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The Spectacle Blog
Sarah Moore has some timely thoughts on Obama’s Inaccurate Peanut Butter Analogy:
Senator Barack Obama recently told an adorable story about how he shared his peanut butter sandwich with a friend when he was in fourth grade. His adoring fans then laughed on cue when he said, “I guess that’s why they call me a re-distributionist!”
The problem with his amusing childhood tale is that it is not at all an accurate analogy for what he wants to impose on our country. Let’s try this instead:
When I was in fourth grade, I walked up to a kid at the next lunch table and demanded his peanut butter sandwich. He agreed, because I threatened him, and then I gave that sandwich to my friend.
I think it’s wonderful to share your own peanut butter sandwich with a friend … or even a stranger! I am teaching my daughter to share every day. However, I am not teaching her to reach into a friend’s toy box and take a truck home in order to give it to another friend who she thinks needs it more.
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Michael Roush| 10.31.08 @ 10:17AM
McCain wants to give another tax cut to beer heiress Cindy - you know the woman for whom he dumped his first wife - and he wants to give her corporation more tax cuts. That the once-upon-time maverick McCain called the original Bush tax cuts "irresponsible" is irrelevant. He is now faithfully delivering the wing-nut talking points. He is a real American.
Obama wants to restore the pre-Bush tax rates for the wealthy and give tax breaks for the middle class, i.e. most Americans. He is a redistributionist, a socialist, a communist ...whatever. If you ever settle on a label please let us know.
TAS contributors and correspondents almost universally support McCain. What can we deduce from this? All are making a quarter of a million dollars a year or more and are voting their pocketbooks. If so, this is an august economic group. Some are earning less than a quarter of a million dollars a year but they support McCain because.....? They agree with Biden that paying taxes is patriotic? They practice voodoo, in particular voodoo economics, i.e. they are among the few who still buy Laffer's BS in spite of all the evidence to the contrary? They are among the people described in Eric Hoffer's The True Believer - people who for a variety of unflattering reasons are easily manipulated by elites to join and serve a movement? Granted, the dynamic works on both sides, but I grudgingly have to admit that the conservative "elites" are far better than the liberal "elites" in this regard.