Ellington

Boo! Alert the media! Obama is a communist because he shared his peanut butter sandwich and his toys in kindergarten! Watch Obama make fun of McCain and Palin's stupid red-baiting today:

Previous Comments

ID

139975

Comment

Uh oh. I sometimes gave away food on my lunch tray because I didn't want it. Guess I'm doomed. LOL

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-10-29T14:56:28-06:00

ID

139977

Comment

Indeed, LW. You're an independent communist for that. My friend always gave me a bite of his 'lasses sandmich when we were in the 3rd grade. I guess that makes him a commie lasses slanger and me a gluttonous, eat anything, commie sympathizer or lover. There is an article on MSNBC that talks about why the race isn't over yet. It mentioned the fear of soft republicans, the fear of Obama as Dukakis-like, Kerry-like and Gore-like as opposed to Cater-like, Johnson-like or Clinton-like Democrat, and the fact that McCain may be scoring a little with the red and black baiting. Interesting column. Also interesting that cheating republican ways weren't factured in as well. The Obama Nation is working just as hard as ever trying to overcome the Bradley-effect, Negro-effect, Black-effect, White-effect, race-hatred- effect, cheating republican-effect, skin-head-effect, et al.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-10-29T15:10:49-06:00

ID

139981

Comment

Maybe taking a bite of that sandwich makes you a welfare bum, too. You should have worked for it. :P

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-10-29T15:34:55-06:00

ID

139983

Comment

I was only 9 years old at the time, and had already worked 3 years picking cotton on Mr. Billy's Place of Holding Negroes Back While White Children Went To School.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-10-29T15:39:04-06:00

ID

139985

Comment

LW, why are you using that old uppity and citified language of "sandwich" instead of "sandmich"? You need to check yourself. Your uppitiness is showing and it ain't pretty.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-10-29T15:44:56-06:00

ID

139992

Comment

You know, Walt, I almost typed "sammich" in my reply, so maybe I'm just borderline uppity. :)

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-10-29T20:20:39-06:00

ID

139993

Comment

There's no problem at all with someone deciding to share their toys and their peanut butter sandwich. In fact, it's admirable and what we should do. The problem comes when someone steps in, takes *your* peanut butter sandwich from you, divides it up and gives part of it to someone else. This seems to be more like what we'd face in an Obama administration, and it's not acceptable.

Author

Listen2Me

Date

2008-10-29T21:46:54-06:00

ID

139994

Comment

Listen2Me - do you really equate a progressive tax structure with communal ownership of resources? The Republicans and Democrats have both believed in the need for some tax revenue for the Federal Government. The question being posed in this election is not whether or not citizens should be taxed - the question is how that tax structure should look and how can it best benefit our country. McCain's tax philosophy says that providing tax relief for large corporations will encourage them to invest more, grow, and ultimately create more jobs and prosperity among the working class they depend on to run their business. Obama's philosophy says that providing tax relief to middle class families helps to provide the security they need during tough economic times to continue to play their part in the functioning of the economy. The question of socialism is a red herring. Socialism as a political philosophy is shared by precious few in today's America. Check out this amazingly thorough running list of Obama endorsements. http://sciencesense-eyesopen.blogspot.com/2008/02/running-list-of-obama-endorsements.html Please note the extraordinary amount of Republicans and economists. These people are not Socialists. Perhaps you should check your definition of Socialism.

Author

daniel johnson

Date

2008-10-29T22:34:25-06:00

ID

139995

Comment

Daniel, I did not use the term socialism, as I realize that is not the best description of Obama's tax plan. And you won't hear me defending McCain's tax plans either. My problem with the Republicans and the Democrats is two sides of the same coin. The Democrats want to tax me and redirect my money to the so-called middle class, and the Republicans want to tax me and redirect my money to corporations. I'd prefer to keep the money I earn and let others do the same.

