DeLay: Obama’s a Marxist

McCain is a War-Monger who knows nothing about economics

Tom DeLay: Mr. Tom is a pick head.

We will be working harder in the general election than the primary to take the White House and help the average person to prosper again.

saying he will be finishing his second term in 2016.
Posted by: geevill | Jun 6, 2008 2:28:24 PM
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He will do such a great job , that we will change our laws just to have him do a 3rd and 4 term.

Ol tom was in pest control; he needs a dose of it so he’ll stop pestering people. Who gives a mousefart what he thinks.

isnt tom delay a massive crook?
lol
how is he a marxist again?
and waht do we call bush and mccain then? terrorists?

Barack Obama political pandering during his first campaign for state senate was certainly Marxism. Campaign people have come forward and stated that fact. Also, at that time so many of his people were members of the Trinity Church which taught racism, hate mongering and Marxism. It was a way to get elected by the people in his district and it worked. Of course, he had no opponent. He made sure of that by devious means.

I thought Delay was in jail. Well, republican crooks always have a venue with neo-cons.

Delay should be in JAIL.

I’ll take a Marxist over Bush any day. At least most Marxist’s have more than one operating brain cell unlike Mr. Delay and the current idiot moron who is our current Pres.
Get used to saying Pres. Obama folks. Given the disaster Bush has created McCain doesn’t have a chance.

Fair enough. Obama’s religion may disqualify him from membership in the “Marxist” club. However, he does support Marxist-style redistribution of wealth – which I deplore.
As an example, Obama introduced the Global Poverty Act of 2007, which would require the US to pay around $85 billion per year to support UN Anti-Poverty initiatives around the world. GIven that the UNDP (which would administrate the policies) is in shambles, this is a bad idea. (To be fair, there are Republicans that support this act as well. I don’t care – a bad bill is a bad bill).
But your point is well-taken. DeLay and other Republicans would do better to address Obama’s specific policies than use hyberbole.

Its not only the republicans saying anything, everything, and attempting to demonize Senator Obama in the most NON-FACTUAL and UNSAVORY of ways, a lot of hillary hypocrites that call(ed) themselves democrats, are doing the exact same thing.
And whatever storyline they choose, they repeat their pathological lies over and over and over again. Hoping that someone, anyone, will believe their words.
sean hannity is a perfect example. He is so obsessed with Senator Obama that I think he could actually bust a blood vessel….he is like a rabid attack dog bearing his teeth every time he opens his mouth.
They will attempt to use any wedge issue they can find to keep Senator Obama from being elected. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Obama wants to redistribute $845 billion dollars to Africa and third world countries through his Global Poverty Act.
He also wants to establish 20 “promise neighborhoods” in inner-city, African-American neighborhoods.
Marxists also want to redistribute wealth.
DeLay is right, Obama is a Marxist.
This should surprise no one, since Obama’s father and mother were Marxists too.
After all, Obama’s father wrote an article called, “Problems of Our Socialism”.

Next they will trot out Scooter Libby to say that Obama is a secret CIA agent.
Is that all the Repubs can come up with, crooks?
I guess that is all they have in the GOP.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

I am sorry Mr. Delay, you have misspoken here. Obama is not a Marxist; he’s a hypocrite at every angle.

Obama supporters don’t care that Obama is a Marxist.
They are radical left-wingers anyway.
The “new direction” that Obama wants to take America down is Marxism.
The changes that Obama wants to bring are Marxist changes.
This is what Obama meant by “Saving the Planet” and “Repairing the Earth.”
Obama wants to lead America and the rest of the world to Marxism.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah…oy and Tom Delay is a sociopath. or just weird and stupid.

