If the Party of European Socialists were to rate Obama, he would get a near perfect score. The political views and programs that Obama is prepared to reveal to the public are consistent with those of European socialists. He is clearly a socialist in the European sense of the term.
If the “socialist label” sticks, Obama faces an even more uphill 2012 campaign. In scripted moments – like Tuesday’s State of the Union Address — he must present his socialist campaign themes while avoiding the appearance of being a socialist.
Obama must worry most about those slips in unscripted moments that, I believe, reveal a deep animosity towards private enterprise. He has given us a few fleeting glimpses, such as his complaint about the Constitution’s “negative rights and his off-the-cuff “spread the wealth around” remark. His most recent and significant slip was to tell Occupy Wall Street protesters: “You are the reason I ran for office.”
Obama’s defenders will counter that Republicans also accept Social Security and a progressive income tax and that his slips are taken out of context. But these criticisms fail to address the remarkable coincidence of Obama’s views with those of European socialists. By comparing Obama not to Lenin or Mao but to European socialism, we have placed the question “Is Obama a socialist?” in a fair and appropriate context.
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For a socialist, the president does a great impression of a neocon.
ReplyDeleteNo, he is worst than that. Socialist is just a Communist Junior in Training. He was a Socialist when hanging out with Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright while applying Saul Alinsky Indoctrination Book. He is already way passed that now, building FEMA Camps for anyone who disagree with him. Kind of like when Stalin was putting people in Gulags. Welcome to the new United Socialist States of America. Keep cheering, Sheeple, U.S.S.A, U.S.S.A !!!.
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