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Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/25/2011 | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 09/25/2011 6:31:31 PM PDT by martosko

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner in Washington Saturday night, President Obama made a verbal boo-boo.

While defending his call for the rich to pay more in taxes, the president said he didn’t mind people calling him a class warrior for merely asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew. Whoops!

The president meant to say “janitor” instead of “Jew,” and he immediately corrected himself. After all, he doesn’t need any more problems keeping Jewish voters enthusiastic about his re-election bid.

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


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; classwarfare; gaffe; gaffes; jew; jews; obama; obamagaffe; obamagaffes; taxes
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To: martosko
Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate.

This slip might be even worse than the article suggests. He possibly meant to say: "Billionaires should not pay the Jew tax rate." Maybe a conspiratorial thought that Jews pay some inexplicably low and 'unfair' tax rate.

21 posted on 09/25/2011 6:39:19 PM PDT by Will88
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To: martosko

Had this been Palin...


22 posted on 09/25/2011 6:39:56 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: martosko

Was George Stephanopolous there to correct him?

Your Christian Faith, LOL...


23 posted on 09/25/2011 6:40:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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To: martosko

It’s almost as if he’s purposefully setting himself up for defeat.


24 posted on 09/25/2011 6:40:33 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: martosko

Well, cut him some slack, at least he didn’t misspell potatoe. That would be criminal!


25 posted on 09/25/2011 6:40:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: martosko

26 posted on 09/25/2011 6:41:21 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: martosko

Does Drudge know about this? Rush? Breitbart? Can’t wait till the morning programs. This is disastrous for the Man-Child.


27 posted on 09/25/2011 6:42:01 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Anybody but Baracchio in 2012)
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To: martosko
This opens a fissure into Obama’s brain. The GOP should run this over and over in their ads for 2012
28 posted on 09/25/2011 6:42:40 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: ml/nj

It’s uncomfortably plausible. A Jew to him would be someone who is consummately skilled at shucking off taxes by means fair or foul, looking only at money when figuring how to do business.

I wonder when, or even if, America will be privy to the Obama equivalent to the Nixon “expletive deleted” tapes?


29 posted on 09/25/2011 6:42:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Will88
He possibly meant to say:

Correction: Obama probably did not mean to say that, but that is possibly a stereotypical thought an anti-Semite might have, that Jews pay some unfairly low tax rate peculiar only to them.

30 posted on 09/25/2011 6:43:15 PM PDT by Will88
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To: holdonnow; HonestConservative; Fudd Fan

HEADS UP PING!


31 posted on 09/25/2011 6:43:18 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: martosko

Thank you Lord~~

The Lord works in mysterious ways and I have a feeling He has only begun playing with Howdy Doody.


32 posted on 09/25/2011 6:43:44 PM PDT by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: martosko

Don’t be a schmarty, join the Nazi Democrat party !


33 posted on 09/25/2011 6:44:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: martosko

Next he’ll offer a Final Solution for Janitors!


34 posted on 09/25/2011 6:44:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ml/nj

Not to mention hearing what his pastor of twenty years, who baptized his kids, whom he attended the services and supposedly didn’t hear, none other than Jeremiah Wright.


35 posted on 09/25/2011 6:44:56 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: martosko

If the rich DID pay the same rate as the janitor, then the revenue would drop by about 75% because the working poor pay almost nothing.


36 posted on 09/25/2011 6:45:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: martosko

lol. One of the more ridiculous non-stories I’ve seen in a while.


37 posted on 09/25/2011 6:45:50 PM PDT by Huck (But the glass IS half-empty!)
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To: martosko

Uh huh. Crossed up his alliteration, there. Slipped up and used the “J” word he meant to conceal with “billionaire.”

You know that’s what happened, his crowd just loves alliteration and do not like Jews or Israel.

“Jews should pay the same rate as janitors” has such a Jeremiah Wright ring to it. No doubt in my mind, that’s what he was tring too hard not to say, on the record at least.


38 posted on 09/25/2011 6:45:54 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: martosko

you are gonna hit the wall, mr. foolish-bigot-thug-fag-president.


39 posted on 09/25/2011 6:45:54 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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40 posted on 09/25/2011 6:46:41 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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