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Barack Obama Doesn’t Think Ayn Rand is a ‘Fountainhead’ of Ideas
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012...nt-think-ayn-rand-is-a-fountainhead-of-ideas/
If you’re thinking of asking President Barack Obama to see “Atlas Shrugged: Part II,” hold on to those tickets. In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine (one in which the president suggests that young people can look at Mitt Romney and sense ” ‘Well, that’s a bullsh–ter, I can tell’”), Obama takes a shot at novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of “The Fountainhead,” and a favorite thinker of some conservatives.
When asked about GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s interest in Rand, Obama said, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we’re only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we’re considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that’s a pretty narrow vision. It’s not one that, I think, describes what’s best in America. Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a ‘you’re on your own’ society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party.” The full interview is in the Nov. 8 issue of the magazine
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012...nt-think-ayn-rand-is-a-fountainhead-of-ideas/
If you’re thinking of asking President Barack Obama to see “Atlas Shrugged: Part II,” hold on to those tickets. In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine (one in which the president suggests that young people can look at Mitt Romney and sense ” ‘Well, that’s a bullsh–ter, I can tell’”), Obama takes a shot at novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of “The Fountainhead,” and a favorite thinker of some conservatives.
When asked about GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s interest in Rand, Obama said, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we’re only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we’re considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that’s a pretty narrow vision. It’s not one that, I think, describes what’s best in America. Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a ‘you’re on your own’ society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party.” The full interview is in the Nov. 8 issue of the magazine