We know this much about Obama: He started running for President before his first Senate term was finished. He has had a 17-year relationship with Rezko whose trial has yet to be completed. He has written untruths in his books about when and how his mother and father married. He was untruthful when he tried to drammatize how his father came to this country with help from John Kennedy. He plaigiarized “his” famous “words” speech, a speech already given by Deval Patrick. He has lied about the sources of his campaign money. He had a shady deal with Rezko and his wife to buy his home and adjacent property, and continues to lie about it. He has had a 20-year relationship with his pastor, friend, and spiritual advisor who has thousands of words with ranting and raving hatred sermons condemning America and “damning” America. That is just the surface. He had a lot of audacity to run when he had so little experience, but, we know that people like Kerry and Kennedy urged him to run. They think that the American voter will follow their lead. Not this time. We have seen a great lack of wisdom and experience in his words and decisions. We have seen too much double talk in the debates, his speeches, and his decisions.
Without the news media living up to good journalistic ethics, while blasting Hillary Clinton at every turn, we appear to find most of what we know about him by accident. If only he had not resorted to the Republican playbook in one of the first debates with Hillary and Edwards by saying Hillary was “untrustworthy”, he might have appeared to be an honest person. His call for change and unity and bringing everyone together are just soundbites. That much we know, and he has cooked his own goose.

In order for Republicans to appear “moderate” they continue to claim how Democrats are “Marxist”, “Communist” and “Socialist”. In reality, the Republican party continues to move further and further towards the right, widening the divide between “true” elites and average Americans. This began in the 1970s and escalated under Reagan’s massive deregulation of business and tax breaks to the wealthy. It continues today. Republicans accumulated that wealth and launched expensive (and effective) propaganda campaigns to paint those who disagreed as “leftist radicals” in an effort to reverse FDR’s new deal that handed power and wealth to the average American after WWII, which created the middle class. The gap between rich and middle class was greatly reduced in the 1950-60s. The New Deal even reduced the impact of poverty through social safety nets. More than anything the New Deal gave the middle class power. The middle class became a powerful economic and political voice. The Republicans have been working to silence this voice for decades. The gap has widened to that equal to and beyond the 1920s. The middle class is shrinking, and they are not slipping into the top economic category, they are slipping into poverty. The top 1% of the economic latter have increased there compensation more in the last twenty years than ever before, and they are being given tax breaks to boot. Middle-class income has actually decline in the last thirty years and it now takes two wage earners to support a family where it used to take one. What was that Tickle down theory they preached? They knew it was a smoke screen.
Republicans like Delay can say what ever they like. They lie. They have distracted us with wars, the “sanctity” of marriage, illegal immigration, segregation, business scandals, bank crises, oil gouging and stained dresses while they’ve reach into our pockets and robbed us blind. Delay is a fascist tyrant. He has some set to criticize Obama.

Before DeLay tries to actually convince anyone that Obama is a Marxist, he should consider that Obama was endorsed by some pretty heavyweight capitalists, including the ledendary Warren Buffet, as well as three former SEC Charimen (that’s right, Wall Street).
Sheesh.

That fool doesn’t even know what Marxism is! McCain is Bush’s puppet. No third term!

1980 demo primary in which Ted Kennedy refused to concede until during th convention in August.
The delegate tally at the convention was in part:
* Jimmy Carter – 2,129.02
* Ted Kennedy – 1,150.48
* 14 others – 66.5
The popular votes in the primaries were:[7]
* Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 10,043,016 (51.13%)
* Ted Kennedy – 7,381,693 (37.58%)
Why nobody said something about Kennedy but Hillary was forced to concede?
Obama’s win is questionable — he did not win on substance and qualification but won by tactics (caucusese) and media bias. Obama is selected not elected.

McCain received $112,000 by 1987 from Keating and Keating’s relatives and employees to McCain’s Senate campaign, more than any of the other Senators. [1] In September 1987 National Thrift News was the first media outlet to break the story.[2] In October 1989 The Arizona Republic reported that in addition to campaign contributions, McCain’s wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. The paper also reported that the McCains, sometimes accompanied by their daughter and baby-sitter, had made at least nine trips at Keating’s expense, sometimes aboard the American Continental Corporation (parent of Lincoln) jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating’s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain also did not pay Keating for some of the trips until years after they were taken, after he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln. [3] Lincoln Savings and Loan’s collapse is said to have cost taxpayers $3.4 billion [4].

