Obama's a capitalist says top socialist
By Frank James
Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau (link)

Brian Moore knows socialists. Socialists are friends of his. And he says that Sen. Barack Obama is no socialist.

And Moore should know since he's the Socialist Party candidate for president.

Moore was on C-Span's Washington Journal program yesterday when he was asked by a caller whether Obama was a socialist, a political philosophy the Democratic presidential nominee has been tagged with by Sen. John McCain because of the Illinois Democrat's "spread the wealth" comment to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher.

Moore's answer:

First of all, Mr. Obama is not a socialist, he's a capitalist and a capitalist in the bad sense. He's received $25 million from contributions from Wall St. He's embraced the bailout, voted and supported the bailout. He's supporting a health-care system that would turn over authority back to the private insurance companies."

He's going to increase the military in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran and the military bases in Iraq. in no way is this man a socialist.

He's tinkering with capitalism. He's a mild reformer. He wants to reform the system instead of radically changing it. Remember now, the Democrats since 1948 have been advocating a universal health plan since Harry Truman. For 40 years they were in power in Congress and did nothing. They're not going to do anything now. And I feel Mr. Obama's going to be all words and promises and four years from now there's going to be a huge disappointed electorate, especially the young people in this country will be so disillusioned with the leadership under the Democrats because of their promises and empty words.

The Obama campaign may want to buy up some TV airtime and give it to Moore so that he can bash Obama for being a capitalist and no socialist. Just a thought.

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