I’ve had about as much as I can stand of this guy, though I suppose I have to thank him for providing us with this to talk about all weekend: “I don’t know when they [McCain and Palin] decided that they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”

Just who’s making a virtue out of selfishness, here? Obama is actively promoting people to depend on him, as president, to improve their material standing by taking other people’s money. People wanting to keep their own property is selfish, while those demanding that it be given to them are not. Wow.

I know people will be talking all weekend about that quote, but to me, To me, the more damning statements came afterward (emphasis mine):

The next thing I know, they’re gonna . . . find evidence of my communistic tendencies because I shared my toys when I was in kindergarten . . . because I split my peanut butter and jelly sandwich with my friend when I was in sixth grade . . . .

Memo to Barack: those were YOUR freaking toys! Share your own stuff as much as you want, that doesn’t make you a communist, nor would McCain or Palin use sharing your stuff as evidence of communistic tendencies. Because they are smart enough to know that it is forcing other people to give up all their stuff to the government so the government can dole it out that is the essence of communism. Barack’s either too stupid to know the difference or deliberately bullshitting people hungry to be bullshitted.

You want to talk about selfish, Barack? Look at your running mate, who’s given roughly 1% of his income to charity over the last ten years.

UPDATE: Cassy Fiano says it better (then again, I set a pretty low bar):

Look, I get the point Obama’s making. We need to help out our neighbors. No one disagrees with that. The issue here is how. According to Obama, and most liberals, the government must be the one who does all of the helping — and they do that by taking money from other citizens. The notion that Americans (the most generous people on the planet) could possibly be charitable without coercion is a foreign one to Obama.

Opposing big government does not make someone selfish, and for Obama to insinuate that shows a lot about his mentality and what kind of America we can look forward to if he wins. Gone will be the America of enterprising hard workers. Why bother, when the government will do everything for you?