Like this:

Sorry, I feel like I inject politics into too many of my posts, but I just have to write this one.

Many of you have seen this picture on posters, bumper stickers, t-shirts, etc..  I think it’s ridiculous.  Not so much for the caricature, but for the caption.  The stupid mud slinging in politics bugs me to no end!  Obama is not a socialist, he doesn’t advocate a planned economy.  Have any of the artists, or anybody that owns something with this image, or anybody that calls him a socialist or a communist or a red, have read The Communist Manifesto?  Or if we’re going by the more widely accepted world definition of communism/socialism, do you know what Stalinism really was?  You need a state planned economy, the complete abolition of private property (which, despite what some people think, he doesn’t advocate), and total state ownership of the means of production (again, some people think he wants to do this, but if so, how come he hasn’t seized more companies?  There’s been a total of 1 company come under government control, and by very legal means).  Also, if we’re going with Stalinism, he’d control the media, and all civil rights would be abolished, and millions of people would “disappear.”

The point is, Obama’s not a socialist.  Just because he’s left of Laissez-Faire, he’s clearly a communist.  Well that’s all I’ll bug you with today.

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