news.yahoo.com - 10/22/2008
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AP - John McCain is pouncing on Barack Obama's call for shifting more wealth from richer Americans to poorer ones, likening it to socialism. His remarks win applause at campaign events. But they ignore the nation's long tradition of redistributing huge amounts of wealth through tax-and-spending policies.
powerlineblog.com - 10/15/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
When Barack Obama responded to the plumber who
didn't want his taxes raised that Obama wanted to...
"spread the wealth around," I wanted to tell him to spread his own wealth around. It was in any event a rare moment of candor on the part of Senator ...
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Spread your own wealth around
blogs.tnr.com - 10/19/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
It is hard to imagine we’ve heard the
last of Barack Obama’s interactions with William Ayers and...
Jeremiah Wright. But lately John McCain seems much more interested in talking about another Obama encounter. It’s the now infamous conversation Obama had ...
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What's So Awful About "Spreading the Wealth"?
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AP: Hey, We Already Spread the Wealth!
JammieWearingFool —
The Associated Press unwittingly stumbles onto the truth in this sophomoric exercise designed to carry water for Barack Obama's idiotic "spread the wealth around" comment to Joe the Plumber. John McCain is pouncing on Barack Obama's call for shifting more wealth from richer Americans to poorer ones, likening it to socialism. His remarks win applause at campaign events. But they ignore the nation's long tradition of redistributing huge amounts of wealth through tax-and-spending policies . So why do we need to spread more of it? Placing a heavier burden on the wealthy has ...
Running on empty, McCain resorts to class warfare
Preemptive Karma —
... of his running mate Sarah Palin - 55% say she's unqualified - McCain is resorting to that classic conservative tactic of class warfare disguised as opposition to class warfare. Despite the nation's income disparity, McCain sees Obama's exchange with "Joe the Plumber" as a means to appeal to anyone who resents paying taxes to subsidize less wealthy people. His running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, criticized "Barack the wealth-spreader" in a campaign speech Tuesday in Reno, Nev. - Spreading the wealth? US already does it What you don't (and won't) hear from McSame is any ...
On the trail of transition
The Reaction —
... , lawless orders, veto threats and looting of the treasury for the very rich on Wall Street. If we did not know better, we could assume that the outgoing administration would rather see the country fail than help Democrats. Surely that could not be the case. To put the best face on OCP's behavior is to say that it is because there are ideological# and policy differences between the two political parties. ...
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The Associated Press: Spreading the wealth? US already does it
ap.google.com 10/22/2008 — 19 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) John McCain is pouncing on Barack Obama's call for shifting more wealth from richer Americans to poorer ones, likening it to socialism. His remarks win applause at campaign events. But they ignore the nation's long ...
Spreading the Wealth Around
powerlineblog.com 10/14/2008 — A lot of people are noting this exchange between Barack Obama and a plumber who has figured out that under...
Spreading the Wealth
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 10/20/2008 — I've been listening to smart conservatives suggest that Obama's "spreading the wealth" remark might really, really hurt him - "talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists," writes James ...
Spreading the Wealth Around
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/31/2008 — 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 ...
Spreading the Wealth Around
mahablog.com 10/18/2008 — The Right-wing media and bloggers are high-fiving over Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth around” comment. “ Did Barack ‘Spread the Wealth’ Obama Just Blow the Election? ” says one. “ Can you say Karl ...
Spreading the Wealth
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/21/2008 — In the early 1970s, when I was a young immigrant in Jerusalem, I found myself the head of my building's co-op committee. The job's main responsibility was collecting co-op fees (for heating oil, stair and entrance cleaning, etc.) from twenty-four ...
Spreading the Wealth (II)
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 10/22/2008 — Another thing on this subject - is opposition to wealth-spreading in principle really now a litmus test for being a conservative? I thought that being on the right meant that you wanted a welfare state that's small in size and limited in scope - ...
Spreading the wealth
washingtonmonthly.com 10/20/2008 — SPREADING THE WEALTH.... Barack Obama's tax plan must be pretty good, because the only attacks John McCain has come up with are fanciful nonsense. To hear McCain/Palin tell it, Obama supports "socialism" and his plan to cut taxes on the...
Democrats Favor Spreading Wealth Around, GOP Disagrees
rasmussenreports.com 10/19/2008 — John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obama’s statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national ...
Adam Smith On Spreading The Wealth
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/23/2008 —
The intellectual father of market capitalism: The necessaries of life
occasion the great expense of the poor. . . . The luxuries and vanities
of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent
house embellishes and sets ...
Obama focuses on economy in Florida —
Reuters: Politics 10/22/2008
LAKE WORTH, Florida (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama focused on the ailing economy in Florida on Tuesday, meeting with a panel of advisers and accusing Republican rival John McCain of fumbling his response to the financial crisis.
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