Obama: The Great Leveler
The president wants everyone to be equal — from their wealth to their nuclear weapons capabilities.
Barack Obama ran for president on a promise to raise taxes on everyone who makes $250,000 or more a year. His running mate defended the tax hike by saying that “people who are well-off have a patriotic duty to pay higher taxes.” Under the guise of “[spreading] the wealth around,” Obama acts as if his goal is to lift the poor above poverty so they too can enjoy the American dream. But in reality, his plan is to push the rich down closer to the poverty line, so that the equality Americans enjoy can be one of dependence on an intrusive, but increasingly necessary, federal government.
This is Obama’s way of leveling the playing field. Instead of removing the myriad of government regulations that hinder the entrepreneurial spirit in this country, he will use tax hikes and redistribution schemes to break the will of the ambitious and energetic, forcing everyone to accept a life devoid of opulence or ease. It seems the rich have become so only off the sweat of the poor. Or to use Obama’s own words: “The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege in the face of poverty and injustice.”
In April 2008, Michelle Obama explained how her husband’s goal of taxing the rich into paying their fair share was going to work: “Most Americans don’t want much. They don’t want the whole pie. There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. … [Yet], in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
On June 7, 2009, the Great Leveler proved his wife’s explanation correct when he said he “wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health care overhaul.” He also urged Congress to further limit “all tax deductions for Americans in the highest tax brackets.” So that those making the most will also be paying the most, and those working the least can be promised a windfall.
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AWR Hawkins is a conservative writer who holds a Ph.D. in military history from Texas Tech University.
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1. Jack:And why not?
Obama will be comfortable, even after the presidency he won’t want for money, power, food, security, or healthcare.
Al Gore, for example, doesn’t have a problem with gaining mansions, giant boats or expanding a jet-setting lifestyle.
The “leveling” whether it comes in medical rationing, energy rationing, wealth redistribution, entrepreneurial restrictions, and degrades state and personal defense won’t hurt Obama or his cronies.
Just look at the rampant tax fraud on the White House staff.
And such “leveling” helps him and his. Government is growing in jobs, money, and power. On the macro scale he gets the leveling he wants, while also increasing, unleveling, his personal power.
Nice work if you can get it.
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:57 am 2. RE:I often use the term ‘lowest common denominator’ in place of the term ‘equality’. It often lends a bit more perspective to the discussion.
Jun 14, 2009 - 1:24 am 3. Snake eater:Have no fear AWR! Sanctimonious leftists are raped by reality in dramatic fashion and your boy Barry is headed for a spectacular collision with reality pretty soon. Its going to be a memorable collapse. Since we can’t do anything about it until the midterms I suggest you get yourself some popcorn and a few brews sit back with the rest of us and watch this effete cretin go down in flames. for example look at his Iran policy. On Friday he all but took credit for getting Mousavi elected and made an ass out of himself in the Rose Garden and by Saturday he had no Iran policy left. Poof! Gone! Come on that is comedy gold man.
Jun 14, 2009 - 1:29 am 4. eon:My late mother had a standard response when somebody used the “slices of pie” analogy in an economic/political context.
She would say, “The answer isn’t slicing the ‘pie’ into smaller and smaller portions; the correct solution is to bake a second pie. Socialists and environmentalists and other assorted ‘reformers’, however, are determined to prevent any more pies from being made, so they can achieve absolute power by their control of the one we have now. And a lot of them resent the fact that we even have that one pie to begin with.”
I might add that she was a CPA, and had run a business besides being a government employee. So I’d tend to believe she had a better grasp of the realities than most of those trying to “manage” the country today. Including The One.
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Jun 14, 2009 - 3:31 am 5. Adina Kutnicki,Israel:As someone who understands how the rich view their tax obligations, and what best motivates their charitable giving, I offer the following-
The more tax burdens the gov’t places on them the less they will voluntarily give. This is a fact, even with those making several million a year.
Of course the leadership knows this.The question becomes, why kill the charitable golden goose, if helping to lift the poor IS the main objective?
Like the writer noted, the objective is NOT to help the poor, but to bring down the upper class to a more tolerable level, hoping at some point to squash their money making abilities.
As someone who spent 20 years as the co-owner of a high net worth, east coast tax practice I see the writing clearly on the wall – by the next generation few will dare venture out on their own to make their fortunes.
