I think it helps all around, because it's not good for one person to be sitting here at a desk working hard all day, competent, and for their neighbor, who's incompetent or lazy, to get the same pay.
Asheville, North Carolina Remarks at a Reception for John Ingram.
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I don't think the administration has ever picked up the ball, much less dropped it.
I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.
But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.
An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.
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