Obama = Communist?

Forgive me I havent been keeping up american politics. Do they accuse Obama of being a communist because of his healthcare reforms? As in, they have confused socialism with communism?

>>38
What does offshore drilling have to do with Marxist-Leninist scientific socialism, comrade?  If the people require the resources, then the state, acting in its capacity as guardian of the people's revolution, must seize and exploit them.

They call him a communist because he's the other party. It's similar to the bush is a fascist stuff, a smear that has no basis in the reality of either the person or what you are calling them.

I don't, however, remember any Democratic leaders touting the fascist stuff, the way the GOP throws around socialist.

>>42 suffers from selective memory.

People keep talking about a Public Health Care Option like its a socialist idea or a movement towards socialism, however i see the introduction of a public option a move towards competition between insurance companies, and i thought that competition between companies was one of the key aspects of Capitalism. And in the end it works out only benefiting the people right because of competitive prices between Insurance and the Government? Could someone please explain how it is a Socialist movement not a Capitalist one.

>>44
Okay, fine.  It isn't an outright nationalization and seizure of 1/6 of the nation's economy, it isn't a plan in which all Americans who do have insurance aren't going to be forced to use "the government option" in five years or less, it isn't going to fund coverage for illegal aliens by taxing existing private insurance coverage, it isn't going to be a massive transfer of wealth from the productive to useless eaters, it isn't designed with the intent of creating the largest possible bloc of voters who will be dependent upon this new government program forevermore and who will therefore dependably vote the straight Democrat ticket.  Fine.

If we say these things enough times over and over, will that make any of it true?  Nope.