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New York Times: Obama Is a Socialist
The Weekly Standard ^ | May 8, 2012 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 05/09/2012 10:34:57 AM PDT by yoe

We've been skeptical of the arguments by some of our brethren on the right that Barack Obama is a quasi-socialist or a crypto-socialist ... or just a plain old socialist. But now the New York Times is weighing in, in favor of the proposition.

In an article (Change in Paris May Better Fit U.S. Economic Positions)" the Times reports:

"With the victory of the Socialist candidate, (François Hollande), in the French presidential election, the White House has lost one of its closest allies on the Continent, but perhaps gained one with economic policy beliefs more closely aligned with its own....Mr. Hollande seems 'naturally more palatable to the administration,' said Justin Vaïsse, the director of research for the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution....Observers said that...Mr. Hollande was likely to hew closer to the Obama administration on economic issues....Mr. Hollande...said that the countries had a 'convergence' on economic issues."

So, according to the Times, the French Socialist is "closely aligned with," "naturally more palatable to," and "likely to hew closer to" the Obama administration on economic issues. Is, therefore, Barack Obama (more or less) a socialist?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; communism; communist; franceelection; kristol; obama; progressive; radicalleft; socialist; socialists
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1 posted on 05/09/2012 10:34:59 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe
Good lord! Is there any question? Obama is a Socialist and a Marxist....
2 posted on 05/09/2012 10:36:27 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

more, never less.


3 posted on 05/09/2012 10:36:34 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

Ping.


4 posted on 05/09/2012 10:37:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: yoe

No, Bill. Obama is not a socialist. He is anti-American, a bigot, a socialist, a communist, nazi and facist.....all combined into one evil, hateful human being.


5 posted on 05/09/2012 10:41:53 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: yoe
Is he a National Socialist?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a01AVJotTRE/SuowgNyJvYI/AAAAAAAAAAw/kHC1UAAg8bE/s320/nsalp.jpg

Or an International Socialist?

http://www.allcountries.org/maps/soviet_union_map_3.jpg

6 posted on 05/09/2012 10:43:01 AM PDT by KC_Lion (I am finished with listening to empty promises of the great GOP saving me in 4 more years.)
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To: yoe
Hold on just one darned minute here...

"Just because 0bama's policies are socialist doesn't mean he's a socialist!" - Bill 0'Reilly

7 posted on 05/09/2012 10:43:16 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: yoe
"We've been skeptical of the arguments by some of our brethren on the right that Barack Obama is a quasi-socialist or a crypto-socialist ... or just a plain old socialist."

This "skepticism" is why I never bother with The Weekly Standard.

8 posted on 05/09/2012 10:43:19 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

H/T to Army Air Corps

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9 posted on 05/09/2012 10:43:19 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: yoe

“...Obama is a Socialist and a Marxist..”

AND a muzzie.


10 posted on 05/09/2012 10:43:21 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: yoe
RINO supporting Kristol just figured that out? Slow on the uptake eh!
11 posted on 05/09/2012 10:44:36 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: yoe

This is the scariest part of the article: “We’ve been skeptical of the arguments by some of our brethren on the right that Barack Obama is a quasi-socialist or a crypto-socialist ... or just a plain old socialist.”


12 posted on 05/09/2012 10:45:50 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: yoe
It's not as though 'socialist' is some subjective pejorative term like 'jerk.' Socialism is an political/economic doctrine that has fairly well-defined characteristics. Anyone who wants to deny that Obama is a socialist merely has to list those tenets of socialism with which he disagrees.

* crickets *

13 posted on 05/09/2012 10:47:08 AM PDT by Sloth (If a tax break counts as "spending" then every time I don't rob a bank should be a "deposit.")
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To: yoe
Marxism [ˈmɑːksɪzəm] n

"The economic and political theory and practice originated by the German political philosophers Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95), that holds that actions and human institutions are economically determined, that the class struggle is the basic agency of historical change, and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism."

14 posted on 05/09/2012 10:48:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: yoe

I see Lefties deny it at least weekly. They aren’t constrained by reality.


15 posted on 05/09/2012 10:49:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: yoe

Fascist.


16 posted on 05/09/2012 10:50:21 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Labyrinthos

You need to consider that when referring to Bill Kristol, you’re talking about a guy who still doesn’t think the Muslim Brotherhood is dominated by Islamic radicals. He’s a little slow that way.


17 posted on 05/09/2012 10:50:46 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: duckman

And a pervert and a hate-whitey black racist (even though he’s less than 1/2 black himself).


18 posted on 05/09/2012 10:54:33 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: yoe
Good lord! Is there any question? Obama is a Socialist and a Marxist....

Wrong. He is a hard core communists and his Administrative empire supports this. HE IS A COMMUNISTS.

19 posted on 05/09/2012 11:17:02 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: yoe
Obama is a socialist.

Socialism kills.

Any questions?

20 posted on 05/09/2012 11:18:04 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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