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And then, deep into the speech, according to the White House transcript, the president said:
When you start saying, at a time when the top one-tenth of 1 percent has seen their incomes go up four or five times over the last 20 years, and folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline -- and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more?
Give me a break.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.
That's what the transcript says he said.
Now, in the C-SPAN video below, and listen especially to the phrase "the same tax rate as a janitor..."
Here is what the president actually said, catching himself almost in time but not quite:
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.
The president has been muffing lines all over the place recently. Last week, also peddling his jobs plan at a bridge that won't qualify, he hailed America's building of "the Intercontinental Railroad." You don't seem to hear much about these gaffes in the media for some reason.
Originally posted by phishyblankwaters
Unless he was insinuating that "Jews" pay higher taxes than most, I don't really get the point or how this is damaging at all.
They have a lot in common with the politicians that we have here in Pennsylvania.
Ok, I am going to share with you guys something that every Illinois native is painfully aware of; Politicians from Illinois are crooked. I mean you can count on them to be.
Originally posted by hangedman13
Ahh Mr. Obama racist much? A very interesting slip of the tongue though. Wonder why his brain went that way.
Correct.
Originally posted by AngryAlien
Originally posted by hangedman13
Ahh Mr. Obama racist much? A very interesting slip of the tongue though. Wonder why his brain went that way.
Racist? how is that racist?
Originally posted by mc1km
Who programs the teleprompter? Diebold?
Any thought Obama may have had about abstaining from the UN vote on a Palestinian state is made all the more harder now, Israel and AIPAC will just play the anti-semitism card to put pressure on him to veto it.
big·ot (bgt)
n.
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by butcherguy
How about bigoted.
big·ot (bgt)
n.
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
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