lapel-pin scandal? why am I suddenly glad that I don't watch television... On 10/10/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +100 > > > >> Actually even put in broader context I would say she certainly has > >> socialist > >> leanings. > > > >I agree... but in the same way that you could say that anybody that promotes > >free market forces has "Machiavellian leanings". > > > >However this in no way makes her (as the post and other sources of the > >information imply) either communist or Marxist. She may have socialist > >leanings but she's still well within the mainstream of American politics; > >she leans no more or no less than a broad spectrum of her constituents. > > > >She's without a doubt left of center... but a Marxist? > > > >She's definitely a social liberal who's for universal care (which almost by > >definition means a lessening of personal responsibility). I don't know > >enough to say if she's truly "anti-wealth" despite her view on these > >specific tax cuts (a view which I agree with). > > > >In general our society has "socialist leanings". What are concepts like > >minimum wage, guaranteed health care, bankruptcy protection, public school > >standards, federal control of markets and monopolization if not socialist? > >In fact I think that every first-world country has "socialist leanings" of > >some kind or another - mostly in the areas of universal care and wealth > >protection. > > > >Of course the United States isn't a socialist country despite these leanings > >and neither is Hillary (or, as far as I can tell, any of the front-runners) > >socialists. > > > >Maybe I'm just getting sick of (the mostly, but not exclusively, republican) > >art of sound-biting people into little pieces but this struck a nerve. The > >whole lapel-pin thing with Obama (can you believe Fox compared it to > >Lewinsky scandal?); the fact that the senate spent so much time on the > >"moveon.org" ad; the Charles case, etc. > > > >I'm generally disgusted by any demonization campaigns but the ones we've > >been seeing for the past few years have been truly nauseating. > > > >Jim Davis > >
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