack Obama was actually a socialist.
The president was the first day of a bus tour to three states where he is sympathetic to the Americans shocked and frustrated by the slow economic recovery and trying to repair his political position violated.
Rhodes, supported the winning candidate and the Tea Party Representative Michele Bachmann favorite in the poll last weekend Straw Iowa, and is considered the founder of the anti-big government moving in the state.
The Tea Party lacks a centralized national leadership, but came into being in 2010, Congress election cycle as a powerful influence on conservative Republican politics, with its message of low taxes and savings.
The move was also seen as a key factor in the Republican leadership in a tactical engagement with debt and some Democrats have accused Obama Tea Party activists to keep the country hostage to raise government borrowing limit.
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