Obama Not A Left Wing Nut

Obama’s no more of a left wing nut than Bush was a right wing nut (which he wasn’t). I’m not saying he wasn’t aterrible president. He just didn’t try Laissez faire capitalism or making unions illegal. No a right wing nut.

Obama is a liberal democrat, through and through. That doesn’t make him crazy. If he were a socialist, I would call him a left wing nut, but he isn’t.

From here out, I’ll use the following definitions, just to keep things clear.

Socialism: economic system in which the state owns industry, and resources are elloted equally among the populous

Democrats: American political party that advocates financing broad social programs with tax money (taken disproportionately more from people with larger incomes), and greater government control of industry

Now he is in office.  He has taken over 2/3 of the auto industry (aka gave the companies money so they wouldn’t go under and take the Rust Belt with them), huge swaths of the banking system (the same as with the autos, but in order to prevent total economic collapse in our country), forced an auto CEO out of office (not legally, just with pressure), blamed the Bush admin at every possible turn for everything that is wrong in this world when his own party is to blame as much as anyone else (he’s a politician), he has assigned “Czars” for just about everything (democrat thing), is currently masquerading a health care reform bill as innocent rather than socialist (not socialism; socialism would make private healthcare illegal; the bill is democrat is a vengance), has told the American people they can’t do things on their own without government help (I’d like to hear a quote), and has followed a laundry list of historical left-wing actions including taxing successful people (the rich) and cutting back on military readiness and pushed through an unnecessarily enormous stimulus package that was twice the size it needed to be and created half the jobs it could have (again democrat, not socialist).

Calling Obama a socialist (aka left wing nut) is horribly unfair. It’s as bad as calling Bush a war criminal.