{"id":851,"date":"2008-10-27T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T15:58:11","slug":"barack-obama-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/barack-obama-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know any other way to say it… Barack Obama is not your father’s democrat he is a card carrying socialist. I don’t care how much lipstick you put on it… There isn’t a bit of difference between what Barack Obama said to <\/span>Joe Wurzelbacher<\/a> or what he says in this 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio and and the Socialist mantra of Karl Marx… From each according to his ability, to each according to his need<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Socialism is socialism plain and simple.<\/p>\n

Bill Whittle has commentary and analysis<\/a> at National Review Online and <\/span>Michelle Malkin has more here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> ABC’s Jake Tapper has the Obama campaign’s response<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this interview back in 2001, Obama was talking about the civil rights movement \u2013 and the kind of work that has to be done on the ground to make sure that everyone can live out the promise of equality,\u201d Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton says. \u201cMake no mistake, this has nothing to do with Obama\u2019s economic plan or his plan to give the middle class a tax cut. It\u2019s just another distraction from an increasingly desperate McCain campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burton continues: \u201cIn the interview, Obama went into extensive detail to explain why the courts should not get into that business of \u2018redistributing\u2019 wealth. Obama\u2019s point \u2013 and what he called a tragedy \u2013 was that legal victories in the Civil Rights led too many people to rely on the courts to change society for the better. That view is shared by conservative judges and legal scholars across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Obama has said before and written about, he believes that change comes from the bottom up \u2013 not from the corridors of Washington,\u201d Burton says. \u201cHe worked in struggling communities to improve the economic situation of people on the South Side of Chicago, who lost their jobs when the steel plants closed. And he\u2019s worked as a legislator to provide tax relief and health care to middle-class families. And so Obama\u2019s point was simply that if we want to improve economic conditions for people in this country, we should do so by bringing people together at the community level and getting everyone involved in our democratic process.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all due respect to Mr. Burton, listen to the interview yourself… Sen. Obama’s remarks focus exclusively on the need to “redistribute the wealth” not providing opportunities for people to create their own wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Morrissey has additional analysis @ Hot Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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