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Jon Voight: Obama turns JFK 'ask not' theme 'upside down'

August 28, 2012 | 1:28 pm
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TAMPA, Fla. - Actor Jon Voight has been stirring it up at the Republican National Convention, but on Tuesday he really hit hard in calling President Obama and the Democrats a party of propagandists that hope to put the nation on welfare.

Worse, he suggested that JFK wouldn't recognize his party. Voight said that the Democrats have turned upside down Kennedy's famous line, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Obama, he charged, "is saying, 'Ask what your country can do for you. Your government will give you everything. We'll take care of you."

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