President of the board
This presidential election has been an eye opener for me. This is my 1st US Presidential election in the US, previously I have only seen them from afar and with a Eurocentric viewpoint (Wellsy you may have an MSc but I can use big words like the best of them). What is has caught my attention is how the term socialism is banded around here.
John McCain is very fond of claiming that Obama is a closet socialist. The reason for this is that apparently Obama wants to “spread the wealth”. McCain by the way does the air quotes around spread the wealth, which always reminds me of a Billy Connolly piece but more about that at a later date. The way that McCain spits out the word you would think he was saying pig f**ker instead of socialism.
Socialism has a bad rap in the US, and if someone is a socialist then they are akin to a communist, are not to be trusted and are somehow anti-American. Now I know that socialism is not always the most popular way of governing in Europe and that The Labour Party are no longer really a socialist party, but I think most people would agree that it is a viable option of government. They may have personal problems with it, but it is not anti-British to be a socialist. With all this said and with McCain’s increasing desperate attacks on Obama’s perceived socialism it is interesting that the US government has just gone against everything it stands for (free-trade, non-government intervention) to bail out the banks in this current economic crisis. John McCain supported this, but he refuses to accept that it is socialism, but the reality is that the US has nationalized the banks.
A similar issue came about when some of McCain’s supporters claimed that Obama was a Muslim. McCain had the decency to tell them they were plain wrong, but the intriguing part is what does it matter if he is a Muslim? America prides itself on being free of a state religion but in actuality you need to be a Christian to become President.
The good news from all of this is the election is next Tuesday.
John McCain is very fond of claiming that Obama is a closet socialist. The reason for this is that apparently Obama wants to “spread the wealth”. McCain by the way does the air quotes around spread the wealth, which always reminds me of a Billy Connolly piece but more about that at a later date. The way that McCain spits out the word you would think he was saying pig f**ker instead of socialism.
Socialism has a bad rap in the US, and if someone is a socialist then they are akin to a communist, are not to be trusted and are somehow anti-American. Now I know that socialism is not always the most popular way of governing in Europe and that The Labour Party are no longer really a socialist party, but I think most people would agree that it is a viable option of government. They may have personal problems with it, but it is not anti-British to be a socialist. With all this said and with McCain’s increasing desperate attacks on Obama’s perceived socialism it is interesting that the US government has just gone against everything it stands for (free-trade, non-government intervention) to bail out the banks in this current economic crisis. John McCain supported this, but he refuses to accept that it is socialism, but the reality is that the US has nationalized the banks.
A similar issue came about when some of McCain’s supporters claimed that Obama was a Muslim. McCain had the decency to tell them they were plain wrong, but the intriguing part is what does it matter if he is a Muslim? America prides itself on being free of a state religion but in actuality you need to be a Christian to become President.
The good news from all of this is the election is next Tuesday.
posted by Nick at 1:45 PM
3 Comments:
Well that entry just got you placed on the F.B.I watch list matey. Listen for the telling 'click' when you use the phone :-)
Pete.
I was already on the list - being a Permanent Resident and all that guff.
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