hazlnut
03-30-2009, 04:44 PM
What happened to O'Reilly? Is he for real?
O’Reilly: We Want Obama to Succeed (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/190851-O_Reilly_We_Want_Obama_to_Succeed.php)
Do you want Obama to fail?
No. We want him to succeed. We want to persuade him that perhaps some of his policies are not going to help him succeed.
What about all this talk of socialism? Isn’t that a little premature, since this bailout was started by the Bush administration?
I’ve never bought into the fact that Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he’s a classic liberal that believes that big government can solve the problems of society, and he wants to redistribute income. I don’t think he’s a socialist. I don’t think he wants to seize people’s property. But I do think he’s a classic committed liberal.
Do you think the socialist argument being advanced by the right-wing pundits is effective?
It raises questions about how far the government is going to be able to go in its pursuit of social engineering. So I think it’s worthy in that regard. You’re reminding people that there is a difference between the United States and Sweden. To call these people Communists and socialists, that’s as nutty as the far left calling people fascists and all of that. It’s the same kind of craziness.
Doesn't he realize that if Obama succeeds then that means the economy has stabilized? Then where would we be? In some kind of liberal hellscape!!
Not a socialist or Communist??
Look, Bill, just because you went to the JFK School of Government at Harvard and got a masters in Public Administration, doesn't mean you can tell us we don't know what those words actually mean. We know what they mean. They mean what Sean Hannity says they mean!!
O’Reilly: We Want Obama to Succeed (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/190851-O_Reilly_We_Want_Obama_to_Succeed.php)
Do you want Obama to fail?
No. We want him to succeed. We want to persuade him that perhaps some of his policies are not going to help him succeed.
What about all this talk of socialism? Isn’t that a little premature, since this bailout was started by the Bush administration?
I’ve never bought into the fact that Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he’s a classic liberal that believes that big government can solve the problems of society, and he wants to redistribute income. I don’t think he’s a socialist. I don’t think he wants to seize people’s property. But I do think he’s a classic committed liberal.
Do you think the socialist argument being advanced by the right-wing pundits is effective?
It raises questions about how far the government is going to be able to go in its pursuit of social engineering. So I think it’s worthy in that regard. You’re reminding people that there is a difference between the United States and Sweden. To call these people Communists and socialists, that’s as nutty as the far left calling people fascists and all of that. It’s the same kind of craziness.
Doesn't he realize that if Obama succeeds then that means the economy has stabilized? Then where would we be? In some kind of liberal hellscape!!
Not a socialist or Communist??
Look, Bill, just because you went to the JFK School of Government at Harvard and got a masters in Public Administration, doesn't mean you can tell us we don't know what those words actually mean. We know what they mean. They mean what Sean Hannity says they mean!!