Posted on 10/16/2008 10:37:09 AM PDT by kellynla
No. Really. You're kidding me. Barack Obama actually told that Joe the Plumber guy that he wants to "spread the wealth around." What, did Obama just get done reading the Wikipedia entry on Huey "Share the Wealth" Long or something? Was he somehow channeling that left-wing populist from the Depression? Talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists.
A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama's. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.
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The problem is half of Americans think socialism sounds like a good thing.
I wish the “Senator Government” moniker would get repeated on an hourly basis.
Calling Captain Obvious.....
I was thinking that myself, especially in a time when we are going through a recession. But it should be fairly obvious to most observant people that the "rich" are getting crushed the drops in the stock markets.
It's like breathing to everyone else--it comes naturally, and with absolutely no effort!!
"From each according to his ability,,,,etc.
“The problem is half of Americans think socialism sounds like a good thing.”
yep!...Most don’t know what Socialsim is....they like Canana...think it will work for them ...(free Health-care)...and are ready to sign up. THAT is the biggest threat we all face....ignorance.
It is free market capitalism, not socialist redistribution, that has been conclusively demonstrated to “spread the wealth” more widely and more deeply than any other economic system.
And that number,,,is NOT shrinking.
“The problem is half of Americans think socialism sounds like a good thing.”
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Bullseye. THE fundamental problem in our country today.
And, much of that is based on envy. God knew what he was doing with those Commandments.
You're right. It is a huge problem. I wish they could see that even socialism doesn't quite capture his intentions.
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“A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama’s. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.”
Who? Milton Friedman? Leo Strauss? Richard Posner? Antonin Scalia? T.S. Eliot?
That's the problem...it sounds good. In practice, it is devastating.
Yes he did.
Spreading? SPREADING??
What a wonderfully sugar-coated euphemism for,
CONFISCATION"!!!
I just got one of those emails going around that said:
‘A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover
they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.’
‘From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who
promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that
every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is
always followed by a dictatorship.’
It would be a shame if a few well-populated, greedy regions of our country tore down the whole system.
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