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Member of the press would ask him why he uses that rhetoric when he knows its not true for people who are 55 and older. and you got to hand it to president obama, he is just running a divide and conquer campaign, pitting one group of americans against another group of americans. people who he calls millionaires and billionaires against other americans. this is not the barak obama who ran in 2008 and im sad to see the president is resort to go divide and conquer tactics. we should be in this toge...

Plumbing on their sink are all already paying. thats just bringing it even and doing what the tax code is intended to do. its the opposite of class warfare. its just simple fairness. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, let me say this. this class warfare charge is really bogus. its not about the rich against the poor. the only class warfare is those with class and those with no class that dont think that the rich ought to be paying their share. senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you for your time toni...

Fine. when we talk about middle class and poor people being treated in a fairway, all of a sudden its class warfare, but look at this poll. american people are basically not agreeing with this class warfare charge. when a recent poll says that president obamas reelection strategy is designed to bring people together, 56% say it brings people together. 32% say it drives people apart. so most people dont feel its practices class warfare. >> well, they dont. what they really know is their own pocke...

Lets listen. >> class warfare, chris, may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics. >> when you pick one area of the economy and you say, were going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, thats class warfare. >> well, i dont believe that class warfare is leadership. and, you know, we could get into this tax the rich, tax the rich, but that is not -- thats not the basis for america. and its not going to get our economy going again. and its not going...

Class warfare is leadership. and, you know, we could get into this tax the rich, tax the rich, but that is not -- thats not the basis for america. and its not going to get our economy going again. and its not going to put people back to work. >> well, today president obama reacted to the class warfare charge. lets listen to the president again. >> middle class families shouldnt pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. thats pretty straightforward. either we ask the wealthiest america...

>> class warfares never created a job. >> well, i dont believe that class warfare is leadership. >> were going to just do class warfare. >> its time for us to get serious. >> engaging in class warfare. really? >> none of this is about class warfare. >> president obama reacted to the class warfare charge. >> this is not class warfare. its math. this morning in his opening remarks introducing his new deficit reduction plan the president showed that he gets the joke about republicans. >> a week a...

>> the speaker says we cant have it my way or the highway. >> taking a fight to the republicans. >> and then basically says, my way. or the highway. >> republicans are already picking it apart. >> theres no education the second kick of a mule. >> republicans saying this is dead on arrival. >> dead on arrival. >> you do understand, congressman, the average person out there whos making $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a year, when they hear you have $400,000 left over, its not exactly a sympathetic posit...