Obama is not a marxist. He is an amoral opportunist. He doesn’t really believe anything he says. He looked to Jeremiah Wright for spiritual guidance, said that Father Pfleger was his moral compass, and counted Tony Rezko among his closest friends for years, even consulted him and got his assistance in the purchase of his home.
Now Obama says these men are not the men he knew. But they have not shifted shape, Obama has and does. His objections to the words and actions of Wright, Pfleger and Rezko are not based on core convictions or principles. If they were, his objections would have been raised long ago. His objections are based on political expediency and nothing else.
Obama said Rezko’s recent conviction highlights the need for reform. It is Ironic that Gov. Blogovich ran on a platform of reform. Let’s be honest Obama, Rezko’s conviction highlights the need for public servants with integrity, which is one of the many reasons why you are totally unsuited to the office of the presidency.

Hey, where did they find him and dust him off at.
i am a sen. clinton supporter,the dnc has made a BAD BAD mistake with BO
but tom aka “the hammer” bug-man delay
needs to shut up.

In order for Republicans to appear “moderate” they continue to claim how Democrats are “Marxist”, “Communist” and “Socialist”. In reality, the Republican party continues to move further and further towards the right, widening the divide between “true” elites and average Americans while Democrat remain (Republicans will LOVE this) pretty moderate. This began in the 1970s and escalated under Reagan’s massive deregulation of business and tax breaks to the wealthy. It continues today. Republicans accumulated that wealth and launched expensive (and effective) propaganda campaigns to paint those who disagreed as “leftist radicals” in an effort to reverse FDR’s new deal that handed power and wealth to the average American after WWII, which created the middle class. The gap between rich and middle class was greatly reduced in the 1950-60s. The New Deal even reduced the impact of poverty through social safety nets. More than anything the New Deal gave the middle class power. The middle class became a powerful economic and political voice. The Republicans have been working to silence this voice for decades. The gap has widened to that equal to and beyond the 1920s. The middle class is shrinking, and they are not slipping into the top economic category, they are slipping into poverty. The top 1% of the economic latter have increased there compensation more in the last twenty years than ever before, and they are being given tax breaks to boot. Middle-class income has actually decline in the last thirty years and it now takes two wage earners to support a family where it used to take one. What was that Tickle down theory they preached? They knew it was a smoke screen.
Republicans like Delay can say what ever they like. They lie. They have distracted us with wars, the “sanctity” of marriage, illegal immigration, segregation, business scandals, bank crises, oil gouging and stained dresses while they’ve reach into our pockets and robbed us blind. Delay is a fascist tyrant. He has some set to criticize Obama.

Eric:
You say that all Republicans have left is fear and insults. You may be right, but when it comes to Obama, many democrats have the same reaction. This guy is inexperienced, arrogant and has for years taken spiritual counsel and moral guidance from the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and Tony Rezko. Either this guy has poor judgment or no judgment. Either way, this democrat is staying home in November. No way I’m voting for Obama. I’ve talked to many other democrats who have reached the same conclusion.

Good Eric, but that does not make McCain the better choice.

If there were no other issue than the war in Iraq, that alone is sufficient reason to reject the man who says we will have troops there (being killed there) through 2012, though originally it was 100 years. Lets unite behind Obama!

