[jwalsh07]

Both. In the vernacular socialist means “ sharing the wealth”. Under that definition there can be no doubt that Obama is socialist as well as fascist.

[caddie]

1.) Thomas Sowell needs nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economics or Literature, or both.

Write your mayor, Congressa$$hole, or Senator. Only elected persons can do it.

2.) Fascist, socialist, Marxist, Stalinist.

All of the above. To paraphrase the Bard, "A turd by any other name would smell as sweet."

[Lysandru]

I started comparing Obama to Mussolini back in early 2009. It's not just that I recognized fascist economic policy when I saw it(and just look at some of his totalitarian slips of the tongue).

When I read a biography of Mussolini, I was astounded at the colossal ego that the man had. Mussolini once held 8 portfolios in his government. He was totally incompetent at all of them. Fast forward to this Administration--and you get authors claiming that Obama thinks he knows more than his advisers.

[JoeFromSidney]

When Obama was elected, I remarked to a Liberal friend, "Somewhere amidst the flames, Benito Mussolini and Karl Marx are laughing and slapping each other on the back."

[xzins]

What is the evidence that Obama is actually a communist rather than a fascist?

First, I have no doubt that Obama is behaving as a fascist now. He uses crony corporatism to the hilt.

However, his associations of the past peg him as a communist. Bill Ayers, the organizing committees of his Chicago street years, and the ideas he incorporated from his father would cause me to peg him as a communist rather than a fascist.

I imagine he despises his corporate hosts, that he really does hate the rich (who aren’t him) and that he would rather be the lone cock on the rock rather than a partner with a yard full of bantams.

Romney, on the other hand, is a full social corporatist and proud of his ties to other elites like himself.

[BelegStrongbow]

I’m late getting here also, but I have been referring to him as a fascist since at least the 2008 election cycle as have others.

And it’s been a tough sell for people who do not know the difference between National Socialist and Fascist. The MSM really has succeeded in equating the two.

Just as Orwell said they would do.

[BelegStrongbow]

I’m late getting here also, but I have been referring to him as a fascist since at least the 2008 election cycle as have others.

And it’s been a tough sell for people who do not know the difference between National Socialist and Fascist. The MSM really has succeeded in equating the two.

Just as Orwell said they would do.

[John Leland 1789]

I have never before read any author so able to define fascism in such a brief article, or so properly compare it with socialism.

We've had Dr. Sowell's books in our home since 1983, and use them in our home schooling regimen. Tremendous writer.