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Obama, Unsurprisingly, Gets Ayn Rand Wrong

By Ari Armstrong

Oct 25, 2012
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Barack Obama claims to have read Ayn Rand, which is hard to believe given how completely he misrepresents her views. Of course, Obama’s distortions of Rand’s ideas feed his political agenda of forcing wealth transfers and shackling producers, policies Rand certainly would have rejected as immoral and destructive.

In a Rolling Stone interview with Douglas…

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