10 - Colin Powell and Socialism

So the big news over the weekend was obviously Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama. This really could be the end for McCain. Not that he will stop trying or anything, but realistically this could be it.

Colin Powell was the Secretary of State for the Bush white house. This is a man who has played a big part in republican politics. With him endorsing Obama, I think, a real shift in votes will swing Obama’s way. All those arguments being used to say Obama isn’t ready are pretty much null from this, because if Colin Powell thinks he is ready then why should anyone really doubt it?

This week has had lots of other little things happen though. My favorite being that the republicans, the ones who are so good about “reaching across party lines” and “country first” and all that shit, have begun to start calling all those heavy democratic areas of the country “un-American.” Those areas aren’t the “Real America,” they are just the America that was attacked on September 11th.



This week seems to be more about Barack Obama and the “socialism” he wants to bring to America while in office. This is actually very interesting to me because I have sometimes considered myself a sudo-socialist. I generally agree with many of the socialistic ideas, I just wouldn’t take them quite to the extreme that I think socialism might actually be associated with.

However what really interests me about this is not so much the attacks themself but the McCain economic plan. McCain says we should take an axe to spending plans, or have a spending freeze because “raising taxes and government spending” won’t get us out of the problem. Now, I am crazy or something? I could have sworn it was some socialistic policies to spread the wealth around and some massive government spending that got America out of the Great Depression.

And just for laughs, it seems the old McCain actually would have agreed with Obama’s plans.