As the sun rises and sets, the above inevitability is also guaranteed.It is Obama’s MAIN goal, as he is a True Believer.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:10 am 6. David Thomson:Everyone is equal—but some people are more equal than others. Barack Obama has no intention of living the “equal” life. He and his fellow suffering elites deserve more of the pie because of their incredible sacrifices on our behalf. At the end of the day, Obama is minimally an unwitting fascist. The historical record clearly shows that these sort of people always make sure their bread is well buttered.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:25 am 7. wtf:Dictators other ways of leveling the playing field.
Extreme terrorism and nuclear bombs.
I wonder if Obama will applaud Iran if they vaporize Israel tonight, or Chicago in the early morning of the next day there’s a beautiful blue sky?
The voters asked for this creep. They got him.
Now they have no choice but to live with him.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:29 am 8. Gary Ogletree:We are living through a Teaching Moment on a grand scale. All credit to Obama and his minions. Like that farmer’s stubborn mule, it will take a 2×4 to the head to get the attention of most leftists. Dear Leader’s dismantling of free enterprise will eventually hit them in the head. Of course it will hit everybody, but if your aren’t in denial you can prepare for it. Palin/Bachman 2012.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:47 am 9. drjohn:What will he do once he’s killed off all the rich people?
Jun 14, 2009 - 5:04 am 10. David Thomson:Barack Obama is also merely following in the footsteps of the famous socialist Martin Luther King, Jr. He adamantly advocated sharing the wealth—and pushed affirmative action so-called remedies. The widespread myths concerning King have greatly damaged the country. They helped to open the doors to non-violent radical leftists like Saul Alinsky and Obama. It is amazing how few know the truth about King. The facts are very easy to find. One only needs to read the widely available, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr, edited by Clayborne Carson. Yup, that’s right. You can easily read Rev. King’s own words! You don’t have to take my word for anything.
Jun 14, 2009 - 5:08 am 11. SAF:None of this is news. He’s espoused that all his life and now he has the leavers of power to implement his vision.
Jun 14, 2009 - 5:11 am 12. Glenmore:All animals are equal; some are just more equal than others. Just recall the Black Sea dachas of the Soviet Union leaders.
Jun 14, 2009 - 5:21 am 13. Analytics:As a worried reader of your site, I am begging you: Get your country back. At any cost. Is a civil war necessary, fine, but as long this Nazis stay in office as worse it gets. I am from Germany, and I wanted always to migrate to your great country. Not more. And as your country goes to hell, so does the world. Please do something. We need America. Now more then ever before.
Jun 14, 2009 - 5:27 am 14. Horace Wells:Yup, I see the Collectivization of the Peasants and People’s Rice Communes right around the corner. Good work AWR, no hype at all as usual.
Jun 14, 2009 - 7:05 am 15. tanstaafl:[Yet], in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Ok, Michelle, I suggest you set the bar by giving up the $540 tennis shoes, the sightseeing trips to Paris & London with the girls, the designer clothes, the personal makeup assistant…you get the drill.
Your rock star husband can give up traveling about the planet, having made several apology tours already in just a few months of office, each of which costs millions maybe billions. (since we speak in trillions now, I guess that’s chump change)
The whole notion of using federal powers to level some imaginary playing field according to Barack’s personal version of “fairness” or levelling is, intrinsically, abhorrent.
Jun 14, 2009 - 7:13 am 16. HLH:Our President is simply anti-American. I know that sounds like hyperbole but he is. The leveling attempts I’ve noticed, and which Hawkins has described, are nothing less than small parts of a larger attempts to end the country we have loved.
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:05 am 17. William:Good one. Not only is Obama doing the things Hawkins described, but he is doing it without apology, and that makes it even worse. He is a dangerous man.
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:10 am 18. Concerned:The reality of life is that Obama is our elected president, like it or not. The question is how do we survive in this morass of socialism. There is only one method that I can think of. Vote out of office enough of the SOBs, that support this socialist agenda, and replace them with something better. If you really feel froggy, you need to start impeachment proceedings against some of these turkeys to get them removed from office before they do more damage.
Unfortunately, our supreme court in its ruling for the Chrysler buyout by Fiat, and rejecting the position of the secured bondholders, has opened up a real can of worms. This decision will be used as precedent and the basis for additional rulings that are similar. Since supreme court justices are appointed by Presidents for life, to remove one, you must first impeach him/her in the house and then the senate can vote to remove the individual. A long drawn out process at best which could only proceed after you have replaced the current house and senate with like mined individuals.
