{"id":3537,"date":"2010-09-17T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:39:28","slug":"is-obama-a-socialist-no-he%e2%80%99s-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/is-obama-a-socialist-no-he%e2%80%99s-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama a socialist? No, he\u2019s worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Obama a socialist? No, he\u2019s worse than that<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mary Ellen Synon<\/p>\n

16th September 2010<\/p>\n

For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British \u2018liberalism\u2019 and are therefore shocked and can\u2019t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here\u2019s the reason: Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Americans are waking up to the fact that they have elected a man as president who is every inch an exotic creature. Which was rather fun at first.
\nThe problem is, America is discovering that Mr Obama has brought more than just a foreign name and an interesting racial mix to the White House. He has brought a whole foreign way of thinking. And Americans don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

Millions of them now want national leadership with a more star-spangled way of looking at the world, which is why this week there is something else going on in America, a national debate on a story about Mr Obama in the business magazine, Forbes.<\/p>\n

The story is called \u2018How Obama thinks.\u2019 Its conclusion is that he thinks like a 1950s East African anti-colonialist.<\/p>\n

The article was written by Dinesh D\u2019Souza, an academic and author who is as exotic as the US president. Mr D\u2019Souza was born in Mumbai and immigrated to America as a student. He is now president of <\/p>\n

The King\u2019s College in New York. He once served in the Reagan White House.<\/p>\n

Many of Mr Obama\u2019s critics claim he is a socialist. Certainly, as Mr D\u2019Souza says: \u2018Thanks to Obama the era of big government is back. He has expanded the federal government\u2019s control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy.\u2019<\/p>\n

His critics explain this in two ways. \u2018The first is that Obama is clueless about business. The second is that Obama is a socialist \u2013 not an out-and-out Marxist, but something of a European-style socialist, with a penchant for levelling and government redistribution.\u2019<\/p>\n

But \u2018these theories aren\u2019t wrong so much as they are inadequate. Even if they could account for Obama\u2019s domestic policy, they cannot explain his foreign policy.\u2019 (And what\u2019s Mr Obama\u2019s foreign policy? As the Weekly Standard put it, omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.)…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Is Obama a socialist? No, he\u2019s worse than that By Mary Ellen Synon 16th September 2010 For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British \u2018liberalism\u2019 and are therefore shocked and can\u2019t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here\u2019s the reason: Barack Obama. Americans are waking up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}