There is not a socialist bone in Obama's body.
He's all about profit - not for you or me or working people in general, of course, but certainly for himself and his corporate buddies.
Leave it to Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) to speak truth to the idiots calling Obama a socialist:
Near the end of the third day of this year's Southern Republican Leadership Conference, it was time for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to take the stage. Paul, fresh off his victory in the CPAC straw poll, gave a characteristically fired-up speech that took on the views of the Republican party establishment.
"The question has been raised about whether or not our president is a socialist," Paul said. "I am sure there are some people here who believe it. But in the technical sense, in the economic definition of a what a socialist is, no, he's not a socialist."
"He's a corporatist," Paul continued. "And unfortunately we have corporatists inside the Republican party and that means you take care of corporations and corporations take over and run the country."
Paul said examples of President Obama's "corporatism" were evident in the heath care reform bill he signed into law last month. He said the mandate in the bill put the power over health care in the hands of corporations rather than private citizens. But he said the bill wasn't the only place where corporatism is creeping into Washington.
"We see it in the financial institutions, we see it in the military-industrial complex," he said. "And now we see it in the medical-industrial complex."
One might add that we also see it in the education-industrial complex as well, as represented by the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the New Teacher Project (funded by Bloomberg), the Kaplan Corporation (which runs the Washington Post and Newsweek and pushes all kinds of education deform that will profit other parts of the company) and other for-profit school companies and their subsidiaries in the media.
It's nice to hear Dr. Paul once again explain reality to the reality-challenged in the Republican Party.
The reality-challenged on the left need to hear the truth too.
Obama is no progressive, no friend of the middle class or the working man.
And he certainly is no socialist.
The only socialism Obama seems to believe in is the same kind Bush believed in - socializing the losses of Wall Street to the taxpayer.
But in every other way he is EXACTLY like George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ronald Reagan - a wholly-owned subsidiary of the multi-national corporations that run this country and the world.
The real owners.
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