Is Obama a Communist or Socialist?

[gwynned]

Originally Posted by eXchanger

obama makes the hand signal too

Excellent observation. Let's get real here. In the last debate, Obama made it quite clear who his friends are - Warren Buffet and Paul Volker - and by doing so, made it quite clear to the PTB that he is no threat to the current establishment. I think we are all confusing the message with the messenger. Despite the fact that the war is unpopular and the public is generally outraged by the 'bailout,' Obama did not pander to popular sentiment, but to the elite who pay his salary by backing off his demand that we pull out of Iraq, and supporting the bailout unconditionally.

And why is it that he doesn't attack McCain for his involvement in the Keating 5 and the S&L scandal? Could it be that he's been instructed that such criticisms of the established order are off limits?

For those who look to Obama and suggest he may be the new FDR, I would remind everyone that the depression did not end (despite all the government efforts to create jobs, etc.) until WWII, a war in which FDR was so anxious to involve us, that he allowed Pearl Harbor.