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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 01:59 PM
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David Frum Explains ~ Gingrich: Obama Wants Whitey’s Money
Edited on Mon Sep-13-10 02:01 PM by Emit
(BTW ~ Ed was talking about this 1996 GOPAC Memo earlier today on his show, too. Check it out.)

Gingrich: Obama Wants
Whitey’s Money
September 13th, 2010

~snip~

With the Forbes story and now the Gingrich endorsement, the argument that Obama is an infiltrating alien, a deceiving foreigner – and not just any kind of alien, but specifically a Third World alien – has been absorbed almost to the very core of the Republican platform for November 2010.

Rush Limbaugh has been claiming for almost 2 years that President Obama is bent upon “redistribution” and “reparations.” Following D’Souza, Gingrich has now stepped up to suggest that this redistribution is motivated by anti-white racial revenge. If Obama wants to expand health coverage, tighten bank regulation, and create government make-work projects it’s not because he shares the same general outlook on the world as Walter Mondale or Ted Kennedy or so many other liberals, living and dead, all of them white and northern European. No, Obama wants to do what he does because he thinks like an African, and not just any kind of African but (in D’Souza’s phrase) “a Luo tribesman.”

It is to vindicate this African tribal dream that Obama wishes to raise the taxes of upper-income taxpayers and redistribute money away from these meritorious individuals. D’Souza contends that Obama is acting to vindicate his father’s supposed dream of overthrowing the global order and ending the global domination of the white race over other peoples.

If Obama shares his father’s anticolonial crusade, that would explain why he wants people who are already paying close to 50% of their income in overall taxes to pay even more. The anticolonialist believes that since the rich have prospered at the expense of others, their wealth doesn’t really belong to them; therefore whatever can be extracted from them is automatically just. Recall what Obama Sr. said in his 1965 paper: There is no tax rate too high, and even a 100% rate is justified under certain circumstances.


Prepare yourselves: at his deepest personal level, what Barack Obama really wants to do is strip white property owners of everything they possess.

Obviously I don’t know, but I’d venture that Gingrich’s words were not a one-drink-too-many rhetorical excess. Through his career, Gingrich has emphasized the use of harsh and stereotyping language to draw political contrasts, as in the famous http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/454/gopac.html">1996 GOPAC memo.

Earlier this year, Gingrich deployed the phrase “secular socialist machine.” Adopting as his own D’Souza’s new epithet about “the ideology of the Luo tribesman” revs Gingrich’s attack into a higher gear. It would be very characteristic of Gingrich to road-test the new concept with friendly journalists and audiences. If they applaud, we’ll hear more of it.

~snip~
http://www.frumforum.com/gingrich-obama-wants-whiteys-money
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 02:04 PM
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1. Nice bit of deconstruction there.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 02:07 PM
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2. I can believe that's the motivation.
My father's been calling The President "Emperor Jones" for a while now.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Jones
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 02:08 PM
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3. Oh shit
They're on to us. We've tried to hide it but looks like they found out.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 02:17 PM
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4. Wait, wait, wait....
There are rich people who pay "close to 50% of their income in overall taxes"? Name one. Didn't stupidface say "rich people find a way to get around paying taxes"?
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 02:31 PM
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5. I would like an answer to that too!
50%? I call bullshit!

We're talking about taxing income here... taxing the amount of money made as income, not the people. The more money you make, the more taxes you pay.

They all keep flipping this, and we need to flip it back. They have 90% of the money... if they want to count things up that way, then they can pay 90% of the damn taxes too!
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 07:00 PM
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6. Hey, JuniperLea,
Edited on Mon Sep-13-10 07:06 PM by Emit
love your peace sign art work in your sig line. So beautiful!!

Yeah, Hannity claims he pays 50% of his income in taxes. Yeah, right. Sure. Whadever, Hannity. Prove it.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 07:14 PM
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7. I bought a sticker like it for my car...
www.purplemoon.com

The artist has quickly become a favorite of mine!

So if you see a sea green Mazda zoom zoom zooming around with one of these on the back window, wave!

:hi:
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 06:47 PM
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9. Thanks for the link!
Gonna check it out now - would love to get a sticker like it. :)

:hi:
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 07:25 PM
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8. Hang on... Obama Senior?!
The president has said he never knew his father growing up and didn't meet again until he was an adult. I guess that must have been when Obama Sr. slipped the president-to-be his secret orders to tax the rich at 100%.
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