So the new scare tactics are that we will bring in a socialist government is we vote all Dems in on November 4th.

Well my logic on this is that we have had a Republican majority for most of the last 8 years and what have they done? They gave welfare checks to everyone and now to corporations and banks. We have spent more money than any one president can spend in the whitehouse on an illegal war in Iraq. We have seen our humanitarian laws of no torture get washed down the drain. We have lost civil rights to privacy.

We were attacked by terrorists and our borders are still open, so are our docks which Bush almost gave to the Arabs to run, remember?

It goes on and on.

So let me post the question: How much worse can the Dems be?

Answer: Not much.

woo hoo ...go bush hes our man if cant screw us McCain can

but.....the democrats have had control of congress for the past 2 years......and what have THEY done?

Okay let's say this one more time.

The Democratic party has only 49 members in the Senate, but holds an operational majority because the two Independent senators — Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut — caucus with the Democrats for organizational purposes.

What did the republican majority do with the previous six years?

Cleaning up some of the mess the repubs made.

if you do your homework youd see it was by a 1 person majority... that does not constitute control.. and they tried only to be veto'd over and over

come on guys, give the marxist a chance. he did win by a landslide. that means that the majority wanted socialism. maybe he wont invite the terrorists to dinner at the white house. but they did donate to his campaign.

Marxist? Socialism? Have you ever looked up those definitions or do you just like to toss them around?

What you are saying here shows hate.

Obama is a Democrat. He's down the middle and leans a tad to the right, IMO.

We are already a socialistic country in a way. We pay taxes and they go places that we have no control over.

Barack Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign. And they seem to feel the warmth. President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who led a revolution there in 1979, says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon, and Americans are "laying the foundations for a revolutionary change." A captured computer revealed that an unknown person chatted with Marxist FARC guerillas on Obama's behalf (they believed), stating he would be the next President and US policy towards Columbia would change. Frank Marshall Davis, a dear Obama friend and mentor was as a member of the Communist Party USA. Barack Obama just seems to attract Marxists.

If the people he surrounds himself with are any indication of his core beliefs, a higher capital gains tax to punish the rich, even if it diminishes actual tax revenue, may be only the beginning. Obama's Official campaign blogger, Sam Graham-Felsen, a former writer for the leftist Nation magazine and a contributor to the Socialist Viewpoint, is certainly a believer in class warfare.

The capitalist ruling class of the United States exercises a virtual dictatorship not only over American society, but also over the entire world. This capitalist class rule is the basic cause of the poverty, wars and the degradation of the natural environment.

After being expelled from Socialist Action in 1999, we formed Socialist Workers Organization in an attempt to carry on the project of building a nucleus of a revolutionary party true to the historic teachings and program of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

Socialist Viewpoint (info@socialistviewpoint.org


The product of a Harvard education, Sam is an admirer of anti-American academic Noam Chomsky, a hypocrite and fraud masquerading as a political philosopher. Mr. Chomsky, perhaps admired by Obama as by his official blogger, is fond of visiting dictators and terrorists and giving speeches blaming all the worlds' ills on America. All while accepting money from military conteacts at MIT. Chomsky was an ardent supporter of Pol Pot, and to this day denies a holocaust occurred in Cambodia (1.67 million died). He is unrepentant about the horrors his vile ideology encouraged and supports Hamas and Hezbollah with the same willful blindness today.

In an article in the Harvard Crimson, Sam writes of his hero:

For me, hearing Chomsky speak for the first time was a life-changing experience. His ability to take preconceptions and destroy them-to completely remodel one's understanding of reality with cold, hard facts-blew me away. When I left what was then the ARCO Forum last fall, I felt as though I had been through the Matrix and back. Chomsky really has this effect because he bombards you with evidence and logic, not empty rhetoric. It is nearly impossible to hear him or read him-once you've actually checked his facts yourself (he even cites page numbers in public addresses)-and deny what he's saying.


