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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (277981)11/1/2008 2:51:36 PM
From: greenspirit5 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 793939
 
Didn't Obama also say one of our greatest failures as a society was taking care of other people. In other words, spreading our good fortunes around.

I'll have to find the transcript.

Ahh, here it is...What a hypocrite! When you combine his tightwade charitable giving, with his look the other way toward family members, what's obvious to me is being charitable only means the government doing the giving in Obama's eyes.

Obama: "I think America’s greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we ... still don’t abide by that ... basic precept in Matthew that: 'whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.' And that notion of — that basic principle applies to poverty. It applies to racism and sexism. It applies to, you know, not ... thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class.

I mean, there’s a pervasive sense, I think, that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don’t spend enough time thinking about the least of these."
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