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Obama swipes at Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand fandom
Associated Press ^ | Oct. 25, 2012 | Justin Sink

Posted on 10/25/2012 7:46:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama dismissed Ayn Rand, whom Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said at one point "inspired him," as having "a pretty narrow vision" in an interview with Rolling Stone.

"Well, you'd have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him," Obama said in the interview. "Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we're considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that's a pretty narrow vision."

The president went on to describe Rand's objectivist philosophy — which emphasizes self-interest — as having overtaken the GOP.

"It's not one that, I think, describes what's best in America," Obama said. "Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a 'you're on your own' society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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1 posted on 10/25/2012 7:46:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Nothing to run on but petty crap.


2 posted on 10/25/2012 7:48:02 PM PDT by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How many US citizens died at Benghazi?


3 posted on 10/25/2012 7:49:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I suppose the King of Kenya finds it much more noble to have admired the writings of Marx, Lenin, Malcolm X, etc. ....Man I can’t wait for this assclown to be evicted.


4 posted on 10/25/2012 7:50:23 PM PDT by festusbanjo (Romney has run a business, a state, and an Olympics. Obama has never run anything but his mouth.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama would have preferred Ryan say that he admires Che or Chavez..who are Obama’s favorites


5 posted on 10/25/2012 7:50:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I detest this petty little man more and more each day.

I pray his political career ends in 13 days.


6 posted on 10/25/2012 7:51:46 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ah!.... Zero shrugged...


7 posted on 10/25/2012 7:53:04 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He probably prefers the “Little Red Book.”


8 posted on 10/25/2012 7:53:11 PM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: comebacknewt

I was thinking the same thing. Just when one thinks this poseur can’t sink any lower, he obligingly does.


9 posted on 10/25/2012 7:54:31 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Tell us about the REALITY of your (anti-)heroes, Uhbama.


10 posted on 10/25/2012 7:55:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The one is down to grade-school ad hominem attacks; my, what a genius we have for a president.
11 posted on 10/25/2012 7:55:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MomofMarine

Well, The One does have a Little Blue Book.


12 posted on 10/25/2012 7:56:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up...

No Barry, that was when you were picking up a joint.

13 posted on 10/25/2012 7:57:06 PM PDT by Never on my watch (I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How many potential Obama voters even know who Rand is?


14 posted on 10/25/2012 7:59:02 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Funny, when I went to see “Atlas Shrugged Part II” last weekend, I was stunned to see the parallels between the government in the movie and what’s running this country currently.


15 posted on 10/25/2012 7:59:28 PM PDT by ssaftler (Romney: "Attacking me is not an agenda")
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Tigerized

Pathetic.

What Barry *really* doesn’t like about Ayn Rand (besides her free-market philosophy) is that she stared Soviet-style collectivism right in its soulless eyes and rejected it. Loudly and frequently. And smartly. (And yes, with lots and lots of words. ;) )


16 posted on 10/25/2012 8:01:37 PM PDT by bootless ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."~RWR)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That’s right Barry, you marxist POS. Many of us in this country that aren’t leeches mooching off the government nipple in order to survive, value our individual liberties and God-given rights. And contrary to what some mindless mental midget who faints in front of you might think, you’re not God, you sick turd.


17 posted on 10/25/2012 8:01:57 PM PDT by NoobRep
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Looter doesn’t like Ayn Rand? There’s a shocker!


18 posted on 10/25/2012 8:03:11 PM PDT by Redcloak (A founding member of Drunkards for Romney)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I find it revealing how he relishes cutting down “any” American but does not have one bad word to say against terrorists that have and CONTINUE to kill Americans!


19 posted on 10/25/2012 8:03:32 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: ilgipper

Small ball


20 posted on 10/25/2012 8:04:19 PM PDT by uncitizen (Religion of Peace my hind end)
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