According to the 1998 redistribution speech that Obama gave this is what he believes:
On the welfare to work reforms, which have lifted millions of families out of poverty, and freed them from his “harness” Obama said about those policies, “I did not entirely agree with and probably would have voted against at the federal level.”
Perhaps now, in the wake of the heat that Mitt Romney is taking over the leaked four month old “47 percent” video, he can better appreciate the position of Todd Akin.
Romney is being accused of writing off “47 percent” of voters as not paying taxes and “dependent upon government,” who “believe government has a responsibility to care for them.”
Of course Romney’s words, recorded behind closed doors at a fundraiser, were not, as he admitted, well chosen. No candidate would call half the electorate dead beats.
But when Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin used...
Who is it that holds minorities in contempt? Who wants to use the poor for political gain?
Who is clearly the racist? Who wants minorities, the working poor, and the lower middle class to stay that way so that he and his party can "harness" them for purely partisan politics?