This has reached a new low. Now, according to some schmuck writing editorials for the Kansas City Star, the word “socialist” is racist.
I don’t care whether it was a code word for “black” in the twenties… I think we could probably even debate that fact… but its certainly not a code word for “black” now, and never once did John McCain or Sarah Palin use it as such. A journalist with integrity would be required to point that out… but who thinks any liberals in the media have integrity anymore. Writing on the editorial page does not give one cover for hateful and inaccruate slander.
Redistribution of wealth or “spread[ing] the wealth around” is socialist. Calling a socialist a socialist IS NOT RACIST. It’s free speech, and accurate speech at that.
If Obama is elected President, what world will you wake up to on November 5th? If Obama and his surrogates don’t counter every criticism of him as racist, pathetic losers like Lewis Diuguid of the Kansas City Star and the rest of the liberal media will. The damaging and dangerous aspects of this election is not speaking truth to power and calling Obama’s socialist policies what they are… the damanging and dangerous aspects of this election are the fevered heights, hateful retorts, and downright lies waged by Obama’s campaign and the media running his defense.
Enough is enough. Obama is a socialist. And if Mr. Diuguid or anyone else thinks that makes me a racist… to paraphrase your buddy Obama… I want to see you say it to my face.
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