After almost one year of Obama as our Commander in Chief there is beginning to be a lot of accusations about Obama that honestly have no facts to back them up. Some of the things that I have heard consist of: “Obama wasn’t even born in the US” and,” Obama is the Antichrist.” But the truth is, those aren’t true! But how about this one ,” Obama is a socialist.” Some may say that this comment falls right in line with the ones above and that is false. Some may say that it a ridiculous comment. Some may say it is just another way to smear Obama. The rest of this article is going to be only the facts and Obama’s words. I am going to try to keep any biased opinions out of this post.
During the heat of the 2008 Presidential Campaign Obama was asked about his stance on a issue. Instead of giving a direct answer he said, “ Judge me by the people I surround myself with.” Okay Mr. President we will do just that! The first person that we are going to look at is former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones. During a speech to college students Van Jones said this, “ our Native American brothers and sisters who were shoved into all the land that we didn’t want, Guess what? Give them the wealth! Give them then wealth! No justice on stolen land … we owe them a debt” OK so there is one person that Obama surrounds himself with, and he ended up being a supporter of socialism. But we have to be fair here. Lets look at some other people Obama “surrounds” himself with.
Lets take a look at Anita Dunn. Anita is the Former White House Communication’s Director. During a speech to high school students Anita said ,”the two people I admire most is Mother Teresa and Chairman Mao” IN order to fully comprehend what this quote means, we need to understand who Chairman Mao was. Mao took office in 1943. He killed a total of 70 million people while he was in office. That is more than Hitler,Stalin,and Hussein had killed…COMBINED! Now not only did he commit mass genocide, he only had one way of thinking when it came to Economics. Socialism.
Okay so now that we have seen some of the people that Obama surrounds himself with and what they support, lets look at Obama’s words. During Obama’s campaign he made a stop in a small town in Ohio. While he was there, a man by the name of Joe Wurzelbacher was in his lawn playing football with his son, and he noticed Obama taking questions. He explained that by working hard (10-12 hours a day) he was in a position to buy a business. If he bought a truck and expanded the business, he wondered if his success would be greeted by a penalty in the form of higher taxes.
Obama answered,” It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”Spread the wealth around. That means take from the evil bad guys with all the money, and taking the money of those who worked their whole life to earn, and give it to the guys on the couch with a six pack of beer and a half empty bag of potato chips!
On July 4th, 1776 a group of 56 men got together and wrote a document that would change the world. A document that was based on God, honesty, justice, liberty and most of all hard work. Our country was founded with men in a suit and tie. People in our country worked to get what they had. They got their hands dirty, worked all day and night, and worked their way to success. When our country was founded there wasn’t talk of socialism or capitalism! They knew that in order to reap a harvest they had to be out there tilling the ground, planting seeds, and watering the ground so that when harvest comes they will have a full crop.
When our country was founded there was no such thing as Socialism. In fact there was no such thing as capitalism! The only thing they knew is what every human being knows: What one earns is what one keeps. For two hundred years our country has worked and thrived under this system, why in the world would we try to change the system now?
Based on who Obama surrounds himself with and based on what he has said, I think it is safe to say that yes, Obama is a socialist. And yes Obama wants to Steal from the rich and give to the lazy..oops, I mean poor. Obama has made history in many ways by becoming president, but if he accomplishes everything on his hidden agenda of socialism, history will not only be made, it will be changed. We wont be the strongest nation anymore that our history books paint a picture of. We will be the country that doesn’t have any motivation to work hard, because the government will give us everything we need. We wont be who our founding fathers meant for us to be.
Hey Daniel, great article! It is astounding that the Former White House Communications Director would call Chairman Mao her “favorite political philosopher”.
Everyone poor is not lazy and it’s single minded people like you who mess this country up.
I agree, being poor does not make you lazy. Daniel was not making that argument, although he could have articulated that section better. The things about socialism is that it treats everyone’s work output as equal. When Daniel says that Obama is stealing from the rich and giving to the lazy, he is not making fun of poor people. He is only calling out the President on his policies that take money from the rich and give that money to people who do not work as hard. This is not to say that all poor people are lazy, but that does not excuse the President from taxing the rich and giving that money to the poor as a free entitlement. There are hard working men and women who are poor. Those of us who are not can and should be willing to help them out either through charities, public service, etc., but it is not the government’s job to force us to do so. Daniel is condemning socialism, not the poor.
I apologize if you viewed the post that way. In now way was I saying that all poor people are lazy! What I was trying to get at is that what Obama will be doing with his socialistic idealology is he will be taking from people who,in some cases, worked their whole life to get where they are at and giving it to, again in some cases, people who live off welfare and other government programs.