Justin's Political Corner

Conservative author Pat Buchanan on Tuesday blasted President Barack Obama as a “drug dealer of welfare” and praised Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for starting a “great debate” with his comments about the 47 percent of Americans who he said were “dependant” on government services. “This is what this campaign should be about,” Buchanan told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. “You have in the United States of American something approaching half of the American people now who pay no income taxes and half of the American people who strictly get benefits from government.” Buchanan advised Romney to not write off all of the 47 percent of voters — like some veterans — who pay no income taxes, “but there are other folks, clearly, that are getting all these benefits that really just live off the benefits and aren’t trying.”