Is Barack Obama a Socialist?

…or is he just simply not giving a tax break to those who make over $250.000 a year?

Here’s the Republican answer:

Tax cuts for the rich = patriotism, social responsibility, freedom, pro-Americanism, money trickling down to little man, USA USA USA,

No tax cuts for the rich = socialism, communism, fascism, slavery, anti-Americanism, Adolf Hiter,

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Do any of you know what socialism IS?

Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party is that the bottom was scraped clean long before it dropped out. Back when the polls were nip and tuck and the leaves had not yet begun to turn, Barack Obama had already been accused of betraying the troops, wanting to teach kindergartners all about sex, favoring infanticide, and being a friend of terrorists and terrorism. What was left? The anticlimactic answer came as the long Presidential march of 2008 staggered toward its final week: Senator Obama is a socialist.

Read the rest about what is really inside the Republican Kool-aid here.

Hat Tip: Suzie-Q

Here is what I find quite hypocritical of our government:

• It’s okay to partially nationalize American banks when they’re in trouble
• It’s okay for taxpayers to dole out money for Sarah Palin’s wardrobe
• It’s okay for Alaskans to pay for Palin’s kids to travel

How is this stuff the taxpayers responsibility? Surely enough, Democrats make unnecessary purchases and make us taxpayers fork over the dough too. But seriously, if we’re going to disparage Obama for being a Russian-flag-waving Socialist, I am sure there are plenty of GOP members that are no less Socialist than Obama.

Hurricane Katrina, when hundreds of thousands needed help, Republican bloggers were saying that they should be on their own and how selfish it was for the victims to expect local, state, and federal governments to bail them out. But…! Nationalizing American banks to bail bankers out for their mistakes is perfectly fine?

Hurricane Katrina and The Wall Street Market Crashes are synonymous because they both made mistakes, right? Well, at least that is what the neocons say….

Does anyone forget when McCain was a Socialist?

Those were his words. McCain likes Socialism.

See, it’s okay to nationalize (socialism) our elite, political officials, and Wall Street bankers, but for those working class people who REALLY need help? Then, it’s all about how we should be “personally responsible”.

Redistributing the wealth is taboo in the US with the exception of special interests groups.

Sarah Palin keeps saying ad nausem that she wants to put the government back on the side of THE PEOPLE. How exactly does she plan to do this if she’s going to be forcing the working class people to continue bailing out Uncle Sam, the BIG CORPORATE GIANTS and other special interests groups of the ELITE?

(Yes, Neo-Conservatives can be ELITE too.)

You are naive to believe that she really has the Joe Six-Packs in mind.

One can certainly argue that if all the Joe Plumbers fund the BIG HAIRY FAT CATS that run America, that the wealth will trickle down to the Joe Six-Packs. But has it? Has it under GWB? Where is it? How can we ensure that all of these elite CEOs are using their tax cuts wisely and making their profits trickle down to the people? How can we ensure that they’re just not spending their profits on buying more homes, more cars, more yachts, more plasma TVs, more clothes from Neiman Marcus, more private jets, and more weekend trips to Paris?

Yes. They deserve a profit for their own personal lifestyles, but the neocons keep saying that tax cuts ensure job creation, worker benefits, better salaries, and to keep the middle-class from extinction. They can’t do that if they are spending too much of their profits on minutiae.

Back to Socialism.

If you wanna use the dirty sacrilegious “S” word, we are already SOCIALISTS. Here are some examples of American Socialism:

• The police
• The fire department
• Public schools
• School buses
• Emergency Care in hospitals for those without insurance
• The Military
• The president, the senate, the house, the department of state
• The local government, the mayors, the city council,
• Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Disability, the Veterans Administration, Welfare
• The Public Library
• The Judicial System
• Roads, highways, traffic lights, etc
• Jails, prisons, half-way houses, homeless shelters, shelters for abused women

Do you want to get rid of all that too?

Dear Neo-Capitalist Conservatives, do you really want to resort to a caveman-survival of the fittest-primitive society in a planet where even 3rd world countries would have it better if we resorted that THAT?

What about Charity? Can we really trust charity organizations when most of them send money overseas and to only those within their own churches? Must I trust my fellow man to come through for me when I’m working two jobs, holding down a family and need to live on dialysis?

My fellow prisoners, this is why the hyper-patriotic celebrity craze over Joe the Plumber is foolish. And the hype is bought by only fools. It’s nothing but a well-planned ploy by the McPalin administration to somehow “prove” Obama is a “Socialist”.