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Posted on 10/22/2008 7:58:46 PM PDT by seastay
"Lately, [McCain] and Governor Palin have actually accused me of -- get this -- socialism," Obama said. "It's kind of hard to figure how Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist."
We are the land of opportunity because we are not socialist!
That’s worth a T-shirt.
Anything to help the cause, FRiend. :-)
I don’t call it reparations, I call it a tax-break.
I don’t call it reparations, I call it a tax on the rich.
“I don’t dislike Obama, it is his fascistic followers who represent the greatest threat.”
He is the one that insighted his followers to “get in their faces” so he is just as guilty of their actions!
That’s true. I think the guy carries a grudge for a long time and waits to get revenge. He’s a bully, though. Look how he and his goons go after weaker opponents like Joe the Plumber but he seems to cower in front of people like Ahmadinijad. He is truly scary - and weird.
lol — that is very good!
" . . . Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist."
Democrats call Republicans "the party of the rich," but that is quite untrue as can easily be seen by evaluating both the historical pattern of few, large contributions to the Democratic Party adding up to a smaller total than the many, modest, contributions upon which the Republican Party depends. And as can be seen in the pattern of voting for Democrats, wherein they win overwhelmingly in the cities, true - but they also win in the tony inner suburbs as well.The bottom line is that the Republican Party is the party of the middle class. Socialist politics is the conspicuous consumption by which the rich separate themselves from the middle class. The poor think, wrongly, to profit from socialism. The middle class knows that its income is the target, rather than the beneficiary, of "spreading the wealth."
If "Atlas Shrugs" it will not be Steve Jobs deciding he doesn't like taxes which in any event have no effect on how much he can spend. No, it will be more in the form of the disappearance of entrepreneurship in the middle class - when Joe the Plumber decides that the effort and risk of becoming a businessman just isn't worth it.
The Joe the Plumber incident - and the Democratic/Journalistic response - was damaging to the "spread the wealth" Obama campaign precisely because it revealed Obama's socialism and his contempt for the middle class.
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