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BET Founder to Obama: ‘You Don’t Get People to Like You By Attacking Them or Demeaning Their Success’

Add the founder of BET to the list of people who don‘t think the ’Buffett Rule’ is such a good idea.

Robert Johnson, who founded the Black Entertainment Television network in 1980, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and said President Barack Obama needs to adjust his message to one that’s not “attacking” the wealthy for their success.

“I think the president has to recalibrate his message,” Johnson said. “You don’t get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I’ve earned my success. I’ve earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. And by attacking me, is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy.”

Johnson joked that it was like “the old Ethel Merman approach to life — I‘ve been poor and I’ve been rich and I happen to like rich better. It doesn‘t mean I’m a bad guy.”

While not mentioning the Buffett Rule directly, Johnson certainly seemed to imply his distaste for the plan, saying Obama should not be “demagoguing” people who are successful.

“I went in business to create jobs, create value, create opportunity for myself and my investors and that’s what the president should be praising, Johnson said.

View the clip below, via the Media Research Center:

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  • dabbo
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:45pm

    Rich or poor, it’s nice to have money.

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:56pm

      Not all black people are brainwashed. God bless him

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Mr. Johnson … you did vote for OBAMMY, didn’t you? Awww, but you didn’t do your research before you voted for OBAMMY, did you? You want us to believe that you didn’t know this piece of crap stood on re-distribution of America’s wealth from the rich to the poor? That OBAMMY’S daddy was a communist and so was his mommy? That many personal associations of OBAMMY‘S are with known communist’s? That you actually voted for OBAMMY because he is black with everything else about the turd not even being a factor? Mr. Johnson, American’s will not forget you … you chose your side, now sit in it and keep your pathetic mouth shut.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:35pm

      I think poor blacks and poor whites are more worried about buying food than what this guy has to say. An increase of a percent or two on the tax of this guys income is something he wouldn’t even notice. Maybe the accountants he pays will tell him about it, while his servants serve him dinner. And he‘ll stand up and declare he’s done with being a job creator. The taxes are just too much. He ‘t

      But when the free clinic shuts down in a poor neighborhood, which this guy thinks is the solution to the deficit, and poor people and their children don’t get treated for ear infections, or lung infections from cut skin infections.

      According to this guy, that’s what America is all about. Every man for himself. The churches and neighbors will take care of all the poor, and pay their medical expenses he says. Sure. Enjoy your half cooked eggs, bacon, sausage, white tablecloth, cloth napkins, freshly squeezed OJ courtesy of your servant Enand enjoy your success while your fellow human being’s sores fester and stink because they have no access to medical care.

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    • So
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:39pm

      What?! The rich don’t like getting slapped around for their success and hit up for more tax money? Really? Obummer can‘t understand why the rich aren’t lining up to donate to his re-election.

      Talking out of both sides of your mouth has consequences.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:51pm

      A % or 2 increase, and this guy would tell his accountants to hide more of his income, and he would end up paying less, will these morons never learn how the world works.

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    • Banter
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:14pm

      @JZS

      Wow! You certainly have posted some weird thoughts on this site over the last year, but, this one has to take the cake for most bizarre. I generally view you as a misguided fool who is in too deep with your vote for obama. Now, I don’t know, this post seems to indicate you are self-destructing along with obama and the lib agenda. Don’t worry, it will all be over in Nov 2012.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:15pm

      @JZS so you think we can raise taxes on “the rich” by a few percent and fix our spending problems.

      What kind of lunacy is this? You’ve done the math?

      Do you even have a job? Are you paying your “fair share”?

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:16pm

      @JZS

      really? thats your argument?

