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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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KEYWORDS: lyingliar; nakedcommunist; obamalies; singlepayer
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To: Sub-Driver; a fool in paradise

Neo-communist.


61 posted on 11/20/2013 11:26:21 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Sub-Driver; Revolting cat!; GeronL
"But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is," he said to laughter from the crowd.

What? Because you are a man of wealth, you can't be a socialist?


62 posted on 11/20/2013 11:42:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

bump


63 posted on 11/20/2013 11:48:30 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Sub-Driver

“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.


64 posted on 11/20/2013 11:49:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: BenLurkin
His wife told students not to work in corporate offices. Here are the books she added to the White House library:

He's as a phony a "capitalist" as he is a "Christian".

65 posted on 11/20/2013 11:51:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: bubman

“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


66 posted on 11/20/2013 11:54:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

Clown Prince nobama lied. Clown Prince nobama continues to lie. Liars. That’s what they do.


67 posted on 11/20/2013 11:55:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS.
68 posted on 11/20/2013 12:00:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Sub-Driver

Baraq ain’t a socialist. Marxist is a better description.


69 posted on 11/20/2013 12:01:55 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: a fool in paradise

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70 posted on 11/20/2013 12:02:22 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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