Obama = Socialism by Gary L. Bauer
When Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama told Joe the plumber that
he intends to “spread the wealth,” it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue or an
off-the-cuff remark that came out badly. On Friday morning, Obama was
interviewed on Good Morning America. He was specifically asked if he had any
regrets about telling Joe the plumber that he intended to “spread the wealth,”
and Obama responded, “Not at all.” My friends, he means it.

There is breaking news this morning of a 2001 interview with WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. In the interview, Obama makes some shocking statements about the Constitution, his view of government and the successes and failures of the civil rights movement. But the inescapable conclusion is that Barack Obama is a committed socialist, and he is running for president with the goal of fundamentally
changing America in ways that the Founding Fathers never imagined.

For example, while admitting that the civil rights movement succeeded in achieving its moral goals of confirming the rights of all Americans and creating an environment for equal opportunity, Obama laments that the Supreme Court did not go further by
imposing equality of results. According to Obama, the Supreme Court and civil
rights movement failed because they did not try to impose socialism on the
country in the name of “economic justice.” Here is an excerpt of Obama’s 2001
interview:

Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution… [Bold font mine]

“…One of the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that.” So, let’s be clear about that – the civil rights movement failed because it was too focused on securing rights, rather than “spreading the wealth around” through politics and Big Government socialism. And
that’s why Obama is running. He sees the civil rights movement not just in terms
of securing equality of opportunity for all Americans, but as a political
movement to force “redistributive change.” This is the core belief of “Black
Liberation Theology,” which I described in a previous message as “Marxism
dressed up in the gospel of economic justice.” To listen to the 2001 Obama
interview, click here.

Obama also suggests that the Constitution was “fundamentally flawed” for imposing restrictions on the power of government,
saying, “The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. [It] Says what the
states can’t do to you. [It] Says what the federal government can’t do to you,
but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your
behalf.”

That is because the Founding Fathers were trying to protect the people
from the creation of an authoritarian police state. They did not want to create
“a government big enough to give you everything you want, because such a
government would be big enough to take away everything you have.”

My friends, I don’t throw around terms like “socialist” and “Marxism” lightly. But when you connect the dots – Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, the socialist New Party, which claimed Obama as a member, and Obama’s own statements about “redistributive change,” “spreading the wealth around” and our Constitution being “fundamentally flawed” – there is only one conclusion: Barack Obama is a socialist who wants to fundamentally “change” America to be more like socialist Europe.

By the way, Joe Biden was called on it during an interview Thursday with an Orlando, Florida, TV station. The reporter, Barbara West, began her interview in much the same way I began my End of Day report on October 14th – by quoting Karl Marx and then quoting Barack Obama. West also questioned Biden about ACORN and its fraudulent
oter registration efforts. The Obama campaign, which thought Biden was going to
get a bunch of softball questions that he could easily knock out of the park, responded by refusing to hold any more interviews with that TV station. So much
for a free press.

It was also disclosed this weekend that an investigation is
underway in Ohio into the use of government computers to “spy” on Joe the
plumber after his impromptu question exposed Obama’s socialist sympathies. So
much for free speech.

The Savings Tax

Here’s a story I bet many of you have
missed: Liberal Democrats in Congress want to take away your 401(K) plan and
impose a new “savings tax.” Liberals don’t like 401(K) plans because there’s
just too much freedom involved. Not only are you free to participate or not, but
in most cases you are free to choose where to invest your money. In addition,
you get a tax break, and liberals don’t like that either.

Congressional hearings were held on the new “savings tax” three weeks ago, which calls for a new tax equal to five percent of your salary. Those funds will be invested in government bonds that are “guaranteed” to yield three percent per year. But notice the imposed “equality of results” in this plan. Everyone is guaranteed the same return. You have no opportunity to earn more.

This is just another way liberals intend to use the power of Big Government to redistribute wealth. You will no longer be free to use your own money how you choose. Liberals will tell you how much of your money you get to keep, how much of your money they will “spread around” to other people and even how you invest it.

Focus On Life

While today’s
report has focused largely on economic issues, my good friend Dr. James Dobson
had another very powerful broadcast today on the sanctity of life. His guest was
Professor Robert George, who has recently written an essay entitled “Obama’s
Abortion Extremism.”

Every American should hear this broadcast – but especially those who may be undecided or hesitant to support Senator McCain. Obama’s extremism on the issue of abortion is disturbing and well-documented. Vast majorities of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, but Obama supports it. Vast majorities of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, but Obama supports it. Vast majorities of Americans oppose keeping parents in the dark if their under-aged daughter wants to have an abortion, but Obama supports that too.