In all the years I've been observing politics, I've found that most of the labels of leftist, socialist or communist have been hurled at people by those who want to demonize them, rather than actually being the ideals of the person being labeled. There are extreme leftists out there - I see stuff from them daily on some of the lists I read, but I rarely see them involved in mainstream politics.
I found this especially interesting in the labeling of Obama. If you google Obama and socialist, you'll get a lot of hits, but they mostly occur after Hannity and several others determined that labeling him a liberal wasn't scary enough. When the socialist label didn't have any impact, they escalated it to communist. I knew their campaign was somewhat effective when my boyfriend, who really doesn't follow politics at all, asked me if Obama was a socialist. After I stopped laughing, I asked him to which radio show had he been listening. He confessed to getting an email from a neo-con friend that contained the claim. My advise to him was to filter that guy to the trash. (grin) It's easy to avoid propaganda if you recognize the tactics. What I find interesting are people who continue to parrot the crap even after they have been shown the truth. I once challenged a talk radio host to do an entire show without using any labels, spin or buzzwords. I'm still waiting. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't Obama move to the center or more to the right after the primaries? > As did McCain. > Telling me the US isn't as left leaning as some might think. > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Only if you redefine the road. McCain at one point was a moderate, >> but he has changed his positions so much to get elected that he's now >> slightly to the right of Darth Vader. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277833 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
