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To: Brumar89 who wrote (578634)	8/4/2010 1:44:58 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570941

Rich white Marc Zuckerberg has no clue what hard work is. I believe it. OTOH how is his becoming a billionaire a redistribution of wealth from the poor to him? Why do you keep bringing up Zuckerberg? How do you think it discredits the claim that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor? Seriously.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (578634)	8/4/2010 1:58:03 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570941

Rep. Inglis tells all: GOP using racism, demagoguery in response to Obama. In June, Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) became one of the first incumbent Republicans to be knocked off by an insurgent Tea Party candidate. Although he maintained a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, primary voters deemed Inglis to be insufficiently conservative. In an interview with Mother Jones, Inglis said that one of the reasons for his defeat was because he refused to demagogue like other conservatives in the House. In one instance during the primary, Inglis was chastised simply for not calling President Obama a “socialist.” He also noted that many of the GOPs criticisms regarding Obama’s response to the economic crisis were motivated by racism: Instead, he remarks, his party turned toward demagoguery. Inglis lists the examples: falsely claiming Obama’s health care overhaul included “death panels,” raising questions about Obama’s birthplace, calling the president a socialist,and maintaining that the Community Reinvestment Act was a major factor of the financial meltdown. “CRA,” Inglis says, “has been around for decades. How could it suddenly create this problem? You see how that has other things worked into it?” Racism? “Yes,” Inglis says. Inglis also had particular criticism of House GOP leader John Boehner and GOP whip Eric Cantor, whom he accused of being unwilling to “summon the courage” to stand up to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Tea Partiers. thinkprogress.org