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(CNN) -- Billy Wharton should be happy.
"Socialized health care" is on its way. The "socialist agenda" is taking over America. And best of all, Barack Obama, a "committed socialist ideologue," is in the Oval Office.
But Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, sees no reason to celebrate. He's seen people with bumper stickers and placards that call Obama a socialist, and he has a message for them: Obama isn't a socialist. He's not even a liberal.
"We didn't see a great victory with the election of Barack Obama," Wharton says, " and we certainly didn't see our agenda
He and others say the assertion that Obama is a socialist is absurd.
"It makes no rational sense. It clearly means that people don't understand what socialism is."
"It's not socialism," Llewellyn says. "The mere fact that the government owns something or has a stake in it, doesn't make it socialist. If that was true, you would say that we have a socialist army. The government owns the army."
"Every time an expansion of the public's right has been put forward, Republicans have called it extreme, communistic and socialistic. It's a repeated tactic because they can't defeat the idea."
"To be honest, the most socialist candidate in the 2008 election was Sarah Palin."
Originally posted by Coolaid
More propaganda from the MSM to demonize socialism. FoxNews is way worse than CNN about this stuff though.
First. Obama is not a socialist. End of story.
This health care reform has been a capitalist take over of the health care industry, NOT SOCIALIST!
I actually WISH we could get a Socialist president into this country, maybe we could finally fix some things!
Originally posted by Aggie Man
I think you did not read the story. Go back, read it, and tell me if you still stand behind your comment. Don't be a "headline reader"...actually read the story.
Originally posted by Coolaid
Originally posted by Aggie Man
I think you did not read the story. Go back, read it, and tell me if you still stand behind your comment. Don't be a "headline reader"...actually read the story.
Not sure why you think I didn't read it.
I'll take it back, this article is demonizing Socialism, but there are many that do.
I was agreeing with the article, Obama is not a Socialist, he is a Capitalist, I don't know why anyone would think he is a Socialist, except for the fact that FoxNews says he is.
Obama care is not Socialized medicine, if it was, there would have been a government option, as the article states.
People need to wake up though and stop demonizing Socialism. I think that's the point and this article does do good to explain it.
Originally posted by Light of Night
And the truth comes out.
Socialist don't even know what socialism is. At least that is what I got from the article.
I like how they say, "You don't know what socialism is" then the article goes on to say "socialism means different things to different people"(paraphrased). This is funny stuff. They even described communism as being socialism.
Originally posted by ReVoLuTiOn76
in my opinion, obama has socialist tendencies. He is not a fully-blown socialist, but has put into place some socialist things.