Socialism and the US
I’m heading to Chicago today for a show (The Dears, Secret Machines) and when I get back I’ll probably be playing Fable 2 - so I may not have time to post. I’m taking the lazy route and excerpt a couple (in my opinion, great/must read) links for today’s entry. If you want to read the full post, click on the links. Comments on the articles?
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McCain’s Hero: More Socialist Than Obama!
McCain can call Obama a socialist or he can call Teddy Roosevelt his hero. He can’t do both.
By Timothy Noah
Imagine that instead of telling Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher that “when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody,” Barack Obama had said the following:
We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. … The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and … a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
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“Socialist” Is Not an Epithet
posted by John Nichols
John McCain hopes to revive his campaign by suggesting that Barack Obama is some kind of socialist.
The Republican nominee for president says that his Democratic rival’s plan for stimulating the economy sounds “a lot like socialism.”
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