Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Obama Neither a Socialist Nor Islamic
RECEIVED Wed., Oct. 13, 2010
Dear Editor,
To refer to Barack Obama as a socialist is more ridiculous than the claim that he is an Islamic African national. At least the president's name does consist of Arabic and African monikers. Those proclaiming Obama a socialist I confront inevitably fail to accurately define socialism, even by the most elementary standard. If Obama does indeed possess socialistic inclinations, they do not tend toward the worker. When public funds are distributed so as to rescue corporations such as those that initiated the current economic crises, that may be construed as corporate socialism – or render Obama capitalism's savior.
I wager those that would paint Obama a socialist in 2010 are of the same ilk as those that were confident of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003.
To refer to Barack Obama as a socialist is more ridiculous than the claim that he is an Islamic African national. At least the president's name does consist of Arabic and African monikers. Those proclaiming Obama a socialist I confront inevitably fail to accurately define socialism, even by the most elementary standard. If Obama does indeed possess socialistic inclinations, they do not tend toward the worker. When public funds are distributed so as to rescue corporations such as those that initiated the current economic crises, that may be construed as corporate socialism – or render Obama capitalism's savior.
I wager those that would paint Obama a socialist in 2010 are of the same ilk as those that were confident of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003.
Stephen Trapp