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Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know.

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Sabz5150
 
Reply Tue 17 Mar, 2009 02:03 am
washingtonpost.com

It took a massive global financial crisis, a failed military adventure and a popular repudiation of the Republican Party to make my national television debut possible. After 15 years of socialist political organizing -- everything from licking envelopes and handing out leaflets to the more romantic task of speaking at street demonstrations -- I found myself in the midtown Manhattan studio of the Fox Business Network on a cold February evening. Who ever thought that being the editor of the Socialist magazine, circulation 3,000, would launch me on a cable news career?

All this speculation over whether our current president is a socialist led me into the sea of business suits, BlackBerrys and self-promoters in the studio at Fox Business News. I quickly realized that the antagonistic anchor David Asman had little interest in exploring socialist ideas on bank nationalization. For Asman, nationalization was merely a code word for socialism. Using logic borrowed from the 1964 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," he portrayed Obama as a secret socialist, so far undercover that not even he understood that his policies were de facto socialist. I was merely a cudgel to be wielded against the president -- a physical embodiment of guilt by association.

The funny thing is, of course, that socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of us. Not only is he not a socialist, he may in fact not even be a liberal. Socialists understand him more as a hedge-fund Democrat -- one of a generation of neoliberal politicians firmly committed to free-market policies.

Generally... anyone who screams "socialism" when mentioning the Obama administration is a conservative drunk off of the Kool-Aid.
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xexon
 
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Reply Tue 17 Mar, 2009 06:35 am
@Sabz5150,
Obama is a talking head, as were all modern presidents before him. Not a single leader among them. All errand boys.

When people label Obama as one thing or another, it doesn't affect the real power behind the throne.

It's all for show in the public eye anyway.




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Sabz5150
 
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Reply Tue 17 Mar, 2009 08:11 pm
@xexon,
Why, because he's not nuking Israel?

C'mon.
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g-man
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2009 02:01 pm
@Sabz5150,
He belongs to George Soros.
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