Why deny the obvious?

(originally posted October 21, 2008)

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Hillary Clinton, Rangel, Schumer, Biden, and a few dozen other elected members of the US Congress are socialists.

Recently Obama and Biden have dropped all pretences at being socialists except one; they deny it when it is painfully obvious to most everyone else. Like Bill Clinton lying to the bitter end about not having sex with "that woman", then having to redefine oral sex as not being sex, then questioning the definition of the word "is", piling on the lies until everyone felt sorry for him and even Clinton's worst detractors wished Starr would let the guy off the hook.
First Biden said that people making money should feel patriotic about paying more taxes. Then Obama told Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher that it is only fair to take some of his wealth and spread it around.

To quote Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

Which is great if you are the one who chooses to need. What about those who chose to exercise their abilities to succeed? Obama says paying more in taxes to give some to those in need is only fair.

Fair to whom? The person who earned the money to make a better life for them and their family? Or to the person who through choice or circumstance did not exercise their talents or abilities?

The people supporting Obama are some of the same people who hate George Bush. One of the reasons for their irrational rage is what they perceive to be how Bush misused the power of the government. Imagine the use of the government to raise your taxes, and here is a fact check for you, Obama supported raising the tax rates on taxpayers earning as little as $42,000/year during the primaries. What makes anyone think his $250,000 tax hike will stay that high? Obama, a proven liar, is more likely to drop the rate as he called for during his short tenure in the Senate and in his primary run.

Another quote from Karl Marx: "Democracy is the road to socialism."

In this case the Democrat party is intent on bringing socialism to the shores of the US. Instead of being a world leader, they want the US to take a position secondary to that of the UN. Everything these socialists say they want to do runs contrary to the Constitution of our country.

Using words such as "fair", "spread the wealth", ironically wrapping themselves in the flag to guilt people into feeling bad about not paying enough in taxes, are typical strategies employed to convert democracies to socialist states.

Since Obama/Biden and Democrat "leaders" in Congress are slowly revealing their plans, and using the jargon of socialism, why don't they just admit that is what they are?

Why are they embarrassed about who they are? Perhaps because instead of having the intelligence or economic acumen to do justice to their idol Karl Marx, they more closely resemble the Marx Brothers.