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New Gingrich has repeatedly referred to President Obama as \u201cThe Food Stamp\u201d President while contrasting that with his own aims to become \u201cThe Paycheck\u201d President.<\/p>\n

Ron Paul, in an attempt to beat unruly logic into submission, has tried to convince us that \u201centitlements\u201d are not \u201crights.\u201d In an effort to dispute affirmative action and minority rights he equates such \u201centitlements\u201d with the \u201centitlements\u201d that big businesses get from big government, thus causing the word itself to lose any precision it might have had. This of course is in addition to his refusal to clearly address his connection to several blatantly racist comments on publications bearing his name.<\/p>\n

Rick Santorum, descendant of Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cWelfare Queen\u201d rhetoric, told a room of mostly white voters in Iowa that he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cmake black people\u2019s lives better by giving them somebody else\u2019s money.\u201d
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