Coburn Says Obama Pushes Reliance on Programs That Aided Him
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Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said President Barack Obama espouses a “goofy and wrong” political philosophy and seeks to “create dependency” on programs that helped black males like him.
During a speaking tour of his home state, Coburn also described his fellow senators as a “class of career elitists” and jokingly voiced his frustrations by saying “it’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor,” according to an account of the senator’s comments published on the Tulsa World’s website.