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Did Barack "Spread the Wealth" Obama Just Blow the Election?
usnews.com ^ | October 16, 2008 | James Pethokoukis

Posted on 10/16/2008 10:37:09 AM PDT by kellynla

No. Really. You're kidding me. Barack Obama actually told that Joe the Plumber guy that he wants to "spread the wealth around." What, did Obama just get done reading the Wikipedia entry on Huey "Share the Wealth" Long or something? Was he somehow channeling that left-wing populist from the Depression? Talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists.

A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama's. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; antichrist; barackobama; elections; joetheplumber; nobama08; obama; obamataxplan; senatorgovernment; socialism; spreadthewealth
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To: Larry Lucido

He won’t even throw twelve bucks to his half brother to double his income!


81 posted on 10/16/2008 11:50:00 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: kellynla
This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.

Name names..............

82 posted on 10/16/2008 11:53:50 AM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Osage Orange

Obama himself said he chose his friends carefully, including Marxist professors.


83 posted on 10/16/2008 11:54:54 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: MrB
Hey, Liberals!

Spread YOUR wealth around.

Great T-Shirt

Great bumper sticker

SOCIALISM: "Just spreading the wealth around!"

84 posted on 10/16/2008 11:57:47 AM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: concerned about politics

“(Academics have been put on the back burner until the socialist revolution has taken hold. That’s why the students can’t read or write.) “


That is exactly what happened to the millions of dollars granted to 0bama and Bill Ayers by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge!


85 posted on 10/16/2008 11:58:22 AM PDT by hotshu (Obama/ Biden '08: "Thugs and Plugs")
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To: MrB

Once again.....name, names.


86 posted on 10/16/2008 11:59:17 AM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: stockstrader

Money is only the first thing they want to “redistribute.” I can almost guarantee that the next step will be “fair allocation of resources.” A euphemism for “rationing.” No growth in energy supplies? Answer: Shrink demand through rationing. Be prepared to pay a huge surcharge if you exceed 1500 kw/hrs per month. You’ll get a government gas card, good for 40 gallons per month. Hope you can make it last.

“I’ll tell you what’s fair!” It was said by Dean Vernon Wormer. It could also be said by 0bama and his congress lackeys.


87 posted on 10/16/2008 12:00:31 PM PDT by henkster (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: notaliberal

Less than the Palins who make considerably less money than The Hussein-Obamas.


88 posted on 10/16/2008 12:01:24 PM PDT by omega4179 (Freedom 2008)
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To: kellynla

its not a stereotype, they ARE The American socialist party.


89 posted on 10/16/2008 12:02:26 PM PDT by omega4179 (Freedom 2008)
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To: henkster

Great description of the outrageous plan for “CAP AND TRADE”!! It’s absolutely outrageous.


90 posted on 10/16/2008 12:05:20 PM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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To: stockstrader

I have to say, that this tune comes to mind every time I hear the “spread the wealth around” thing, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7HZf7k2gTo

Someone technologically more gifted than I, needs to make a commercial.


91 posted on 10/16/2008 12:05:55 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Hugin
The problem is half of Americans think socialism sounds like a good thing.

Then the time for conservatives to prepare for the worst is now. We need to stock up while we still can and while we can still afford it. Replace the word "socialism" with "rationing" because that is what it really is.

The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, But the naive go on, and are punished for it. Proverbs 22:3

92 posted on 10/16/2008 12:06:48 PM PDT by pray4liberty (The Lord is on the side of the truly righteous. The MSM is not.)
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To: ROTB
Why thank you. As I said, I can't take credit for the idea but it's a simple way to describe the n0bama plan to High School/College students as well as clueless n0bama supporters.

My daughter is a HS senior who has had to stand up to some of the n0bama supporters. I told this story to her today and she said she is going to begin using it immediately.