      Someone not affording medical care is NOT this guy’s fault. He didn’t make them poor.
      Someone not affording food isn’t this guys fault. He didn’t take their food.
      Someone not affording clothing isn’t this guys fault. He doesn’t owe them clothes.
      Someone unable to provide for their children is that person’s responsibility. Not this guy’s.
      Yes, he could be charitable (most rich people are, and don’t you lie: YES THEY ARE)

      You think he has too much and should “share.” But he doesn’t want to, so you use the force of gov’t to make him share, without having that guilty feeling of stealing, after all, it was govt taxation really, not stealing. Then you justify it further by using to fund free clinics (which aren’t free, the man you stole from paid for it), food stamps (which aren’t free, the man you stole from paid for it), housing assistance (which isn’t free, the man you stole from paid for it), etc.
      Then you say its for the children, so instead of honestly admitting you wanted him to have less, whether you are simply jealous, or think you should get to decide what is done with his money because you know better (to hell with his right to life, liberty, and property) you actually jump up and down and feel good about yourself.

      You don’t get to decide. If you say we the people (or you) get to decide, then you don’t respect freedom, period. Don’t hide behind “that’s the law.” Jim Crowe was the law too, some law

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:21pm

      cont’d

      some laws are immoral.
      You don’t want fairness, you want others to have less so you don’t feel inferior.
      Marxist

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:44pm

      While noting he is disappointed with “some aspects” of the Obama administration’s domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support behind Obama’s re-election bid.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 12:23am

      @Tulsayeehaw

      You just summed up JZS, and all socialists, progressives, liberals, etc., with one word.

      JEALOUSY, plain and simple.

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    • kralspaces
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 12:51am

      @ JTZ: How many people did ‘this guy’ employ over the last 30 years. He has earned his privilage status. You had the same opportunity as he did to make your fortunes. If that is your picture, then you had more opportunities.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:54am

      Aint it funny JZS doesn’t mention how that half billion dollars on solar panels simply disappeared. That I’m sure could have helped allot of poor sick people trying to get their next meal. Your boys a crook!

      What a joke!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:14am

      @JZS

      Nice channeling of Engles and Marx there, buddy. Throw in some violin music and it’s a made for T.V. drama.

      Who are you to decide what other people will “miss” or not? Who made you God?

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:53am

      I agree with Chazman 100%.
      Notice how he avoided the ‘class warfare’ question?

      Of course, JZS’ comments are to be expected. Poor guy is not very bright.

      JZS….you should go to an Emergency Rm sometime. One of ‘your’ poor, helpless, poor (who was suffering from a headache) was there for some aspirin. I‘m sure she couldn’t afford even the generic type. She probably had crack to buy or a car payment to make. Thank God…now she’ll at least be able to have a cell phone. Poor thing!

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:04am

      You see everybody, JZS is known as a leech, a parasite, belonging to the same family as earthworms. His guilt at being white has so overtaken him that he must attempt to compensate for it by siding with the poor. You cannot ask a leech to not be a leech. They like being what they are. If you ask a leech if he would rather be a tiger he would reply ” why no, I like being a leech”.

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:45am

      Disregard JZS… He is the product of a “special” family… You know the kind of family where the father is also the uncle…

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:02am

      If you take away the “rich vs poor” class warfare from 0bamao‘s rhetoric there’s not much left.

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    • Duck and cover
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:17am

      @JZS you seem to be decribing degenerate lazy types that cannot take care of themselves, let em die. No really, I can tend my own “lung infections from cut skin infections” LOL! Its called soap people and it’s the first step to a healthy life. Being poor isn’t a sin but being dirty is… soap is cheap.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:20am

      Jesse Jackson a man who has never worked in his life and continues to ask for money from the GOVERNMENT instead of work for money,

      Jackson says, “But we are giving more and more to fewer and fewer and they are investing less and less. Put the money where the people are who spend it.”

      Jackson likened the situation in America now to the sinking of the Titanic. “We keep feeding the wealthy on the deck while the water is coming in at the bottom,” he said.”

      WE keep feeding the wealthy?
      NO the wealthy worked for “THEIR MONEY” and they feeding themselves, they also employ people who feed themselves as well.
      Jackson, Obama, Valerie Jarretts brains are wired to believe this they have lived it and they believe its the “GOVERNMENTS JOB” to feed people and make them a living by writing a check once a month to them they have all said the same thing

      thats not “working” thats reparations folks!

