Don't you hate it when HuffPost makes you look like a chump? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/president-obama-harvey-weinstein-fundraiser_n_1741775.html There's no reason to expect Obama to stop talking about taxing the rich during one of those fundraisers. And you set up a strawman by rephrasing what the OP said about those $35K/plate events.
TOP-10 "Only In America" Observations - by an ex-Navy SEAL business owner from Texas: [1] Only in American can the rich increase their wealth, have their taxes lowered and complain about "class warfare". [2] Only in American can corporations be considered "people". [3] Only in American can the president win the popular vote and loose the election. [4] Only in American can someone be "pro-life" and support wars and the death penalty. [5] Only in American does the media decry "Muslims Violence" but ignore relgion's role when Christians shoot defenseless kids or Sikhs. [6] Only in American do we cling to an outdated and inefficent system of measurement. [7] Only in American do we rank number one in health care spending and 37th in health care service. [8] Only in American do we waste billions of pounds of food, have half or our population overweight and still give subsidies to farms. [9] Only in American do coporations spend more on lobbying than taxes. [10] Only in American do we spend more money on the military than nearly all the nations in the world combined and claim we don't spend enough on defense.
[10] just because a guy's a former SEAL doesn't mean he knows jack shit about defense budgeting. And I remember when the sentence didn't have "nearly" in it.
Wasn't that the point of the post. Basically mocking this "candian" and his comments on America. It's easy to make these one liners about America that sound catchy and enlightening, but they really have little substance.
The original list was neither clever nor amusing. It is some drivel thought up by some cranky 55 year old former Navy Seal business owner in Texas (just guessing, of course) who wanted it to seem more legit, so he said it was made by a Canadian. Because liberals love Canada. So their opinions on us are more valid. Whoa, wait, a Canadian is saying that? Maybe Rachael Maddow is wrong! Maybe the angry gun owner across the street is right! I better go to church and rethink my political viewpoints. Oh, and the "only in American(?)" list was probably written by a 27 year old college student in Montreal. Its all about who the message is coming from, not the message itself. Politics at its best.
Only in America could someone write something like this and then attribute it to a Canadian without making sure all the theys, wes, ours and theirs are correct.
What you don't realize is that Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel wrote the Canadian tax code (as a lark, while on holiday at Banff in 1982). barfo
