Comments on: A Sandwich Story

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:20:55 +0000

Agree, calling Obama “socialist” or “communist” is not really the point and probably wrong, as most economists would define those terms.

He’s more like a hard Labourite in the 1940s-1970s, or even more, a German Green Party leader. Wealth is not created, it just exists to be moved around, and we can do anything we want (environmental, taxation, other regulations, etc.) without fear that it will affect the size of the nation’s wealth.

One could argue this is a bit Marxist, based on an implicit belief that capitalism has solved the problem of production and it is time to move on to socialism, the next stage, but I doubt Obama thinks about economic things that systematically, so to call him Marxist or socialist seems a bridge too far.

By: Which Weevil

Which Weevil — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:56:29 +0000

Obama's portrayal of himself as a generous sharer of his own sandwiches (even in idle jest) is made especially distasteful by the meager amount of income that the Obamas donated to charity, especially in their pre-Senate years. Barack talks about spreading the wealth around: you can be certain that a substantial portion of the wealth thus spread would stick to the spreaders. Great; now I've got to get the image of Obama squirming around like Iggy Pop out of my head ;)

By: Mike Drew

Mike Drew — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:07:32 +0000

The master distributor of the peanut butter in the liberal illuminati socialist party. Great lessons for the kids, I wish they would actually try this in class so the kids get a lesson on socialism before they are immersed in it.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:50:01 +0000

Phil…see my post a couple up from this one: “The Democrats’ War on Energy.”

By: Phil Fraering

Phil Fraering — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:36:30 +0000

I don’t mean to change the subject like that, but that particular stream seemed very very important.

(So he’s not going to steal people’s peanut butter and jelly sandwitches. You’ll just be bankrupted if you make one to begin with.)

By: Phil Fraering

Phil Fraering — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:28:32 +0000

OOPS the imbedded video link didn’t work:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ

“So if someone wants to build a coal power plant they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that is being emitted.”

By: pst314

pst314 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:21:06 +0000

“he is not proposing that the school take over the manufacturing of peanut-butter sandwiches”

Which is a prime example of why I see Obama & friends as more fascist than socialist.

By: Phil Fraering

Phil Fraering — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:20:20 +0000

It seems that over the weekend this audio surfaced: