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Member of the press would ask him why he uses that rhetoric when he knows it's 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 i'm sad to see the president is resort to go divide and conquer tactics. we should be in this together. >> patti ann: what about the class warfare charge? >> i don't think that's a fair argument t...

Plumbing on their sink are all already paying. that's just bringing it even and doing what the tax code is intended to do. it's the opposite of class warfare. it's just simple fairness. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, let me say this. this class warfare charge is really bogus. it's not about the rich against the poor. the only class warfare is those with class and those with no class that don't think that the rich ought to be paying their share. senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> ahead, new gop union bastion. the republican flavor of the month m...

Fine. when we talk about middle class and poor people being treated in a fairway, all of a sudden it's 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 obama's reelection strategy is designed to bring people together, 56% say it brings people together. 32% say it drives people apart. so most people don't feel it's practices class warfare. >> well, they don't. what they really know is their own pocketbooks. they know that their wages aren't going nearly as far as they used to. they know that t...

Let's 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, we're going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that's class warfare. >> well, i don't believe that class warfare is leadership. and, you know, we could get into this tax the rich, tax the rich, but that is not -- that's not the basis for america. and it's not going to get our economy going again. and it's not going to put people back to work. >> well, today president obama reacted to the class warfare char...

Class warfare is leadership. and, you know, we could get into this tax the rich, tax the rich, but that is not -- that's not the basis for america. and it's not going to get our economy going again. and it's not going to put people back to work. >> well, today president obama reacted to the class warfare charge. let's listen to the president again. >> middle class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. that's pretty straightforward. either we ask the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share in taxes, or we're going to have to ask seniors to pay more for med...