Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:36:33 PM by ETL
O’Reilly is an idiot. He really is. Blowhard and idiot. He almost makes me cringe sometimes when he’s talking to somebody with real brains such as Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer or Karl Rove. He doesn’t have the command of facts and detail he needs to be discussing about half of what he talks about. Also, interrupting his guests is just out of control. And then there’s Mark Lamont Hill. Puhleeze, what a clown.
Obama's socialism is bad enough, but people who so describe him never take it to where Obama really is on the continuum. He's a fascist.
Adam Shaw says Obama is 'well spoken.' At least he didn't say eloquent. I suppose in some macabre way a man can be 'well spoken' and still make his listener's skin crawl. I have a hard time with 'eloquent' in that context.
The problem with O’Reilly is that he defines himself as being a contrarian. Will always try to take an opposing view.
In the past year and a half, the government has nationalized banks and 2 major car companies. Currently the government is trying to do the same to the health care industry. That pretty much fits the textbook description of socialism.
O’Reilly is so ridiculous. Obama catered to his ego and that was all it took for O’Reilly to be his champion.
I truly cannot stand that man. Well, either of them for that matter.
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:36:33 PM by ETL
Simply state POTUS Obama is indeed a socialist and it woul;d take very little movement on his part to become a intolerant dictator.
... There are as many exact definitions of socialism as there are socialists. Yet they do have common characteristics. Love of big government, nationalization of industry, massive taxation, wealth redistribution, etc. all point towards socialism. Someone like the president would not even have to say he was a socialist in Western Europe; it would be assumed quite normally, without any fuss or conspiracy.I have a lot of respect for Bill O'Reilly, but to a Brit who has seen his fair share of socialists and lives in a socialist country run by a self-described socialist party by a self-described socialist prime minister who has taken over for another self-described socialist prime minister, it is puzzling why self-described independents like Mr O'Reilly are doing backflips in an attempt to avoid the obvious fact -- President Obama is quite clearly a socialist.All these verbal gymnastics that are used to avoid stating the obvious may be rather humorous for someone watching from over the Atlantic, but for Americans, such delusion is a very serious matter. It is important, not just for the American right, but for the American people as a whole, to realise just exactly who it is they have elected to office. With the approval numbers dropping almost daily for the president, it appears that it is sinking in for the generally center-right American public.However, when people on the right start being "concerned" about describing Obama as what he clearly is, in part due to the hysteria that both sides of the political spectrum exhibit when the word "socialist" is used, then it damages the effectiveness of opposition to him. Instead of being able to define what Obama's aims are in his presidency, those on the left and on the right keep pushing Obama into a slightly left-of-center, non-ideological fog. Such a political move is deceitful, and it does not allow the American public to get a clear perception of just what they have voted into the White House.Those of us across the pond who analyze American politics know exactly who it is you have in the White House. Obama is not some new post-political entity. Nor is he some form of Stalinist that will set up a USSA. He is a normal, well-spoken, charismatic socialist who in Britain would sit quite happily towards the left of the Labour Party alongside figures such as Tony Benn, Aneurin Bevan, Harold Wilson, and Ed Balls. To call someone a socialist is not conspiratorial, and it is not fear-mongering; it is simply the truth, and it is time for some in the conservative media to take a deep breath and admit it -- America has a socialist leading the country.Welcome to the club: It stinks!
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