Obama Says Ayn Rand Is For Teens

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35. I wish Ryan's Rand obsession would get more press

The lady was a godless atheist and only in the last couple of months has Ryan claimed to distance himself from her. If more senior citizens knew Rand's philosophy in regards to Medicare and Ryan's love of here that would win us Florida right there. The fact that Ryan thinks of himself as a devout, pious, religious Catholic and at the same time embraces with a passion Rand's atheistic worldview demonstrates the fundamental disconnect Christian conservatives display between their need to hate, judge others, dominate women, and their greed.

"Ryan not only tried to get all of the interns in his congressional office to read Rand’s writing, he also gave copies of her novel "Atlas Shrugged" to his staff as Christmas presents, as he told the Weekly Standard in 2003."

"[T]he reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism." -- Paul Ryan, 2005

"What’s unique about what’s happening today in government, in the world, in America, is that it’s as if we’re living in an Ayn Rand novel right now. I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault." -- Paul Ryan, 2009

His "denunciation" of her is certainly very recent and politically expedient.