Joe the Plumber Outs Barack the Socialist
By Larry Johnson on October 17, 2008 at 8:25 PM in Current Affairs
The essence of socialism is the notion that there is no sacred right inherent in personal property. Instead, the State has the ultimate right to one’s property. Barack Obama made that very clear to Joe the Plumber in the now infamous exchange:
So Barack wants the right to determine who makes too much money so that he, as head of the Government, can spread the wealth around. The irony in this election is profound. For starters, George W. Bush will leave office having trashed the Republican legacy of opposing socialism, by endorsing the largest Federal takeover of private corporations in the history of our nation. What is truly troubling is that so many Americans seem unfazed by this.
We already have seen the Bush Administration erode, without so much as a blink of the eye or a qualm of conscience, the Geneva Convention and habeus corpus. We cannot blame Democrats or socialists for those developments. And Republicans only have themselves to blame for allowing their fear of terrorism to blind them to the fundamental principle that there ought to be limits on the power of government. There was a time in this country where the rights of the individual–i.e., a person’s life as the ultimate expression of personal property–was considered a sacred right. [Note, I am fully aware of irony and hypocrisy of our founders, who proclaimed the sacred rights of the individual while allowing slavery and the violations of the rights of African Americans. The failure of the founders to be consistent in upholding those principles does not invalidate those concepts.] The essence of the traditional battle between liberals and conservatives is that liberals believe people are inherently good and that government should be fully empowered to promote that good. Traditional conservatives believe that people will generally do terrible things to one another if only given the chance and opted for a form of government based on limiting the power of any one branch. Classical, traditional conservatives frigging hate kings and princes. We tend to be an unruly genuinely democratic lot not enamored of powerful central governments.
Which brings me back to Joe the Plumber and the frantic campaign of the Barack Obama’s hordes to destroy him. Joe outed Barack for the socialist he is. I do not use that term loosely. Let’s start with the fact that Barack was raised in a family–his mother and grand parents–who had ties to persons and groups connected to the communist party of America. Barack’s childhood mentor, Franklin Davis, another one closely tied to the communist party.
I recognize in raising these ties that I sound like something out of the Army McCarthy hearings of the 1950s. But in this case we have a Presidential candidate with solid, indisputable family and personal ties to communist organizations. But it does not stop there. When we add in the William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Michael Pfleger, Jeremiah Wright, and ACORN, we are brought back to radical left individuals who believe in the fundamental right of the State to control the economy and denounce capitalism.
Then we discover that Barack was a member of the New Party, a socialist group in Chicago. Here is a picture of Barack with fellow New Party members.
But it is not just the picture, as Matt Weaver, Bud White and I have noted in earlier articles, the New Party required folks it endorsed to sign a contract. They endorsed Barack. And here is an article casually noting the electoral success of “new party member” Barack Obama:
New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George’s County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.
Sometime in the last 12 years Barack decided to distance himself from the overt ties to some of his socialist buddies. But the instinct did not leave him. When confronted with the hypothetical of raising taxes on a small business owner (someone who was grossing at least $250,000 dollars) Barack simply noted his fundamental world view–it is the right of the state to take the private property of its citizens and spread it around.
Ironically, George W. Bush has paved the way for Barack’s vision. The U.S. Federal Government is now the proud owner of several formerly private banking enterprises. Now it looks like Barack wants to go after the small businesses. If you doubt the seriousness of these people in their pursuit of their ideologically pure vision of world peace and economic justice, simply take note of vitriol directed at Joe the Plumber. Today it is Joe. Tomorrow you?
by Ronald Scott
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