To those afraid of Barack Obama The Socialist, I’d like to offer a little perspective. I was born and raised in a country with higher taxes, stringent pro-labor laws, and universal healthcare. Not many will call this country – Germany – socialist. Yet if you plopped Senator Obama into the German parliament, you would see him sitting at a lonely outpost on the far right.
Obama is no more a socialist than Clinton, Bush Senior, or Reagan. All he proposes is to restore the tax code to what it was during the Clinton years. Were we socialist then? If so, then I for one am longing for those socialist days of old, when our economy was still sound. The fact is, even John McCain called the Bush tax cuts irresponsible at the time.
So please, educate yourself about the candidates and their proposals and vote accordingly. But don’t vote based on some silly label one politician sticks on another.
View this letter as published by the Kansas City Star on 10-30-08: http://blogs.kansascity.com/unfettered_letters/2008/10/views-on-the-pr.html
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