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#943220 - 04/16/08 05:49 PM
The Politics of Discontent and Class Envy
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/obama_ceo_pay_and_the_politics.htmlExcerpts: Populism uses the politics of discontent. Barack Obama's recurring comparisons between CEO and average worker salaries is a class-warfare play on resentment with just enough truth to make it work with many voters.... When a politician bemoans the salary-disparity on the Jay Leno or David Letterman Shows the crowds applaud. Never mind that Jay makes $123,000 and Dave $154,000 for each show - considerably more than the average U.S. worker makes in a year. Entertainers, including sports figures, are exempt from salary comparisons. They have talent. And never mind that Obama has leveraged his support from Oprah Winfrey to gain votes. At an annual income of $260,000,000, The Oprah makes a million dollars per weekday. ...
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#943325 - 04/16/08 07:00 PM
Re: The Politics of Discontent and Class Envy
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hey change!!!
the Obamas didn't pay off student loans until just recently!!!
but they are millionaires anyway, just one of the misses' board membership pays like $20 thousand per month
but they are down for the fight!!!!!!!
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#943333 - 04/16/08 07:03 PM
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Yup, they understand the plight of all the poor slobs, making all that money like no good corporate capitalists.
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#943375 - 04/16/08 07:36 PM
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does obama say that people shouldn't make as much as they do or does he say that we need to find ways to make life economically easier on the people who don't?
in other words, take from the ones making and give to the ones not? i know, *nuance*, i guess i'll take this query to a more capable audience... I'm sure you can ask your community college buddies as you sit around the coffee shop in your huraches and Che Guevara t-shiorts tonight, smoking your Camel unfiltereds, listening to Serj Tankian, and bemoaning the fact that you wished you could bong up right there on the spot and not get arrested...
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#943376 - 04/16/08 07:36 PM
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i know, *nuance*, i guess i'll take this query to a more capable audience... After only a quote that Yoss made to DSchrute a few months ago, this has to win chutzpah post of the year, coming from you!!!
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#943413 - 04/16/08 08:02 PM
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dang, what have I been telling you about personal insults Ron!
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#943415 - 04/16/08 08:03 PM
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ohhhhhh, the title says 'class' envy
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#943428 - 04/16/08 08:09 PM
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LOL, you are on fire today - the idea that you actually have a girlfriend...ROFLOL
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#943446 - 04/16/08 08:19 PM
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she's hot, too. go figure! (she's also blind and deaf which might explain a lot ) I'm sure she has some redeeming qualities.... Like the ability to operate a 5 foot bong all by herself
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#943447 - 04/16/08 08:19 PM
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i know pale, there i go making constant drug references about a certain poster. luckily, you would never do that...
(pale irony is it?) can you provide an example ? If so, i will immediately moderate! I am not unlike God in that respect, I am no respecter of person
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#943454 - 04/16/08 08:24 PM
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pale, forget about it. i'll pm you where you said it if you really care to know. in the meantime, this is priceless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhIBXNfqMA(and work safe. and no this is not political. just pure comedy) was it one time Ronnie? if you go back you will see your use of the term "constant" do you want to revise and extent? I will grant that request, otherwise you will move from one list to another.........
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#943471 - 04/16/08 08:35 PM
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no, the "constant" was referencing the other posters. you were only a one-time offender to the best of my knowledge. I don't see how you can say you the constant doesn't refer to me; in you last phrase I am the only one mentioned did you go to Chicago's law school too?
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#943474 - 04/16/08 08:36 PM
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Pale, he's probably stoned to the bejesus right now, don't try and decipher it.
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#943480 - 04/16/08 08:40 PM
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she's hot, too. go figure! (she's also blind and deaf which might explain a lot ) Yeah, if there's one thing hot women go for, it's a professional student...
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#943481 - 04/16/08 08:41 PM
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I want to get high - so high! I want to get high - so high! I want to get high - so high! I want to get high - so high!
Well that's the funk elastic, the blunt I twist it The slamafied, bonafied funk on your discus Oh, what you messed with, you got to bear witness Catch a ho and another ho Merry Christmas Yes I smoke [censored], straight off the roach clip I roach it roll the blunt at once to approach it Forward motion make you sway like the ocean The herb is more than just a powerful potion What's the commotion, yo I'm not joking around People learning about, what they're smoking My oven is on high, when I roast the quail Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale Exhale, now you felt the funk of the power now feel the effects...
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#943483 - 04/16/08 08:43 PM
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♪ I was gonna go to (law) class before I got high I coulda cheated and I coulda passed but I got high I am taking it next semester and I know why because I got high cause I got high cause I got high ♪
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#943486 - 04/16/08 08:44 PM
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somehow we knew ol' Bailey girl was going to intercede
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#943487 - 04/16/08 08:45 PM
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whaaaaaaaaaat? ::innocent face emoticon::
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