These are Obama’s own words from his book “Dreams of my Father”
“I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.
“I CEASED TO ADVERTISE MY MOTHER’S RACE AT ABOUT 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
“NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MAN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF..”
“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE AWAY,” he wrote, blaming “WHITE PEOPLE- SOME CRUEL, SOME IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”
This is the TRUE Obama and HIS True feelings about white people and all others who are not Black.
Obama’s HATE for whites (His Words} “Hadn’t Gone Away” and never will. This man is so filled with Hate and some people want to trust him in the White House!
This is 1 Huge Reason Why Hillary Supporters Will NEVER Support Obama!
McCain 2008

Our government/society has approached everything in recent years like it is an economic exchange–not a socio-economic one.
Solutions that make sense in terms of pure economics are not good for societies in nations with borders.
I might argue that classic Marxism is being fueled and will surge again due to Republican policies that favor transfer of capital/jobs to places like China.
We are in the process of recreating in the USA a two-tier society composed of relatively rich upper income people and lower income people who work at Walmart and low income manufacturing jobs.
In the name of good investment, we encourage job transfer to low income places gutting our society. I don’t like bloated unions but this will get uglier without an improvement-not replacement in government.
The Republican view now is to use government to enforce laws. On the economic side, Republicans use government to enforce economic advantage. One example is using regulation to limit competition–all of you investors out there know that when looking at a company to invest in you see how they can control a segment of the market and that is usually through regulation. Get laws that benefit a few paid for by the many.
What I would like to see is government work on a clearly defined socio-economic programs to help the very young and very old. This plays on the Democrats using government to provide a better life/society. Very limited tax breaks to business unless they support a very significant social goal–environmental laws, health codes, handicapped hiring and efficient energy independence are some examples.
I believe in the power of economics to make $ transactions efficient but if you plan to have a civil society that our parents and grandparents created in the last century where people can live the “american dream”, then we need to stop the erosion of support systems.
It is nice to see Delay and other Republicans talk about simple solutions but unfortunately many are simple because they are stupid.

Hahaha. Are there still people out there who take these Rep clowns serious?
“unless he proves me wrong”…. LOL
Unless he proves me wrong, Mc Cain already died some years ago. It was a zombie who gave the New Orleans speech on Obama’s nomination night.
Unless he proves me wrong, Tom Delay’s head is filled with peanut butter.

Is this all they can do? AT THIS RATE THE REPUBS WILL BE WIPED OUT.

If he’s not a Marxist, then what are you all so afraid of?

“Wow…NBC Breaking News alert”. They’re still on the air? That station will destroy your brain cells. All they have is news about Obama and programs about prisons.

MORE FROM THE EMILY’S LIST ENDORSEMENT (BOSTON.COM)
“Another of Hillary Clinton’s most vocal supporters has fallen in line behind Barack Obama, on the eve of her formal endorsement of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Adding her voice is Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that funds female candidates who support abortion rights. She was withering in her criticism of NARAL’s national PAC when it endorsed Obama last month despite a long history with Clinton.
But in a statement issued today, Malcolm is far more conciliatory in pledging her group’s support to Obama.”
DEMS HEAL AND UNITE!!! PRINCIPLES FIRST!!!!

Any breaking news on the Hamas endorsement?

Take that Repubs (excluding Obamacans)!!! The Dem Family is rallying around its own.
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MORE FROM THE EMILY’S LIST ENDORSEMENT (BOSTON.COM)
“Another of Hillary Clinton’s most vocal supporters has fallen in line behind Barack Obama, on the eve of her formal endorsement of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Adding her voice is Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that funds female candidates who support abortion rights. She was withering in her criticism of NARAL’s national PAC when it endorsed Obama last month despite a long history with Clinton.
But in a statement issued today, Malcolm is far more conciliatory in pledging her group’s support to Obama.”
DEMS HEAL AND UNITE!!! PRINCIPLES FIRST!!!!

Well it is true, about obama and the marxism, i don’t think he would deny that. and his mom was a marxist.
obam says there is no i in team
and in the foodstamp,welfare and soup line you only get a number.
i am going to watch REDS tonight, and also watch cinderella man, just to get in the mood for what is to come.

Oooooooo, a Marxist! I’m scared!
I better vote for McCain – NOT!
Obama ’08/’12

I am at the center politically and Obama has scared me straight over to the right.