      These people need to heed the advice from Robert Johnson a man who knows better and can prove it by his story, its a story of “success” self esteem, and achievement qualities a government check will NEVER buy.

      He is not ashamed of his wealth like Obama wants him to be… I call that pride and he earned it!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:28am

      Come on Bob you’ll be voting for him reguardless of what is message he is sending. Even if you refuse to cast a vote at all you’re voting for Obama.

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    • michael48
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:35am

      JZS…totally helpless and completely dependent on Gov.Gumbas…congrats , your indoctrination is complete…comrade…if “envy were money” you’d be rich, as it is , you’re useless…

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    • Leader1776
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:32am

      @JZS
      As usual your post is old, and tired. Let’s not even talk about working ……….. if someone is hungry in this country it is by their own choosing. The big gov bureaucrats within the *** have created multiple, overlapping programs to feed the poor. We’re originally from the worst city economically in the country, Detroit. We go back routinely. Our daughter has taught in the Detroit school system. You know as well as I that there are no children nor adults running around hungry unless they choose to.

      But that isn’t the purpose of your posts is it?

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:56am

      For those of you who asked, yes, I have a job. And if you are more or less average, I make twice what you do.

      More and more of the nation’s wealth is being funneled to the rich. Right now, 400 individuals have more wealth than the half of the United States combined. But that’s not enough for you guys. You want to distribute even more of the nations wealth to these 400 guys, and balance the budget from taking away services for the poorest (sort of Robyn hood in reverse). The rich are getting richer, and the middle class and poor are getting poorer.

      Sure, we can have a country where those 400 people own 99% of the wealth and everybody else lives in slums. We just have to keep going the direction you guys are suggesting. Once we get there, and achieve this state of plutocracy, where the rich control everything, then you can proclaim, “Free at last!”

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 11:40am

      jzs,
      400 people earned their wealth,but the government takes it and spends it on everything 16 dollars muffins,2.5 million to study the drinking habits of Chinese hookers,5 million to put shrimp of treadmills,535 million to fund knowingly unsubstainable companies own by democratic bundlers,56 billion to prop-up unsubstainable auto makers with no true restructing porograms, the list is eternal.
      Not one dime should be raise until all government spending is reigned in,and all agencies have to get congressionalthe peoples) approval before spending a dime.
      Before we penalize the success of others we penalized the government that is the root cause of all the financial problems in the first place.

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    • vehoae
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:02pm

      “Ditto” to Chazman! Isn‘t it interesting that Robert Johnson didn’t give a “thumbs up” to GOP candidate Cain who, with the same skin color, makes the same observations as Johnson? Johnson is depending on voters being stupid enough to not realize that all he is doing is whining to appease all levels of black society …. but rest assured he will check “bHo” on the ballot next year. I’d venture to say that Johnson wants little to do with ideologies such as constitutionality, patriotism to the Republic of the United States, etc. Some of us baby boomers remember and/or study non-revisionist history. We know how the capitalist-shunning elite administered fascism, communism, socialism, etc. to control their countries.

      Visit me at http://www.stillstandingup.wordpress.com (my last posting reflects the position which I feel we and our Republic are in at the moment).

      Lord, come quickly.

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    • Khthulhu
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:15pm

      To JZS,
      And your solution is what exactly? To tax the rich more? Is that the only solution you progressive people ever consider? How about create your own wealth? That never occurred to you did it? How about instead of looking into someone else’s bank account, look into yours and ask yourself, How can I put more in there without depending on the government for help? The opportunity is out there in America. But you can’t reach for it while holding on for dear life to those apron strings. Yes, it is the job of churches and charities to take care of the poor. No, it‘s not the governments job to pay for anyone’s health insurance, because that comes out of my pocket. Don’t you get that?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:12pm

      Rich or poor, we should all be held accountable.. why do the poor
      choose to have litters of children, and expect us to share their
      burden ?? Do the research, the majority of these people are obese,
      DO not work, DO not pay TAXES, and completely depend on the
      Government..Free Food, Housing, Cell Phones, and Medical..
      and their Representatives KEEP them this way and continue to
      BLAME the rich for their plight..Put these people to repairing our
      infrastructure and keep the unions out of the mix….

