Is President Obama Socialist?
There has been much talk of a creeping Socialism of late among the Conservative media in America. Many believe the Obama Administration is taking the US down a dangerous path that slopes sharply to the left. For this article I’ve searched the internet looking for quotations about Socialism to provide some varied insight and opinions about what Socialism really means for a Society to help readers judge current political trends: 1) “Socialists cry ‘Power to the people’ and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean… power over people, power to the State!” (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – 1986) 2) “The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.” (Pope John Paul II – 1991) 3) “It is true, as I have already stated, that I have been influenced by Marxist thought. But this is also true of