In order for Republicans to appear “moderate” they continue to claim how Democrats are “Marxist”, “Communist” and “Socialist”. In reality, the Republican party continues to move further and further towards the right, widening the divide between “true” elites and average Americans while Democrat remain (Republicans will LOVE this) pretty moderate. This began in the 1970s and escalated under Reagan’s massive deregulation of business and tax breaks to the wealthy. It continues today. Republicans accumulated that wealth and launched expensive (and effective) propaganda campaigns to paint those who disagreed as “leftist radicals” in an effort to reverse FDR’s new deal that handed power and wealth to the average American after WWII, which created the middle class. The gap between rich and middle class was greatly reduced in the 1950-60s. The New Deal even reduced the impact of poverty through social safety nets. More than anything the New Deal gave the middle class power. The middle class became a powerful economic and political voice. The Republicans have been working to silence this voice for decades. The gap has widened to that equal to and beyond the 1920s. The middle class is shrinking, and they are not slipping into the top economic category, they are slipping into poverty. The top 1% of the economic latter have increased there compensation more in the last twenty years than ever before, and they are being given tax breaks to boot. Middle-class income has actually decline in the last thirty years and it now takes two wage earners to support a family where it used to take one. What was that Tickle down theory they preached? They knew it was a smoke screen.
Republicans like Delay can say what ever they like. They lie. They have distracted us with wars, the “sanctity” of marriage, illegal immigration, segregation, business scandals, bank crises, oil gouging and stained dresses while they’ve reach into our pockets and robbed us blind. Delay is a fascist tyrant. He has some set to criticize Obama.

Listen I am sorry for all of my erroneous, inflammatory, moronic posts. I will vote for Obama!

I don’t think too good, although I know a Marxist when I see one.

Sen Obama supports wealth re-distribution; doing away with our “ownership society” (that’s right, that’s what he said); giving the federal government more control over our lives and lifestyles; and decimating the free market with government interference.
That certainly is Marxist and verging on Communistic.

DELAY’S ASSERTION IS SO STUPID, I SHAN’T EVEN BOTHER TO REFUTE IT.
ITS STUPIDITY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

Marie-
Looks like someone is using my name here.
I know that Obama is not a Muslim. I’ve read both books. But if he were, so what? We have a first ammendment that permits it. We seem to agree here

The “green jobs” will consist of scraping the mold off of the bread, that we will all be standing in line for, comrade.

Fired Up!! The Democrats who have controlled both Houses of Congress for nearly 18 months have done NOTHING to help. In fact, by blocking President Bush’s agenda at nearly every turn, they have hendered his ability to alleviate the downturn in the economy. Yet you want four more years of the Democrats in control of Congress AND give them the White House!

AP: McCain Now Supports Bush’s Program To Spy On Americans.
That’s worse than marxism. That’s Stalinism.
America the home of the free?
Yes, but not with John McCain in charge.

Well I imagine that if you had lived as a black person in this world from the 1800′s on up – you might well feel differently about the remarks that Obama quoted his father as saying. And while I am certainly not calling anybody a racist – I understand growing up in the south what the term “strange fruit” means as it applies to the black men and women that were hung in trees down here because of racist whites. I totally agree that in the past black’s were treated as less than human and that many white people today are still freeful of them and secretly do not like them. We are the products of our parents & their enviroments -
Big people talk about ideas – little people talk about other people- probably because they aren’t smart enough to think of anything worth anything….as for Delay- who cares what a crook thinks

Mr. Coffee,
It’s plain to see that Obama’s (former) church “is not a church that rejects people of other cultures and races”. This was evidenced by the video of the white Catholic priest being cheered while speaking there. It apparent that regardless of your race or culture, you are welcome at a church espousing liberation theology, as long as you believe in Marxist ideals (as you admit), and that you believe that America on the whole a vile racist cesspool. Tow that line and you can come to service & stay for the cookout.

