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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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81 posted on 10/23/2008 7:07:36 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: seastay

We are the land of opportunity because we are not socialist!


82 posted on 10/23/2008 7:09:46 AM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: Army Air Corps

That’s worth a T-shirt.


83 posted on 10/23/2008 7:16:14 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!)
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To: ctdonath2

Anything to help the cause, FRiend. :-)


84 posted on 10/23/2008 7:17:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: seastay

I don’t call it reparations, I call it a tax-break.


85 posted on 10/23/2008 8:58:56 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: seastay

I don’t call it reparations, I call it a tax on the rich.


86 posted on 10/23/2008 8:59:35 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: Binstence

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

He is the one that insighted his followers to “get in their faces” so he is just as guilty of their actions!


87 posted on 10/23/2008 9:24:15 AM PDT by CSM (I see this election as a referendum on the stupidity of the American people" (Henkster))
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To: Hildy

That’s true. I think the guy carries a grudge for a long time and waits to get revenge. He’s a bully, though. Look how he and his goons go after weaker opponents like Joe the Plumber but he seems to cower in front of people like Ahmadinijad. He is truly scary - and weird.


88 posted on 10/25/2008 6:32:54 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum

lol — that is very good!


89 posted on 10/25/2008 6:35:36 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: seastay
" . . . Warren Buffett endorsed me, Colin Powell endorsed me, and John McCain thinks I'm socialist."
Democrats call Republicans "the party of the rich," but that is quite untrue as can easily be seen by evaluating both the historical pattern of few, large contributions to the Democratic Party adding up to a smaller total than the many, modest, contributions upon which the Republican Party depends. And as can be seen in the pattern of voting for Democrats, wherein they win overwhelmingly in the cities, true - but they also win in the tony inner suburbs as well.

The bottom line is that the Republican Party is the party of the middle class. Socialist politics is the conspicuous consumption by which the rich separate themselves from the middle class. The poor think, wrongly, to profit from socialism. The middle class knows that its income is the target, rather than the beneficiary, of "spreading the wealth."

If "Atlas Shrugs" it will not be Steve Jobs deciding he doesn't like taxes which in any event have no effect on how much he can spend. No, it will be more in the form of the disappearance of entrepreneurship in the middle class - when Joe the Plumber decides that the effort and risk of becoming a businessman just isn't worth it.

The Joe the Plumber incident - and the Democratic/Journalistic response - was damaging to the "spread the wealth" Obama campaign precisely because it revealed Obama's socialism and his contempt for the middle class.


90 posted on 10/25/2008 8:45:34 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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