> -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:34 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Very interesting quiz > > Actually even put in broader context I would say she certainly has > socialist > leanings.
I agree... but in the same way that you could say that anybody that promotes free market forces has "Machiavellian leanings". However this in no way makes her (as the post and other sources of the information imply) either communist or Marxist. She may have socialist leanings but she's still well within the mainstream of American politics; she leans no more or no less than a broad spectrum of her constituents. She's without a doubt left of center... but a Marxist? She's definitely a social liberal who's for universal care (which almost by definition means a lessening of personal responsibility). I don't know enough to say if she's truly "anti-wealth" despite her view on these specific tax cuts (a view which I agree with). In general our society has "socialist leanings". What are concepts like minimum wage, guaranteed health care, bankruptcy protection, public school standards, federal control of markets and monopolization if not socialist? In fact I think that every first-world country has "socialist leanings" of some kind or another - mostly in the areas of universal care and wealth protection. Of course the United States isn't a socialist country despite these leanings and neither is Hillary (or, as far as I can tell, any of the front-runners) socialists. Maybe I'm just getting sick of (the mostly, but not exclusively, republican) art of sound-biting people into little pieces but this struck a nerve. The whole lapel-pin thing with Obama (can you believe Fox compared it to Lewinsky scandal?); the fact that the senate spent so much time on the "moveon.org" ad; the Charles case, etc. I'm generally disgusted by any demonization campaigns but the ones we've been seeing for the past few years have been truly nauseating. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243879 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
