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by N.J. Beachum

benzinga.com

In a statement that surprises absolutely no one who has any kind of grasp at all of what socialism actually means, the director of the Democratic Socialists of America stated that Obama, contrary to popular belief, is not a socialist – and that Sarah Palin is far more representative of his organization’s beliefs.

Socialism has become a buzzword in politics lately, a word that has been thrown about by people whose political knowledge goes no further than reading Fox News headlines on their phones. Tea Partiers in particularly are especially guilty of dropping the ‘s-bomb’, especially when used to describe Pres. Obama.

Of course, socialists themselves beg to differ.

In an interview, Frank Llewellyn, the director of the DSA, and Billy Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, both strongly refute the popular idea that Obama is a socialist.

“We didn’t see a great victory with the election of Barack Obama,” Wharton says, ” and we certainly didn’t see our agenda move from the streets to the White House.”

Llewellyn also claims that the socialist label definitely didn’t fit Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.

“To be honest, the most socialist candidate in the 2008 election was Sarah Palin.”

When she was governor of Alaska, Palin was vocally proud of the fact that her state slapped a windfall profits tax on oil companies operating on Alaskan soil and distributed the revenue directly to Alaskans themselves. This, says Llewellyn, is a thoroughly-socialist act, because it uses redistributive actions to reduce inequality in society.

Palin once attempted to defend her actions, stating that it was not socialism because the people of Alaska owned the resources that the oil companies were extracting.

Of course, no one bothered to point out to Mrs. Palin that her defense constitutes a textbook argument for socialism.

http://www.benzinga.com/general/226686/democratic-socialists-of-america-palin-not-obama-is-the-socialist

Related story: https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/04/socialist-party-co-chair-says-obama-isnt-a-socialist-tea-party-member-says-he-is/