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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

Posted on 10/22/2008 7:58:46 PM PDT by 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."


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KEYWORDS: 2008; antichrist; lp; obama; socialism
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To: seastay
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.

41 posted on 10/22/2008 8:15:25 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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To: Netizen

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.


42 posted on 10/22/2008 8:16:34 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Hildy
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.

43 posted on 10/22/2008 8:17:25 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: seastay
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".

44 posted on 10/22/2008 8:18:52 PM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: seastay
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.

45 posted on 10/22/2008 8:20:36 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: seastay

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


46 posted on 10/22/2008 8:23:39 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: seastay

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


47 posted on 10/22/2008 8:24:29 PM PDT by mikrofon (Sozialismus)
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To: seastay

“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.


48 posted on 10/22/2008 8:24:54 PM PDT by anglian
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To: seastay
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.

49 posted on 10/22/2008 8:25:28 PM PDT by Chairman of the Bard
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To: seastay
He's taking this opportunity to Spread Socialism !!!


50 posted on 10/22/2008 8:27:10 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: 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."

No denial by Obama.

51 posted on 10/22/2008 8:27:32 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: castowell
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!

52 posted on 10/22/2008 8:28:51 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you intended to!)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

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.


53 posted on 10/22/2008 8:29:28 PM PDT by mriguy67
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To: seastay

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


54 posted on 10/22/2008 8:31:37 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Chairman of the Bard

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


55 posted on 10/22/2008 8:32:58 PM PDT by weston (NO MORE TAXPAYER MONEY FOR ACORN!!)
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To: seastay

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]


56 posted on 10/22/2008 8:33:39 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative voting for the McCain/Palin ticket now!!)
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To: bamahead
Don't Call it Socialism, I Call it Opportunity

I call it theft.

57 posted on 10/22/2008 8:35:41 PM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: seastay
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

58 posted on 10/22/2008 8:35:53 PM PDT by anglian
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To: seastay; LucyT

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.

Adolf Hitler

59 posted on 10/22/2008 8:37:14 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: seastay

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


60 posted on 10/22/2008 8:37:21 PM PDT by Binstence (Live Freep or Die)
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