Is Obama saying that blacks are not as adept as whites at the American dream?
That's what it sounds like to me, total hogwash of course.
It's only a matter of time before the people of Illinois look past his blinding white teeth and find nothing but an empty suit. Obama is a scumbag.
"You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees"
Yes, we as individuals are responsible for our lives. We pay taxes to have roads and levees. Where does the money go? Who is responsible for the use of our tax money?
In contrast to OB's preference of "Darwin socialism"
No, Senator, we believe in freedom...something you obviously know little to nothing about.
..and the New Democrats practice Socialism ( of the PRK variety - if they could get away with it!!)
No, Mr. Osama Obama Ram-a-Lam-a-Ding-Dong, it's mainly Democraps who have supported the "social Darwinism" of 40+million abortions, so go screw yourself.
Gubmint already done bilt the lebees.
Gubmint lebee up an done broke.
Gubmint lebee money spent on other thing, like casinos.
I'd say we should wear Mr.Obama's attempted "slur" with pride, wouldn't you say?
Some Republicans will fall for it too.
"Popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the theory advocates free competition and a minimalist role for government in society."
Sounds good to me.
"Obama, the only African American now in the U.S. Senate"
he is not! he is a mulatto Kenyan!.his history is not African American. if he were a republican the MSM would make sure that everyone knew his history and would not let the reps call him black!
" Obama says Republicans practice "Social Darwinism"
and "Usama" Obama and the rest of the Lib Dems practice Marxist- Leninism.
Why haven't they captured this guy yet?
"Social Darwinism" is one of those terms which is used by liberals as a straw man.
The truth is, in America there never really was such a movement. The standard works (by liberals, including in encyclopedias) attribute the school to William Graham Sumner. I have read just about all of Sumner's works, and no where does he use Darwiniam to bolster his ideas, and he certainly does not argue any sort of "survival of the fittest" ideas for human society.
Obama is just mouthing what he has been taught, or what his speech-writers have given him.
Sumner was a conservative with a laissez-faire economic stance. Rather than being for a ruthless social system, he was for the normal, hard-working citizens, whom he saw as harmed by high-tariff policies advocated by big industrialists. He opposed the Spanish-American War, and wrote a whole essay, "The Conquest of America by Spain," arguing that Spain was winning by the war because we were adopting their unwise policies. Would a person applying a distorted Darwinism to human society by so strongly against a war? In otherwords, the truth is the exact opposite of that which the liberal mythology teaches. All you have to do is read Sumner, and you will realize this.
By the way, Sumner's best essays are very readible: for example, "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other." I find by Google that a certain Prof. Richards at the Univ. of Western Washington has posted an excerpt, claiming that it is based on a Spencerian "struggle for survival." What Sumner actually says is that all human life requires effort, and that goods do not just reign on us from heaven. That is the basis of economics, by the way.
Once more, the liberals show themselves to be dishonest and/or ignorant. You can get a copy of Sumner's essay for a mere $6 from the von Mises Institute: http://www.mises.org/store/What-Social-Classes-Owe-to-Each-Other-P195C0.aspx
or you can probably find the whole text in various places on the Internet.
Baloooonery! He would have us resort to, retain the same policy that has ruined France. Welfare actually keeps the poor down.
"You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees"
Republicans and libertarians just believe in buying health care, roads and levees at wholesale prices!
We want to out the middle-man (the government).
This makes no sense at all, as the left is insisting that gays be allowed to marry and abprtion be kept legal.
Seems to me that the left is not intending to have anyone left to survive after one generaion. Abortion kills mostly democrats and I don't think lesbians or gays can produce offspring without help from the other sex.
I'll place my bets now, put all the pro abortion people on one island, the lesbians one another and all the gays on a third. Which island will have anyone left in 100 years?
Hurricane Katrina "victims" got that way because the Democrats designed and implemented policies designed to keep them impoverished.