As many of you know, the Republican Party and particularly its
operatives on talk radio and cable TV news have all been hammering away
at the idea that Barack Obama is a “socialist”. For most the proof is
found in an off-the-cuff remark made by the Democratic Party hopeful
with a rightwing activist known as “Joe the Plumber”. You can watch the
exchange on Youtube here.
The plumber asked Obama: “Your new tax plan’s going to tax me more,
isn’t it?”
Obama replied, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want
to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance
at success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good
for everybody.”
In the Fox TV interview with Joe the Plumber seen as part of the
Youtube, he characterizes Obama’s approach as “socialist”, an opening
salvo in a propaganda offensive that hopes to stigmatize him as
un-American. Not un-American in the old-fashioned sense of somebody
being called a Commie. Since the USSR no longer exists, it is pretty
hard to pull this off. The last attempt at this is when the Republicans
tried to make a big deal out of Bill Clinton going to the Soviet Union
when he was a graduate student.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/is-obama-a-socialist/
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