Author

Listen2Me

Date

2008-10-29T23:38:45-06:00

ID

139996

Comment

The Democrats want to tax me and redirect my money to the so-called middle class, and the Republicans want to tax me and redirect my money to corporations. I'd prefer to keep the money I earn and let others do the same.posted by Listen2Me on 10/30/08 at 05:38 AM I agree, you should keep all the money you earn Listen2Me...as long as you never drive on a public road, never walk on the taxpayer's sidewalks, you pay big$ to send your kids to private schools, if your house catches fire no Fire Dept to help you, keep out of the public's parks & libraries, no municipal water/sewer for you (eewww!) and eat tainted meat.

Author

HardTravelin

Date

2008-10-30T01:18:42-06:00

ID

139997

Comment

i can appreciate where you are coming from when you express a desire to "keep the money [you] earn". It is too often in modern day America that citizens become territorial at the thought of giving up any portion of their paycheck. For too long the middle class have been squeezed by creeping food and fuel prices, rising costs in health care, and, for some, rising costs in education. (i could go on) Since your question is rather stark, i'll do the same in response. Taxes are the dues we pay as citizens to keep up and improve our country. No taxes leads to the degradation of our shared space.

Author

daniel johnson

Date

2008-10-30T05:13:06-06:00

ID

140007

Comment

This is an excellent article on this subject: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/calbreath/20081026-9999-1b26dean.html Did anyone see the Socialist Party candidate for president on the Colbert Report? Colbert asked him who was the real socialist him or Obama! Of course, he pointed out that Obama's proposals are nothing like what the Socialist Party proposes: permanent 100% goverment takeover and control of financial institutions.

Author

FreeClif

Date

2008-10-30T10:21:24-06:00

ID

140014

Comment

... The problem comes when someone steps in, takes *your* peanut butter sandwich from you, divides it up and gives part of it to someone else. This seems to be more like what we'd face in an Obama administration, and it's not acceptable. posted by Listen2Me on 10/29/08 at 10:46 PM A better example would be a kindergarten class of 30 children goes to lunch. 29 of them have a single peanut and one pulls out a sack full of hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or sandmiches) and complains when the teacher tells him to split one of those with the other 29 kids. He still has more sandwiches than he could ever eat, but calls the teacher a socialist.

Author

Tre

Date

2008-10-30T12:42:02-06:00

ID

140015

Comment

Humph, sounds like the kid IS a Marxist, Stalinist who probably wants sex education. And condoms. (Free ones from the guvmint). Ha

Author

FreeClif

Date

2008-10-30T12:51:27-06:00

ID

140017

Comment

29 of them have a single peanut and one pulls out a sack full of hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or sandmiches) and complains when the teacher tells him to split one of those with the other 29 kids. Great analogy, considering that a large segment of the population works for peanuts.

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-10-30T12:57:53-06:00

ID

140020

Comment

I believe most citizens have no objection to paying income taxes for the common good, like the military, roads and bridges, water and sanitation, police and fire protection services, government employees, etc., since those are the legitimate functions of government. They have to be paid for and without taxation the government earns no money. The amount of taxes charged and how efficiently government spends taxes collected DOES deserve scrutiny. I'm not always convinced that government spends money efficiently or effectively, and telling me that I should pay more "just because we don't have enough" doesn't pass muster.

Author

Jeff Lucas

Date

2008-10-30T13:26:33-06:00

ID

140021

Comment

These wangnuts are making me sick. Most of them ain't got what the lil boy shot at and missed yet they're oh so worried about wealth being taken and redistributed from them. Take Joe the wannabe Plummer, Country and Western Singer and Secreatary of State candidate, for example. He's neither a plummer or expert on foreign policy, but he's proffered as one nontheless by the republicans and believed by the constituency. I'd like to knock the crap out of a few of them but I'm afraid that would render them completely brainless as if that's not already the case. They get all kinds of services already they can't personally afford without complaining as a result of taxes and redistribution of various natures and kinds. And they don't seem to mind at all the the billions the republican administration is robbing us of daily with that war in Iraq. They fear Obama but not the repblicans who are about to send them to the soup and troop lines. I can see them in the soup lines complaining that some big black armless and legless dude got a cup full of rice more than he deserved and at their detriment and personal cost. A Dixiecrat ain't nothing but a wangnut and a wangnut is a strangnut that can't be cracked by reason, truth or intellect. Only Palin, McCain and Joe the Plummer can crack these nuts. I give up and move on.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-10-30T13:28:01-06:00

