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Is Obama really a socialist? (Original Post)
less lee
Jan 2012
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JHB
(38,213 posts)1. Describe economic policy (esp. tax rates) under Eisenhower to a teabagger...
...without mentioning the year or the name.
You'll be assured that it is pure and simple communism and thank God we never had that in the good ol' USA.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)2. I wish
You guys would have been much better off with a socialist.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)4. Some here might dispute that assertion.
I am not among them.
T S Justly
(884 posts)3. Yes, a Wall Street socialist. (nt) (nr)
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)5. If he is, I am Napoleon, Emperor of the French.
His economic policies have barely been recognizable as Democratic, much less socialist.
girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)6. He supports socialism only for the wealthy and corporations.
Free markets and supply-side neoliberalism for the rest of us.