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    04-23-2012, 04:12 PM #111
    Thomas J. Lucente Jr.: Obama loses latest battle in his class war

    The latest salvo in the class war President Barack Obama is waging fell far short of its target. However, the economic division he has spent the last three years trying to sow is taking root.

    The latest attack on the rich came with the Buffett Rule, named after billionaire Warren Buffett. The Buffett Rule, officially known as the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012, would have mandated a minimum 30 percent effective tax on those earning more than $1 million. ...


    http://www.limaohio.com/articles/tax...ett-obama.html

    I'm sure he'll spin this to his food stamp constituency and his college student constituency.

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    05-16-2012, 09:57 AM #112
    Is President Obama Truly A Socialist?

    Pew Research finds that sixty percent of Americans respond negatively to “socialism.” It is clear why President Barack Obama must avoid that label. Words are important. Political candidates who control the language of political discourse win elections.

    Most of our elites would certainly not entertain the question: “Is Obama a socialist?” Only irresponsible fanatics carelessly throw around such epithets, they say. Polite circles ignore such goofiness.

    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 socialist.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrode...y-a-socialist/

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    05-16-2012, 09:59 AM #113

    New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism

    The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.

    Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."

    "The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online encyclopedia explains.

    The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.

    The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning.

    There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication.

    East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC Vorwaerts Frankfort).

    Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for "forward") in 1905. Soviet propaganda film-maker Dziga Vertov made a documentary whose title is sometimes translated as "Forward, Soviet" (though also and more literally as "Stride, Soviet").

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    05-18-2012, 04:09 PM #114
    Even Republicans Rejected Info About Obama's Past


    What would you do if you knew that the top Democrat running for president was lying about his past?

    That is the question I was faced with in 2008. I had met the young Barack Obama while he was a sophomore at Occidental College, and I knew that his commitment to socialism was deep, genuine, and longstanding. See my earlier article on American Thinker.

    I had been a leader of the Marxist students at Occidental College myself, starting in 1976 when I founded the precursor of the Democrat Socialist Alliance on campus. The young Obama I knew was a Marxist socialist who would have been quite comfortable with Communist party members like his Hawaii mentor Frank Marshall Davis, retired domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers, or active socialist politicians like Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer.

    The Obama I knew was nothing like the lifelong pragmatic centrist that he was pretending to be in the 2008 presidential campaign. When I talked politics with the young Obama, he expressed a profound commitment to bringing about a socialist economic system in the U.S. -- completely divorced from the profit motive -- which would occur, in his lifetime, through a potentially violent, Communist-style revolution. In this context, I saw my report on young Obama as a key piece of evidence suggesting a profound continuity in his belief system.

    Although I was surprised by Barack Obama's insistence on his mainstream ideological credentials, I was shocked that my attempts to spread the news about young Obama's Marxism failed to gain any media traction with reporters, activists, or campaign staffs during the 2008 presidential campaign.

    Once I saw the significance of my face-to-face observations on the young Obama, I went out of my way to get my story on record with the Orange County Register. I tried to contact, among others, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, the folks behind the Swiftboat ads, and the McCain campaign.

    I thought I would get a phone call back from Fox News -- someone, somewhere -- and I still do not understand why no one seemed to catch on to the urgency of the situation. I understand that I did not have audio tape of young Obama. I did not have any photos or home movies. Nevertheless, I was extremely active in the leftist politics and counter-cultural milieu of Occidental College in the 1970s.

    As a younger man, I had earned a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell, which, I would think, gave me some credibility in measuring young Obama's ideological convictions. I quickly saw that other people who had known the young Obama were featured in various news articles. It seemed to me that I should have been just another interview for any journalist, producer, or campaign consultant interested in checking out my story and testing my credibility against the facts.

    In frustration, I was also posting what I knew on The Caucus Blog site at the New York Times. My expectation was that someone from the Times would call me and follow up on the leads I was sending out. Here is a sample of what I was doing in October 2008 to get the word out about Obama's Marxist ideology.

    Finish it up: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...amas_past.html

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    05-18-2012, 04:27 PM #115
    Well, is he truly a Socialist? Or is he a Marxist like this threads heading suggests?
    I'm waiting on the edge of my seat for a definitive answer from SiriuslyWrong. What can it be?
    I know he believes he was born in Kenya. lol
    And I know he has declared Mr. Soros to be a Socialist. hmmm.

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    05-18-2012, 04:55 PM #116
    One thing is for sure, I wouldn't call Obama a moderate at all.

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    05-18-2012, 05:29 PM #117
    I would. He is defintely center/Left in my opinion.
    I believe the actual Facts point in a different direction from your thesis.
    Would you put him in the Soros category in terms of his Liberalism?


    President Obama: The Most Polarizing Moderate Ever

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    Obama: The most polarizing moderate ever
    Posted by Ezra Klein at 10:04 AM ET, 02/07/2012

    In 2011, Gallup’s polling showed that President Obama averaged an 80 percent approval rating among Democrats and 12 percent among Republicans, making his third year in office one of the most polarizing on record. For a candidate whose campaign promised an era of post-partisan unity, it must be a disappointing reality check.

    But on Friday, political scientist Keith Poole released a study that probably cheered the White House. According to Poole’s highly respected classification system, Obama is the most moderate Democratic president since World War II. Which raises a question: How can Obama simultaneously be one of the most divisive and most moderate presidents of the past century?


