Posted on 03/07/2009 2:12:19 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: I'm not a socialist @ 4:53 pm by Michael O'Brien
President Obama argued this weekend that he is not, in fact, a socialist, despite veiled Republican claims to the contrary.
"Let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no," Obama said during his interview with the New York Times."If you look at our budget, what you have is a very disciplined, fiscally responsible budget, along with an effort to deal with some very serious problems that have been put off for a very long time."
The president said that his administration's spending priorities have been completely in line with what he'd promised as a candidate last fall, and that he's not more liberal than he let on.
"We have delivered on every promise that we’ve made so far," he said.
When pressed by reporters for the Times as to what one word he would use to characterize his political philosophy, Obama declined. "No, I’m not going to engage in that," he said.
Why would a socialist admit to being a socialist, especially if he is trying to implement socialism in the US?
In point of fact Nixon was not a crook.
What did he steal???????????
Did he try and do a coverup, yes he did but there are a lot more facts to the Watergate case than have ever be aired.
I like your graphic!
She’s still with us too, and will answer fan letters if you write to her.
No he isn’t. He is a communist, so he is telling the truth.
EXACTLY!! You beat me to posting it. Whatever he wants to call himself...he is a wanna be tin horn dictator....just one problem with that....WE ARE AMERICA!! He may ruin our capitalism, he may think he’s won, but I have more faith that there are many, many more like me, who LOVE our nation, who have such grateful hearts for our troops who have put their lives on hold, have shed blood, have lost their lives for our freedom and whatever it takes, we’ve got to CLEAN OUT WASHINGTON, D.C.....starting out with the lier, the tax cheats he’s so fond of appointing,and most of... if not every darned one of those freeloading crooks in Congress....
Thanks, I made it several months prior to the election and it still comes in handy. Obama is a big two-face liar.
Sorry to disagree with you but I think you misunderstand the meaning of socialost, marxist abd fascist.
While fascism is a form of marxism it is not what you defined. Fascism is the ‘how’ of whatever type of socialism the leader embraces.
With communism the state owns everything. There is no such thing as personal property. The communists install their own people to run all business operations.
With fascism people run the companies but the governement controls all production, wages etc. Now we have had in this country for a number of years government control of our energy sector to the degree that it meets the definition of fascist.
Most of what Obama is puttimg into place is on fact fasciost, yes just like NAZI Germany.
But fascism, communism, socialism are all based pn what Karl Marx said, “to all according to their needs, from all according to their ability”.
They are all about redistribution of earnings.
Another point to remember in the coming months as well as our recent past is the left in America is becoming anti-Jew.
bottom left, audio, (socialist question) Obama called back to blame Bush
At 2:30 p.m., President Obama called The New York Times, saying he wanted to clarify a point from the interview. Here is a transcript of that brief call:
President Obama: Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter. It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question. I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement – the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks through these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around can’t say the same.
Q. So who’s watch are we talking about here?
A. Well, I just think it’s clear by the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system. And the thing I constantly try to emphasize to people if that coming in, the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to stay out of it. I have more than enough to do without having to worry the financial system. The fact that we’ve had to take these extraordinary measures and intervene is not an indication of my ideological preference, but an indication of the degree to which lax regulation and extravagant risk taking has precipitated a crisis.
I think that covers it.
I think he’s none of the above. He’s a total incompetent who’s in way over his head. The end result is about the same as Communism. He’s so inept he doesn’t even know or care that all he has to do to solve most problems is bring in people who do know that they’re doing.
“President Obama argued this weekend that he is not, in fact, a socialist, despite veiled Republican claims to the contrary.”
An old Lyndon Johnson trick. Accuse your opponent of being a pedophile just so you can hear him deny it. Obama is so dumb he takes the bait.
I guess we should consider that a reporter from the dying NY times even bothering to ask the question is some sort of progress. Before the election, asserting that Obama was a leftist branded you as a kook in the MSM’s eyes. T’s getting to the point where nobody can deny it.
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