Barack Obama: Socialist

To which I say: HA!

More knowledgeable people than me have had this whole thing out over the last few weeks, so I'm not going to get into all of the reasons that I feel this is a rather large pile of crap. Also, the people who are buying into this idea generally don't seem to be willing to listen to anyone else's opinions anyway, so what would be the point? The only point I'm going to make is this: Warren Buffet backed Obama. Warren Buffet. The world's richest man. If Obama was really looking to overthrow capitalism, would Buffet be in his corner? Again: HA!

No, what I wanted to say about this whole "debate" is that 99% of the people who keep calling him a socialist probably don't even know what socialism is. If McCain and Palin hadn't trotted the word out, it wouldn't have ever come up. I've talked to a lot of people about this election over the last year or so, and I never heard the word used once until a few weeks ago. Suddenly, everyone in McCain's corner was using it. Let's see, do I think that all of these people spent some time, did some research, and came to some hard-thought conclusions? Or is it more likely that they've been blankly parroting the party line without even knowing what it means? Hell, 9 out of 10 people in this country probably couldn't even explain capitalism. Now they're all experts on socialism? Riiiiiight.

Baaaah. Keep bleating, sheep. Meanwhile, the people who really want to do something about the state this nation finds itself in will be out there doing it.