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While actual Socialists deny Obama as being one, I think it would be interesting to do a quick review.

The top 5 percent that earn wages in America will have their income tax rates raised from 35 percent to 40 percent.

Part of this measure is to create social equality. In the "Communist Manifesto," Karl Marx wrote: "a heavy progressive or graduated income tax." Obama's tax plan has been accurately described as a form of class warfare. Punish those on the top and reward those on the bottom. I don't believe the government should force those that are financially successful to pay more. It sounds like Obama prefers a socialist-capitalist system.

We can then go further back to what Obama said in 2001: "If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that."

In "Dreams From My Father," Obama writes "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated."

Even worse, in his second memoir "The Audacity of Hope," he mentions: "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact," and "Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal."

It didn't just end there, he continued to embrace other people that followed this same ideology. Even the unrepented domestic terrorist William Ayers described himself by saying: "I am a Marxist." Jeremiah Wright, his reverend for 20 years, has been described by analysts with his black liberation theology as being rooted on Marxist ideas.

I could go on and on, but if looks like a duck, walks like a duck...