Wow, that's original
Obama says Republicans practice "Social Darwinism"
It's tough to make Howard Dean sound rational, but Obama comes close here.
The current GOP Congress and president have done about as much to "dismantle government" as LBJ did. As for providing for your own health care and retirement security -- many of us feel we are MUCH better equipped to do this for ourselves rather than have media appointed "rising stars" like Obama do it for us.
Obama calls that "Social Darwinism". Some of us call it "self-reliance".
We're not sure who, aside from the staunchest large "L" Libertians, has called for individual citizens to fund roads and levees. But we hope that most state and city governments, where such projects are properly are managed, are better run than those of Louisiana and New Orleans.
It's fitting that Obama peddled this nonsense at Disney World: the chap is positively goofy.
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans controlling the federal government practice Social Darwinism, a discredited philosophy that in economics and politics calls for survival of the fittest, according to a Democratic U.S. senator.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, a fast-rising Democratic star, told Florida party members that only a philosophy among Republicans of sink or swim explains why some Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans still live in cars while Republicans in Washington prepare next week to enact $70 billion in tax breaks.
"It's called the 'Ownership society' in Washington. This isn't the first time this philosophy has appeared. It used to be called Social Darwinism," Obama said late Saturday at the Democrats meeting at Walt Disney World.
"They have a philosophy they have implemented and that is doing exactly what it was designed to do. They basically don't believe in government. They have a different philosophy that says, 'We're going to dismantle government'," Obama said.
Republicans running the federal government believe, "You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees," Obama said, referring to flood barriers that gave way in New Orleans during Katrina last August.
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It's tough to make Howard Dean sound rational, but Obama comes close here.
The current GOP Congress and president have done about as much to "dismantle government" as LBJ did. As for providing for your own health care and retirement security -- many of us feel we are MUCH better equipped to do this for ourselves rather than have media appointed "rising stars" like Obama do it for us.
Obama calls that "Social Darwinism". Some of us call it "self-reliance".
We're not sure who, aside from the staunchest large "L" Libertians, has called for individual citizens to fund roads and levees. But we hope that most state and city governments, where such projects are properly are managed, are better run than those of Louisiana and New Orleans.
It's fitting that Obama peddled this nonsense at Disney World: the chap is positively goofy.
posted by Mr. Buzzcut at 12:08 AM
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