Shouldn't Obama's recent and 2001 redistribution talk sink him?

[DougMD]

We heard his Joe the Plumber Marxist language. Now there's a tape out from 2001 where he says it is a tragedy that the constitution isn't interpreted to mean redistribution of wealth. How can this communist language NOT destroy his chances at winning the election? The fact he's leading in the polls scares the beejeebus out of me!

[falcon]

The US congress and president Bush just authorized the re-distribution of the "wealth" of future generations with their generous bailouts of the mortgage and banking industry. Not sure that Obama would do any worse: He wouldre-distribute wealth to different folks.

[DougMD]

Good point, but bear in mind democrats were MORE in support of the bailout than republicans, so they would bail out companies AND send money to people who don't want to work for a living.

[falcon]

Good point, but bear in mind democrats were MORE in support of the bailout than republicans, so they would bail out companies AND send money to people who don't want to work for a living

True. However, it was that ultra conservative Bush guy who asked for the bailout. Never mind that the Democrats added 150 billion in pork to the package. A pox on both parties.

[kevin1]

Why do so many people living in the greatest single example of the capitalist model want so badly to revert to a system so flawed that even it's founders no longer embrace it?

SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK!!!
Get it? Doesn't work? Bahahahaha!!!!

[ipscshooter]

Like one of the ancient Greeks said: Democracies can only last until the public learns that they can vote themselves unlimited funds from the public fisc.



This is what we have now, and we see it even among some of our members here. Selfish fools who say "I don't care about anything except that Obama is going to write me a bigger check..."



Norman Thomas, founder of the American Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau (which led to the ACLU), said "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." And before he died, he said there is no longer any need for the ASP, as the Democrat Party had incorporated its entire agenda.

[ipscshooter]

ORIGINAL: falcon

True. However, it was that ultra conservative Bush guy who asked for the bailout. Never mind that the Democrats added 150 billion in pork to the package. A pox on both parties.

Bush, an "ultra-conservative"??????? You've got to be kidding.

[DougMD]

ipsc, that was very enlightening about Norman Thomas, and I agree that is where we are today with the democratic party.

[LBR]

that ultra conservative Bush guy

Obviously someone doesn't have a clue what the term "conservative" means. I guess, in his defense, President Bush does look "ultra conservative" when compared to BHO.

Chad

[LBR]

Excellent info ipsc! I've noticed on the news and on this board where folks get all in a tizzy over the words "socialist" and "Marxist", but some of these same people will stauchly defend the principals of either, as long as you call it something nicer.

A couple of terms that have been used are "neighborly" and "patriotic"--'course those were terms used by BHO and Biden, who are only "neighborly" and "patriotic" when it comes to someone else's money--at least according to thier tax returns from the past 10 years.

If it's such a great idea, wonder why they haven't practiced what they hope to impose on the rest of us? I can't understand why someone would vote for such hypocrites.

Chad