Ari used to be one of us, i suppose:
“How do you interpret these comments from Barack Obama 2001?
FLEISCHER: Well, nothing has changed. From 2001 to 2008, Barack Obama has been very consistent and he lamented the fact in 2001 that the civil rights movement didn’t do enough to redistribute wealth and the political community to redistribute wealth. Nothing has changed.
And I think it’s a fatal flaw. I don’t know if it’s enough to sink his candidacy at this late stage, but here’s the governing fact — under Barack Obama’s tax credits, 49 percent of the American people will no longer pay any income taxes at all. They’ll have, in effect, 49 percent of this country on public assistance. And this is extreme and I think it’s a very troubling thing.
HEMMER: Let me stop you. He said repeatedly that 95 percent of Americans will get a cut under his tax plan. Do you believe that?
FLEISCHER: Here’s the problem. He is very eloquent but he’s eloquently tricky. Ninety-five percent of the American people don’t even pay income taxes. And that’s the problem. Today, only 60 percent of the country pays any income taxes, 40 percent don’t.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444449,00.html
Now that's depressing.