I continue to be amazed at how otherwise-smart friends of mine will insist that, unlike McCain and Palin, Barry is a "socialist," implying that their ticket is not.I won't carry on about how they're all for some form of a progre$$ive tax, but why no one pushes back hard on Sarah about her demonstrated record of socialism in Alaska is completely beyond me.
Sure, there's the rap about how the press is very pro-Obama, and I have to admit that the coverage does appear to lean his way, too, but if the press completely had it out for the McCain ticket as is claimed, why aren't they pouncing on how she redistributed the wealth from the oil companies in her state like this?
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From the New Yorker's "Like, Socialism"
For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveler of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.
Dear Dan -
Thank you for your vote to join the Socialist Party. Your copy of the Communist Manifesto is in the mail. Please enjoy with your cup of green tea and clove.
- The Management
Today, we are all socialists, I guess...with the exception of the Ron Paul crowd, which I have to credit for at least being intellecutally consistent.
Look, I don't have a problem with the argument that Obama's policies are bad or wrong...he leaves a lot of room for legitimate argument.
I do have a problem with the hypocricy of the GOP ticket calling him out on something they are guilty of doing in a different way.
It reminds one of the Furries calling the S&M freaks a bunch of kinky bastids...
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