Interesting how after 8 years of Barack Obama's own words being provided you have no recollection of it. Convenient as well...
"...I sought out the Marxist professors" - Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
"....and I think the way you do that is to spread the wealth" - Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber
Oh....and lets not forget that Obama calls card carrying member #47544 of Communist Party U.S.A. his "mentor"!
Now start you're typical liberal nonsense of denying and/or minimizing. Go on...get into full on libtard damage control. Tell us how words don't mean anything. How that's not really what Obama "meant". How that doesn't "prove anything". You know....all of the tired and pitiful libtard excuses. Maybe you can even call me "racist"!
Still no documentation. "spreading the wealth" does not make one a Marxist. This country has used the government to "spread the wealth" -to improve lives and level the playing field since the progressive movement and Teddy Roosevelt in the very early 1900. It is what has made this country what it is , although we could be better. It appears that to you anyone who is not a lais·sez-faire capitalist and who favors any degree of regulation is a Marxist and that is just as stupid as stupid gets. Capitalists will not regulate themselves. They are out for themselves and themselves only and the rest of us and the good of the country be damned.
No documentation? We have him on video and he stated in his own book "I sought out the marxist professors"
Just like a Bill Clinton liberal "deny, deny, deny"
STILL! NO LINK!
Ohhhh.....I get it! You're illiterate. You can't do any research on the internet for yourself. You need someone to spoon feed it to you like a child. My bad....I
completely forgot that you are a liberal.
He is not even considered a Socialist by Socialist! Leave alone a Marxist....
“Top U.S. Socialist Says Barack Obama is Not One of Them” by PATRICIA MURPHY Capitol Hill Bureau Chief, is telling:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/10/top-socialists-agree-obama-is-not-a-socialist/
Frank Llewellyn, the National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America, the country's largest socialist organization, said Obama is most definitely not one of them. "He's not any kind of socialist at all. He called the president "a market guy," which is hardly a compliment coming from a man with serious reservations about market capitalism.
"He's not challenging the power of the corporations," Llewellyn added. "The banking reforms that have been suggested are not particularly far reaching. “Llewellyn offered his belief that Republicans have historically called opponents "socialists" in order to stop moderate reforms, and that the new stickiness of the Obama/socialist association is one part misinformation, one part ignorance. "The Republicans are doing the same thing they did when Roosevelt was president -- confusing somebody who is trying to save capitalism from itself with somebody who is trying to destroy it. (Obama) is not trying to destroy capitalism."
So how then can Obama be portrayed as a socialist? There is the affordable care act which does in fact involve additional taxes, and regulations on the health care industry. However, it hardly the government take over that its been called. The insurance companies and pharmaceuticals are alive and well. It is not a single-payer system and it is still very much for profit.
He does advocated the “redistribution of wealth” through tax policies and social safety net programs but so did many others before him and he has not advocated the “collective ownership of the means of production” nor has he seriously curtailed the accumulation and concentration of wealth.
And while, he took steps to regulate the financial industry, advocates protecting the environment, and supports labor unions, that should all sound pretty familiar-and mainstream after reviewing the records of some of his predecessors.
It is also worthy of note that during his administration, the top marginal tax rate of 35% is the lowest since the Reagan years. Between WWII until the Reagan Presidency, the rates ranged from 70% to 91 %. Likewise, the capital gains tax rate of 15% for individuals is at its lowest since 1941. And while the capital gains tax on corporations is historically high at 35%, that has been the rate since the Clinton administration and was only slightly lower at 34% from Reagan’s second term through much of Bush 41’s time in office. It should also be noted that this tax was raised from 28% under Reagan during his first term.
If Obama is, by some measure a Socialist, it is only in the long tradition of United States Presidents using government to level the playing field and improve the lives of people. There is no evidence whatsoever to support accusations that Obama is a Marxist and while not a pure Capitalist, he is no more of Socialist than many who came before him beginning with Teddy Roosevelt. In the case of Obama, the labels of “Socialist” and “Marxist “ stems from an ignorance these terms, as well as of history, distrust and fear of someone who is seen as different, and a measure of anti government hysteria and clinically diagnosable paranoia. The fear is simply not reality based.