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Jim
2008-08-28 19:00:23

Fresh Air:

You wrote: “Obama is a former Marxist and current socialist.”

If you really believe this, then you are, in the literal sense of the word, insane.

TB:

You wrote: “That vision is marxist, black liberationist, violent, anti-capitalist, anti-western democracy. It doesn’t matter where Obama starts – and he’s only starting with incremental change – what matters is that he has written about his philosophy and he has declared his intentions. He rejects liberal democracy and capitalism, and intends to do his part to replace it with a cradle-to-grave socialism.”

Same for you, TB. If you really believe that Obama’s vision for America is “marxist,” then you are, in the most literal sense of the word, insane.

Roger Kimball: Are you aware that your blog has become a haven for cranks–sorry, “cranks” is too kind–lunatics?

One last time, people. Barack Obama is a capitalist. He wants more government involvement in the economy than John McCain would like, but he is no socialist and certainly no marxist. Do any of you lunatics–I mean it, lunatics–even know what those words mean?

I will never come back to this crazy site. I leave you all to your madness.

Watch your backs, friends! I hear the fire department is a totalitarian plot to enslave honest Americans and that Medicare is really run by aliens by planet Xenon!