TAMPA, Fla. – Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand
Paul said Wednesday the fading American Dream will not be restored
unless the country elects a new president, then directed his sharpest
criticism at President Obama’s health care law, saying “the whole damn
thing is unconstitutional.”
The first-term senator made his remarks at the Republican national
convention, using working-class Americans and immigrant families like
his to make his point.
In an open message to Obama, Paul said telling small-business owners
that “You didn’t build that” insults "the dishwasher, the cook, the
waitress. You insult anyone who has ever dragged themselves out of bed
to strive for something better for themselves or their children.”
Paul said such a comment also insults a Cambodian family that owns a donut shop that he and his family like to frequent.
“Their family fled war-torn Cambodia to come to this country,” he
said. “Mrs. Taing told us that the family works through the night to
make donuts. The Taing children have become valedictorians and National
Merit Scholars. The Taings from Cambodia are an American success story,
so Mr. President don’t you go telling the Taings: 'You didn’t build
that.' "
