As far as the writer is concerned, the Palin DUI was but a minor peccadillo compared to Obama's past during which he's admitted to smoking pot and snorting coke. The implication is that this should have been taken into account by those who voted in the 2008 presidential election. Again, I could not have taken into account that which I didn't know in the first place. Neither Obama nor anyone in his administration has spoken about making the American government "completely socialistic". I've heard no talk by The Obama Administration about taking over the production of refrigerators, shoes or basketballs. That would be complete socialism, wouldn't it? The closest The United States has ever come to having a Socialist president was in the 1908 presidential election when Eugene Debs collected 450,000 votes and again in 1912 when he received 900,000 votes.11 In the article I mention above, I go into much more detail, as do comments posted to that article, about how Americans are still indentifying "Socialism" with "communism" and "communism" with tyranny. This points to the sad fact that there are still Americans who've never heard of successful Democratic Socialism. There are still Americans who don't realize that democracy is a form of governance and Socialism is an economic system which protects a nation's citizens from unnecessary poverty. This brings me to my final thought. So what if Obama was or is a Socialist? The Socialist Party and the premise of Socialism do not conflict with The Constitution of The United States. We all know that, after The Bible, The US Constitution is the most "interpreted" non-fiction work ever written. No, I guess that wasn't my final thought. My final thought is whence do people like this letter writer come? They seem to be let out of "the hen house" just long enough to repeat the fox's words. 1. Zinn, Howard. The People's History of the United States, HaperCollins Publishers, p. 341
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I love Eugene Debs
by Paula Sayles on Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:50:06 AM
I Agree About Debs
by Michael Bonanno on Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:15:11 PM
I Live Among Them
by Paula Sayles on Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:41:49 PM