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    • MHP
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:51pm

      jzs

      You can always go to the ER if need be, and they have to treat you by federal law, we also have a free clinic here within the hospital for folks with no insurance.

      you have no right to forcibly take rich people’s money. they earned it, so let them have it.

      The entire income tax should be scrapped and replace it wish US Savings bonds like happened in WW II. I think democrats should pay all the taxes

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:54pm

      smithclar3nc3, you listen to FOX too much. The $16 muffin story was false (of course):
      http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/22/national/main20110480.shtml
      The ****** grant was made during the Bush administration:
      http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/22/national/main20110480.shtml
      The shrimp study was concluded before Obama took office:
      http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/998264–why-it-s-important-to-put-a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill
      Etc.

      Ask Bush why he approved those things. Funny, how grants approved during his term were okay, and are only now being mentioned, as though these occurred under the current administration.

      Taxes on the rich are lower than ever, and have lead directly to the huge deficits we’re seeing today, that and an economy that collapsed after seven years of Bush policies. What I find astonishing is this. Bush cut taxes on the rich and there was no job growth or growth in the economy. So he cut them again, and had the same results – no extra jobs. Hello! It doesn’t work!

      And so you want to cut them again hoping that the third time it will work? As the saying goes, that’s the definition of insanity, trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:04pm

      @ jzs
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:35pm

      I think poor blacks and poor whites are more worried about buying food than what this guy has to say. An increase of a percent or two on the tax of this guys income is something he wouldn’t even notice. Maybe the accountants he pays will tell him about it, while his servants serve him dinner. And he‘ll stand up and declare he’s done with being a job creator. The taxes are just too much. He ‘t

      But when the free clinic shuts down in a poor neighborhood, which this guy thinks is the solution to the deficit, and poor people and their children don’t get treated for ear infections, or lung infections from cut skin infections.

      According to this guy, that’s what America is all about. Every man for himself. The churches and neighbors will take care of all the poor, and pay their medical expenses he says. Sure. Enjoy your half cooked eggs, bacon, sausage, white tablecloth, cloth napkins, freshly squeezed OJ courtesy of your servant Enand enjoy your success while your fellow human being’s sores fester and stink because they have no access to medical care.
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————
      America IS all about individual self determination. The poor are poor because they CHOOSE to be so based on being lazy and slovenly. You are an idiot.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Hey JZS

      See you still have not improved your reading comprehension skills.

      Smithclar3nc3 did not mention anything about it being Obama’s fault, or Bush’s fault. Only that Gov spending needs to be reigned in.

      Government waste has been going on for ages, and folks have been outraged by it for just as long.

      Now, since you are so concerned about the 400 guys making as much as half the country, how many of guys like you are out there that make twice as much as the average Joe?

      I assume that you give 50% of your income to your neighbors that make half of what you do, so that you are all more or less equal.

      If not, you are nothing but another left wing hypocrite.

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    • Iron Kurtain
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 3:31pm

      Directed at JZS, you sir are a buffoon. Unfortunately, you have no further logic than “blame bush” or “down with the rich man.” Apparently it is now evident that rich does not have ethnic limits. You have proven this. Rich black men that value their money and do not appreciate the “man” taking their cash is apparently unacceptable to people of your particular standpoint. Because even though he worked hard and innovated a method to convey thoughts and ideas that centralize around the black community (a Cable Network dedicated to programs African Americans would enjoy.) i can safely say you did not conceive this idea, nor should you or any other freeloader be entitled to the money he earned producing this product. We call this Marxism, JZS. If you would prefer to crawl into bed with Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, or any other known fiend of communism; i bid you good luck on your relocation to outside of America. because people like you certainly don’t belong here under the blanket and security of democracy.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Taxes are now lower than they were under Reagan. So if we went back up to the levels under Reagan, that’s communism? Reagan was a communist?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:38pm

      @JZS

      You actually operate under the premise that all who read you are ignorant, don’t you?

