Is Obama really a socialist? Some say so, but where's the evidence?

christian science monitor ^ | Ron Scherer,

[Nachum]

The assertion is getting louder: President Obama is a socialist, a wealth-redistributing wolf in Democrat's clothing gnawing at America's entrepreneurial spirit.

It's easy to buy "Obama is a socialist" bumper stickers on the Internet. Political commentator Dick Morris said, in a column circulated on GOPUSA.com, that conservatives are "enraged at Barack Obama's socialism and radicalism." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich titled his new book "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine."

[Nachum]

Oooookay... Socialist? Proof? Hmmm.. I bet FReepers could offer some. Here is a few tidbits to start...

He---

Socialized Medicine
Took over Two of our major car companies
Took over the student loan industry
Has at least 34 former or current members of the Democratic Socialists of America or Communist Party who work in the White House for him

-and that's just to start

[MrB]

No, he’s a fascist.

And here’s another avenue of argument -

“sure, let’s say he’s not a socialist/communist/fascist - how would he be acting differently if he were?”

[unkus]

Nachum, you are to be commended for keeping track with your list.

0bama is pure evil. The proof is in the pudding.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Socialist” is way too kind to this guy

[Hans]

No he is not a socialist, he is a Marxist. A full throated,
blood to the elbow Communist.
And beware of humorless megalomaniacs.

[skeeter]

How about we just take his word for it?

"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money," Sen. Obama said. "If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?"

[DesertRhino]

“And beware of humorless megalomaniacs.”

Dude,,, you know, he does only laugh when it’s at the expense of others.

[GreyFriar]

They don’t recognize him as a socialist because they refuse to admit the reality that modern American liberalism is socialism. They prefer to see themselves as in line with earlier classical liberal ideals, rather than how they have kept the name, but thrown out all that classical liberalism stood for. Those classical liberals are the modern conservatives and libertarians.

[DebraAI]

I can’t believe that they would even title their article as such. The man is clearly a Marxist with a hidden Marxist past and evil goals for America.

[ilovesarah2012]

Bad analogy. You buy a pizza and someone from the government comes to your house and takes half of your pizza and gives it to your neighbor. If I want to share my pizza, I can. The government shouldn’t make me.

[gulfcoast6]

Easy, watch his mouth move...

[frogjerk]

Typical tactic of the left. Get some really wacked left-wingers and have them say he isn't one of them and POOF...all of sudden Obama is a "moderate".

Not falling for it.

[the_Watchman]

Good list. I think for Freepers is simply a matter of deciding what brand of socialism. Many of us contend that he behaves like a Nazi, since he has used his bullying tactics to heavily control industry; e.g., forcing the banks to take stimulus funds and extorting funds from BP. The majority want to label him a Communist due to actions like taking over student loans and health industry.

Perhaps we should coin a new label which combines both? I propose Communazi!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Is Obama really a socialist?.....

Do you really need to ask this question here?

He’s part of the “hate America” crowd. He’s bundled in with all the facists, socialists, communists and anarchists. He hates the Constitution. He hates middle America. He hates us......

[Psycho_Bunny]

I would if he were a friend.

But some random schmo in Idaho or New York? They can bite me.

[cripplecreek]

"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money," Sen. Obama said. "If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?"

I would try but the government will step in and demand that all the people get a slice and some folks are far more deserving than either my friend or myself so we'll be left starving as the resturant fills with uninvited unpaying diners who will eat my pizza.

[oyez]

Wenn es quakt wie eine Ente, es muss eine Ente sein.

S'il quack comme un canard il doit être un canard.

Si los quack como un pato, que debe ser un pato.

[a fool in paradise]

He didn’t know that Van Jones, campaign office workers, etc. were all avowed Marxists.

[presently no screen name]

Is Obama really a socialist? Some say so, but where's the evidence?

First open the eyes, the rest is easy.

[frogjerk]

I would try but the government will step in and demand that all the people get a slice and some folks are far more deserving than either my friend or myself so we'll be left starving as the resturant fills with uninvited unpaying diners who will eat my pizza.

The recipient would also be audited and taxed for not declaring this "gift".

[Nachum]

http://www.nachumlist.com/socialists.htm

[ntmxx]

“…how would he be acting differently if he were.”

I like the tag and clarity!

[goodnesswins]

Think about this.....we know MORE about the Russian Spies recently found....than we do about our so called President.

[oneolcop]

Waddles like a duck, has feathers like a duck, has a flat beak like a duck, has flat feet like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs around with ducks, hmm, nope couldn’t be a duck, must be a duck billed platypus...

[two23]

Yes, he is a disgrace.

[Tzimisce]

Is this a serious question?

Better question: how do you know someone is a journalist?

[Dixie Yooper]

Socialism is just a pretty picture that fascists and communists paint when they want to enslave the gullible public who are too lazy or haven't figured yet out how to make it in a capitalistic environment.

