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Breaking - Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’
ABC News Political Punch ^ | 10-31-08 | jpt

Posted on 10/31/2008 11:49:59 AM PDT by jrooney

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

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KEYWORDS: digg; obama; taxes
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Socialism folks, here it is. The arrogance of the false messiah.
1 posted on 10/31/2008 11:50:00 AM PDT by jrooney
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he cracked


2 posted on 10/31/2008 11:51:27 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: jrooney

Is it more greedy to

want to keep more of what you yourself earn

or

to use the government to steal what someone else earns.


3 posted on 10/31/2008 11:52:25 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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"It's unclear if this was a nod to the Ayn Rand book "The Virtue of Selfishness," with all that the invocation of Rand implies."
4 posted on 10/31/2008 11:52:44 AM PDT by jrooney (I am not voting for Spread the Wealth/Senator Government. I am voting for the War Hero and Baracuda.)
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Off teleprompter?


5 posted on 10/31/2008 11:52:56 AM PDT by Born In America (Affirmative action is no way to elect a President, now or ever....)
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ME NOT SELFISH

ME ANGRY

FU BO

Mike


6 posted on 10/31/2008 11:52:59 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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I didn’t know its a virtue to covet for what the neighbor have. Jealousy is a virtue now?


7 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:10 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Americans need to stop putting their family first and start worrying about the freeloaders in this country! “If one person is miserable, WE SHOULD ALL BE MISERABLE!” - Bari Hussein and the Obamacorns.


8 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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Whoops...there went the election...remember, if you don’t want higher taxes and socialism..you’re a selfish, unpatriotic, racist!

Nice going Barak..I am sure the undecideds are going to flock to you NOW!


9 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:19 AM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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color me selfish, and proud of it. Oh, and btw, this selfish evil rich person gives more to charity that the great Obama, and on less that 10% of his income.


10 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:29 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: jrooney

K M A Obama


11 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:38 AM PDT by unkus
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Has he released his personal tax documents yet?


12 posted on 10/31/2008 11:53:38 AM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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What gets me is how this kind of attack makes the light of day. It ought to be laughed to scorn.

How is it selfish to want to keep what one has earned, and not selfish to want something that belongs to someone else? The populist plea that Obama is making is depending on the selfishness of masses. If you can convince enough people that you will give them a lot of money, if you get elected, those most likely to get that money will vote for you in droves. That’s not selfish?


13 posted on 10/31/2008 11:54:17 AM PDT by HoustonTech
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“Bring it On Commie Boy!”
14 posted on 10/31/2008 11:54:30 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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Those who are not selfish should volunteer to pay more taxes first. I volunteer Obama and Biden to be the first to do so and pay as high as 100% in taxes. Then I will vote for them.


15 posted on 10/31/2008 11:54:36 AM PDT by LLBeet
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Larger excerpt:

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness." It would seem to be, given the themes of Rand's work, what happens when independent achievers are demonized.

Which would fit with this description of those who want to keep their hard-earned tax dollars as "selfish."

Atlas may not be shrugging, but Obama is.

-- jpt

16 posted on 10/31/2008 11:54:46 AM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK !! - SPAM FOR FREEDOM !! - http://www.etpv.org/whatsnew.html)
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F” off you lying, crooked, empty suited, Soros backed Manchurian candidate, Middle American hating, Socialist, cut and run, share the wealth(you ready to do that?), can’t question his background, can’t question his association with some domestic terrorist, can’t question his working for Acorn, can’t question anything about him or it’s considered racist, sat in a church that spewed hate for twenty years and says he wasn’t there when it happened, Shady property deals in Chicago, won’t turn over his birth certificate, won’t release his two hundred and under bundle donations, when he is finally pinned down he say’s that’s not the _____ ( fill in the blank) that I used to know, propped up by the adoring media that Goebbels would be proud of, gun grabbin’ , egotistical, narcissistic, go ahead and stick scissors in babies heads at late term, oh and if late term babies happen to be born alive, stick them in a dirty linen closet until they die.... piece of feces’ that will ruin this country.


17 posted on 10/31/2008 11:55:00 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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Ayn Rand, please pick up the white courtesy phone....


18 posted on 10/31/2008 11:55:17 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Somewhere in Illinois, a community is missing its organizer.)
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To: 4rcane

Socialism is based on:

Covetousness (and inciting covetousness in others)
THEFT
and lying (B0 said today that the oil company’s profits were taken from people at the pump)


19 posted on 10/31/2008 11:55:17 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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Can this be in Breaking News?


20 posted on 10/31/2008 11:55:22 AM PDT by jrooney (I am not voting for Spread the Wealth/Senator Government. I am voting for the War Hero and Baracuda.)
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