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Obama: I'm not a socialist
By: DONOVAN SLACK
12/14/12
President Barack Obama on Thursday brushed aside concerns that he favors socialism, saying in an interview with Univision that his policies are so mainstream that he would have been considered a moderate Republican in the 1980s.
Via the transcript of the interview by Alina Mayo Azze of "Noticias Univision 23" in Miami:
AMA: One issue that Cuban-Americans are worried about is, they believe that you favor a socialist model for our country. Cubans and Venezuelans especially because of what they have gone through. What do you think of that?
PBO: I don't know that there are a lot of Cubans or Venezuelans, Americans who believe that. The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican. I mean...,
The president has tried to squelch such criticism before, notably telling a business group in 2010 that he is an "ardent believer in the free market." But his responses have done little to allay the questions.
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