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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 01:14 PM Feb 2014

Esquire: An America that conservatives should love.

Rand Paul, a to-be candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, told a radio show Tuesday he believes President Barack Obama is trying to “transform America into a socialist nightmare.” This is a standard rallying cry from the far right, even if it’s rarely laid out in such plainspoken language by a mainstream politician.

The United States of America, it goes, is becoming a socialist hellhole.
But here’s the problem: The numbers don't back that up. Instead, they reveal an America that is running away from a “socialist” anything.


As President Obama enters the final half of his last term, he has left us with an America that conservatives should love.











http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/barack-obamas-conservative-utopia

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Esquire: An America that conservatives should love. (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 OP
The only socialism we have is socializing corporate losses and kairos12 Feb 2014 #1
CORRECT Skittles Feb 2014 #4
A sad K&R DJ13 Feb 2014 #2
When your side owns all the major media you can say what you like. If it's the only message ... Scuba Feb 2014 #3
I wish you'd used the title of the piece in your OP headline cali Feb 2014 #5
LOL... I considered it Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #6
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. When your side owns all the major media you can say what you like. If it's the only message ...
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 01:24 PM
Feb 2014

... delivered it will be the only message heard.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. I wish you'd used the title of the piece in your OP headline
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:36 PM
Feb 2014

and you'd certainly get a lot more responses.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
6. LOL... I considered it
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:41 PM
Feb 2014

but decided to use this method I didn't want to ignite the highly combustible explosive just yet.

I wanted them to go to the site and stand before the ingredients.

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