Obama=Socialist Campaign Gives Socialism New Cachet (Charles Dews)

Charles Dews -- World News Trust

Aug. 17, 2009 -- I normally try to not watch such unmitigated tripe, but the other day I saw on some news show or the other—they all look nowadays like Entertainment Tonight—on which there was some unknown politician bravely and patiently listening to a horde of nutty people screaming at the tops of their voices and gesticulating fiercely in his quickly fading direction. The pols face was a shade of Washington, DC, gray, and the people were distinctly red, in the face, not politically, of course. Reds are not nearly so fierce these days. Red might not be exactly the right description—it might have been more like purple in the face.

In any case, the poor politician was mumbling incoherently about how Obama had all of our best interests at heart and how he would not raise taxes to pay for "universal" health care except on the very rich—I believe the figure $250,000 was mentioned. Not that $250,000 is rich by today´s standards, but it seemed like a good round number that above which taxation would heretofore be levied. I am for taxing anyone who makes a cent more than I do from my retirement check, which barely keeps my SKY bill paid and my Internet service winging my way effortlessly and wirelessly, to say nothing of affording me a modicum of good parmesan cheese for adorning my boiled semolina pasta or a bottle of Stolichnaya now and again to share with friends who like the semblance of a good martini a pitless green olive can make.

Watching those angry and, astonishingly ugly, faces on the tube made me realize something important, I think. Many of the humans lifting those faces camera-ward were also sporting cheap white T-shirts and shiny plastic buttons emblazoned with the absurd idea that President Obama, that scion of Harvard, writer of best-selling books, husband of the impeccable, irrepressible Michelle, is a socialist. I could almost smell the stressed cheap underarm deodorant.

As a socialist myself, and not the wishy-washy liberal, bourgeois, baloney, everything-is-gonna-get-better-if-only-we-could-vote-for-a-socialist variety either. I am a dyed in the wool Bolshevik, a revolutionary leftist, a Trot, a mounter of barricades, would-be thrower of Molotov cocktails at class traitors sort of socialist. We used to be called communists back in the good old days of the Sixties, but now that there are no communists left, we are left with the softer monicker—socialist. I don´t like it, but that´s the way it is.

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I fixed it in the headline, anyway. : )

Iraq was when the 'reporters' (who should know better) kept talking about finding a new 'ca-shay' of arms, and the military saying 'we heard there was an arms ca-shay in the area', yada yada.
Like fingernails on a blackboard. All because someone (I think it was Chimp, but could have been Rummie) said it first, and NOBODY WOULD CORRECT HIM.

I cant see how convincing a majority of intelligent citizens that a single payer medical system, where the patient/client is given best possible representation in the healthcare marketplace when prices set for drugs and med treatment etc, is in any way difficult, especially when the President has the WHouse bully pulpit to explain the simple fact a single payer system doesn't preclude multiple providers-every doctor can be his own corporation, if he wants, but somehow the simple idea of a single payer, meaning the people/public/taxpayer EMPOWERED BY PROFESSIONAL wheeler dealer reps who negotiate the prices to be paid (paying too much, or unable to pay enough, is not the issue, since that's the system we use now) by them, as taxpayers...Obama seems to be junyer bush, but a better quality of gee bush (who 'sold' the Iraq war despite having only wooden nickles and fools gold etc to pay for it, and no wmd's to justify it!) but still we 'bought' it on the CREDIT CARD!

Obama should declare an end to the 'war on drugs' cuz it's clearly a fraud, and once the pigs are on the run, then jam through a single payer med system, but ...maybe obama isn't serious about change and serving his supporters- too much like algore and john kerry always looked out for mister pig's interests, as matter of fact (trying to pass a universal health care program fresh outta the gate seems to be foolish- and didn't liberal clinton also do that?)