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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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Never debate the enemy. Ridicule him." - Joseph Goebbels (Nazi Minister of Propaganda).

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.

Now we have Obama ridiculing people who do not like paying taxes by pointing at them and saying that they are selfish. This is the same ridicule Goebbels to keep Aryans from mixing with undesired races. He said that such people were being selfish by not keeping their blood pure.

I'll have do admit that use of ridicule is brilliant. Most people just see it as funny. They fail to see it for what it really is. They fail to see that it is way of not having to defend their position. It is brilliant but it also very dangerous.

1 posted on 10/31/2008 1:46:22 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon
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why don’t you lead by example obama and show us how unselfish you have been to your aunt and brother


2 posted on 10/31/2008 1:49:15 PM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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To: Jeff Gordon

3 posted on 10/31/2008 1:49:15 PM PDT by dubie
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To: Jeff Gordon
Not only do I find it not funny, it's demeaning, mean, ugly, and condescending.

Obama is a scary man.

4 posted on 10/31/2008 1:50:03 PM PDT by elk
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To: Jeff Gordon

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!!!!


5 posted on 10/31/2008 1:50:42 PM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Jeff Gordon

I sooooo want to see his snarky behind defeated this Tuesday. I don’t want to hear his attitude day in and day out for the next four years. He needs to be made irrelevant.


6 posted on 10/31/2008 1:51:03 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: Jeff Gordon

This from the millionaire deadbeat who won’t even donate an old coat to charity. Kiss it Obama!


7 posted on 10/31/2008 1:51:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Jeff Gordon; calcowgirl

I’d send him my copy of Ayn Rand’s book; The Virtues Of Selfishness, if I thought it would do any (bleepin) good!!!


8 posted on 10/31/2008 1:52:01 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Hey Colin Powell...Fidel Castro and Che Gueverra were "transformational figures" too, you idiot!!!)
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To: elk

Obama is a scary man.

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I think this is becoming clearer to the electorate and explains McCain’s momentum.


9 posted on 10/31/2008 1:52:54 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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This from a guy who ignores his own close relatives who are in need????


10 posted on 10/31/2008 1:53:21 PM PDT by altura
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To: Jeff Gordon

I didn’t read all the comments... But check them out following Tapper’s piece. Remember this is ABC News.

If this is a sample of the electorate, the folks are waking up to Obama’s socialism and he could be in for a big surprise come Tuesday.

Remember Ditka today: This is the land of opportunity, not the land of handouts.


11 posted on 10/31/2008 1:53:27 PM PDT by nhwingut (,)
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To: conservativepoet

In the end, they defined any peasant that had enough to eat as a Kulak.


12 posted on 10/31/2008 1:54:12 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Jeff Gordon

McCain wasn't the first.

13 posted on 10/31/2008 1:54:19 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Go sell hopey-changey somewhere else.)
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The US Senate's most rabid abortionist and post birth infanticide legislator ridicules Sarah Palin for being “selfish”?

A man who never served a day in the military and never risked his gawky privileged self for any cause ridicules John McCain as “selfish”

The man whose whose relatives keep popping up living in extreme poverty...whose wife complained about the high cost of summer camp and ballet lessons for the kids....wants to use the term “selfish” against middle class taxpayers?

Obama’s Chicago mansion has SIX bathrooms? That's probably more than his entire extended Kenyan clan.

14 posted on 10/31/2008 1:54:44 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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"You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

I just bought you a clue, Zero.

15 posted on 10/31/2008 1:55:08 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: SierraWasp
Just got started with "Atlas Shrugged"

Obie and his friends sound like Taggart and his buddies in the bar.

16 posted on 10/31/2008 1:55:29 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Sarah Palin is America's Margaret Thatcher; Obama is America's George Galloway.)
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To: elk
Not only do I find it not funny, it's demeaning, mean, ugly, and condescending. Obama is a scary man.

DITTO,D I T T O !

17 posted on 10/31/2008 1:55:48 PM PDT by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: conservativepoet

If the McCain people will seize on this, BO is politically dead.

“BO wants higher taxes. Higher taxes will kill jobs. If you don’t like higher taxes, BO says you are selfish.”


18 posted on 10/31/2008 1:56:12 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Jeff Gordon
Hey, Obama...

"The man who is willing to serve as the means to the ends of others, will necessarily regard others as the means to his ends."

- Ayn Rand, "The Virtue of Selfishness"

19 posted on 10/31/2008 1:57:17 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Go sell hopey-changey somewhere else.)
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I see it as the art of intimidation.

First he insulted us by saying we're not Patriotic. When that didn't work, now we're selfish.

Dear Lord, I am begging you...please save us.

sw

20 posted on 10/31/2008 1:58:19 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife...Pray for our Nation)
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