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barnabas63

(1,214 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:04 PM Oct 2012

Obama swipes at Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand fandom

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/264161-obama-swipes-at-paul-ryans-ayn-rand-fandom

President Obama dismissed Ayn Rand, whom Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said at one point "inspired him," as having "a pretty narrow vision" in an interview with Rolling Stone.

"Well, you'd have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him," Obama said in the interview. "Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we're considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that's a pretty narrow vision."

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POTUS tells Ryan to grow up! lol
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Obama swipes at Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand fandom (Original Post) barnabas63 Oct 2012 OP
Ryan is a very immature person. madaboutharry Oct 2012 #1
Let's see if pryan takes the bait Merlot Oct 2012 #2

madaboutharry

(40,211 posts)
1. Ryan is a very immature person.
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:11 PM
Oct 2012

Look at those ridiculous workout photos with the red cap. Would a serious person ever take pictures like that?

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
2. Let's see if pryan takes the bait
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:31 PM
Oct 2012

He can either jump to the defense of randism which would disprove his earlier statements that he no longer believed in rand, or he can stay silent while Obama compares him to a teenager.

Kind of a no-win for pryan.

Nice work, Obama!

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