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by Moonage

It’s really sad how bad people’s interpretation of history becomes over a short period of time.  Namely, this dialogue bugs me:

In response to Obama wanting to spread the wealth, which is very well documented, Joe Biden had this to say:

“I was on a television station the other day doing a satellite feed to a major network in Florida, and the anchor quotes Karl Marx, and says in a sense, ‘Isn’t Barack Obama Karl Marx?’” Biden said. “You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you’re hearing, this stuff you’re hearing in this campaign, some of it’s pretty ugly. And some of the innuendo is pretty ugly.” 

The exchange ins on Youtube, look it up if you want.  The interviewer didn’t say it exactly like that, but that was the gyst of it.  Now, where I’m getting kind of bugged with all this in particular is how Biden is reacting to it all.  First of all, they banned the station from ever doing another Obama or Biden interview.  That’s Big Brother stuff there.  If you ask a hard question, you cease to exist.

Second, and a much big issue to me, is the inference that comparing someone to Karl Marx is “pretty ugly” and worth being banned.  Now, if you actually knew your history, you’d know that Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto.  This said nothing about evil intentions.  It simply envisioned a classless society.  The wealth generated by all went to the benefit of all.  Very simply idea.  Now, like it or not, Obama has spoken quite extensively about spreading the wealth.  There difference between Marx and Obama is simply a matter of degrees.  In Marx vision, it was a 100% deal.  No one was rich, no one was poor.  In Obama’s plan, there are still rich and poor.  The poor simply are better off than the poor are now.  The rich, not quite as rich.  So, I’m not going to go the Obama is communist route.  I don’t like his idea, but it’s not pure socialism.  It’s more socialist than what we have now.  So, knowing that Obama definitely has socialist tendencies, it’s wrong for Biden to say comparing Obama to Marx is “pretty ugly”.  He could have taken that thirty seconds to explain that communism and socialism are two seperate animals, and what Obama has in mind isn’t either one of those.  It’s a practice that has existed in the United States since its inception, it would just be a little more enforced through higher taxes on the wealthy.  Would that have been so hard?  It would have totally diffused the comparison by showing he had a grip on the topic and knew the difference.  As it is, I don’t think he was capable of comparing any of the social models of the past.

And, whether he likes it or not, that question is still on the minds of millions of Americans as just how close he wants to get to Karl Marx’s model.  And, given the circumstances, it’s certainly a lot easier to make the comparison of Obama’s political philosophies to those of Karl Marx than Abraham Lincoln.

And, of course, what bugs me just as much is there is probably not one main stream media group that will make the comparisons between Obama, Lincoln, and Marx.

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