Obama and O'Reilly

[Tex]

Pretty interesting interview. I don't always agree with O'Reilly's politics or approach, but I do like how he puts people's feet to the fire (and I don't just mean Democrats).

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008...reilly-factor/

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by Tex

Pretty interesting interview. I don't always agree with O'Reilly's politics or approach, but I do like how he puts people's feet to the fire (and I don't just mean Democrats).

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008...reilly-factor/

o'reilly is a water-carrying pack mule for bush/cheney

i've never seen him hold a high profile republican's feet to the fire.

that being said, i still want to see the interview

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Frank Ryan

o'reilly is a water-carrying pack mule for bush/cheney

i've never seen him hold a high profile republican's feet to the fire.

Hard to do if you never watch.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by Tex

Hard to do if you never watch.

i've watched his show plenty of times
and i've never seen him go after a republican.
he practically fellates those guys

[Tex]

Part Deux.

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html

I think the most interesting part of the interview is when Obama calls government-mandated redistribution of wealth "being neighborly."

[Venkman]

Say what you want about O'Reilly, but I thought those were pretty dang good interviews. It's like two friends getting together discussing politics, each one not afraid to tell the other one they are full of crap.

[Venkman]

Originally Posted by Tex

Part Deux.

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html

I think the most interesting part of the interview is when Obama calls government-mandated redistribution of wealth "being neighborly."

Yeah, I just don't get that. Taxes don't count as charity. You don't get any points in heaven for paying taxes. You just don't.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Venkman

Yeah, I just don't get that. Taxes don't count as charity. You don't get any points in heaven for paying taxes. You just don't.

Perhaps. But I dare bet you may get docked a few points for being such a stingy a-hole that you were bitter when any of your tax dollars went to help your fellow man.

[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Perhaps. But I dare bet you may get docked a few points for being such a stingy a-hole that you were bitter when any of your tax dollars went to help your fellow man.

Despite his absolute ineptitude in utilizing simple equations of motion, I have to agree with Lebowski on this one. Sometimes, the government is the most efficient way of providing charitable services in an equitable fashion. I love the Republican excuse that they want to keep their own money and distribute it themselves to charitable organizations. How many spent their recent tax rebate on charity? How about their tax returns?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by ERCougar

Despite his absolute ineptitude in utilizing simple equations of motion, I have to agree with Lebowski on this one. Sometimes, the government is the most efficient way of providing charitable services in an equitable fashion. I love the Republican excuse that they want to keep their own money and distribute it themselves to charitable organizations. How many spent their recent tax rebate on charity? How about their tax returns?

What a crock. American donate billions upon billions to private charities each year (much of that money coming from the "evil rich"). The numbers are sometimes so large as to be staggering. The organizations they donate to also tend (with exceptions) to be more efficiently run, and the funds are more effectively distributed than gov't could ever hope to be.

I've seen gov't welfare at work. My parents hired a woman who would only work a certain number of hours each week because if she worked more, she'd lose her welfare/unemployment benefits. She bragged about how "smart" she was to work the system. Or for a more concrete example, remember the $2000 debit card debacle after Katrina? Victims were supposed to have spent it on food and housing, and instead they found it was used to buy iPods and designer jeans.

Gov't is one of the worst vehicles for lifting the oppressed, and there's nothing immoral about being opposed to it. And it certainly is not "neighborly."