[meadsjn]

Ron Scherer, you ignorant slut.

Americans don't really care which label our anti-American enemies wear. Time is running out for you and yours.

[cranked]

Utterly amazing the CSM canNOT figure this out on their collective own....idiots.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They play word games with the definition of socialist, they point out little details and differences of degree as proof that it is not socialism, but down at the rotten stinking bottom it is unadulterated marxism.

The differences between German national socialism and Italian fascism as compared to Marxism are irrelevant from my level of view, they all consist of a boot planted firmly on my neck. A blend of all three won't be any different.

[TMSuchman]

A good friend of mine once told me, if you want to be a writer, hang around a libary. If you want to be a lawyer hang around a court house, ect.

What he was saying to me is that we are known by the company we keep around us. Just like what our mothers used to say [mine did at least]

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Marxist and fascist.

[FrankR]

obama? a socialist?

No...he's just a misunderstood adolescent with a chip on his shoulder who thinks his calling from allah is to take from the haves and redistribute to the "moocher" class in a round-robin plan to keep himself re-elected.

Proof? Well, this late in the game, any dumb fu** that needs proof that oblammer is a socialist, hasn't been paying attention.

[US_MilitaryRules]

More like a COMMUNIST!!!!!!!!

[cripplecreek]

The paying diner and his friend will eventually walk out of the resturant and the resturant will eventually close. Then the uninvited and unpaying diners will start to get hungry and angry. The first person they’ll blame is the greedy resturant owner who was driven to bankruptcy and then they’ll turn on the former paying diner.

In the end the freeloaders will turn on each other because that’s all that will be left.

[MBB1984]

None are so blind, as those who refuse to see.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He's NOT a socialist.

He's a demagogic corporatist who works for George Soros.

[vwbug]

How do you know Barney Frank is gay
How do you know Nancy Pelosi is the Botox Queen
How do you know Hillary is Fat
How do you know Joe Biden is a moron
How do you know Al Gore is a big fat buffoon

I think it’s the hearing and seeing thing and yes I do believe my ears and eye

[MrB]

The “paying diners” should understand that they need to own and practice with firearms in the face of the eventuality of the freeloaders personally coming to take whatever he has left.

[Jeff Head]

He’s a Marxist. Everything he has done exemplifies this. Command economy, government control of all things, etc. etc.

[Psalm 144]

Also, compare Obama’s economic policy objectives with Lenin’s New Economic Policy of 1921.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

Not an exact matchup, but does catch the major points.

[mountainlion]

Just what do these people think a socialist is?

[PGR88]

“...President Obama is a socialist, a wealth-redistributing wolf in Democrat’s clothing...”

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Huh?? Modern Democrats themselves are wealth-redistributing to the core.

It would be more accurate to say Obama is a Marxist wolf in Socialist’s clothing.

[UnChained]

“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Sen. Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?”

Seeing stoop down to say this to a little kid did it for me. He self identified as a Marxist with that one.

[Psalm 144]

“a boot planted firmly on my neck”

A phrase popularized by the original Bolsheviks, by the way.

[CT]

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barack_Obama

[sodpoodle]

Are these idiots expecting him to stand up at the podium and declare “I am a proud Marxist”??????

Will that evidence satisfy them?

[TLI]

Is Obama really a socialist? Some say so, but where's the evidence?

Ron Scherer, putz extraordinaire.

Try this...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2150738/posts

(Below is from the post)

Skip to comments.Google: Obama’s Residence Linked to PSL Phone Number
© 2008 TexasDarlin/TD Blog ^ | December 17, 2008 | by texasdarlin

Posted on 12/18/2008 3:54:57 AM PST by Fred Nerks

This is curious and bizarre. A reader, Jane, conducted some Google searches related to the Obamas’ Chicago home on Greenwood Avenue, and discovered the following, which I verified with my own searches, and documented with screenshots at approximately 2:30 PM ET on 12/17/08:

A Google search of the Obamas’ address, 5046 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, yields this:

Greenwood Ave. Search 12/17/08

The phone number listed for the address, if you can’t make it out, is 415-821-6171, a San Francisco area code. When I Google’d that phone number, this came up:

Greenwood Phone Search 12/17/08

The phone number associated with the Obama’s mansion is the number for the national Party of Socialism and Liberation. When I clicked on that link, I got this:

PSL Home Page 12/17/08

And a tab for local offices on the PSL site shows this:

PSL Local Offices Page 12/17/08

Why on Earth is the phone number for the Party for Socialism and Liberation linked to the Obamas’ private residence in Chicago?

Theories?

Thank you again, Jane.

[Dayman]

I bet Joe the Plumber could offer up some first hand evidence.

[C210N]

Not only is he a Marxist.... but he is paving the way to making the world safe for Marxism. But, I repeat myself.