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- MediaWeasel, on 09/30/2008, -1/+12There are massive differences between Obama and Castro (and the pic in Obama's office was Guevara, not Castro). To try to create a parallel between Obama and Castro is pointless - apart from the fact that Obama challenges the self-satisfaction of those who try to cheat the IRS out of millions of dollars tax or find loopholes not to pay their dues: big oil, fat cats, lobbyists - unaccountable big business - while Main Street struggles to pay all its bills and is the first line of attack. In that sense he's as much a threat to the status quo as Castro was to America because he's changing the game plan and he's not beholden or subservient to the traditional way of doing politics.
Obama isn't for socialism or even Marxism. He simply has a pragmatic approach to government, social issues, getting the country back on its feet and reclaiming an honourable place on the world stage. If anything he's conservative with a small c - a moderate, and he's light years more open minded about homosexuality (he doesn't condone marriage but understands the need for civil partnerships and rights within those relationships) and abortion (he doesn't condone it but respects the woman's right to have autonomy over her own body) - which are issues the far right have enormous problems with - you only have to read some of the inflammatory remarks posted in Digg about gays and abortion.
As for Alice Walker - the writer needs to take up his issues with her first. Satisfy his own curiousity - and then make his criticisms public. At the moment it's very one sided. - inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+8Buried as inaccurate.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2What a propagandist piece of crap. The sorely right wing biased 'evidence' the author offers to support his illusions doesn't even do that.
"While there’s certainly plenty of stupidity and much to criticize about many of the ideas and arguments proposed by right wingers, the opinions being advanced today by members of the radical left serve to contravene the principles of the Enlightenment, indeed the very values that are central to our spiritual and religious traditions . . "
The "very values that are central to our spiritual and religious traditions" are the very back bone of the radical Religious "right wingers"; and they have done nothing but "serve to contravene the principles of the Enlightenment" from the very beginning.
Obama is nothing like Castro. He does sometimes remind me of King. The most socialist piece of legislation since the New Deal? Bushs bail-out plan. - inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about? The tens of thousands Castro immediately killed? The article does not at all link Obama with Castro. All it does is demonstrate that totalitarian dictators are evil and people who support them are insane, which is truth. I am a radical leftist; and, you know what? Moa is worse than Pot Pol is worse than Stalin is worse Castro is worse than Hitler, who may have been the most evil human being ever to have lived in his time. My role models are Gandhi and King. Obama does not sound like Castro. He sounds like King. And as far as socialism goes: that bail-out plan you're all blaming the Democrats for sinking. First of all: it's a Rethuglican piece of golden crap, initiated by Bush and shot down by House Rethuglicans; and secondly: it the most socialist piece of legislation since the New Deal. As far as that goes, the New Deal, an extremely socialist piece of legislation, saved us from the Great Depression just in time to give us the strength to fight off the abominable monsters mentioned above; and, you know what? Patin could've defeated Moscow and ended it all then and there; but, we failed to act.
- inactive, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1I forgot. You know who is like Castro, insofar as he supports spying on, arresting, torturing and indefinitely detaining his own countrymen without charge? George Bush, Jr.; and, you know who has voted with him 90% of the time? John McCain; so, you know who supports people like Castro? People who support Bush, McSame and Rethuglicanism in general.
- Ridgeliner7, on 09/29/2008, -18/+3Not to mention the tens of thousands he immediately killed.
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