The conservative criticism of Obama's message and the fear of a socialist sentiment is a legitimate concern related to the promise of freedom in which We are ALL Constitutionally endowed.
To brand Obama as a socialist is ridiculous. Unlike his predecessor, and would-be successor, when he swears to protect and defend The Constitution of the United States it will not be to antithetically administer the command and control of a power elite.
Socialism is a consolidated conceptual model of government. It is an elitist model of power and political economy in which an elite decide what is to be produced, the quantity, the quality, the price, who is to produce it and the value, the compensation, of the producers, including the management. It is a command economy.
The elite of our consolidated capitalism, of our command economy, decide whether we produce expensive homes and yachts and other class commodities while the rest of the world goes without the basic needs. The higher value is supposed to, in theory, trickle down to provide for the general welfare by deciding who and what has the most value in service to it, and by force of the argument, what is not provided for, by command of the bid on the price, is the best approximation of what the general welfare is.
Like Obama says, this economic theory is a very clear failure. The trickle-down hypothesis is disconfirmed by the brutal force of the evidence. If We do not throw it out to test a new hypothesis (the obvious alternative being to finance a pluralistic economic model--what a model of consolidated power is not and what our Constitution is designed to prevent), then We The People must be entirely stupid, and stupid We are not!
We are a creative, innovative, pragmatic, highly productive people. Relying on the leadership of McCain and company just condemns us to the failed model and legitimacy of the past.
Arguing we should conserve the model we have now to ensure a self-determined fate that is clearly not our own, now that's stupid!
The People are sovereign.
Let The Will of the People rule.
Let freedom reign!
Obama/Biden 2008!
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