Yes, the future does not look bright under Obama. We have a media that is not interested in truth, a government that wants to silence descent (wasn’t that the highest form of patriotism in the last administration); higher taxes (gotta support all those unemployed), massive inflation (a trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money); third world military status (by disarming we show we care more about appearances than the reality of the world); a much more dangerous world with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (after all its their right to have them, and we shouldn’t say who can or can’t); but look at the bright side, we will have a single payer medical system, where you can expect long lines and rationing (oh, excuse me those aren’t really benefits); but I guess you gotta take what you get, after all a recent newscaster equated Obama to GOD, and we all know that Gods are omnipotent, endowed with infallible knowledge and abilities, and NEVER MAKE MISTAKES.
Is it appropriate to add – THOSE WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD (INSANE) !!!!!
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:26 am 19. JD:“people who are well-off have a patriotic duty to pay higher taxes.”
How about making it one’s “patriotic duty” to get a F###ING job.
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:30 am 20. Bill Perron:A Socialist President, isn’t it wonderful !!! Allah Akbar
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:30 am 21. Delia:What about ugly people? Where’s their piece of the pie? I mean, we all know that ‘good looking’ people are treated better than hideous people [in fact, I'd go as far as saying people are down right prejudiced towards ugly people] so, maybe there should be a ‘pretty’ tax if you’re better than average looking and an ‘ugly’ tax break if you have a truly trollish visage.
What about stinky people too? There are people that can’t help that they stink to high heaven.
C’mon. Surely we can come up with some more ‘VICTIMS’ of society to help out.
Why not? Let’s level the WHOLE playing field.
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:45 am 22. CMac:“It would be fine with me if we eliminated all nuclear weapons,” Ronald Reagan
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:47 am 23. Macko:We can’t all be rich but we can cetainly all be poor.
Except of course for our leaders.
We can’t all be free.
But we can all live under the yoke.
Except of course for our leaders. (party members)
Jun 14, 2009 - 9:14 am 24. Will:That’s it your highness,whittle us ALL down to a third world country,then you can have complete control.Treat our enemies nice and they will treat us nice back.
Jun 14, 2009 - 9:14 am 25. BCK:I wish someone would be brave enough to start investigating the TOTUS. I am appalled that millions of people voted for this monster and we STILL know nothing about him.
Jun 14, 2009 - 9:25 am 26. Delia:Wake up USA.
How can we get the true facts about this TOTUS.
As a matter of fact; we know MORE about the Telelprompter that guides this Creep than we know about the Creep in Chief.!!!!
We know everything about all the previous Pres.’s, WHY is there NO info. on this nasty Guy?
Any investigative Journalists left out there?
23. Macko:
Golly, Macko, ya sound like you don’t want to be beholden to big bro Gov. from the cradle to the grave. Your dissention has been duly noted. Be prepared for an ACORN knock on your door in the not too distant future.
In five minutes this message will self-destruct.
You have been alerted. Mind your mind.
Jun 14, 2009 - 9:44 am 27. fear Obama:The Supremest have given inalienable rights for the terrorists and Bambi will find them a home.
Now the Supremest tell us that the rules of law don’t cover small mom and pop investors.
Large world trade companies can take what they want.
Cant wait til the Chinese come in and tell the Supremest Court to get out-
Their leases will not be renewed.
Anybody want to buy three quarters of a black looking burka?
Jun 14, 2009 - 10:18 am 28. Peter Woods:One thing he won’t be able to level: after he leaves office he’ll still be ignorant and I’ll have read more.
Jun 14, 2009 - 10:19 am 29. Войска ПВО:25. BCK wrires:
“I wish someone would be brave enough to start investigating the TOTUS..Any investigative Journalists left out there?”
BCK, if there are, then they will either start stacking up like cordwood or be dissuaded from their pursuits.
Jun 14, 2009 - 10:24 am 30. The Historian:UTOPIAN YES: LEADER NO!
