Midknight Review -- new and revised: Is Obama a socialist? Well, if he is a statist, you have your answer.

Is Obama a socialist? Well, if he is a statist, you have your answer.

Obama is often referred to as a "statist." Mark Levine uses the term in reference to Barack Obama more than any conservative radio personality I know. Here is its definition: Statism: the practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy. And to think that Bill O'Reilly does not know that Obama is a socialist. What is frustrating is the fact that news commentators such as O'Reilly and Greta have no clue as to whether Obama is a statist/socialist or not, and, in fact, believe that such talk is harmful to civil discourse.

Thank goodness neither command the following that Levin has, or Hannity or Rush or Savage or Hugh Hewitt or . . . . . .

Obama intended to use legislation hidden within his health care reform bill to reconstitute the federal bureaucracy He was successful in his first assignment, that of getting the bill passed into law. The second phase is one of implementation. And that may be an entirely different matter. Understand that sooner or later, the patriot nation will take back our White House, and the job of dismantling this legislative monster will be under way. The reason why communist countries (communism is only a form of socialism) is so dismissive of religion, has to do with the fact that revolutions borne of a desire to be free are centered in religion, and that is why you are seeing Obama in full attack mode against [especially] Christianity.

A year and half ago, he tried to force Christian churches into open hiring practices and was finally defeated in that effort by the Supreme Count (Jan 11, Hosanna/Tabor Lutheran v the EEOC) by a vote of 9 to Nothing. And now, he is involved in a push to force the Catholic Church to change its very doctrine in order to meet certain newly prescribed guidelines. He will not win that battle, either, if folks are prepared for a little civil disobedience. Of course, this battle is not limited to the Catholic expression of Christianity. It effects us all.

He has proven to be the very opposite of Ronald Reagan, someone he quotes more often than most Republicans. Perhaps he thinks that none of us can tell the difference.

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stripmallpaulApril 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM
In the interest of brevity I will not go into your faulty socialist/statist comments and allow your readers to make their own presumptions of falsehood.

The comment that I think is most needed about this post is about the sentence in the middle:

"The reason why communist countries (communism is only a form of socialism) is so dismissive of religion, has to do with the fact that revolutions borne of a desire to be free are centered in religion, and that is why you are seeing Obama in full attack mode against [especially] Christianity."

I'm not sure what you are referring to but most revolutions I can think of are actually born out people seeking freedom FROM religious persecution. America is one shining beacon of a country born out of a revolution of people who were seeking freedom OF AND FROM religion. If you would like to live by religious laws then maybe you should move some place where religion reigns supreme like Iran or Afghanistan. I hear they have some nice religious despots there.
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John SmithsonApril 18, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Our nation's founders was seeking religious freedom from a theocracy (a government, my friend) that was prohibitive and domineering. How is it that you could possibly pretend that Puritans were seeking to escape the tyranny of religion? That is a little beneath you.

As to my "middle" sentence. Of course, I did not mean to reference all revolutions. I had in mind, however, those who resist both Chinese and Russian rule and the fact that both regimes specifically target religious expression. You think they singles out people of faith just for the heck of it? In case you are not aware, there are some 150 million Christians meeting secretly in houses and underground sanctuaries throughout Red China.

In Africa, it is the Christian community that is making a difference in terms of health aid and education, and it is the Christian community that is being slaughtered by the tens of thousands.

Why have Egyptian Muslims banned Christian churches (actually Christian churches are banned in nearly all of the Muslim world)? Because the Christian faith offers equality to women and honesty in a representative governance.
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