It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Penn JilletteI don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
Penn JilletteA famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.
Penn JilletteThe only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. Heโs about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? Thereโd be riots in the streets about the people weโre killing. And yet because itโs Obama, and heโs better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.
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