Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Obama Socialist?

When I googled Obama socialism I started looking for a story about what people thought about Obama and socialism. I read on stjoenews.com that an Alabama congressman said that he knew at least 17 socialist house members, but he refused to give the list of the names. Long however says that there is not even one socialist house members and that if there were, everyone would own a piece of AIG or the auto industry, but they don't. The government is helping out the economy now because of the "hard economic times". I don't think that these allegations are correct because Obama made a stimulus plan to help the people and businesses that need help. Any other president would have done the same thing. Bush had a stimulus plan just a year ago and he was not called a socialist. Obama's slogan was Change and it was Hope but that does not mean the hope or the change to socialism.
"Tea Baggers" are insane! I read a blog about the Tea Bagging march in San Diego and there were a lot of interesting quotes on the page, they say "That's not the fist time the liberals in the media have chosen to ignore and demean you." They claim that all media is controlled by "liberal extremist" and a lot believe that Obama is a socialist. They all agree that Obama's taxes are too high and that they think it needs to stop.
Obama is not the first president to be called a socialist however, plenty of other presidents have been called a socialist. When I googled Socialist presidents in America, I saw a lot about the GOP calling Obama a socialist. They say that his economic plan is going to lead to a large deficit that will last until 2013 and will not start to go up until after that. Everyone seems to be calling Obama a socialist because of his stimulus plan but it seems that they do not take into account Bush's stimulus plan which was proposed just a year and a half ago, remember, point a finger, you have three going back to you.

Citations:
Thomas, Clinton. "stjoenews.net | Obama the socialist, some say." stjoenews.net | St. Joseph News-Press | St. Joseph news, sports, entertainment, business, jobs, cars, yellow pages & classifieds. Serving St. Joseph, MO . http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2009/apr/19/obama-socialist-some-say/ (accessed April 21, 2009).

"Tea Party Success! - San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmb." San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmb - HOME. http://www.760kfmb.com/Global/story.asp?S=10195736 (accessed April 21, 2009).

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