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Is It Time To Elect A President Who Appreciates Communism?
Austin Hill
Sunday, August 24, 2008

In past presidential elections, it might have been a deal-killer. But in 2008, it apparently makes for endearing campaign rhetoric.

Candidate Barack Obama has put himself “on record” praising the communist government of China, suggesting that the United States should aspire to do as the communists do, and “invest” in our “infrastructure,” the way the Chinese government has done in Beijing.

While at a campaign stop in Chester, Virginia, in a moment of off-the-cuff spontaneity, Obama stated “everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now and the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now, which means if you're a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think, Beijing looks like a pretty good option.”

When I first saw the video, it struck me that I've never before heard a presidential candidate - - not even another Democratic presidential candidate - - praise a communist government. In fact, I don't think this has ever happened before in my lifetime.

But that was “back then.” Now, in the year 2008, this kind of complimentary rhetoric about communists seems to be part of what has taken Obama from political obscurity, to front-runner status. This suggests that America's collective attitude towards communism has gravitated from opposition to ambivalence, and perhaps has even edged into the category of acceptance.

And the analysis doesn't begin and end with Obama's brief comments about China. Throughout his entire campaign, Obama has packaged inherently communistic economic ideas in contemporary, visceral, and at times inflammatory paradigms.

The Obama message, steeped in communist ideals, is resonating. Has America decided that communism isn't so bad, after all?

[url=http://]https://townhall.com/Columnists/AustinH ... _communism[/url]

Comrades, I think we should remove the picture of our former glorious leader HRC. Her legions of supporters, these PUMAs (who refuse to bow down at the alter of our beloved Osama---err Obama). Many are intending to vote for McKKKain.

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/13 ... ad-wealth/

Obama and Marx: A crash course
Sunday, Oct 19, 2008

If Marx were alive today and living in San Francisco, perhaps he would have instead written this: "A spectre is haunting Democratic politics -- the spectre of socialism." Certainly, the "branding reproach of socialism" is now publicly acknowledged to have been used against the Democratic Party, and against its standard bearer, Barack Obama. It is high time for Obama and his allies to publicly assert their political and economic philosophy. If it is socialism, say so. If it is not, please explain why.

This, of course, is made immediately relevant by Obama's famous comment to Joe the Plumber that, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." In particular he was talking about his tax plan, which is a plan for redistribution of wealth from top to bottom.

This is a matter of fact. When Obama tells you that his tax plan will benefit 95 percent of taxpayers, he is misstating the truth. The fact is that 30 to 40 percent of Americans, the poorest among us, already don't pay any taxes. But what Obama's plan will do is allow them to sign up for a variety of tax credits, so the government will send them a check for a couple thousand dollars or more every year. Where does the money come from to make those payments? From Americans who do pay taxes. It literally is redistribution of wealth. Instead of using taxes to pay for the necessities of infrastructure and defense that they were intended for, the government as envisioned by Obama will be "spreading the wealth around."

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/ ... umns01.txt

cliffee wrote:http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/ ... umns01.txt

Holy crap, that's my local paper. It truly is a small world, after all.