Is Obama a socialist?

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Registered: 10-01-2008
Is Obama a socialist?
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:33pm

Is Barack Obama a socialist?

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:52pm
It worked out swell in North Korea, too.
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Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 8:59pm


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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-03-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 12:43am

Come now Jane.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 12:58am

>>> Well I don't like how I see some people getting rich off the backs of others.

"Getting rich" by providing jobs (and often insurance) to those "little people?"

>>> Paying an unlivable wage to employees who can't find other work or as in the Food service industry this seems to be the "norm"

Why do you think it's an employers responsibility to pay a "livable wage" rather than a "market wage?"

>>> Why can't some employers pocket a little less and pay their employees better? If this idea is socialist then so be it.

Well...mostly it's because of people like you...who will buy the cheaper goods from his competitor.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:02am
He got a shady deal from Rezko.
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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:04am
And don't forget the wife...and the BIG salary bump she got as soon as he was elected to the Senate...and he gave her hospital a million dollar earmark.
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Registered: 10-03-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:04am

Very good post.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:06am
well said.
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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:14am

>>> Did Obama help start a boy scout troop as well? Not exactly an impressive record.

>>> So by your standards how has McCain or Bush helped poor people?

Yes...to both. Despite the propaganda, for almost the entirety of Bush's two terms, unemployment has been low, inflation has been low, and the economy has grown. All good for "poor people."

>>> Bush has used his under paid volunteer Army as cannon fodder for an unjust war.

First, you're wrong that the war was "unjust"...and it was also a war that Dems voted for right along side of the President. In fact, it was Clinton who established the American policy of "regime change in Iraq."

>>> 26 plus years of service and I have seen nothing of substance from McCain regarding the poor of this country. Please feel free to enlighten me on McCain's generosity to the less fortunate. Not including all the hired domestic help he has keeping up all those houses he and Cindy own.

Ditch the propaganda and actually look at McCain's record. Then take a look at Obama's record...if you can find it. Obama has no record of helping the "less fortunate."

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 1:19am
Bush didn't cause the economic crisis...the liberalism and greed of the Dems did.

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