[Hoot Gibson]

May I suggest that I do not view Abraham Lincoln a socialist, nor anyone else, simply because they distrust conglomorated money and corporate power? And, frankly, I don't think you do either. I stand by the quote, your henpecking notwithstanding...when compared with several other thought threads in Lincoln, it is not incompatible. Fair scales capitalism is not socialism, Hoot. It just isn't. Fair scales capitalism need look no further than the essential Judaeo-Christian Founder's Book. Of course, I wouldn't expect you to think about that.

In thread after thread, you attempt to recast the socialist agenda of the 0bama regime as some stranger, mangled form of capitalism.

Norman Thomas, a six-time American presidential candidate on the Socialist Part of American ticket saw people like you and Barack 0bama coming 64 years ago, when he said the following:

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The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

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Whether you call it socialism, liberalism, progressivism, or class warfare for dummies, the socialists' agenda has never changed.