This great leveler is not a leader.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/06/sanctions-will-not-keep-north-korea.html
Jun 14, 2009 - 11:06 am 31. Meryl:4.eon
“She would say, “The answer isn’t slicing the ‘pie’ into smaller and smaller portions; the correct solution is to bake a second pie. Socialists and environmentalists and other assorted ‘reformers’, however, are determined to prevent any more pies from being made, so they can achieve absolute power by their control of the one we have now. And a lot of them resent the fact that we even have that one pie to begin with.”
Your mother was right and expressed it well.
Jun 14, 2009 - 11:10 am 32. Meryl:16. HLH
“Our President is simply anti-American. I know that sounds like hyperbole but he is.”
Isn’t it interesting that much of what can truthfully be said about this gang sounds like hyperbole?
I’m a tiny bit encouraged that more and more people are saying it anyway.
Jun 14, 2009 - 11:17 am 33. john from cinncinatti:my mother always used to say the the one who slices the pie always keeps the biggest slice for themselves. that always made me want to have my own pie or at least be the one who slices it.
Jun 14, 2009 - 11:34 am 34. tanstaafl:when i fed the animals i realized i could make some of them do tricks for their food, now i know what mom meant. if you want more from the government, your gonna have to do what they say,and not matter how they slice it they are gonna be sittin pretty when it’s all said and done.
No college transcripts or medical records produced. No birth certificate produced
(ok, conspiracy theory Alert)
Mr. Obama has acknowledged benefiting from affirmative action in the past…
No wonder the POTUS has to rely so heavily on the TOTUS, we’ve likely got a genuine Grade A prétendeur sitting in the Oval office with his feet on the desk.
Obama’s Years at Columbia Are a Mystery
(also, in the name of splitting up “the pie” more equitably, Michelle’s gonna have to give up the $24,000 date nights in New York. She could send me a check instead)
Jun 14, 2009 - 11:37 am 35. sheesh:“A state Republican activist and former state Senate candidate Rusty DePass has admitted to and apologized for calling a gorilla that escaped from the Riverbanks Zoo Friday an “ancestor” of First Lady Michelle Obama.” – Logan Murphy
Sounds like a leftist to me.
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:05 pm 36. Justmy2cents:“19. JD:
“people who are well-off have a patriotic duty to pay higher taxes.”
How about making it one’s “patriotic duty” to get a F###ING job.”
Umm…. it doesn’t pay to work anymore….
Looking at my last check about $1200 and take home around $600. No I don’t make that every week $300 the week before and $70 the week before that take home.. The point why work when unemployment pays $400 a week to sit at home? I’m out busting my B#@@$ and loosing 1/2 of my check & could be making the same money or more to sit at home and not do a #@*% thing.
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:07 pm 37. fred:I’m not into a Civil war but something has to be done, it’s no longer profitable to go to work. We haven’t even started being taxed for the bailouts, universal healthcare, wars, etc. I’ll be working for $1.50 a week take home after that all kicks in…
The man who really is the power is the one who funded the 527’s since the Clinton days and on through the Bush years: George Soros and his coterie of oligarchs.
They prepared for this moment and now have maneuvered Teleprompter Jesus to the fore. A lot of things came together to make this happen, and some were being worked many years in advance.
I think at Columbia Zbigniew Brezhinski found Barry Sotero and began the process of preparing him for bigger and better things. The connections and influence: the House of Saud and the Ford Foundation (his mother’s connections, since she worked for them). I also think he got into the Communists’ network via Billy Ayers when he was at Columbia.
This was no accident. And it worries me because of what it says about these people’s calculations about the American people. I guess we are dumb motherf***ers (most of us, anyway).
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:39 pm 38. Paul of Alexandria:Analytics(13):
It might be easier for you to fix things there and us to come there.
Jun 14, 2009 - 3:16 pm 39. El hefe:The arrogance of BHO and crew is stunning but get over it. They think they have it all wired. They think that they can put things in place that can’t be undone. So it appears.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:02 pm 40. nedarc:You hear this all the time from supposedly conservative law makers and pundits; that once these new laws and programs are instituted they can’t be undone. Supposedly you can’t replace a Supreme Court justice since they are appointed for life. This is all crap, anything can be undone all the way back to zero if need be. When we get back to truth and justice we can roll back anything. The decades of fraud both governmental and financial have been exposed and if these truths are acted upon we can stop on a dime every screwed up program in existence and the people that implemented them and lied about it later. It can happen in a very short period of time.
The BHO crowd of corruption is in a big hurry to take away wealth and freedom that has been given by the grace of God. They are pumping out lies and propaganda by the ton.