      You have posted almost the identical statement about Reagan & tax rates many times over the past several months. Each time you have been swiftly inocked off your perch. Don’t you know the definition of “insanity”

      I know you do.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:22pm

      10thAmendment says, “The poor are poor because they CHOOSE to be so based on being lazy and slovenly.” I‘m glad you aren’t claiming to be a Christian. Jesus said a lot about the poor, but not that one.

      Touché, Billy, yeah I keep saying that stuff about Reagan and it doesn’t stick. As I recall he raised taxes 11 times. You know why? To reduce a skyrocketing deficit. All those lizard studies I guess. But I do enjoy talking about the fact free world of the right who tend to forget Reagan tripled the deficit and raised taxes over and over. Reducing taxes for the rich creates jobs? Nope, doesn’t work that way. Taxes are at an all time low, and corporations are making more than ever. Where are the jobs?

      The Jobs Bill Obama has proposed reduces taxes for the middle class and poor (you know, the people who buy things and create demand). Funny, nobody is cheering tax cuts when Obama does it, just like nobody complains about how Reagan raised taxes.

      Now why would that be? It’s not policy. Must be something else.

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    • Perkins
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:01pm

      @JZS, Two things for you. Once, I used to sound about like you do about Regan and taxes. Then I spent almost two years studying the historical gdp data (from Princeton) and correlating it to taxes etc. I was just starting to study the effects of regulation (because they are essentially a tax) when I ran out of time. Here’s what I found. Raising taxes (total tax, not just nominal federal tax) has little direct effect on the economy, but federal spending (which ultimately must match the tax rate one way or another) seriously hampers economic growth. You should go check it out for yourself. You’re right, Regan is not the saint everyone makes him out to be, but that does not mean we should go further than he did. Federal spending is killing us without a doubt, and here you are asking for more? Seriously, the economic data is out there, go do your own research (I’d share mine, but I don’t want you becoming dependent on me, like I said, Stanford and the federal government for the data =P )
      Second, you make about 4 times as much as me. I’m happy at my salary level. That makes you the rich in my book. Should we tax you at 75% so we make the same amount? Sounds like your “fair share” to me. Maybe you should stop trying to steal from those wealthier than you via the government, or put your money where your mouth is and give away that extra 75%.

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    • Perkins
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:16pm

      You know, I work for a rescue mission at the moment, so I see a lot of the poor. I have found there are quite a lot of them who are poor because they are lazy, quite a few who had bad luck, quite a few who are running away from their past, but most of them are poor because they have been told they “deserve” to be taken care of (sounding familiar to anyone… cough… JZS?). Yeah, people being out there telling them they can’t make it, or telling them the rich are at fault and “not paying their fair share” does more to keep people in poverty than anything else I have seen in my time at the mission.
      Yes, Jesus did have a lot to say about the poor. Like, they will always be with us, so the idea of “eradicating poverty” is at best a joke, and at worst a ploy to take power. That we each have a responsibility to help the poor, not enslave them economically (go look up how England conquered India and compare that to welfare). That this is and individual mandate (He did not say “and thou wilt hold a gun to the head of thy neighbor that he might serve the poor) and not that Cesar should do it. Jesus said many many things about the poor, and some of the people in this discussion try to live by what He said while others try to pervert what he said. Hmmm…. wonder who is doing more for the poor.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:49pm

      @JZS

      You are going to wear that Jesus card out if you keep playing it every day.

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  • ThankBabyJesus
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:42pm

    Relief 2012

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Can’t come soon enough !! One more year of BS from this
      administration..Pray, we will keep the damage to a minimum..

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  • Seede
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:39pm

    Bet Founder may be right on. Why should he take a hit when you have chronic welfare bums from Johnson era up to present day who have been tax free for decades. Mom to grandmom to great grandmom on up till this very day. When you really look at the facts, there has always been about 3 to 4 percent takers in this society and probably much more than that. Put the bums to work for their govt. checks and get the shovels ready for the shovel ready jobs. Nobody should go to bed hungry but they should be so tired after a good day‘s work that they aren’t on the streets taking what is not theirs. That goes for female and male both. Bet you could get a lot of bridges built with the same dough that is being checked out to the tax free bums.

