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Obama scoffs at people who call him a 'socialist': 'You gotta meet real socialists'
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Posted on 11/19/2013 2:12:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama scoffs at people who call him a 'socialist': 'You gotta meet real socialists'

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 11/19/13 4:32 PM EST

President Obama on Tuesday dismissed critics who call him a "socialist," suggesting they meet some real socialists if they think he's one.

"People call me a socialist sometimes," he said at the Wall Street Journal CEO Summit, addressing 100 top business leaders.

"But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is," he said to laughter from the crowd.

"I'm talking about lowering the corporate tax rate, my health care reform is based on the private marketplace, stock market's looking pretty good last time I checked," he said, listing his capitalist bona fides. "And, you know, it is true I'm concerned about growing inequality in our system, but nobody questions the efficacy of market economies

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To: Sub-Driver

He also said I am not the real president, I don’t know how Io be a president. Meet the real one behind the curtain.


21 posted on 11/19/2013 2:25:42 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Sub-Driver

“listing his capitalist bona fides”

That is the argument that I hear from so many socialists, my stepson being one of them. When I pointed out to him that it is impossible to compare a political system to a financial system his jaw dropped and he had no response.

There can be no comparison between socialism and capitalism.

The comparison has to be made between socialism and a Democratic Republic.

As we all know, there are many socialists in this country who are wealthy. It does not seem to bother them that they are wealthy socialists.

Call himself what he will, he is democrat/leftist/liberal/progressive/socialist/communist/totalitarian.


22 posted on 11/19/2013 2:27:33 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: null and void

I like the way PJ O’Rourke put it: Liberalism is Communism sold by the drink.


23 posted on 11/19/2013 2:28:29 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: BenLurkin
‘You can find lots of them in the West Wing.’

Or amongst the RINOs in Congress.

24 posted on 11/19/2013 2:28:53 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Sub-Driver

“I am not a crook.”

Seems like the ghost of Nixon is laffing somewhere....................


25 posted on 11/19/2013 2:32:24 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Sub-Driver

MOUTH OPENS... LIES POUR OUT... THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE THAT MAN BUT LIES AND EVIL AND MORE EVIL LIES.


26 posted on 11/19/2013 2:33:42 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Sub-Driver
'You gotta meet real socialists'

He's right. 0's nothing against the likes of Bill Ayers and George Soros. Good thing neither of them (or both of them) are president.... we're so lucky!

27 posted on 11/19/2013 2:34:24 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Sub-Driver

Neither a socialist, communist, or Muslim, our fundamentally dishonest president is nothing more than a shyster, a confidence man.


28 posted on 11/19/2013 2:34:39 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Sub-Driver

http://www.youtube.com/embed/9RABZq5IoaQ?feature=player_embedded
I’ll bet Obama does what he can to throw this video down the memory hole.


29 posted on 11/19/2013 2:38:33 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Control Freak?


30 posted on 11/19/2013 2:39:40 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: yarddog
There are several distinctions between the two systems. For our purposes, perhaps the biggest difference is that under socialism the state owns and controls the means of production ... under communism it's the community that owns and controls the means of production.

As lazy as he is, obama doesn't want to own anything he has to work at, so he's more of a communist from this perspective.

Either way, it's clear he does not value private ownership (i.e., capitalism).

31 posted on 11/19/2013 2:40:09 PM PST by glennaro
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To: joshua c

Vampire, a puppet for Master Vampires.


32 posted on 11/19/2013 2:42:24 PM PST by txhurl (tagline test)
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To: Sub-Driver

Libs play it both ways: they mock people who call Obama a socialist, yet publish stories asking, “What’s wrong with socialism?” Remember Time magazine’s cover, “We’re all socialists now”?


33 posted on 11/19/2013 2:42:25 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Sub-Driver

The Socialist’s greatest trick is to convince you that they don’t really exist.


34 posted on 11/19/2013 2:44:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll just call you felon...


35 posted on 11/19/2013 2:44:24 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: yarddog

“Fascist” could describe him.


36 posted on 11/19/2013 2:45:27 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Wurlitzer

true....


37 posted on 11/19/2013 2:45:33 PM PST by Sonicandtails
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To: Sub-Driver

Yo Barak, I’ve met real socialists, hard line communists
too, you stink just like they do, you act just like they
do, and you think just like they do.
Socialists tried to kill me.
You don’t forget something like that.

Poetical interlude.

“I know”, she said!
“I know”, he said!
Together they said,”We know!”.

And I said,” Don’t tell me...
I’m not here, I’m in Vietnam, baby.”.

A little saying from 1968 in a land far away.

Keerist, this guy gives me a pain, I’ll be glad
when he is in the past along with Jimma and Bill.


38 posted on 11/19/2013 2:45:59 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama scoffs at people who call him 'intelligent'. 'But, no, you gotta meet real intelligent people who don't use a teleprompter. You’ll have a sense of what intelligence is.
39 posted on 11/19/2013 2:51:19 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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