Why are they in such a big hurry? Who are they afraid of? Are these like the days of Herod when he heard the King of the Jews was being born and he ordered the killing of all the firstborn males under two years old in hopes of knocking off Jesus whom he viewed as a threat?
Why is the BHO crowd so fearful of your wealth and freedom? Why do they buddy up with our enemies? It seems they want to destroy us before we destroy them. We have reached the tipping point.
Does the BHO crowd know they are already doomed? Probably not.
The BHO crowd and all of their supporters have been judged and set aside for destruction since the foundation of the world. God has been patient until His harvest is ripe. He did not remove the wicked for fear of hurting the good.
Now the harvest is ripe and the wheat will be saved and the chaff destroyed by fire. Watch as He separates the wicked into their groups and exposes their deeds, He has made them feel safe in their confusion. It is their last roundup.
Prepare yourselves for this spectacle; just don’t get caught in it.
Praise the lord ‘Sorry Obama’ for the great “LEVELOR” is amoung us mortals again. Please send us into the darkness of equality with your beloved third world and let us bow our heads gratefully that the Deliverer, aka Levelor
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:03 pm 41. cybergeezer:is among us to guide us to “CHANGE”. if this president has his way within five years you will not regongnise your beloved, yes, beloved America!
The Despot in Chief has grandiose plans for all of us peons!
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:29 pm 42. JED:We will all be equal when we are all slaves to the president, congress, and the elites. Have you ever noticed how seldom that the word, “freedom” is used coming from the White House and press corps.
Jun 14, 2009 - 6:33 pm 43. ehunter:Multiculturalism is Bolshevism in slow motion.
Jun 14, 2009 - 6:50 pm 44. Paul of Alexandria:But this time instead of being armed invaders from without using guns and naked ideology, the left wing is coming with happy faces, and soft murmurings of “fairness” and “equality. The end result will be the same however.
CMac (22):
But Reagan knew that weakening ourselves was not the way to accomplish this. We shouldn’t disarm unilaterally, nor should we leave ourselves without defenses.
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:15 pm 45. Alana:15. tanstaafl:
[Yet], in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Ok, Michelle, I suggest you set the bar by giving up the $540 tennis shoes, the sightseeing trips to Paris & London with the girls, the designer clothes, the personal makeup assistant…you get the drill.
“Your rock star husband can give up traveling about the planet, having made several apology tours already in just a few months of office, each of which costs millions maybe billions. (since we speak in trillions now, I guess that’s chump change)
“The whole notion of using federal powers to level some imaginary playing field according to Barack’s personal version of ‘fairness’ or levelling is, intrinsically, abhorrent.”
—
Tell me about it. The Obamas seem happy to spend more money on shoes or a night out than many of us make in a week.
People who tell everyone else to sacrifice more and more while they live high on the hog don’t tend to last very long in power.
Jun 14, 2009 - 9:25 pm 46. Dave Surls:“The president wants everyone to be equal — from their wealth”
If the prez wants to write me a personal check to even thinks up…I’ll go along with that.
Somehow I don’t think that’s part of his plan, though.
Jun 15, 2009 - 12:04 am 47. Confused in Virginia:JD #19 – “How about making it ones patriotic duty to get a F###ING job.”
You are absolutely right! For too long, people who don’t work have been painted as victims of “the system,” even when they work harder at trying not to find a job than at actually finding one. Then we are told that they “deserve” a piece of the pie? Why? What do we owe them? Yes, the Left will start their BS about being the riches country in the world and not helping “those poor people who have nothing.” Well, if I had nothing, I would get off my a$$ and find a job. Simple.
Then there’s the supposed “bad” intercity schools. If you have students that show up to class late (when they show up), sleep in class, don’t participate in class learning, threaten teachers, assault teachers, and use schools as places to socialize, sell drugs, etc. Why should anyone think of sending the best teachers to that type of he!!hole? You can only teach those who are willing to learn. But of course these people know that the more ignorant they are, the more the government likes them. They will be taken care of in one way or another.
Maybe once Obama is done taxing all the celebrities who support his a$$inine ideas, they will change their mind and start campaigning for those who are for freedom, and who will tax people fairly, not by some sort of Robin Hood, who will tax anything and everything to “level the playing field.” All that does is ensure that companies raise prices. If the cigarette tax is 5¢ per pack, the price goes up by 75¢. How do they justify the price increase? They claim they have to charge more to make up for all the people that will quit. Nice to be a pawn in someone else’s game.