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:34pm

    Looks like all races are getting fed up with Obama.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:54pm

      All races SHOULD be fed up with Obama. The issue is that they should have been fed up from the first day he was in the Senate.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:23pm

      It’s because none of it has to do with race! Obama is just dead wrong and very lame. Some folks are just trying to mask over his lameness using race which is bad for everyone regardless of race. Wake up morons.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:33pm

      @ Meyvn
      —————————————————————————————————————————————–
      I agree with you all the way. Obama’s class warfare strategy is going to be his final undoing. I know a bunch of successful Black American’s, and not one of us want anything that half baked African is selling.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 2:04am

      According to Dick Morris, black approval for Obama is down to 58%. It is collapsing astonishingly. How much more can it fall? To half that. Why should they love what Obama is doing? He’s not even sane. How can you love what’s being done by someone with a mind like his?

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    • mlcblog
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:05pm

      There are many blacks more conservative than you would believe.

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  • fatjack
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:32pm

    What’s wrong with you people, obama is not only re-calibrating, but is relating to the youth of this country.
    Watch link to see the other hand. http://moonbattery.com/?p=2921

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    • JUSTMYOPINION
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Hey FatJack, I am not really concerned if Obama is relating to the young people. There are a few hundred protesting Wall Street, but they have no cohesive message and have not even made any demands. So as best I can tell, they are as idealistic and unrealistic as ever. Which means, come election day, they will not even show up. Except for Obama’s first run, they have never come out in numbers to participate in the electoral process. And despite your concerns that they might take a stand for him again this election, I wouldn’t worry. As far as most socialist-leaning and communist-loving extreme leftists are concerned, Obama has sold out and has thrown their cause under the bus. Their only noticeable message I can discern from the Days of Rage is that they have given up on Hope and Change from the President and they are just trying to scare us into capitulation. But unlike the Arab Spring, these kids are not marching against their government, they are marching against their political opponents – those who aspire to a true free market and a return to personal freedom and responsibility. We don’t need an army to defeat that. As soon as their parents cut them off or they actually graduate from college and need a job, you will hear a much different tune. Most liberal college students become conservatives the day they get their first paycheck and see all those taxes taken out.

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  • drago
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:29pm

    Sounds to me like Mr. Johnson has a bit of buyers remorse, especially when it comes to his money…..

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:28pm

    never forget: obama called white Americans who oppose him “HIS ENEMIES” and told the illegals to punish {kill} them.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:26pm

    one great thing about obama running for 2012 pres again and if soros rigs the election for him again with all the SEIU serviced voting machines, he will still be around and America can nail obama’s mangy hide to the wall with Impeachment and Prison for his several illegal sideways assaults on America & The Constuituion and Americans now. especially breaking America’s jobs, breaking America’s energy system, inciting violence between citizens — and selling arms to our enemies.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:17pm

    Nobody cares how many DOLLARS you pay…they just want you to pay the same percent, AFTER DEDUCTIONS. If you are…then great…shake hands and get back to work.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Creestof you are as big a tool as you are a fool. Taxing the rich only hurts the nation. Punishing success only adds to the welfare roles because they have less money to HIRE people and INVEST in our economy.
      As it is right now we have 51% that’s 51% who pay NOTHING in taxes!!! You being the wise economist that you are would say “ya see that 51% are the rich bankers” no sir we now have a situation were a smaller % of the nation pays for,feeds,houses and babysits for the 51% who pay NOTHING!!! The “rich” are carrying the country and you want them to pay more?!?!?!?!?!
      Yup that’s the way you and Osama Obama will “fix” this mess alright.
      My dog in 2012 would be better!!!