    (Keith Poole, VoteView.com)
    Poole’s study is based on a system for sorting politicians known as “DW-Nominate.” But DW-Nominate doesn’t directly measure ideology. Instead, it measures coalitions. It’s got pretty much every roll-call vote taken between 1789 and December 2011. It looks to see who votes together and how often. The assumption is that the most ideological members of both parties will do the least crossover voting. And it works. Its results line up with both common sense and alternative ways of measuring ideology, like the scorecard kept by the American Conservative Union.

    Over the past century, DW-Nominate has revealed a steady increase in congressional polarization. Democrats have moved to the left, while Republicans have moved to the right. But Republicans have moved a lot farther than Democrats.

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    05-22-2012, 03:00 AM #118
    I repeat. Would you put him in the Soros category in terms of Liberalism?

    I know what you WOULDN'T call him. But what WOULD you call him? LOL
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    05-22-2012, 09:43 AM #119
    America down a dangerous path

    By VINNY MARTINEZ, GUEST COLUMNIST | Hernando Today
    Published: May 11, 2012
    Updated: May 12, 2012 - 11:34 AM

    What would people say if they founded out that America's current president was a devout Marxist Communist? One would ask; how in the world did the American people end up electing a Marxist Communist to be president of the United States of America?

    The answer is simple: either many who voted for Obama are socialist/communist themselves, and/or many were deceived by his personification and deceptive agenda of helping the poor and middle class. There's nothing wrong with trying to help the poor and the middle class if they are unable to help themselves. But entitlements are not the answer; effective education and training and private job opportunities are.

    Obama is taking this nation down a dangerous path by dividing the nation on social issues, and compromising our national defense because of no national energy policy. Will chaos and violence on the streets of America become more prevalent?

    Obama's socialism goes further than just transforming America; he seems to be committed to destroying the U.S. economy in order to bring "imperialist" America down to the same level as other socialist nations. That is what "cap and trade" is meant to do, and that is why the U.S. has no energy policy to make America self-sustaining on their energy needs.

    Obama's political success has been attributed to his political consultant David Axelrod from Chicago. There are some fascinating facts about the background of David Axelrod, showing President Obama's top political strategist to have close ties with the American Communist Party (CPUSA) and other leftist individuals and organizations.

    Chicago has been a mecca for far left Marxist organizations and at one time the headquarters for the Communist Party USA was in Chicago. They still maintain an active chapter there.

    As president, this makes it more important that we the people know all we can as to Obama's past and present political friends, associates, handlers, affiliations, and organizations. Serving the public trust demands more scrutiny than what is required from the average citizen, for having power over the people requires full and open disclosure. How can one trust a person when one doesn't know their past and their political ideology?

    It seems Obama was once associated with the "New Party," a Marxist political organization that supported him when he ran for Senator in Illinois. The New Party was active in the United States from 1992 to 1998, and was strongly affiliated with Marxist and socialist organizations including the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

    The Party's Chicago chapter included a large number of Maoist and communist members, and a large number of members of the leftist organizing group ACORN. The New Party wanted to take over the Democratic Party and impose their socialist ideology. The avowed purpose of the New Party was to push the Democratic Party to the left and to usher in socialist governance in the United States under a Democratic label.

    What we are seeing is the Democratic Party being run by the far left and a president with a quest for social justice and social governance in America. What Obama is doing is using the poor and middle class to achieve his ultimate goal of transforming America as a socialist state. Fidel Castro did the same thing, and in the end subjugating the people to be under government control. Should Obama succeed in transforming America, where do you think Obama will end up being-another dictator?

    President Obama has done much in just four years to implement his socialist agenda with Obamacare being the "flagship" of his legacy. Immigration, gun control, and energy are the next challenges he wants to undertake in order to transform this nation into a socialist state.

    Finish it here: http://www2.hernandotoday.com/news/o...ath-ar-402561/

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    05-22-2012, 09:47 AM #120
    Obama Is a Statist, Not a Socialist

    by Edward H. Crane
    Edward H. Crane is the president of the Cato Institute.

    This article appeared in the National Review (Online) on April 29, 2009


    Pres. Barack Obama is not a socialist. He is a thoroughgoing statist, perhaps the worst in American history. And with Wilson, FDR, and LBJ, he's got some serious competition. Republicans in Congress lack the leadership to challenge the president's audacious power grabs. More important, they lack any serious philosophical basis for doing so. The acronym RINO is an oxymoron, for the name "Republican" in fact designates someone with a commitment to nothing more than maintaining political power. The purpose of maintaining that power is to, well, maintain that power.

    There is a reason sales of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged are going through the roof. The book is nothing if not prescient. The "Troubled Assets Relief Program" is straight from its pages. Monday's New York Times front page suggests Atlas may be starting to shrug. "Doctor Shortage Proves Obstacle to Obama Goals," laments the headline. Hmm. Wonder why there would be a doctor shortage in the face of nationalized health care? Perhaps bright young people considering a career don't want to work for the federal bureaucracy?

    Time for those conservatives serious about limited government to re-read Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. Strategically, conservatives have made three major mistakes. The first was to follow the advice of supply-side guru (and big-government Democrat) Jude

    Drum roll please: http://www.cato.org/publications/com...-not-socialist