Want to know how we know Barack Obama isn't really a socialist or a communist? Because actual socialists and communists don't think so either:
Local communists, rarely tapped as campaign pundits, say Sen. Barack Obama and his policies stand far afield from any form of socialism they know.But he's a communist, so he'd say that, wouldn't he? Posted by Stephen Silver at October 21, 2008 05:32 PMJohn Bachtell, the Illinois organizer for Communist Party USA, sees attempts by Sen. John McCain's campaign to label Obama a socialist as both offensive to socialists and a desperate ploy to tap into fears of voters who haven't forgotten their Cold War rhetoric.