Das Sozialist
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- Jul 5, 2012
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- Socialist
Restate your question.
Thank you.How is he anti-capitalism? Has he rid of competitive markets, capital accumulation, and wage labor?
Obama wishes to raise income tax rates on the wealthy, something that the founder and father of Capitalism, Adam Smith, would have totally supported.
He did get a lot right. He also got a lot wrong. This is wrong. Taking someone else's property is just because you can is thuggery not good governance.Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to
exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher
portions of property in geometric progression as they rise”
~Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States)
:2razz:
People tend to ignore the parts about their heros they dislike.
I think he's more in line with Marxist thinking.Since so many right wingers describe Obama as a "Socialist/Communist/", or some variation thereof, I figure by now they'll have made up their minds about which one of these mutually exclusive political philosophies he is.
Remember though, as Socialist believes in sharing wealth, to many different degrees depending on which flavour they are, a Communist, on the other hand, believes in a classless, stateless society where the means of production are evenly distributed. And if he's a Marxist (as is often claimed), then he wants to attain this through violent revolution.
You may claim tht he was not influenced by Islam but he has said the call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds.Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Recent evidence has surfaced that Obama is, in fact, a communist.
Explain, please.He is what we describe as Progressive Conservative.
For me, it was Hussein's worshipful bow before the Saudi King that gave him away.You have got to be kidding me.
It is a beautiful sound. Does that make me influenced by Islam? Heaven forbid I enjoy listening to it as I do my church's latin gregorian chanting.
For me, it was Hussein's worshipful bow before the Saudi King that gave him away.
Obama Bows to Saudi King - YouTube
For me, it was Hussein's worshipful bow before the Saudi King that gave him away.
Obama Bows to Saudi King - YouTube
It isn't. Hussein's bow was way too deep for diplomacy. It was instinct that brought the President's head level with the King's belt.Diplomacy must be a new subject matter.
It was instinct that brought the President's head level with the King's belt.
How about a link? I know nothing of this.Bush holding hands & kissing the Royal Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, didn't bother you?
If not instinct, then certainly practiced behavior. Whatever that bow was, it certainly wasn't diplomatic.Instinct, huh? This is about the part where historians and social scientists look up at that statement with a curled eyebrow and a cringed frown.
If not instinct, then certainly practiced behavior. Whatever that bow was, it certainly wasn't diplomatic.
No, more like practiced behavior from earlier in his life.Practiced behavior-->like through memorandums, instructing the President?
Incredible!
Since so many right wingers describe Obama as a "Socialist/Communist/", or some variation thereof, I figure by now they'll have made up their minds about which one of these mutually exclusive political philosophies he is.
Remember though, as Socialist believes in sharing wealth, to many different degrees depending on which flavour they are, a Communist, on the other hand, believes in a classless, stateless society where the means of production are evenly distributed. And if he's a Marxist (as is often claimed), then he wants to attain this through violent revolution.
Yeah, disturbing as that kiss was, it's still from a position of an equal. Hussein's bow was deferential. That is the difference.
Yeah, disturbing as that kiss was, it's still from a position of an equal. Hussein's bow was deferential. That is the difference.
Well in Canada we used to have the Progressive Conservatives before they merged with the Reform party to form the Conservatives but on a provincial level they are still called PCs. A Progressive Conservative usually has Conservative economic policy with Liberal social policy. Obama fits in here which on the political spectrum in just right of centre, whereas the Republicans are closer to far right.Explain, please.
Actually, the real difference is the letters in parentheses. George Bush (R), Barack Obama (D).
Christ, instead of all sorts of mental twists that somehow it's better, why not just admit that you are a rabid partisan who finds anything Bush did better than anything Obama could possibly do?
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