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R. Donahue Peebles - whose company website touts The Peebles Corp. as "the country's largest African American real estate development company,"
Last year hosted a dinner raising $100K - $200K for Obama's re-election.
However,...
... in a 20-minute conversation with HuffPost Monday, Peebles went much further in blasting Obama's campaign messaging than he has before. He said, as he told other press outlets, that his frustration was sparked by receiving an email from the DNC that mocked Romney as "out of touch" for having a boat that fit 12 people, accompanied by a picture of the Republican presumptive nominee on vacation.
"That offended me. Now if I were on the fence, he'd have lost me," said Peebles, who described himself as nonetheless a "big supporter of the president's."
"What I get concerned about is the message from the Obama campaign that we only want someone who has not been successful to run for president. What do we want here? You can't be successful and run the country? We don't want somebody who has been successful to run it? That doesn't make sense," Peebles said.
But he goes further...
But he also took issue with Obama's recently revived talking point about raising taxes on those who make $250,000 or more a year.
"I'm so tired of hearing that the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes. Yeah we are," Peebles said. "The super vast majority of wealthy Americans do not wake up every day and say, 'Let's see how we can pay less than our fair share of taxes.' They say, 'We're going to follow the law and we're going to hire some good accountants to tell us how to do it. And we're going to pay no more or no less than our fair share.'
"So to say that wealthy individuals are not paying their fair is unfair and delusional," he said. "So what should be said is that the wealthy Americans should have their tax rates raised because we need more money. Now by the way, if they got all these tax raises it still wouldn't put a dent in the national debt."
And furthermore...
"We cannot attack wealth creation and attack people just because they're wealthy and we can't attack wealth and success, and making that a bad thing. It's like going to school and the bullies picking on the A-students, calling them nerds and so forth. So, what do we want, a whole school of dummies?"
Not a happy camper here...
What's amazing to me is that he is just now getting to this point. This is a guy obviously smart w/ his business - and he is just now seeing this. I guess better late than never - but geez - I don't get why more business people don't see this.
Obama will drive him away from the party. Class warfare has been a main means of political attack by the Democrats - and they will continue the message. Hopefully more of the donors start to come to the light.
It isn't. He's 'their' hero, all big and talking smack like he does.
And he says his biggest failure has not being able to tell stories.
That's all he does is tell stories and lie.
What a buffoon.
But they love him........
They also think The Bachelor is real, so there ya have it! The dumbing down of America is nearly complete.
Any type of unethical behavior wouldn't sway those people. But Obama's transparent lying will affect him with swing voters, independents. They do not like this sort of thing.
Obama and his equally stupid Democrats have NEVER realized that when you raise taxes on the 'wealthy' (his ludicrous assertion that $250K constitutes 'wealthy' reeks of ignorance) the revenue always goes DOWN, as if Illinois's abysmal balance sheet isn't enough proof.
What's amazing to me is that he is just now getting to this point. This is a guy obviously smart w/ his business - and he is just now seeing this. I guess better late than never - but geez - I don't get why more business people don't see this.
And yet he's still a big Obama supporter. Talk about voting against your own best interest.
"What I get concerned about is the message from the Obama campaign that we only want someone who has not been successful to run for president. What do we want here? You can't be successful and run the country? We don't want somebody who has been successful to run it? That doesn't make sense," Peebles said.
The man's arguments sound like the ones I make. The wealthy are most certainly paying their fair share, in fact they pay the vast majority of all taxes, and they pay at a higher income tax rate then lower income earners.
A person does not have to be a partisan or zealot for the Republican Party, in order to find disagreement or dissatisfaction with 0bama's performance as president. All you need to be, is honest with yourself, and look at the reality of our country's economic situation. Nothing has improved, we have declined in wealth and production as a nation, with record setting benchmarks of poor performance.
Maybe the 0bama reelection team is pushing this campaign, where we are supposed to be suspicious and envious of the successful people, because they know 0bama has been a failure, so we should settle for failure too. If the campaign was pushing the message that we should be praising the successful accomplishments of people, then 0bama would not be our man.
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