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Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’
ABC News ^ | October 31, 2008 10:58 AM | Jake Tapper

Posted on 10/31/2008 1:46:20 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon

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"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

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KEYWORDS: obama; taxes
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To: Jeff Gordon


41 posted on 10/31/2008 2:13:38 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: edzo4
So under the Messiah those who want to keep what they earned are “selfish.”

Sure sounds like the One just endorsed class-warfare.

I hope the MSM plays this clip frequently these next 72 hours.

It may cause the One another point or two.

42 posted on 10/31/2008 2:13:38 PM PDT by mojito (Obama: a glowing plastic post-modern Jesus for the dashboard of your Prius)
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To: Brookhaven
Childish. That’s what Obama’s arguments are.

Would be that that was all it was. In the early days of the Marxist takeover of Imperial Russia, there were as I understand neighborhood courts that could sentence you for what was deemed anti-social behavior. Perhaps you may also remember the scenes in the Movie Dr. Zhivago, where the street riff raff took over most of the rooms of middle class houses.

This is just one more bit of evidence that Obama has a very dangerous philosophic take on human society--certainly not that which has prevailed in mainstream America since the first European settlements. [And please, don't someone remind me of the initial collectivist experiments in some, like at Plymyth in 1620. That was wholly voluntary, and very short lived.]

43 posted on 10/31/2008 2:14:13 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Genoa

Sarah reacted with shock that Obama would be so open and brazen about his control of other people’s money.


44 posted on 10/31/2008 2:18:29 PM PDT by conservativepoet (The chief aim of order within Christianity is to make room for good things to romp and play.)
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To: elk

Scary is putting it mildly.

I think this man should be judged by the company he has kept all his life....and not a conservative America lover among them.

He has been “bought along” to be the mouthpiece for the CPUSA, and his Muslim faith will be imposed among all of us, if he has any Higher Power faith at all, his bible being Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.

Again I say he reminds me of; There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile....all to cover up and confuse. It is amazing how many he has drawn into his hypnotic vortex! I call them the walking brain-dead.


45 posted on 10/31/2008 2:20:57 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge.)
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To: mojito

The MSM will never play this, because they understand the threat it poses to BO - even if he doesn’t.

It has to be a McCain commercial and hammered on the stump.

“BO continues to demand that you pay higher taxes. Not content with confiscating your paycheck, he now has the nerve to tell you that you are selfish if you don’t like his higher taxes. This is wealth redistribution from BO — yet again.”


46 posted on 10/31/2008 2:21:45 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Jeff Gordon
Obama has become a master of this technique. He did not argue that he is not a socialist. He ridiculed the idea by saying that people call him a communist because he shared his toys in kindergarten is one recent example of this.

Yes, you understand the technique very well. Another example is the response to the charge that he was influenced by William Ayers, that he was only eight years old when Ayers was blowing up buildings. Of course, the real issue was and is, whether he shares Ayers' lifelong commitment to change America into an egalitarian Socialist monolithic society.

For a take on Obama as a community organizer:

Community Organizer.

The man is a dedicated meddler in the affairs of free people, with hostile intent and indifference to the lessons of human history.

William Flax

47 posted on 10/31/2008 2:24:28 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: mwl8787

However, it is a solid fact that the American People are the most generous of all peoples. And we fight to win, Obamination! We fight to win wars, and we fight to win presidential races.


48 posted on 10/31/2008 2:29:58 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Wait until they morph into Cuffy Meigs, later on, to see what’s in store if the white Marxist with the black skin gets elected.


49 posted on 10/31/2008 2:33:26 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: Jeff Gordon; All

we need to get the video of this out there... I found one on youtube, but it only has 200 views or so...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGAYc66vK7k


50 posted on 10/31/2008 2:35:40 PM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem (Biden10/19/08: "I probably shouldn't have said all this because.. the press is here")
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To: Jeff Gordon

Only, but only, could a Democrat dream up the idea that it is selfish to dislike someone taking your property.


51 posted on 10/31/2008 2:37:01 PM PDT by yazoo
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To: Jeff Gordon; All
Socialism is the height, the epitome of selfishness - it demands the wealth and income of someone else as your own.
52 posted on 10/31/2008 2:38:06 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Jeff Gordon

And there’s nobama and his shrew wife stuffing theoir faces with lobster and caviar at the hotel while his brother lives in a shack in Kenya.

nobama wants everyone to share one thing - misery. And I’m not buying it.


53 posted on 10/31/2008 2:51:57 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: personalaccts
Selfish is letting your aunt live in the slum you SOB and your brother live in a hut. Obama is a coward. He’s a wet behind the ears chicken. He can’t produce his birth certificate, he cries when people challenge him. America will have a “coward in chief” if he’s elected. Wake up!!!!

Take a coward and add cruel. See what kind of bully we end up with.

54 posted on 10/31/2008 2:54:50 PM PDT by Ghengis (Sarah Palin is more accomplished in every level in her life than Tina Fey)
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To: yazoo

Is it selfish to want to take care of your own family?

Is it selfish to want to contribute to your local church?

Is it selfish to spend your earned wages with the neighborhood grocery store?

Is it selfish to support the youth athletic programs that play in the park a few blocks from your home?

Is it selfish to buy the goods and services that you have worked for?

This simply astonishes me. They want to take my money away from me, my church, my school, and my neighborhood and give it to strangers in another neighborhood, another state, or another country?

Selfish?

A guy who has spent close to a billion dollars of other people’s money so he can be the most powerful person in the world? He lectures us on selfishness?


55 posted on 10/31/2008 3:00:40 PM PDT by TravisBickle (Are you talkin' to me?)
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To: sergeantdave

Rush said the other day that the lobster and caviar turned out to be bunk.


56 posted on 10/31/2008 3:34:08 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: TravisBickle

“A guy who has spent close to a billion dollars of other people’s money so he can be the most powerful person in the world?”

In liberal speak taking money from one person and giving it to another is called compassion. Using your own money to support your family, church, and community is selfish.


57 posted on 10/31/2008 4:28:14 PM PDT by yazoo
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books of all time. It’s scary how closely some of Obama’s rhetoric mimics the things that happen in the book — things that until now I never dreamed I’d hear an American leader pushing for.


58 posted on 10/31/2008 4:31:04 PM PDT by SelfishCapitalist
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To: ari-freedom

What a great example of unselfish, good one.


59 posted on 10/31/2008 9:51:32 PM PDT by Katarina (If a person loves America they vote for McCain/Palin. God blessed us with Sarah Palin.)
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To: Jeff Gordon

Wait a second. Obama wants to take the money I earned and *I’m* selfish? Must be a new definition of selfish.


60 posted on 11/01/2008 12:44:32 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (America lost when Ron Paul lost.)
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