Thomas Sowell: ‘Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter’

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Daily Caller:

Some conservatives will readily admit that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has his share of flaws as a candidate. But he is still much more preferable than the alternative, President Barack Obama, according to Hoover Institution scholar-in-residence Thomas Sowell.

“I don’t think Mitt Romney is going to be sparking riots against the American embassies around the world,” Sowell, the author of “Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition,” said said in an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Thursday. “t’s not a question of whether they love you or not. The question is whether they respect you. You know, I’m sure the Iranians did not love Ronald Reagan. But the fact is they’ve made it their business to get those hostages loose before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office — in fact, hours before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.”

Responding to Romney’s much-publicized 47-percent remarks about those living off the government last week, Sowell said you want to make that point with your policy proposals and not necessarily just rhetoric, as Reagan managed to in the 1980s.

“Undoubtedly, I think that’s one of the reasons they don’t come out and say what they want to say,” Sowell said. “I don’t think there’s anything callous about wanting able-bodied men to work. You know, what I think is truly callous is having a system and a set of policies that, in fact, hurts the poor. I mean, most — you mentioned Reagan. Now, I came across an old real copy of The New York Times, which had the front page headlines that the black-white income difference had narrowed slightly during the 1980s. Now, that’s the Reagan administration. More recently, the black-white income difference has widened greatly under Barack Obama. And yet, Reagan is never regarded as being someone who’s for the poor or for what not. And Obama is.”

 

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