Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn

[OP_Carl]

The American Thinker compares Barack Obama to Huey Long:

"Certain follies are perennial and seemingly invincible, and Barack Obama's outlook on private enterprise shares with Huey Long many of the same assumptions. While living lavishly from the labor of others, both Huey Long and Barack Obama comfortably railed against the vice of greed. Yet both elevate as their overriding principle of government the vices of envy and sloth. In light of this mere reemphasis among vices, it is extraordinary that both Long and Obama and their supporters can exude such an air of moral superiority and self satisfaction. At least greed is capable of producing something useful.

Barack Obama's prosperity-killing policies echo those of Huey Long. As Obama told "Joe the Plumber," we need to "spread the wealth." (Not a word about creating wealth or rewarding those who do.) Obama has pledged to punish risk-taking and productivity, every bit as much as Huey Long did, by hiking marginal income tax rates, payroll taxes, and capital gain taxes. He even acknowledges that higher tax rates don't necessarily translate into higher revenue for the government, revenues not really being the point. Obama has been clear that he will attack those industries that he does not favor (eg. coal, oil) as relentlessly as Huey Long attacked Standard Oil."


Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn

[Sam]

Well, the plank in the Democratic party platform says:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

[Blubayou]

I think we could agree that BO is a demogogue? That is what many called HL.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by Sam

Well, the plank in the Democratic party platform says:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

Yeah, it's funny how they slipped that one in there. The red-blooded commie-hating blue-collar types still vote for them, though. Go figure.

Originally Posted by Blubayou

I think we could agree that BO is a demogogue? That is what many called HL.

Yup. Appealing to the worst in human nature.

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

The American Thinker compares Barack Obama to Huey Long:

"Yet both elevate as their overriding principle of government the vices of envy and sloth. In light of this mere reemphasis among vices, it is extraordinary that both Long and Obama and their supporters can exude such an air of moral superiority and self satisfaction.

As Obama told "Joe the Plumber," we need to "spread the wealth." (Not a word about creating wealth or rewarding those who do.) Obama has pledged to punish risk-taking and productivity, every bit as much as Huey Long did, by hiking marginal income tax rates, payroll taxes, and capital gain taxes.

Cause and effect, baby!

The twin achilles heels of the leftist movement: Disbelief in the fallen nature of man, and belief that man can be coerced to spend his whole life toiling at maximum productivity against his own self-interest.