In response to an excellent question on another thread, I decided to write this article to clear up the term "Socialist" that I've often tagged Barack Obama with, here on Gather. He is one because he supports government expansion, higher taxes, and greater ownership of the means of production and distribution of these systems. Go to barackobama.com and see for yourself. Most likely you'll see him at the Home page with another Socialist, John Edwards.
Political labels, like "Socialist" or "Far Left" are relative to the types of governments they represent. Let me give you an example :
In 1987, most of the old-line Soviet leadership would have been called VERY Conservative...............Conservative for a Communist, that is.
In the American system, any of those old-line Soviets would have been considered WILDLY Left Wing - which they were.
In a Communist system like North Korea, Kim Jong-il is a Conservative.
In a Communist system like Cuba, Fidel and Raul Castro are Conservatives.
However, in our political system, all 3 are WILDLY Left Wing.
Obama is not "just slightly Left of Center"................he's FAR Left, and has the accreditations from many Left Wing magazines for his Far Left views. The most memorable one was his rating in The National Journal, who has a yearly Liberal ranking of Senators and Congressmen, based purely on their voting record. Guess who ranked as this year's #1 most Liberal Senator? Yep, you guessed it : Barack Obama.
That alone puts him at the farthest Left extreme on the American political scale. Hillary was ranked #16.............which actually puts her in the "slightly Left of Center" category.
There's the truth for you.
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Meanwhile we have terrorists who are probably praying that a dim wit inbexpereinced dwab gets in and we have millions of people without national health care. We have good jobs that are evaporating and we have big companies ruining the environment and our health by putting cheap chemicals instead of nutrients into our food and water supply.
McCain said we should negotiate with Hamas. Caught on tape. The guy is a liar.
McCain: Current administration [Bush] should realize that we must deal with Hamas video
The above video shows McCain saying the Bush administration should talk to Hamas. The guy is lying to us. He lied to us to win the nomination. He is a liberal talks like them.
JOHN McCAIN WILL TALK TO HAMAS. That's what he believes until he started running. DNC will play these ads with the 100 years. Very damaging. WAKE UP conservatives. He is not the nominee yet. There is a convention.
Obama lies too. A LOT.
Obama is already backing out of his statement about leaving Iraq. LMAO. Just wait, there will be MORE.
Carol, its a hang-over from the Cold War where you tarred someone as a Communist by calling them a Socialist. The name calling resonates well with the John Birch Society crowd and people who worship Rush Limbaugh. It forgets the fact that most advanced industrial Western countries are Socialists. Calling people Socialists is supposed to be an insult in the reality mindset where Christ threw the first stone at the adultress and patted the money-changers on the back and said vote for me!
People on the Left are no longer denying that Obama is a Socialist - they're now asking the question "So what's so bad about Obama being a Socialist?" or "Why is Socialism so bad?"
Frankly, I was getting a little tired of telling Lefties that the sky was blue..............not orange. Now they're at least coming around to the truth.