As someone who has professionally studied and written about comparative economics, capitalism, and socialism for almost fifty years, the reticence to probe the core beliefs of a political leader seems odd. The question is perfectly legitimate in both an academic and political context as long as we define terms and place the discussion in proper context.
By “socialist,” I do not mean a Lenin, Castro, or Mao, but whether Obama falls within the mainstream of contemporary socialism as represented, for example, by Germany’s Social Democrats, French Socialists, or Spain’s socialist-workers party?
By this criterion, yes, Obama is a socialistPaul Roderick Gregory.
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This is the conclusion that I have come to as well. Obama would like America to become like quasi-socialist Europe. I say hell no, I won't go. If that is what I wanted, I would move there.
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Obama taught a course on Saul Alinsky's Marxism at Columbia.
Did you hear that on NBC? ABC? CBS? CNN? the AP? NY Times?
The "mainstream media" has become the in-house propaganda arm of the Regime!
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