What? Because you are a man of wealth, you can't be a socialist?
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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Neo-communist.
What? Because you are a man of wealth, you can't be a socialist?
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“my health care reform is based on the private marketplace”
He’s been saying since the middle of the last decade that his plan is to transition America to a single payer system even it if takes 5-20 years to get there.
Obama LIED.
He's as a phony a "capitalist" as he is a "Christian".
“Back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.” -Ronald Reagan, 1961
Clown Prince nobama lied. Clown Prince nobama continues to lie. Liars. That’s what they do.
Baraq ain’t a socialist. Marxist is a better description.
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