George Will on American Socialism

George Will made an incredible point last weekend on This Week. He pointed out (and I’m clearly paraphrasing) that 95% of what the government does is redistribute wealth and we all seem fine with it. Our tax policies make corn and sugar growers rich because our tax code subsidizes them, actually pays them to be [...]

One last hit on Obama the “Socialist”

I’ll ask our readers and commenters one last question on Obama the “socialist.”
It’s not my question, Tom Brokaw asked it on Meet The Press this weekend to John McCain, who had no good answer. 
If Barack Obama were a socialist would Warren Buffet, America’s richest man and uber-capitalist be endorsing him? For those of you prepared [...]

Context, Context, Context!

Two cents on the issue of socialism as it pertains to this campaign and the potential future economy of this country. This notion of “spreading the wealth around” as the platform of Obama’s economic strategy is malarkey. The notion that Obama is a socialist is malarkey. The reason being that this fit-for-scrutiny soundbite extracted [...]

One last thing-seen the banking news lately?

For all this talk of Obama’s supposed socialism, anyone notice that we’re using nearly $1 Trillion of OUR money to sure up private industry, effectively nationalizing the banks? All this being done under a Republican administration? Apparently corporate welfare is A-OK?

McCain and Palin: Socialists?

An exchange from the 2000 campaign on MSNBC’s Hardball (quoted nimbly in the New Yorker): 
During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be “penalized” by being “in a huge tax bracket.” McCain replied that “wealthy people can afford more” and that “the very wealthy, because [...]

Obama a socialist? Off the Marx.

UPDATE: Washington Post’s Fact Checker Gives the McCain Camp Two Pinocchios for pushing this one.
While I can’t go as deeply as I’d like in defending Obama (again) against this silly claim, let me post this from Ben Smith’s blog on politico. Bold represents my emphasis:
A top legal advisor to Barack Obama, Harvard law professor Cass [...]

Obama the socialist? I think so.

While gentlemanly and healthy debate can be a good thing, it’s boring. Which is why Jerry Springer gets more face time than political debates. People are more interested when the gloves come off, when people start swinging and pulling hair. One has to be careful though. You certainly want to get [...]

Obama the socialist? I think not.

My fellow contributor here on thinkPOP, Jarvis, has found a piece of a radio interview done with Barack Obama recorded in 2001. Listening to the cherry-picked clips of a discussion about the civil rights movement and watching the highlighted text swirl by you might be convinced that Obama is some kind of Marxist. 
However, understanding the [...]

Welcome to Socialism, Republican Style

According to The Washington Post, the U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in the country’s banks, forcing nine of the largest to accept a Treasury stake in what amounts to a partial nationalization. And people call Obama the socialist for wanting a national healthcare [...]