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What Kind of Socialist Is Barack Obama? (More of a Pinko, or an outright Red?)
Commentary ^ | May 2010 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 04/23/2010 10:37:40 AM PDT by mojito

The assertion that Barack Obama is a socialist became a hallmark of the 2008 presidential campaign.

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Given his conduct and rhetoric as president, we have every reason to reopen the question from 2008 and ask, quite simply, What kind of socialist is Barack Obama?

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cokesnorting; metrored; obama; socialism; soroskind; thinskinned
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To: pallis
Jonah Goldberg is a David Brooks who somehow managed to stay on the farm.

And as a connoisseur of nuance, especially of the disingenuous kind, I highly recommend Brook's latest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23brooks.html

41 posted on 04/23/2010 11:40:35 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Phlap
Maybe he is just PINK. lol
42 posted on 04/23/2010 11:41:15 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: mojito

Obama and the people around him are are Obamunists — Obama is the prototypical Obamunist — a blend of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Che, Capone, Billy Sunday, Boss Tweed, Muhammad, and Tupac — they are hybrids — they use all the tools — whatever will get them power and keep them in power. 

An Obamunist believes the orders come from them, the enlightened ones, through the bureaucracy, to the People.  They wrap their stuff up in fancy slogans, but their goal is power — and they believe they are entitled to it.


43 posted on 04/23/2010 11:45:09 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: mojito

I think he’s an African Socialist like his dad. Or Robert Mugabe.


44 posted on 04/23/2010 11:49:15 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The enormous crimes in history were all perpetrated by governments.)
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To: mojito

He’s an African Colonial, a kind of Marxist that decries the West for colonizing AFrica but instituting its ideas to hold onto power. He deeply resents America for its role in defending against National Socialism and World Socialism, and is doing everything to make America pay for its “sins”.


45 posted on 04/23/2010 11:50:45 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
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To: mojito

“Jonah Goldberg is a David Brooks who somehow managed to stay on the farm.”

Jonah’s mom will spank him, if he goes too far off the farm.

Say “progressive conservative” without sounding stupid.


46 posted on 04/23/2010 12:21:43 PM PDT by pallis
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To: mojito
Obama is pretty much what I thought he'd be like. Like many others on this forum, I've called him a Marxist. But I have to agree with Goldberg that Obama is not actually a Marxist socialist, he's more like a fascist-socialist. I knew there was no way Obama could come out wearing a Bolshevik hat with a hammer and sickle emblem on it while spouting words about collectives, state farms, and five year plans. Even most Dems would reject that.

What he wants is the incremental takeover of business and the American way of life with the "social justice" process. He's not the first president to try this (FDR and LBJ), and he might not even outdo FDR in his radical policies. But by wanting to permanently make capitalism a tool of the federal government and subject Americans to an ever increasing list of rules and regulations, a radical socialist/fascist he still is. That's Obama, our first social-fascist president.

47 posted on 04/23/2010 12:27:38 PM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: mojito

“What kind of socialist is Barack Obama?”.....

The kind that cares nothing about personal freedoms....


48 posted on 04/23/2010 12:48:07 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mojito

He’s a Fascist. Don’t call him Il Douche for nothin’.


49 posted on 04/23/2010 1:09:19 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Noumenon

What are shades of Socialism? Light pink, dark pink or flaming red the end is all the same.
This is like saying yes Obama is pregnant, but just a little! What side of stupid is this author stuck into?


50 posted on 04/23/2010 1:47:42 PM PDT by Jocko from Canada
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To: MuttTheHoople

IMHO he sure isn’t doing his proclaimed race any favors. I’m starting to think that if this is the best they have, as they are holding him in such high regard, then I don’t want a damn thing to do with them.


51 posted on 04/23/2010 2:12:27 PM PDT by mcshot (Flip da house and repel the RINOs.)
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To: alexander_busek
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

If The Won was just incompetent, he'd occasionally, just by accident, "get it right" once in a while.

He never "gets it right"; therefore "incompetence" doesn't adequately explain him.

52 posted on 04/23/2010 3:31:45 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mojito

It would be nice if the label of “red” were put back where it belongs, on the Left.


53 posted on 04/23/2010 4:26:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: mojito

Obama is a National Socialist
20 posts - 16 authors - Last post: Oct 28, 2008
Skip to comments. Obama is a National Socialist · www.freerepublic.com ^ | October 27, 2008 | Kevmo. Posted on 10/27/2008 5:19:47 PM PDT by ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2116981/posts


54 posted on 04/24/2010 7:29:35 AM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: mojito

Other than the “birther” comment, It was a pretty good essay.

As far as the birthers go, I’m an agnostic. Who can tell?

If he is a natural born citizen, then by withholding his birth certificate he shows what contempt he has for the rest of us.


55 posted on 04/26/2010 12:20:37 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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