Obama’s Not a Socialist. Really, He Said So!

When asked if he was a socialist by reporters, President Obama brushed them off because he didn’t think they were serious. (You have to wonder if he’s serious, he doesn’t see the resemblance between his policies and socialism?) So he called the New York Times reporters to clarify his answer.

Opening the unusual presidential call to reporters by saying that there was “just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter,” he said it wasn’t he who started the federal government’s intervention into the nation’s financial system.

“I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ‘socialist’ around can’t say the same.”

Let’s see. He’s calling President Bush a socialist for injecting money into the financial system and expanding Medicare to include prescription drugs. Fair enough. But what about all the money HE’s spending? Did anyone bother to ask him THAT follow up question? Has he read the Porkulus bill he signed into law? Does he listen to his own speeches?

If the President doesn’t like being called a socialist, perhaps he should stop acting like one.