SOCIALISM: Obama’s vision for economic renewal mostly a self-serving mirage

Here are the simple definitions of socialism by Merriam-Webster.com

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

None of them can or should be applied to a free society.

President Obama’s vision for economic renewal is primarily a self-serving mirage. Look at some of the specifics.

Does he really believe his ideas will actually help the economic recovery? Possibly. However, he is spouting the rhetoric with which his socialist mentors have filled him since his childhood. People like Frank Marshall Davis, member of the Communist Party USA living in Hawaii during Obama's teens, the murdering terrorist, Bill Ayers, the hate-filled racist minister, and the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

Obama said in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." Naturally, having been steeped in Marxist radical socialism, Obama would have a very different philosophical world view from that of the foundation of our great nation.

Look at what the Plumb Bob Blog said during his campaign over a year ago. "Barack Obama was born of Communist activists, mentored by Communist writer and activist, spent his college days hanging around radical activists (this from Obama’s own book), worked as a radical community organizer learning the radical tactics of [Sol] Alinsky, kept contact with radicals through the years, and today lends his political skill to the international goals of radical activists, and has radicals working on for his campaign. Oh, and he believes opposition to the aims of radical activists will fail because the radicals embody the will of God." Read more here.

You are known by your friends and associates -- and Obama's are the hard-core leftists.

No one has been allowed to really publically question Obama's ideas except Joe Wurzelbacher, "Joe the Plumber," and that was an oversight by his staff. Joe quickly figured out that "spreading the wealth" was simply a code word for socialism.

Yes, it IS socialism and socialism has never worked wherever it has been tried--Germany under the Nazis, the old Soviet Union, Cuba, the Peoples' Republic of China--simply name it. The more socialism a country has had, the greater has been its failure.

While you may point to China as having succeeded, please examine its history more closely. The government, out of a desire to succeed, began giving the people more and more opportunity to have their own businesses and keep the products of their labor reducing governmental controls--more freedom.