HEre we go….more of this dribble to come from repubs. It’s all crap, but they are unfortunately arguments that stick.

OBAMA IS A MARXIST HE CALLS THE DC GUN BAN CONSTITUTIONAL.
HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONSTITUTION IS MARXIST LIKE.
LAST NOVEMBER HE CALLED THE DC GUN BAN CONSTITUTIONAL THEN IN THE DEBATE IN APRIL IN PENNSYLVANIA OBAMA LIED SAYING HE HADN’T SEEN THE SPECIFICS.
OBAMA IS 100 PERCENT MARXIST.

OBAMA IS A MARXIST.
OBAMA BLAMED LOU DOBSS FOR DOUBLING OF HATE CRIMES AGAINST HISPANICS IN AMERICA.
DOBBS IS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NOT IMMIGRATION.
FIRST OF ALL HATE CRIMES HAVE NO DOUBLED AGAINST HISPANICS. THAT WAS A LIE.
ANOTHER MARXIST POSITION BY OBAMANATION.

OBAMA IS A MARXIST.
Father Pflager who Obama was close to for 20 years went after whites for their 401 funds.
Pflager was a moral compass in Obama’s life.
Pflager was on committees even after he invited farakkan to his church and praised him.
This is who Obama brought to Iowa to campaign by his side.
This is who Obama consulted with after Wright went off at the national press club.
Obama has called for raising capital gains taxes.
Sounds like Father Pflager.

Isn’t Tom DeLay facing criminal charges?

“…that history should be seen purely through the lends of class struggle, or that religion is the opiate of the people…”
Doesn’t that sound a little like people clinging to their Bible?

If you take the Farrakan influence seriously you get a little bit of Islam.
If you take the Marxism that Obama claims to have been drawn to in college you get a lot of the Marxism that is in his rhetoric.
The Capitalism appears to be more in his public relations and marketing
Actually I don’t hear much democracy at all in Obama’s rhetoric. We have been experiencing the “selling of a candidate” with the cooperation of the media.
By the way how is the Federal Government going to get an “army of teachers” to improve education?….and why doesn’t Obama mention bundling when he says that special interests are not involved in his campaign?
Mix Marxism with racism…add in the most violent elements of the 60′s radical student organizations….shake with the anti Israel sentiments of Farrakan and Wright….it may be “politics as usual” but don’t discount the background of any man wanting to be President…

I think in the end his opportunist side will win out. It pays a lot better than Marxism.

We have 2 Obamas.
#1: Obama with teleprompter
#2: Obama without teleprompter
Well Certainly obama’s friends show a different Obama. and also if you read his first book and you will see a little pro-marxist, Africa first, mentality!
Obama has shown time and time again that he does not have the intellectual capacity for high office YET!
He constantly has to corrects himself and he can NOT articulate any foreign policy or even economy without TELPROMPTER!!
That’s what I like to see him more in the interview and townhall meeting.

Do I really need to name the positions that would brand Obama a Marxist? Apparently so…
Broader and more progressive taxation for the purpose of forced redistribution of wealth in quest for equality (universal healthcare to name just one program)
Further regulation on companies
Restrictions on free-trade
Price controls (on oil, pharmaceuticals)
Capping CEO salaries
Demonization of “Big Business” (or as Marx would say “the owners of capital”)
… on behalf of “hard working Americans” (or as Marx would say “big business”)
I could link to his website for policy statements but liberals would get distracted by all of the pretty pictures…

Well, they can try to demonize and legitimize (in the Hardball invited right wing pundit guest sense who didn’t even understand the meaning of appeasement) the cultural oddity that the right thinks Obama represents…
Or you can deal with the fact that the philosophical message Republicans came to town with have left most Americans poorer and more hard pressed. You guys screwed up, what is your plan to fix your ideological problems?
Jake, why are you listening to DeLay…don’t you know he stepped so far into influence peddling that he broke the law? It is like going to Ferraro so she can teach the racial sensitivity trainings started with symbolic figures. DeLay should talk and highlight what Republicans bringing change to Washington REALLY MEANS especially when you’ve been in power for 14 years.

