Is Obama Really a Marxist? Puh-Lease

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I have a question to all those WHITE people who Vote for Obama, WHYYYYYYYYYY. Why you white people select this president in first place, you were dreamin. all the Hopla just vanish, lava is cold now.

joe of IL 12:20AM October 06, 2011

If he says he is not a Marxist then he lies.
He lied about being a Christian - he's more moslem
He lied about being a friend of Israel.
The people he surrounds himself are declared marxists and extreme progressives (just another word)
Power! Redistribution of power - that's what Obama's about.
Thank goodness the American public have woken up to the fact that the American symbol is the Bald Eagle not the Ostrich Obama wants them to think it is.

Stan Edwards of WA 10:49AM June 15, 2010

Just the wrong President for this time of history.
Change was needed but this was not change.
We have Chicago Politicians doing their thing.
Ex-Clinton people flood this administration...
So what's new...except the President.
Just inexperience with oratorical skills.
JFK has this Prez beat by a mile in speaking skills.
Then, Clinton ran a close second...I don't think this man
knows what he is doing....so, we hope he listens to
his advisers and learns quickly...but in the
meantime...
we pray that he and his gang like Barney, Nancy, and Reid
do as little damage to our country before they go...

James R. McGinnis of PA 6:43PM October 27, 2009

Obama a Marxist? I believe he is by the looks of people eho surround him.
Van Jones -Marxist / Communist
Mark Lloyd - Marxist
Rev Wright - Black Nationalist
Bill Ayers - radical
Anita Dunn - Praises Mau te Sung

Fenton of NJ 9:55PM October 15, 2009

'Unless he proves me wrong,' says Tom DeLay, 'Obama is a Marxist.'
That sounds very much like the sort of shameful and shoddy thinking that led to the burning of innocent women as witches centuries ago. And what would Mr. DeLay accept as proof? Obama's many comments in favor of free markets globally and of making money as the American way? All of the financial support he has received from Wall Street (as the author notes) and the insurance industry? The Wall Street bailout (to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars)?
How does DeLay even define Marxism?
Is someone who favors progressive taxation (as did Teddy Roosevelt) a Marxist? Is someone who supports Social Security a Marxist? Was FDR, then, a Marxist? Is it the redistribution of wealth that makes one a Marxist? Does that mean Tom DeLay thinks Pope Benedcit XVI is a Marxist? If Obama favors more government regulation, does anyone doubt we have suffered lately from too little such regulation?
I just do not see President Obama calling for a dictatorship of the proletariat, for example. So, unless he proves me otherwise, I think Tom DeLay is a right-wing witch-hunter whose intellectual views don't have much merit.

'Pointy-head' of WI 10:21AM October 04, 2009

Is this guy 12? His conclusions would make one think so. This is simple. Obama is guiding us towards a path of "larger government presence/regulation" in healthcare, the automotive industry to name just two. How is this not a step towards socialism or at least a step in the opposite direction of capitalism? I think it's pretty clear where we are headed. The reality: when government hands it out, our hands become more tied. The ability of people in this country to realize the success of our predecessors is becoming diminished as we pass the wealth around. That is a fact. Our choices are becoming more and more limited. This is not the country our forefathers founded. It is not. We can't carry the burden of every man and woman. They must carry the burden themselves whether that be in issues of healthcare or welfare, neither of which are a right. They are privileges. If you think otherwise, it's your choice to donate. I'd like to keep my right to a choose. It's one of the few we still have left. Thank you.

JC Smith of CA 1:49AM August 13, 2009

"I think to call someone a Marxist, you have to provide some evidence that he 1) believes capitalism is based on exploitation and 2) is calling for a worker's revolution."
So, Matt Bandyk, did you think of this false premise to base your moronic conclusion on all by your w-ittle self, or did your big brother help?
Go find Mommy now for another glass of Kool-Aid then snuggle with blankey for nap time....

Netizen Kane of AL 5:03PM July 14, 2009

...With the major media (print, movies, TV: all almost exclusively leftist) serving as defacto propaganda wing of
Democratic "regime" it's lights out for anyone espousing
views which are at odds with "world opinion"
"strangulation by regulation and taxation" is one of the
techniques used by ever burgeoning and unaccountable bureaucracies to "bring it all down". The second US revolution-
the Marxist revolution of the past 50 years or so,
the one that has completely and irrovocably transformed the USA into a nation that is fragmented politically, racially, culturally. It is a larger and much more significant revolution than the revolution for independence from England.
Is Obama a marxist? By textbook definition, by any way you slice it, yes, unequivically. Was EBW Debois a communist?
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Tom 5:08AM May 29, 2009

.. How far to the left has the uSA gone?
JFK, a "liberal democrat" of his time would be considered by many today to be a "right wing extremist" Indeed, Obama
would be considered by the JFK administration to be
a radical subversive. The bastardized term "liberal", as have many other terms of "newspeak", has been hijacked by the leftist "intelligensia". Obamas first supreme court selection
is a "get the white guy" racist. She fits nicely in the scheme of things. Forced quota hiring,an idea the Marxist Frankfurt School of the 20's would've been proud of, has decimated private, public and military sectors of USA....
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Tom 2:51AM May 29, 2009

Marxism has been in very real practice in the usa for the past
50 years or so. And it is gaining rapidly in strength.It's the silent, virilent slow killer of a free-enterprise society. Much like a mastasticizing cancer, it invades, imperceptively, over a long period of time, the political/social "organism" It may not fit the textbook definition of the term but in practice..
More, later

tom 10:54AM May 28, 2009