{"id":8709,"date":"2009-03-15T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T12:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2009-03-15T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T12:40:58","slug":"another-socialist-obamas-not-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8709","title":{"rendered":"Another Socialist: Obama’s not socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the Washington Post ran a column by their resident socialist Harold Meyerson<\/a> easing our fears of President Barack Obama’s political persuation by declaring that “he’s not one of us”. Today, they find another socialist to confirm Meyerson’s assessment. Billy Wharton allays our fears with typical misinformation;<\/p>\n

A national health insurance system as embodied in the single-payer health plan reintroduced in legislation this year by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), makes perfect sense to us. That bill would provide comprehensive coverage, offer a full range of choice of doctors and services and eliminate the primary cause of personal bankruptcy — health-care bills. Obama’s plan would do the opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never mind that any intrusion by the government into private health care is socialist. Any intrusion by government into any private enterprise is socialist. But here’s the most ludicrous of the evidence he presents us;<\/p>\n

Issues of war and peace further weaken the commander in chief’s socialist credentials. Obama announced that all U.S. combat brigades will be removed from Iraq by August 2010, but he still intends to leave as many as 50,000 troops in Iraq and wishes to expand the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A socialist foreign policy would call for the immediate removal of all troops. It would seek to follow the proposal made recently by an Afghan parliamentarian, which called for the United States to send 30,000 scholars or engineers instead of more fighting forces. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So a “true socialist” would send scholars and engineers to battle a threat? Like those engineers and scholars Chavez sent to the frontier with Colombia last year? Those engineers and scholars that Cuba sent to Angola, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras a few decades ago? The engineers and scholars that Vietnam sent into Laos and Cambodia in the late 70s? Please.<\/p>\n

I find it somewhat dismaying that the Post is now publishing columns weekly that tell us we’re paranoid bubbleheads if we think Obama is a socialist. More dismaying is the number of WaPo commenters who agree and thank Wharton for trying to educate the paranoid bubbleheads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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