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Obama: 'Nobody envies rich people'
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Posted on 01/27/2012 12:26:39 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama: 'Nobody envies rich people' Posted by CNN's Kevin Liptak

(CNN) - President Barack Obama hit back Friday at a charge lobbed at him from Republican presidential candidates, saying the suggestion he's inciting class warfare was flat wrong.

Speaking to Democratic lawmakers at a retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Obama said he would actively rebut that charge in the coming election year.

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"This is one of the biggest things I'm going to be pushing back on this year, this notion that this is somehow class warfare, that we're trying to stir up envy," Obama said. "Nobody envies rich people, everybody wants to be rich. Everybody aspires to be rich, and everybody understands you've got work hard to be successful. That's the American way."

Candidates seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination have accused Obama of pitting 'haves' against 'have nots,' saying his rhetoric and policies amount to redistribution of wealth.

In his victory speech the night of New Hampshire's primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Obama was a "leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy," suggesting his proposals boiled down to an indictment of free enterprise.

Fellow candidate Newt Gingrich has also made the argument Obama is engaging in class warfare, saying in December the president has a "European radical attitude toward class warfare."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: classwarfare; envytherich
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What a bunch of Barbara Streisand
1 posted on 01/27/2012 12:26:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Holy crap this guy is AN IDIOT.

This just in, snow is not cold.


2 posted on 01/27/2012 12:28:11 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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Obama: ‘Nobody envies rich people’

..as much as Moochelle and I do.


3 posted on 01/27/2012 12:28:47 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bovine Scat...

the entire leftist ideology is based on envy, covetousness, and theft.


4 posted on 01/27/2012 12:29:27 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Sub-Driver

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” Albert Camus


5 posted on 01/27/2012 12:32:28 PM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Sub-Driver

Horse hockey!


6 posted on 01/27/2012 12:32:55 PM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: crosshairs

“At some point, I think you’ve made enough money” - B. Hussien Obama


7 posted on 01/27/2012 12:33:48 PM PST by mkboyce
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To: Sub-Driver

so ask obama this does he really believe that the only way for all americans to be successful is too have the government confiscate $ from those who are successful, and once they take the money from the successful where does the next bunch of money they need come from?


8 posted on 01/27/2012 12:34:55 PM PST by edzo4 (You call us the 'Party Of No', I call us the resistance.)
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9 posted on 01/27/2012 12:36:47 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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"This is one of the biggest things I'm going to be pushing back on this year, this notion that this is somehow class warfare, that we're trying to stir up envy," Obama said.

"The workers and proletarians resolutely denounce any suggestion that their anger towards the imperialist tools of the Wall Street plutocrats is somehow class warfare or that we're trying to stir up envy and hatred against the kulaks and other forms of the bourgeouisie," Obama said.

10 posted on 01/27/2012 12:42:00 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Nachum

Obama 2012: “Follow my policies and I will give America the financial stability of Greece and the employment opportunities of Spain”.


11 posted on 01/27/2012 12:43:33 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: Sub-Driver

12 posted on 01/27/2012 12:45:03 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The price of freedom is willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, anytime..." - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Sub-Driver
Right.
The OWS mob doesn't covet or envy.... They just want free stuff because other people have more than they do (and made better career and life decisions in their past).

That's not covetousness or envy ... it is resenting what others have and wanting it for yourself...but not envy... Throw your old dictionaries away (or redact the word 'envy')

13 posted on 01/27/2012 12:46:46 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

lol,,


14 posted on 01/27/2012 12:48:47 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s Obama’s crack cocaine kicking in.


15 posted on 01/27/2012 12:52:39 PM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: Sub-Driver

This only tells me that class envy doesn’t poll well with real Americans


16 posted on 01/27/2012 12:55:44 PM PST by Anti-Hillary (No Jesus, No Peace! Know Jesus, Know Peace!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Probably at least 50% of all humans not awash in cash do envy the wealthy... fantasy, the liberal reality...


17 posted on 01/27/2012 1:01:13 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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Obama: 'Nobody envies rich people'

Goebbels: 'If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.'

'Nuff said.

18 posted on 01/27/2012 1:05:02 PM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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"Nobody envies rich people, everybody wants to be rich.

"The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax."
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20 posted on 01/27/2012 1:19:34 PM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-Free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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