Barack Obama: On the eighth day, God said “raise taxes”
President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health care reform, but today at the National Prayer Breakfast he claimed support from on high to defend two of his most controversial legislative achievements.
“And so when I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years, and I believe in God’s command to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself.'”
Sure you do.
“I know the version of that Golden Rule is found in every major religion and every set of beliefs — from Hinduism to Islam to Judaism to the writings of Plato,” Obama added.
If nothing else works, let’s try guilt:
“And I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually think that’s going to make economic sense. But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required,'” Obama said, noting Jewish and Islamic teachings say much the same thing.
Three years into Obama’s Presidency we learn that we didn’t just elect a President, we elected an evangelical. Well, that does explain the “pitchforks” thing.
So how do you like him now?
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Greg:
This is one of those statements that is just a small, small part of the bigger picture. And, it implies that the right is not concerned about placing a high value on personal freedom.
Greg, there is a stark contrast in how personal freedom is looked at, between the right and the left. In my view, while the left likes to talk about personal freedom, it’s what they don’t say that is the important part. That is, they don’t talk about how their support for personal freedom will encroach upon another’s personal freedom. The women’s reproductive rights issue is the perfect example of this. To the left, babies in the womb do not have any personal freedom rights, and the rights of the woman in question trumps all. To the right, those babies do have rights, and the rights of the woman in question do not trump all.
The right believes that life begins at a certain point, and that includes much, if not all, the time a pregnancy begins. It is certainly not an evil viewpoint for the right to do so, nor is it purposely an attempt to deny a woman’s personal freedom.
We all desire personal freedom, Greg. The left, though, and ever increasingly I might add, seems to have the idea that certain people’s rights trump those of others. The right, meaning conservatives such as myself, try to adhere to protecting the rights of everyone. Of course the term ‘right’ to liberal/progressives has expanded in scope, and continues to do so, in whatever manner they need it to in order to pander for votes.
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