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Major dutch Newspaper calls Obama a Socialist!

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March 13th, 2009 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags: No comments
Well, well, well, finally. A major European newspaper says something we already knew: Barack Obama is a socialist, at least to American standards.

Dutch newspaper NRC (Next) spent some attention to a book written by one of its own journalists, America correspondent Tom Jan Meeus. In the book Meeus argues that Obama is a socialist (which is a compliment coming from the NRC, a highly progressive, nay Dutch socialist even, newspaper these days) “for American standards” at least.

He tries to prove this thesis in his book and explain why Obama is such a jolly progressive (also by looking at four individuals who taught Obama about politics) who’ll wipe out conservatism.

Wipe out conservatism, you ask? Why yes. Meeus believes Obama will destroy American conservatism. He’ll do that reforming the American health care system in European fashion; the upper class will pay for the under class.

These reforms, Meeus argues, will deal with Americans’ instinctive opposition to the redistribution of wealth and, therefore, lead to the end of conservatism.

Will Obama try? I’m sure he will. Will he succeed? I think not. Americans are inherently conservative - they don’t have the typical European mentality. Socialism was and never will be popular in the States (which is why Obama pretends to be a ‘moderate’).
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