But, take heart, for change is on the way. James Carville just lost in the Virginia primaries for Governor. He thought he could campaign on Obama’s hope and change message. I think it was he who got the message. Small, incremental change, but change nonetheless.
Change is coming, we are SO close to the waterfall, but it won’t be what the Left had in mind.
Jun 15, 2009 - 12:39 am 48. Paul -Indiana:Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?
Jun 15, 2009 - 5:17 am 49. tanstaafl:James Carville just lost in the Virginia primaries for Governor.
Terry McAuliffe ?
It seems like the good citizens of Virginia made a good choice in Creih Deeds.
Jun 15, 2009 - 6:59 am 50. macko:Delia;
Am I stretching it a bit or am I paranoid and delusional?
Jun 15, 2009 - 9:53 am 51. macko:I’m a pretty optomistic guy so let’s hope this is all just a bad dream and I’ll be waking up soon.
pardon me, optimistic
Jun 15, 2009 - 10:14 am 52. JB:Kudos to JD for putting it out there in his post like it should be. All of Obama’s socialism rests (as it must) on the backs of those who work. Those who don’t work are simply promised the benefits that can be taken from those who do.
Jun 15, 2009 - 11:36 am 53. Mike:While Obama cannot “control” the nation for more than 8 years, the policies he pursues during his term can have lasting effects. He is already levelling much of the economy, and I would guess that ~50% of GDP is in some way directly or indirectly controlled by Obama, from banks to auto. Although GM is not that big as a single entity, the entire auto supply chain is far larger, and that is now affected by the decisions of Obama (and congress). If you add the aspirations of government health care, then government would control a majority of the economy in the short and medium terms, if not long term.
It is pure hubris to believe that business can be micro-legislated by congress, and micro-managed by an Obama-like executive. In making attempts to go down the path of socialism, we will have lost a great deal of time, and done great harm to the country’s reputation as an entrepreneurial economy. Obama cannot see the damage he is doing to entrepreneurs, because he believes that government regulation is an acceptable tool to manage risk, and he disparages risk as an economic means to an end. The presence of risk in the economy allows great success and great failure, but it should not be up to congress or Obama to decide the winners and losers.
Jun 15, 2009 - 12:51 pm 54. Chuckt:Recommended reading: Liberty & Tyranny, by Mark Levin. An excellent guide to the socialist, class-warfare, destroy-the-USA direction in which Barack-n’ Hood & his merry men are fast taking us.
#49 tanstaffl:
Jun 15, 2009 - 1:37 pm 55. Confused in Virginia:Right on. Terry McAuliffe went down in glorious flames, just as he should have. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and Clinton, Carville & Co., ain’t him.
Hannity’s Liberal Translation did a great job on McAuliffe’s concession speech over the weekend.
tanstaafl, #49
Thank you. You’re absolutely right, it was Terry McAuliffe (and here you thought my user id was just a cute name I chose out of the blue
) Sometimes it’s hard to tell all of the Clinton people apart. They all sound the same.
Paul-Indiana, #48 – I did not vote for Obama. I saw through his BS right from the beginning.
Jun 15, 2009 - 2:41 pm 56. Pat J:So Obama is the Great Leveler in wanting to removing a flawed and expensive missile defense system, eliminating nuclear weapons and trying to ensure space does not become a future battleground. And these are bad things? I say level away.
I would like to think that in the next 40 years or so I have left on this planet that humankind would evolve beyond war.
Jun 15, 2009 - 7:56 pm 57. Ian Thorpe:Even Karl Marx understood that if all the wealth in a community was shared equally, withing a year there would again be rich people and poor people.
Jun 16, 2009 - 8:09 am 58. Paul -Indiana:#55. Confused in Virginia-not. Many of us saw through that Chicago politician. I post that line fairly often and have only gotten a single affirmation. People are catching on, too late.
Jun 17, 2009 - 5:24 am 59. hangnail:wake up america! It’s all about the elimination of the middle class, and the reinstitution feudalism! thus the return to the dark ages, Lords-serfs, Haves-have nots. Fight back or die a slave,it’s that simple!
Jun 17, 2009 - 8:44 am