93 posted on 10/16/2008 12:12:31 PM PDT by ninergold3 (By Election Day I'll Be An Anorexic/Alcoholic. . .Stress Sucks!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“Actually finding a conservative at the University of Chicago may be less surprising that at other leading research universities. No doubt most of them are leftists but there have been a few prominent conservatives associated with that institution.”

Good to know!

Thank you!


94 posted on 10/16/2008 12:17:11 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: EyeGuy
Terrorist Ayers' CAC education initiatives showed no measurable improvement of educational goals as Chairman BHMSO and Bernadine's Clyde blew through $100m, but the true increase probably came in the unmeasured corruption, greatly increased leanings away from capitalism and traditional 3Rs and toward socialist ideals.

Well after the failed Annenberg Challenge, Chicago Mayor Daley has Ayers in his employ as a advisor for education issues. Hugo Chavez personally appears with Billy Terror at an educational forum in his socialist haven. Daley apparently does view Ayers' achievements as the catastrophic waste of $100m that we traditional education-oriented folks do. Gee, now why would that be?

The $100m was chicken feed for an elite that would, in just several years, help to defeat US capitalism, remove the US as a potent military force, and usher in Marxism.

HF

95 posted on 10/16/2008 12:20:00 PM PDT by holden
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To: Sisku Hanne

The gullible American people endorse “a little” socialism under the “Master teacher-Messiah”. They have never learned the lessons of the Pilgrims.


96 posted on 10/16/2008 12:25:28 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: ninergold3

I’ve heard this story, and the American people aren’t buying it — they don’t mind seeing “A” students dropped to a “C” to “hep” them.


97 posted on 10/16/2008 12:27:58 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Sicon

Lenin predicted this before he died in 1924.


98 posted on 10/16/2008 12:29:56 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: stockstrader

“And that number,,,is NOT shrinking. “

Yours is the most perceptive post of the thread.

America is changing.
Literally, “changing complexions” (in an absolute sense, and also in a political sense).

An unpleasant truth of conservative politics in America:
Not all whites are conservative, but...
The vast majority of conservatives are white.

By 2042 (the latest estimate, which perhaps may occur sooner), Euro-Americans will shrink into the minority as a portion of the American population. And, as their numbers decline, so do their political persuasions. Of those persuasions, the most notable is conservatism itself.

As the nonwhite demographic of America grows, the political leanings of those non-Euros - and the politicians they embrace - will more resemble those of the countries they have come from, rather than this one. Combine this with a dumbing-down of a large-enough cohort of the _Euro_ population, and the writing is on the wall: elections are only going to grow harder and harder for conservatives to win in the years to come.

Thus America is on the cusp of electing an American version of Hugo Chavez.

Recall if you will a scene from Arthur Penn’s film “Little Big Man”, about the sole white survivor of Custer’s Last Stand. In that scene Jack Crabbe (the “Little Big Man”, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman) has been rescued from the midst of the carnage and is reunited with his Indian mentor, Old Lodge Skins (played by the great Chief Dan George).

The Chief tells Jack:
“We won today. We won’t win tomorrow”.

Wisely, the old man knew the power of demographics - regardless of how bravely the Indians could resist, eventually they were doomed to lose due to the sheer numbers of their [white] adversaries.

We will be lucky to win this one.
We will not be so lucky in the years to come.

- John
(Vote for McCain on November 4th!)


99 posted on 10/16/2008 12:31:42 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: Fishrrman
Your post is on the money.

The demographics are devastating for the Republican Party. Dick Morris commented on this a few years ago.

I forget the exact numbers,,,,but the aggregate numbers of blacks (93%+ voting democratic) are increasing at twice the rate of whites.....the Hispanic population (voting 70% democratic) (birth rate and immigration) is about three times the white rate,,,,and the muslim increase (again, voting 70% democratic) which I forget the approximate numbers, is again increasing at a greater rate.

The future of this country is a 'sharp move to the left'--the only thing open to debate is how fast and how sharply that movement occurs.

100 posted on 10/16/2008 12:41:14 PM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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