Is Obama a socialist?

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Is Obama a socialist?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:33pm

Is Barack Obama a socialist?

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:28am
No, not necessarily. Plenty of perfectly capitalist states make an effort to spread some of the wealth around for the sake of social and economic stability. The basic idea is that if you give people access to education and healthcare, for example, it ultimately benefits society as a whole and also ensures a good supply of able, hale and hearty workers to work in the various capitalist enterprises. If you don't do some of those things you end up with a society with an increasingly small elite of the very wealthy and an increasingly large group of people with difficult lives.
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:29am

Investing in the future.

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:50am

It is so hard to decide which screed is the best ever, but this one comes close. The parade was for Eid, the end of Ramadan. Eid is traditionally celebrated in public.


As far as Bosnia, don't forget that Bosnia was liberated and protected by the US army. The US even tolerated the settlement of al-Qaeda people in Bosnia. Now that WAS rather stupid, IMO. There are also Kosovar flags in the crowd, another US protectorate. However, I fail to see what the problem is with American Muslims celebrating their religious holidays. Aren't freedom of religion, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly the cornerstones of the American way?


By the way, takbir does not mean expansion. The teacher is calling "takbir" to his students so they will say "allahu akbar" in return.


"The takbīr or takbeer (تَكْبِير) is the act of saying the phrase Allāhu Akbar, الله أكبر. Usually translated "God is great" or "God is greatest," it is a ubiquitous Arabic expression, used as both an informal expression of faith and as a formal declaration. It is also used in exclamation.
The form Allāhu is the nominative of Allah " God" The form akbar is the elative of the adjective kabīr "great ". In Semitic languages, an elative may indicate a superlative (best), or a comparative (better). The term takbīr (تَكْبِير) itself is the stem II verbal noun (tafʿīlun) of the triliteral root k-b-r "great".
The word akbar as used in the takbir indicates the superlative, usually translated as "greatest". In Arabic usage, akbar may also be used as a comparative, in which sense it may be approximately translated as "greater" (dictionaries carry both senses of akbar)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir


Even if you don't know Arabic, there is this neato thing called google here on the interwebz.




Edited 10/17/2008 7:22 am ET by sild
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:52am
It has been the preferred way in Scandinavia for a good long while now and it seems to be paying off nicely.
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:57am

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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 11:58am
Some will need to taken kicking and screaming in to the reality of a Multicultural society. But I feel we are finally on our way....Thanks for clearing up some "misconceptions" ;)
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 12:07pm
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Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
"THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY , ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM".

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, "IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL" "..I STUDIED THE KORAN.."

From ‘Audacity of Hope: "LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM...."I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE".

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, "I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.."

From The Audacity Of Hope, "WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."

http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html


http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama


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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 12:10pm
yup - got me some designer ones!!!!
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 12:13pm
What is your point, exactly?

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Registered: 08-27-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 12:13pm
The way my body starting to age "not so good".

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