[DoctorBulldog]

Be sure to archive the Socialist Party's webpage before they scrub it once all the hits start coming in from here.

Also, be sure to check out her Socialist verbiage here:

PhilanthropyUK

In particular, pay attention to:

"Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust, which uses its annual budget of £5.1m to aid women and children and to combat poverty and social inequality."

That is more commie-speak!

[bjc]

I am dead set against those who believe that a larger government will be beneficial to our fundamental rights. Your position on JK Rowling, however, is an over-reach. The HP storyline is so open you can read any kind of political philosophy into it, with the possible exception of race-based systems. The fact that the Australian Socialist Party is leveraging it - so what. If Ms Rowling wants to give money to various charities, so be it. If you want to charge her with being a socialist then please provide more substance.

[Dianna]

Funny, I’ve read the books and find them to be quite conservative. Rowling is free to support any causes she wishes personally.

[OpeEdMunkey]

The woman wrote herself off of the dole. That’s something to be admired.

[jdub]

addressing inequality with your own money is communist? It would appear to me that Obama used the reference to Rowling's rejections as she is an author that kids are familiar with. I doubt a reference to Ayn Rand would have resonated quite so well.

As i've said before, I seriously doubt this speech is the one he intended to give. But i have no problem with the one I've read.

[Buck W.]

JKR has encouraged an entire generation of kids to read by writing an entertaining series of challenging novels. Claiming that she is a socialist simply makes conservatives look silly in a very public way.

[listenhillary]

Give the 5.1m away, it still won’t fix poverty. The only way to fix poverty is to make us all poor, and then who will we look to?

[Chode]

who'd ya expect... Ayn Rand???

[camp_steveo]

Well, her plan didn’t work. My 15 year old son has read every HP book a dozen times each and watches the movies over and over again, but he has a very good grasp of the attributes of a free society. He is definitely not a socialist.