"President Obama is
extremely wealthy," Bachmann said when USA Today asked how someone with
"vast wealth" could connect to the American public. "He and his
wife have been wealthy for a number of years, and so I think that's really the
issue. President Obama is wealthy–what does he understand about the common man
right now?"
Right-wingers are always droning on about how they're the party that truly values freedom, because left-wing regulations take away your freedom to exploit others. What they always forget is that those being exploited are having their freedom taken away.
This is just one example: a coal company forcing its employees to attend a political rally, without pay. Making anything "unpaid and mandatory" is unethical enough; doubly so when that thing is a political rally. What next? Forcing them to vote a certain way?
A right-winger would argue that this is "true freedom" because the coal CEO is "free" to force his employees into political rallies, and cracking down on this would infringe on such freedom. By that logic, a dictatorship is the most liberating form of government around, because by god that dictator gets to do WHATEVER HE WANTS!
I'll spell this out: the "freedom" we're supposed to protect is the ability of individuals to live their lives as they see fit, not the ability of a select few to control the lives of others. The coal CEOs can go to the goddamned rally themselves; THAT's freedom. Forcing others to go to rallies; forcing others to drink polluted water; forcing others to receive shitty pay for dangerous work: these are not freedom. They're acts of tyranny. And it makes no difference whether they're committed by a government or a corporation; they do equal harm either way.
Come to think of it, why haven't we clamored to see Mitt Romney's birth certificate? He hasn't proven his citizenship any more than Obama did (before revealing his).
In this clip, Romney is outright confirming that the whole birth certificate farce was nothing more than good old-fashioned racism. Here, you have two politicians who have shown the country the exact same level of proof that they're citizens (again, prior to Obama's big BC-reveal). Yet only one has been pestered to show his papers. The reason? Because Romney has shown one piece of "proof" that Obama hasn't: white skin. That's the only difference in their citizenship indicators, and I'm supposed to believe that racism has nothing to do with it?
The fact that this comedy of errors continues even after Obama showed us his birth certificate is just further proof that this is nothing more than hood-wearing, cross-burning, sister-fucking racism. We're taking white skin as more reliable proof than a literal full-form birth certificate. And Romney's response? Validation. Gloating. In this video, he's admitting to being every bit as racist as every other birther. Is this something that we, in fucking 2012, really want in a President?
