On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Michael Luscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > On 10-Oct-08, at 4:28 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > > > <http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/ > > why_obamas_communist_connectio.html> > > > > "I have seen for quite some time that although we won the Cold War -- > > and defeated the Soviet communist empire -- America is vulnerable to > > varying degrees of collectivism, wealth redistribution, "creeping > > socialism" (Ronald Reagan's phrase), class-warfare rhetoric, and > > generally milder, more palatable (but still dangerous) forms of > > disguised Marxism. Why? How? The answer is simple: The history and > > truth about communism is not taught by our educators." > > > > The author makes some other astute observations about leftists and > > conservatives and their respective views on communism and fascism. > > -- > > The article you posted is really about communism, and by extension, > military dictatorships. Plenty of countries seem to be able to run > their health care systems without seeing the need to round up all the > Jews. > > I'm pretty sure communists eat bread, but I don't see causality > between bread and communism. Despite promoting that ridiculous link, > the article made absolutely no salient points about how evil any > specific social program was, simply that anything associated with > communism in any way is evil. Of course that's McCarthyism. > > Isn't this just fear-mongering, which is really the trademark of the > republicans and conservatism of late? Fear of change, fear of the > unknown, fear of terrorist boogeymen, fear of an educated black man > in office? > > > Not everyone who talks to a communist or communist sympathizer > becomes a communist. If that were the case, wouldn't John McCain want > to run the country like Vietnam? Some sensible characterization of > those meetings is in order. Plenty of Republicans worked with Bill > Ayers as well. mccain has at least a 5 year history of communicating with communists. didn't he give them more than just name,rank and serial number? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
