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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:00:56 PM
"The difference between Barack Obama and
Jeremiah Wright is that they are addressing different audiences, using
different styles adapted to those audiences. It is a difference between upscale
demagoguery and ghetto demagoguery, playing the audience for suckers in both
cases. People on the far left like to flatter themselves that they are for the
poor and the downtrodden. But what is most likely to lift people out of
poverty--telling them that the world has done them wrong or promoting the work
ethic of the Korean girls, the dogged determination of my Harvard classmate
with the newspaper in his shoe, or the self-reliance of my fellow junior high
school student in Harlem who had too much pride to take charity?" what,
indeed? Liberals like to say they're "for the poor," but what do they
want? The "poor" to depend on THEM more and more. They'll give them
just enough to "get by" while they depend on their "liberal
friends" for their very daily bread. And they're willing to sell their
votes dearly to "keep the goodies coming." (Professor Thomas Sowell)