“His intent is not to destroy, his intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him.”
—U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on President Barack Obama. The senator was responding to a man asking if Obama wanted “to destroy America” during an Aug. 17 town hall meeting in Langley, according to the Tulsa World. Coburn also said Obama received “tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs” as “an African- American male.”
This article appears in Aug 17-23, 2011.