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."
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Holy crap this guy is AN IDIOT.
This just in, snow is not cold.
Obama: ‘Nobody envies rich people’
..as much as Moochelle and I do.
Bovine Scat...
the entire leftist ideology is based on envy, covetousness, and theft.
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” Albert Camus
Horse hockey!
“At some point, I think you’ve made enough money” - B. Hussien Obama
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?
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"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.
Obama 2012: “Follow my policies and I will give America the financial stability of Greece and the employment opportunities of Spain”.
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')
lol,,
That’s Obama’s crack cocaine kicking in.
This only tells me that class envy doesn’t poll well with real Americans
Probably at least 50% of all humans not awash in cash do envy the wealthy... fantasy, the liberal reality...
'Nuff said.
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