Posted on 12/06/2012 7:13:09 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
On Monday night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News, where she told Sean Hannity that "Barack Obama is a socialist. He believes in socialism."
Palin's statement wasn't especially surprising; it's hardly the first time she's said that the president was a socialist, and she wasn't the first person to make the claim. For much of the past four years, critics from John McCain to Dick Morris to Rush Limbaugh have tried to tack the s-word on the President, claiming that Obamacare, the CARD Act, the Wall Street bailout and the fight over tax increases were all examples of creeping socialism.
Another thing that isn't particularly surprising: According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the two most looked-up words of 2012 were "socialism" and "capitalism," followed closely by a few other politically-charged terms: "democracy," "marriage" and "bigotry." For that matter, a few other terms seem to have migrated from the Washington circus to the dictionary's version of America's Top 40. Shortly after the vice presidential debate, "malarkey" managed to make the chart; . . .
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The general public's confusion about the definitions of socialism and democracy is understandable; for the past few years, an army of befuddled commentators have tried to figure out what the President's critics mean when they call him a socialist. In July, Milos Forman, a director who grew up in a Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, offered an explanation in The New York Times:
I'm not sure Americans today appreciate quite how predatory socialism was. It was not -- as Mr. Obama's detractors suggest -- merely a government so centralized and bloated that it hobbled private enterprise: it was a spoils system that killed off everything, all in the name of "social justice."
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He is a communist...As were, and are, all those scumbags who raised him.
Curtis Bowers says it all and has a excellent documentary which spells it all out. To connect all the dots, cross the t’s and dot the i’s of his marxism, every American needs to watch http://vimeo.com/52009124 , Agenda: Grinding America Down.
Perhaps then, more will understand the Obama trajectory.
Love you Sarah, but you’re wrong about Obama. He’s just part of a big Con Game. He’s not even the Grifter, he’s just a Shill sent out to distract the Marks and encourage them to become entrapped in the Con Game. Obama hangs around with socialists and wants you to think he “might” be a socialist. But he’s just a con man. He’s conning the socialists who think they’re conning him.
Romney, too, is a Fabian.
Doesn’t matter any more. The parasites (at both ends of the spectrum) voted him back in. And, most likely, they get to pick the next president, too.
That wouldn’t be so bad, except they also pick Congresscritters...
I’m not sure Americans today appreciate quite how predatory socialism was. It was not — as Mr. Obama’s detractors suggest — merely a government so centralized and bloated that it hobbled private enterprise: it was a spoils system that killed off everything, all in the name of “social justice.”
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