B, when Colin Powell endorses obama he took McCain to task for saying "No, he's not a muslim. He's a good family man...."
McCain said that the right answer was, "So what if he is?"
Big difference between so what if I am a socialist or so what if he is a socialist (and then having a discussion about that) and saying, "Oh lord no! Obama is just a nice guy who shares his sandwich and thinks we should all share sandwiches. And we all know that's not scary socialism! How funny you people are to think he's a scary socialist. Castro is a scary socialist!"
> I agree, and I think that Obama's response has been notable. He briefly
> mocked it with peanut butter sandwich comment, and then moved on. I think
> that this may say more about certain cold war tropes losing rhetorical
> power than it says about Obama. If that is the case, then there might be
> more possibilities in the future with organizing. robert wood
>
>> But doesn't the scary "socialists are bad" meme seem to be falling flat?
>> It does to me.
>> While the Dems have tried to distance themselves from the socialist tag,
>> in this red state anyway, the socialist scare has no traction that I can
>> see so it's quite unnecessary.
>> The huge Wall Street pay-off really has helped to tamp down the fear of
>> socialism in my opinion.
>>
>> John Thornton
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> shag wrote:
>>> actually, the sucky thing about this incident is that, typical of dems,
>>> everyone did their best to distance themselves from being a socialist
>>> therefore reinforcing the use of red-baiting and condoning the idea
>>> that
>>> no one in their right mind would want to be or be associated with
>>> socialists.
>>>
>>> in re this being same old same old (discussed on another thread and
>>> nothing charles responded to). i don't think this is like other years.
>>> the
>>> scary socialist meme may have been embraced by fringies years before,
>>> but
>>> this year, with a supposed moderate republican running, we have the
>>> obama
>>> is a scary socialist meme front and center as the republican
>>> candidate's
>>> primary message.
>>>
>>>
>>>> CB:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, socialists are glad to be identified with spreading the
>>>> wealth.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be funny if Obama wins, and that means the majority are ok
>>>> with some "socialism" ?
>>>>
>>>>
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