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  • Barack Obama: world leaders 'see me as a conservative [Kenya?]

    09/20/2009 7:18:41 PM PDT · by mathprof · 76 replies · 3,881+ views
    telegraph UK ^ | 9/20/09 | Alex Spillius in Washington
    President Barack Obama may be regarded as a Communist trying to nationalise health care by his fiercest detractors at home, but other world leaders see him as a conservative, he declared on Sunday. Asked about the antipathy aroused by his stimulus bill, health reform plans, and takeover of ailing banks, the president revealed that the stinging domestic criticism has bemused other politicians whose politics are ostensibly to the Right of his. "I can't tell you how many foreign leaders, who are heads of centre-right governments, say to me 'I don't understand why people would call you socialist, in my country...
  • Obama's Nontax Tax

    09/20/2009 5:35:29 PM PDT · by GOP_Lady · 23 replies · 1,458+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 09-20-09 | The Wall Street Journal Editorial Staff
    On a Sunday show, the President offers a revealing definition. President Obama didn't make much news on his round of five Sunday talk shows yesterday, with one notable exception. The President revealed a great deal about his philosophy of government and how he defines a tax increase. It turns out the President thinks a health-care tax is not a tax if he thinks the tax is for your own good.
  • When are taxes not taxes: President Obama and ABC News' George Stephanopoulos

    09/20/2009 2:31:04 PM PDT · by bestintxas · 50 replies · 2,966+ views
    foxnews ^ | 9/20/09 | Kimberly Schwandt
    President Obama and ABC News' George Stephanopoulos got in a testy sparring match Sunday over whether the president's health care plan includes a tax increase, leading the host to look up the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes. In the interview airing Sunday, Stephanopoulos pressed the president on his plan to require people to purchase health insurance. "Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't. How is that not a tax?" the host asked. Obama responded: " No, but -- but, George, you -- you can't just make up that language and decide...