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• Saturday, November 1, 2008 07:10 PM

  Fascists, Communists and Socialists

  "communists (who IMHO are really just fascists pretending to be socialists)"

  Bzzt, sorry, but communists had legit socialist cred. Stalin nationalized agriculture, improved social services, brought gender equality to hiring. He also silenced criticism.

  Obama silences criticism. His lawyers have sent threatening letters to TV stations who dare to broadcast paid anti-Obama ads, even trying to sic the feds on the stations for "misleading voters." No president since Nixon has tried to silence their opposition, while Obama does so reflexively. I fear for the First Amendment as much as for the Second Amendment under an Obama administration.

  Sarah Palin simply isn't a fascist by ANY stretch of the word. She's just an ordinary, opinionated, mainstream person. And in this election cycle, if your opinions aren't far left, then you're labeled a fascist by those on the left. It's absurd. Barack Obama is more of a Stalinist, by far, than McCain or Palin is a "Nazi."

  The fact that Obama and McCain both support the disastrous bailout and that Pelosi and Bush both support the bailout, convinces me that I don't need to give a fuck about the economy. The fat cats are taken care of, and Obama is on their side (probably snorting coke with the Wall Streeters at some orgy). What really matters is that he wants to seize the public airwaves for leftist propaganda, seize all guns except maybe curios and revolvers, seize everyone's 401K accounts.

  Obama is crazy-nasty-scary.

  —Old Poor Richard Read Old Poor Richard's other letters
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