Obama Socialism

When I googled Obama socialism the first news article that came up was an article about Obama's agenda to socialism. The article talked about how socialism isn't nearly as threatening as fascism. It also talks about past politicians who have tired the same plan that Obama is trying to follow and how it hasn't worked very well.

“I think it’s very unfortunate. I don’t think President Obama really understands, perhaps out of lack of experience in international affairs, the importance of symbolism,” said Reich, who was policy adviser on Latin America for John McCain’s presidential campaign."

I think that when it comes to the word socialism some may use it without really knowing the meaning of it which will in turn make the word inappropriate for a certain topic. When it comes to Obama's plan I think many may misunderstand his plan and may think it is socialism but it really isn't.

“We’ve so overused the word ‘socialism’ that it no longer has the negative connotation it had 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago,” Mr. Anuzis

In the article I found it says that yes what Obama wants to try has actually been tried before by past politicians. A part of the article that talks about previous issues of this states

"In his come-from-behind 1948 victory, President Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, likened a vote for the Republican challenger, Thomas E. Dewey, to a vote for fascism. Four years later, as a vice-presidential candidate trying to break the Democrats’ 20-year grip on the White House, Richard M. Nixon ripped the Democratic nominee for president, Adlai E. Stevenson, as a graduate of the “cowardly college of Communist containment.”"

As I went on to read the article it started connecting the past events to Obama's current day plans and it states that the word fascism can't be applied because he is not a fascist, he's a liberal.

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