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:11pm

      Crestof, I want everyone to pay something. Too many are paying nothing or are getting way more back than what they put in. Everyone in our country needs to pay taxes, not just the “rich.” With those earning $250,000 considered being millionaires, when do you think you’re income level will be under attack next? Most people who make good salaries have worked their tales off to do so. They work long hours and have made many sacrifices. I hope that people realize that raising taxes on these upper middle income earners will mean that house cleaners, lawn people, and others that people in this income bracket hire will be out of work next.

      Jealousy is a terrible thing. If you want what someone else has, get off your butt and work for it.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:02pm

      @the almighty creestof

      I completely agree.
      My 2 sisters not only pay just ssi and medicare withholdings but ZERO income tax, they get money back at the end of the year, more than they paid in total.
      It would be terrific if my 2 sisters paid the same percentage I did, even after all my massive “deductions.”

      If I owned a company that I risked my money, my time, and my very a$$ to build, then I would most certainly take every last deduction I could, knowing that the money that is stolen from me by gov’t is being used to by votes from people like my sisters, who while sitting on their butts while I built my company, now demand I pay my “fair share.”

      Stupid assed opinions formed with only envy, but ZERO thought, are the reason so many employers have said to hell with it and moved overseas.
      As far as capital gains, any capital gains you have are taxed at the same rate as the super duper rich. Earned income is what is “progressive,” do some research and you’ll see I am telling you the truth.

      Rich don’t owe you anything.
      Rich don’t owe society anything.
      Rich don‘t owe gov’t any higher percentage than anyone else.
      Rich didn’t get rich by stealing, people bought their goods or services.
      Rich didn’t get rich by exploiting, they don’t have slaves. No one is FORCED to work for them.

      Perhaps you know this, and were being sarcastic.
      Perhaps you don’t, and you are part of the problem.

      Either way, acquiring wealth isn’t immoral, and their is wealth

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:19pm

      cont’d

      Either way, acquiring wealth isn’t immoral, and there is wealth to be created by you and for you. If want to share it with gov’t go ahead, but don‘t sit there and try to use gov’t to demand what others do with their money. Traffic lights, roads, and police are one thing, but taxes don’t need to be that damn high to fund those, and those are all local anyway.

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  • georgiavietvet
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:16pm

    mr. johnson needs to get ahold of russell simmons and straighten him out on the buffet plan. simmons is all for it, according to a piece on the blaze yesterday……………………….

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  • Magyar
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:16pm

    So he needs to recalibrate his message, eh? That’s just another way of saying —LIE MORE DECEPTIVELY AND CONVINCINGLY!

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  • stanbeck
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:10pm

    Speak up!!!! Now that is what is needed. Good job…..You know what’s coming from the left, he’ll be called an Uncle Tom….

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    • neothinker
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 9:25pm

      I doubt it, he has proven himself among black people. He has made a good point, leave it at that.

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  • crackerone
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:09pm

    Wait till Roseanne gets ahold of him. Off with his head!

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:02pm

    He is spot on, and to be congratulated for his success. Hope it continues to crate jobs.

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  • Lotus503
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:58pm

    Mr. Obama can’t re-calibrate his message…the his base, which consists mostly of Socialist/Marxists have already told him to be who he is or they’ll not support him. Case closed.

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  • Cosmos102
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:58pm

    Well.. I wondered if there were many black men who wouldn’t be afraid to stand up to Barrack Obama, aside from Herman Cain, Col. West and a few other Conservatives. I haven’t heard any one speak up from outside the D.C. Beltway until now. Thank you Mr. Johnson. It takes exceptional men and women to do so, especially from within the black community. You have my respect.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:05pm

      MINE TOO. Truth is always welcomed. I would like to know what these radical kids who are marching against Wall Street or idiots like ROSEANNE BARR hope to accomplish… the question should be this:

      IF we got rich by living in the USA and using all the freedoms given to us…then WHY isn’t EVERYONE RICH?

      THINKABOUT IT. I respect this Black Leader with BET for his courage and truthfulness!!

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:34pm

      I watched this interview and the video has been cut short. I don’t recall his exact words, and I may have misunderstood, but I was given the impression he is still an Obama supporter.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:27am

      I agree, Patty, who would follow economic or government advice from Rosanne Barr? Um, she or her views are relevant how? Her 15 minutes of fame were up 15 years ago. She can’t possibly appeal to anyone of any age that has a brain.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:55pm

    The brain washing appears to be washing off.

