Obama: I Don't Call it Socialism, I Call it Oppurtunity

http://www.huliq.com/obama-i-dont-call-it-socialism-i-call-it-oppurtunity ^ | October 20th, 2008

[seastay]

"Lately, [McCain] and Governor Palin have actually accused me of -- get this -- socialism," Obama said. "It's kind of hard to figure how Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist."

[AHerald]

Instead of directly refuting the substance of the charge Obama, using dismissive sarcasm and ridicule, deflects by appropriating the "credibility" of others and using it as a shield. "I can't be a socialist because an icon of capitalism and a "respectable" Republican have endorsed me." It's the same diversionary trick he pulls regarding his relationship with Ayers when he misdirects and dismisses all questions by pointing to the "Reagan Republican" Annenberg.

Flippin' lawyers.

[MrChips]

You stole the words right out of my mouth. I am a schoolteacher in a private school. I barely make $40K. My taxes under Obama would immediately go up $1,500/year (I am single, and thus, get hit the hardest), and that does not count what he will do to my retirement. He’ll destroy it. “Opportunity,” hell.

[mlocher]

there's something very odd about someone who looks for the negative things people say about him and gets angry about it.

Machiavellian principles. To stay in power, you must have an enemy that you can rally your supporters around. Without that, dictators have no way to provide their followers with a mission and a goal.

[raisetheroof]

0bama reminds me of Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass. "When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."

So, "welfare" = "tax cut". "Socialism" = "opportunity".

[tacticalogic]

He can call it whatever he wants. To quote Rush "words mean things".

Show me a comprehensive definition of "socialism" that doesn't include redistribution of wealth, or one of "opportunity" that does.

[Harry Wurzbach]

Sure, it’s an opportunity for the lazy to get free checks for doing nothing. Next item.

[mikrofon]

That won’t be “opportunity” knocking, it will be the Taxpolizei if the One has his way...

[anglian]

“I Don’t Call it Socialism, I Call it Oppurtunity” “Progressive oppurtunity” perhaps? Adolf Hitler:

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
In fact, the more one reads about the American “Progressives” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the more parallels one finds between them and...... the FASCISTS.

[Chairman of the Bard]

Once again demonstrating Obama’s contemptuous cynicism.

By the way, he keeps bleating that 95%, those earning less than $250K, will receive a tax cut (they won't). I believe that it is something like 40% who pay no income taxes, and yes, a “tax cut” to them is simply a transfer of someone elses hard earned wealth (aka welfare, aka socialism).

Yet another vital point is the fact that the “top 5%” is not $250k and up, it is $175K and up.

He's perpetrating a royal scam, and he may yet pull it off.

[MeekOneGOP]

He's taking this opportunity to Spread Socialism !!!

[BARLF]

Lately, [McCain] and Governor Palin have actually accused me of -- get this -- socialism," Obama said. "It's kind of hard to figure how Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist."

No denial by Obama.

[castlebrew]

Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist

Buffett's an opportunist, Powell's a fool and an opportunist, and McCain has nailed it squarely!

[mriguy67]

The scary part of this whole deal is that we could see 1-2 trillion dollar deficits per yr. Soon to be followed by printing money, followed by burning money. Buy gold if O is elected.

[dalereed]

All his recipients can lie down in the street and die before he gets anything from me to give them!!!

[weston]

Yep, plus he will not renew Bush tax cuts....so EVERY ONE will get a tax increase!!

[pillut48]

So Ubama’s good friend Warren Buffet is going to be sending ALL of US a piece of HIS pie?!?

Kewl!!! How much of a split will we all be getting? When is the check coming in the mail?? I’ve got Christmas presents to buy already!!!

[crickets chirping]

[murphE]

Don't Call it Socialism, I Call it Opportunity

I call it theft.

[anglian]

Another wonderful insight to the liberal psyche can be seen through their ideas about taxation. Consider the fact that they like to think of themselves as modern-day Robin Hoods, stealing from the rich to give to the poor (never mind that Robin Hood stole from the tax-man to give back to the tax-payer). Liberal ideas about how the tax-burden should be divided are based on what they consider “fair”, not what is best for the country.

You’ll rarely hear them seriously discuss whether tax-cuts for the so-called “rich” are in everyone’s interest, because they aren’t concerned about results, they’re concerned about their egos. “Progressive” taxation is a way for them to feel good about themselves, just like every other policy they support. It harms people they want to see as morally inferior, purports to help people they see as generally inferior and in need of help, and does so under the guise of “fairness” and “equity”. But whether the policy is actually good for the country or not is irrelevant. Incidentally, this all goes for affirmative action just as well.

From - Liberalism is a Psychology Eric Alan Beltt

[Brown Deer]

I Don't Call it Socialism, I Call it Opportunity

Hitler's government meant greater opportunity and greater equality. Although economic recovery and increased opportunity won Hitler support, Nazism was totally guided by two main ideas: Lebensraum and race.

[Binstence]

I don’t dislike Obama, it is his fascistic followers who represent the greatest threat.