For anyone who has actually endured one of Chomsky's muddled rants or tried to verify the claims in his books, young Sam's praise is comical; and a clear indication he has never actually read one. You find very quickly Chomsky is not overly concerned with "facts," as he fabricates them with abandon. He cites page numbers, to his own books, which recycle themselves with astonishing success. Hardly an example of a towering intellect, his tired canards are sufficient to impress the worshipful Sam Graham-Felsen, and endear himself to the same leftist academics that so easily embraced dictators such Ho Chi Min and Pol Pot, idolize Chavez and Castro and legitimized terrorists like Yasser Arafat. Chomsky is the master of post-modern moral relativism, quick to excuse atrocity with obfuscation.

On the day after 9-11, Chomsky wrote:

"The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people."


It may be simple self-aggrandizing hypocrisy that inspires Mr. Chomsky's comments, though I suspect, more likely he mistakes the accolades of twenty year old activists as confirmation of his own genius. He plays what works with the crowd. Here are some other nihilistic gems gleaned from his pedantic and incomprehensible writing:

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged."

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. "

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."


Sam Graham-Felsen, hired to run Obama's blog, writes about Noam Chomsky in a Marxist publications that openly calls for revolution against the American government. This is a Presidential candidate's choice to run the on-line portion of his campaign. That speaks volumes of his character and worldview. Contradicting what he says in public, Obama is surrounding himself with poeple who never seem to learn that their absurd ideologies end in misery and ruin.

Sam is young and has much to learn, so we can forgive his silly hagiographies, the ones about Chomsky and the ones about Obama. His hero worship is eager and emotional and completely without substance, much as Obama's campaign promises are without substance. Obama is a community organizer in the Saul Alinsky mold, and knows where to get people like Sam who have energy and drive. His staff is nothing if not energetic. He even cut his activist teeth in Chicago, the stomping grounds of Alinsky and so many others in the "progressive" community. One wonders why the windy city still has a murder rate higher than Baghdad, after so many years of enlightened activism.

The adults in the Obama campaign expect us to believe that a campaign staff filled with Marxists and radicals does not reflect the candidate. We are supposed to believe that ideologues who distain America and Americans can improve the system that has brought humanity more prosperity and well-being than any nation before it. Speaking out of both sides of their mouths, they tell us we are great, and then insist we must change because we are responsible for all the bad things that happen in the world. That alone should anger the electorate enough to defeat them. The change Obama will bring will not be the change America needs or expects. It will be the change of naive adolescents, which think Noam Chomsky wise.

We continue to have an optimistic outlook about the revolutionary potential of the world working class to rule society in its own name-socialism. We are optimistic that the working class, united across borders, and acting in its own class interests can solve the devastating crises of war, poverty, oppression, and environmental destruction that capitalism is responsible for.
- The Socialist Viewpoint

Please provide an unbiased factual source.

I thought chomsky was right on the money on his comments above. He was corrrect if the Nuremburg principles were applied every post war president would have to be hanged. That is an honest assesment. If you read the Nuremburg laws you would see that it is so.

Absolutely nothing to be worried about.

Just think...if you work your ass off....wind up running a successful business and make over 250K a year in that business...you too can give some of your money to someone poor who hasn't done SH*T to get it except be poor.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Poor people work. Sometimes they even work two jobs to put food on the table.

since when has it been an accepted notion that because you make less the $250, 000 that you are lazy? someone please explain that rationale for me.

Would you rather have the poor commiting crimes so they could eat or dole out a little food stamps? How about starveing people at every stop light? the economy simply is awful right now for alot of people, they cant work even if they wanted to.

I would much prefer someone not decide for me where my money should go.

I don't make anything near 250k, but if I did, I certainly wouldn't want good ole Uncle Sam to take an even bigger grab into my pockets.

We are taxed heavily enough in this country.

@ Jasmine : The 250K mark came from Obama. He said that people who make more than that can afford to " spread their wealth " around.

I have never, nor will I ever, say anything of the sort.

I make around 1/10th of that 250K and I work my ass off to get it.

You said, "someone poor who hasn't done SH*T to get it except be poor".

That sounds like you're saying that they're lazy.