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  • RLTW
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:55pm

    I think that’s pretty clear, at least as clear as the young black American US Army NCO I observed last week with Rush cranked up on his radio instead of hiphop, I gotta tell you it warmed my heart.

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  • stinkybisquit
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:50pm

    Since when is attempting to have total control over people’s lives, a quest for friendship? Calling one group “Teabaggers,“ telling another to ”quit whining,“ and another to ”pay their fair share” to a different group who has absolutely no right to it, aren‘t exactly intrductions to Mr’s Roger’s neighborhood. Where did he get the idea Obama was trying to make friends, instead of supply power to a small group of otherwise inadequate leaders?

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    • momprayn
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 7:46pm

      Yes, and he’s only doing what he was great at – being a Community Organizer/speeches — whose chief purpose and job is to “agitate”. I had never heard of one before Obama and I don’t think most Americans did either. Apparently, and as Glenn has pointed out, they are great at agitating ppl and making them mad…..total opposite of what he campaigned on about bringing everyone together, blah, blah…who all the “dummies” willingly bought into.

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  • Ferrarello
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:48pm

    He doesn’t have to “get” anyone to like him… He‘s Barack O’Bummer…. Marxist at LARGE.

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  • wtc101
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:48pm

    Well Mr. Johnson, thanks for speaking up! But beware, I was called me a son-of-a-bitch last month and a racist last year…so, be prepared for your share of the mud!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:46pm

    Sounds like Mr.Johnson is a capitalist who doesn‘t like Barry’s Marxism too much,and doesn‘t like Buffet’s stupid idea either.

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  • motonutt
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:46pm

    RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON! as El Rushbo would say.

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  • Notsobright
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:46pm

    At the end of the day, he will still vote Democrate. Loop holes for the rich.

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  • drattastic
    Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:43pm

    Uh oh looks like Robert Johnson is a racist now.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 6:53pm

      I don’t think that plays into the “Rules For Radicals” playbook Mr Johnson. The plan is to pander and lie to the masses..that (the poor) being your voting base..then you take from the rich, from the middleclass and just feed the poor a line, while you line your own pockets, and fund your own cause. That’s how that works Mr Johnson.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 8:52pm

      Mr Johnson has just left the plantation……prepare to attack!

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  • Mimi24
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 12:10am

    Hey Peppa. This is Mimi. Remember me.? How are you? Glad to see that you didn’t leave the Blaze. What do you think about the coming elections? Any favorites so far?

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  • Stryker
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:10am

    Most “rich” get rich by working hard, studying hard, putting in long hours, and taking significant risk. There are a few who may have it “handed” to them but those are few in number. The “rich” in this country are made up overwhelmingly of small business owners, most of whom WERE “poor or middle class”. This whole argument of gaining wealth because you attended a “top” university is getting old too. You think those universities just hand out grades and knowledge without any effort on the students part? You think employers just overlook the person and the talent of the individual because it says Yale or Harvard on their CV? Some day when you grow up maybe you’ll understand, but only if you quit envying what others have and spend your time striving to gain your own success.

    As far as what college kids think about republicans on other “college based” web sites….WHO CARES!. I don’t believe or feel the way I do based on others thoughts or feelings. I believe the way I do based on knowledge, experience, and common sense. Obama, the left, and the socialist policies are not working here in the US and have NEVER worked in ANY country EVER!! What made this young country the greatest and most influential country in the WORLD in this short time period is FREEDOM, CAPITALISM, and the FREE MARKET…PERIOD. The farther we stray from these ideals and the CONSTITUTION that made this country great, the worse our lives will be. Stick that in your hippie pipe and

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  • go2mikerenzi
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 1:15am

    the real point is, no matter how somebody got rich, what right do you have to take their money? for all I care all you welfare grubbing MIN-or-it-TEES can go starve to death in the dark

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