Normally the NY Post drives me crazy, but this article points out something I think is worth noting: President Obama is, as we all knew deep-down, a closet socialist.
The author, Kyle Smith, tries to draw up a distinction between communism and socialism, forgetting the two are sister governmental systems. The "communal property" vs "private property with government direction" face-off is, well, just degrees separation of the same evil rot. I suspect what he was trying to say was that President Obama talks about socialism as if it were communism--supposedly very removed from our current system--in order to claim he isn't socialist. A classic political move is to redefine bad things and good things so you can apply (or unapply) labels to yourself. People tend to take a lot longer to drop their emotional feelings regarding labels than they take to unknowingly have politicians change the definitions on them. Once someone controls definitions and terms, they always seem to win the debate.
I have to give him props for calling out the comment, and making it quite clear (heh, "now let me be clear...") that President Obama has a private self that he doesn't let slip--one that the American people would reject. I find it interesting of course that this would slip out after his second term was already rolling. There seems to be a lot of truth (er, scandal) slipping out now that he clinched the election again.
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