ID

140040

Comment

A better example would be a kindergarten class of 30 children goes to lunch. 29 of them have a single peanut and one pulls out a sack full of hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or sandmiches) and complains when the teacher tells him to split one of those with the other 29 kids. He still has more sandwiches than he could ever eat, but calls the teacher a socialist. And he would be correct. If he brings hundreds of sandwiches to class, they are his. If he wants to share (and he should), then great. However, if he doesn't want to share, the teacher is not in a position to compel him to share his lunch. Regardless of whether he is perceived to have more than he needs (which really is no one's call to make but his), the sandwiches are still his to do with as he pleases. His having hundreds of sandwiches did not prevent the other children from bringing sandwiches of their own.

Author

Listen2Me

Date

2008-10-30T16:50:04-06:00

ID

140046

Comment

Who really cares? I think that I missed the whole point of the story LOL.

Author

hotboyms

Date

2008-10-30T21:23:10-06:00

ID

140048

Comment

While some of the peanut gallery disses socialism and worships the free market, why not go all the way and cut all private funding for transportation? A toll booth at every stop light sure ought to sound good to them. Think that'd make highway robbery more than just a figure of speech? NO PROBLEMO! All you have to do is invest some equity (literally sweat and financial) into paving a road on your own around that corner - literally cutting corners onto the other road. BUT, that's trespassing on another person's property, so that wouldn't work (unless s/he demanded you buy the property at stratospheric rip-off rates. Or would that be a ripoff because s/he has the right to sell the property for whatever s/he wants?) That would seem to add a little bit more to your trip to the mall or Fondren Corner than under our present socialist transportaion infrastructure financing system, don't y'all think?

Author

Philip

Date

2008-10-30T21:33:11-06:00

ID

140050

Comment

Listen2me's sandwich analogy is bankrupt unless you add the following provision: Not only do you have one kid with all the sandwiches (listen2me jr) who doesn't want to share but at the same time jr benefits from the police and army that protects his sandwiches that is paid for by a disproportionate tax on the less fortunate who are hungry. Take away the benefit he gets from taxes on them (listen2me is one of those kids who uses loopholes for the wealthy so he pays a lower marginal tax rate than those who are barely eating) and he gets jacked and robbed of all his extra sandwiches before he gets a block from school.

Author

FreeClif

Date

2008-10-31T07:55:38-06:00

ID

140055

Comment

I used to work as a financial analyst for a police department with a 90 million dollar budget. At the risk of sounding like a conservative: you don't get something for nothing --- ever --- someone always has to pay. If you want more police protection, more cops on the street (a necessary element for community policing), then it costs more money. It is not magic --- there are no lucky charms. To get more police and pay them adequately (I'd rather be protected by an officer making a decent salary than one who is asked to put his LIFE on the line while he can't pay his bills) often requires an increase in revenue. You mean to tell me we should not ask the guy who has more stuff to be protected to pay a larger share of the cost for protecting stuff? If you ask the poor who have no stuff to be protected to pay just as much through regressive taxes on sales of food and essentials that is reverse socialism --- socialism for the more well to do. I call it facism. Rather than crying about those over $250,000 having to pay the share of taxes they paid under Bill Clinton, where is the outrage over the fact that poor people have to pay taxes on their FOOD?! This ties us nicely back into the greedy little kids hoarding all the food :-).

Author

FreeClif

Date

2008-10-31T09:12:07-06:00

ID

140081

Comment

In reality, teachers DO have the authority to make kids share. i can't think of any teacher worth their salt who would allow a kid to sit at the table with all those sandwiches and not share. That is just not appropriate.

Author

daniel johnson

Date

2008-10-31T15:49:12-06:00