yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/31/2008
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I think it’s totally fair of John McCain to criticize Barack Obama for wanting to spread the wealth around. Indeed, though the “Joe the Plumber” debate hasn’t been the most substantive thing in the world, it’s in the neighborhood of some real issues. Recently, the ...
bobkrumm.com - 10/30/2008
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bobkrumm.com —
Barack Obama’s aunt was found living in a
“rundown” Boston home. While he was a U.S. Senator...
and his wife was a high paid hospital administrator making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while he was busy raising more than ...
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Spread the wealth indeed
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Poll: Majority Agrees With Obama, Not Joe The Plumber Or McCain, On Spreading The Wealth
TPM Election Central —
... Keep in mind that McCain is directly attacking Obama for his generic support for the mere idea of spreading the wealth and of the basic government function of redistribution. As Matthew Yglesias puts it: "A large majority of Americans have favored spreading the wealth around." ...
Equality vs. Redistribution
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Matt Yglesias presents this Gallup poll as evidence that Barack Obama is on the right side of the redistributionist issue while John McCain and Joe the Plumber are in the minority: ...
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