McCain: Obama Might Be a Socialist

Fisher

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McCain: Obama Might Be a Socialist
July 18, 2008, 3:02 pm
Laura Meckler and Susan Davis report on the presidential race.
Wall Street Journal

Sen. John McCain said rival Sen. Barack Obama may be a socialist.

In a town hall meeting Thursday in Kansas City, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said that his Democratic opponent had the “most extreme” record in the Senate.

Later, McCain was asked by the Kansas City Star if he thought Obama was an extremist. He replied: “His voting record … is more to the left than the announced socialist in the U.S. Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont.” Sanders describes himself as a “democratic socialist” but he ran, and won, as an independent candidate in the 2006 Vermont Senate race with a 33-point margin of victory. He served in the U.S. House for 14 years prior to that.

The Star then asked McCain if he thought Obama was a socialist. “I don’t know,” he replied. “All I know is his voting record, and that’s what people usually judge their elected representatives by.”

The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Update: In an emailed statement, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said, “This attack is straight out of the Bush-Rove playbook, and is exactly what the American people are tired of. Instead of making false, divisive attacks, Senator Obama is working to bring our country together to meet the challenges we face as a nation.”
 

AzProtector

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McCain: Obama Might Be a Socialist
July 18, 2008, 3:02 pm
Laura Meckler and Susan Davis report on the presidential race.

Sen. John McCain said rival Sen. Barack Obama may be a socialist.

In a town hall meeting Thursday in Kansas City, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said that his Democratic opponent had the “most extreme” record in the Senate.
Later, McCain was asked by the Kansas City Star if he thought Obama was an extremist. He replied: “His voting record … is more to the left than the announced socialist in the U.S. Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont.” Sanders describes himself as a “democratic socialist” but he ran, and won, as an independent candidate in the 2006 Vermont Senate race with a 33-point margin of victory. He served in the U.S. House for 14 years prior to that.

The Star then asked McCain if he thought Obama was a socialist. “I don’t know,” he replied. “All I know is his voting record, and that’s what people usually judge their elected representatives by.”

The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Update: In an emailed statement, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said, “This attack is straight out of the Bush-Rove playbook, and is exactly what the American people are tired of. Instead of making false, divisive attacks, Senator Obama is working to bring our country together to meet the challenges we face as a nation.”

Gotta call a spade, a spade.
 

Fisher

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Update: In an emailed statement, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said, “This attack is straight out of the Bush-Rove playbook, and is exactly what the American people are tired of. Instead of making false, divisive attacks, Senator Obama is working to bring our country together to meet the challenges we face as a nation.”


Typical political doublespeak.

You notice that Obamas spokesman doesnt deny it.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
McCain: Obama Might Be a Socialist


I was going to say to McCain to look in the mirror. Obama's a socialist/communist or even worse and McCain isn't far behind if at all.
 

FarmerJohn

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McCain: Obama Might Be a Socialist


I was going to say to McCain to look in the mirror. Obama's a socialist/communist or even worse and McCain isn't far behind if at all.

I was thinking that McCain might want to take another tack considering how many Americans have been beaten down by Bush-style capitalism and may be all too ready to try something different.

FJ
 

Sebastian

Sebastian
I was thinking that McCain might want to take another tack considering how many Americans have been beaten down by Bush-style capitalism and may be all too ready to try something different.

FJ

Bush style capitalism is just another form of socialism - corporatism was the word Benito Mussolini coined for it: "don't call us fascist call us corporatist".

Government and industry marching hand in hand towards the future.

What sort of future they never mention.

Profits are private losses are socialized.

Property is private, but government commands with rules and regulations

McCain is a corporatist type socialist - Obama is a statist type socialist.

Given enough time to ferment the diference between the two is no difference at all.

Joke

What is the diference between a Nazi and a Communist?

Nazis dress better.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Or, what is the difference between a socialist and and a communist??

A communist is a socialist in a hurry.
 

Topusaret

Deceased
I was thinking that McCain might want to take another tack considering how many Americans have been beaten down by Bush-style capitalism and may be all too ready to try something different.

FJ

Both of you might want to re-evaluate that thought.

Keep dreaming.
 

Penguin Zen

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I think we should do one of those ... You might be a redneck if...
But change it to
Obama might be a Socialist / Muslim if :
 

Ender

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McCain is a corporatist type socialist - Obama is a statist type socialist.

Given enough time to ferment the diference between the two is no difference at all.

Beat me to it, Sebastian.
 
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