Posted on 07/01/2009 5:20:42 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Fresh out of college, before becoming a community organizer, Obama took a job with a consulting firm that helped American companies operating abroad. The horror of editing business manuals for a year gave Obama a lesson in the "coldness of capitalism," he told biographer David Mendell. "I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself that I wanted to be."
As his career progressed, Obama tempered his critique of capitalism, and developed an uncanny ability to make free-marketeers believe he's simpatico. Meanwhile, he amassed one of the least business-friendly records in the Senate (the "most liberal senator" in 2007, according to the nonpartisan National Journal.)
But in a 2005 commencement address at Illinois' Knox College, Obama let his guard down, and let loose a leftist stemwinder that would have done Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-OH, proud.
"There is no individual salvation without collective salvation," Obama proclaimed, making clear that government would stand in for God as our savior.
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“”There is no individual salvation without collective salvation,” Obama proclaimed, making clear that government would stand in for God as our savior.”
And all CNN had to do was quote this and right now we would be hailing President Clinton.
Eeeeeewwww, that's a nasty thought.
When I realized what it actually said I thought to myself: Eh, not much different, really...
Eh, not much different.
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise
:)
heheh...not much diff is right considering it’s Obama!
I’m not sure we’d be hailing her! Complaining about her, more likely - but not hearing the end of our nation, our rights and our way of life in every word she said.
This jerk is pure evil.
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