Obama couldn’t pass an FBI background check with his crazy associations with Wright, Farakkhan, Rezko.

Tom Delay is a crooked politician. He took money for votes. His analysis of Obama’s “marxism” is the analysis of economic theory of a crooked bug exterminator who went into crooked politics to make more money.

It was painful, but I actually read every comment posted here. I counted maybe a handful of posters who sound like they’ve ever read Marx or even have a clue what Marxism is. Tom Delay clearly doesn’t have a clue.
Marx was wrong about capitalism; he felt it was a system incapable of change. In the era he lived, and at its purest, capitalism fueled pollution, child labor and a whole host of societal ills (check out China). What saved capitalism as we practice it is a redistribution of wealth from the rich to maintain a standard of living among the poor enough that they don’t revolt. America is fairly unique in its upward mobility as well (the American Dream is a very real prospect for most). Senators Obama and McCain are direct beneficiaries of that dream.
There are many who throw around these labels who don’t know what they mean. Much like six year olds who hear and repeat swear words, but don’t understand the meaning. We live in the greatest country in the world and these types of attacks demean us all.

JR-
Am I being the one defensive, or are you? Please read my post again if necessary – I didn’t say that “anyone” doesn’t know what Marxism is, but the comments on here certainly suggest it. As you seem to have an idea, the comment is not directed at you. As such, however, you clearly realize that none of the candidates are offering Marxism – it is just a bit of demagoguery on Delay’s part (and most of the folks on here).
I do not argue that Obama’s positions are advocating wealth redistribution. Over the years, depending on your bend, this goes by many names like ‘populist’, ‘progressive’, etc.
Yes, labels matter. I have no problem whatsoever with arguing against what Obama is proposing. I do take issue with blithely using terms like “old school Marxist radical liberal” and agreeing “absolutely” to that as Delay does. The irony is that Christianity, which these hypocrites wear on their sleaves so proudly, professes much of the things they label as radical and liberal.
So, I guess you can count me out as one of the sheep.

JR-
I do not think we are disagreeing on substantive issues/ideas. And you do a good Buckley; and if he said it, I might have let the comment slide.
If you read my first post again, I said Marx was wrong. You point out the problem again with Marxism/Communism – it is done at the point of a gun. And hence, the objection to the usage of Marxism in this context – it is suggesting a move towards totalitarianism. Obama does not suggest this and has specifically stated that government is not the solution for all of society’s ills. That comment is not marxist, communist, or socialist.
So, to me, Obama wants to be a proverbial Robin Hood. The question is where he draws the line and how he spends the money he robs from the rich.

Nope. It is Bush’s failed leadership, the Republican party and Hillary Clinton that want to over-promote capitalism and then label everybody in the worker “class” as marxists, communists and socialists. Personally, I find that Marx was 100% correct when he said that capitalism was based on exploitation.
Look at the H1b visa issue. Bush, Clinton and the Republicans could have very easily listened to the AMERICAN PEOPLE about whether or not H1B visas are putting AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY WORKERS out of work. Instead, they only listened to the “capitalist class” to create policy over the “working class” in America.
According to Wikipedia, Marx was opposed to exploitation of workers.
“Marx refers to the exploitation of an entire segment or class of society by another… in other words, capitalism functions on the basis of paying workers less than the full value of their labor, in order to enable the capitalist class to turn a profit. This profit is not however moderated in terms of risk vs. return.”
Republicans on the tech “worker” issue:
See techcrunch website article dated 4/21/08
Obama on the same tech “worker” issue: See the “issues/technology” section of Obama’s official campaign website.
Edwards:
Google “Edwards and H1-B Visa”
Clinton:
See the “news/speech” section of Hillary Clinton’s official campaign website.
Obama ’08!
(He’s FOR the people no matter the label you want to attach.)