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Ben Smith's Blog —
George teases his Obama interview, which includes a -- very vague -- discussion of a "grand bargain" and shared sacrifice. He also asks a question about a torture prosecutor that was driven by activists on Change.gov, a nice example of how the intersection of officialdom, activists and the mainstream media works.
Alaska Daily News editors describe the difficulty of reporting out a weird, but not disproven, story, and says Palin is micharacterizing his paper.
Obama's first trip will not, as he'd suggested, be to a Muslim country, ...
Obama Calls for 'Grand Bargain' on Economy: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... which is making sure we get that reinvestment and recovery package in place. But what you described is exactly what were going to have to do. What we have to do is to take a look at our structural deficit, how are we paying for government? What are we getting for it? And how do we make the system more efficient?" "And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" I asked. "Everybodys going to have to give. Everybodys going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said. Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/01/obama-calls-for...
HMM: Obama Calls for ‘Grand Bargain’ on Economy: ‘Everybody’s Going to Have to Give’. Really? Eve…
Instapundit —
HMM: Obama Calls for ‘Grand Bargain’ on Economy: ‘Everybody’s Going to Have to Give’. Really? Even the takers?
Plus, Stephanopoulos takes dictation: “The big treat of the day was having Malia and Sasha Obama tour visit our This Week control room. The girls got on my executive producer’s headset and gave me the question they most want their Dad to answer.” In other words, it was like most Obama interviews . . . .
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Obama on "This Week": Everybody Has to Give
TalkLeft —
... President Elect Barack Obama will be on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos this morning. What's hegoing to say? ...
The Problem, Informally Stated
Once Upon a Time... —
I see that our president-to-be has told George Stephanopoulos that: "Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game." ...
Hullabaloo — ... is going broke and that "entitlements" must be reformed haven't been right for decades and they aren't likely to be right this time. We have a real crisis on our hands, but this crap is a very clever sleight of hand --- the problem, as we all know, is free market ideology run amok. If they can misdirect the public to "reforming government" instead, they might be able to take the heat off enough to get back in the saddle before anyone notices. Update II: It's on the menu: I asked the president-elect, "At the end of the day, are you ...
Obama on Economy: "Everybody's Going to Have to Give"
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The president-elect tells ABC's Stephanopoulos that fixing the economy will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don't work, and making things that we have more efficient."
Interview will air Sunday on "This Week"
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Then You Deal [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom —
George Stephanopoulos : In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.“Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I’m not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the ...
Obama: “Everybody’s Going to Have to Give”
PoliGazette —
... During his appearance on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, President-Elect Barack Obama said that the economic crisis would be hard on every single American, and that “everybody’s going to have to give” in order to enable the U.S. government to help revive the economy. ...
Worst Economy of the Last 50 Years?
Wizbang —
... somewhere between $1.2 trillion and $1.8 trillion. Trillion . T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N. Or up to 12.5% of our current GDP. Why? Because we are told that the recent economic downturn is so serious that without a significant cash give-away by the Federal Government things will continue downhill and we will be stuck in a years-long recession. Naturally this means we all have to make sacrifices . Well, except for most of the Federal Government, that is. I can accept the reasoning behind the emergency cash infusion for banks at the end of last year, but I am extremely skeptical about a ...
Sacrifice, Obama Style
Ace of Spades HQ —
Sacrifice, Obama Style President-Elect Barack Obama, January 10, 2009 : "And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" I asked. "Everybodys going to have to give. Everybodys going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said. ...
Sacrifice, Obama Style
Slublog —
President-Elect Barack Obama, January 10, 2009: "And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" I asked.
"Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said.President Barack Obama, June 1, 2009: I know you've already seen more than your fair share of hard times. We saw 400,000 jobs lost in the auto industry in the year before this restructuring even began. I will not pretend the hard times are over. Difficult days lie ahead. More jobs will be lost. More plants will ...
