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8. They've been using the word for years without having the slightest idea what it means.
Sat Nov 5, 2022, 11:21 PM
Nov 2022

They couldn't tell you what the English definitions of "liberal" or "conservative" are, either.

A venerated old Republican guru once tried to tell me Obama was a "socialist" over ten years ago. I told him, look what he did with General Motors, which Obama rescued from bankruptcy after Cheney-Bush. He engineered a government takeover, brought it back to solvency. So(cialist) far, so good. But then, he RETURNED IT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR. A socialist would have put him up against the wall and had him executed for such a move. What Obama did is precisely the opposite of what a socialist would do.

Even the Republican guru couldn't come up with a counter argument to that one. You can bet it didn't take him long to start calling Obama a socialist again, but he never used the line on me after that.

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