Zing! Times Asks Obama: "Are You a Socialist?"

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Reporter Peter Baker defends the question from outcry from the Angry Left: "The point is not the label, per se, but the question of whether the times and the solutions under consideration represent some sort of paradigm shift in our national thinking about the role of government in society. In a moment of taxpayer bank bailouts and shifting tax burden proposals and exploding deficits and expansive health care and energy plans, what is the future of American-style capitalism?"

Clay Waters

Immediately afterhis big interview with the Times that dominated the front of Sunday's paper, President Obama took issue with one of the questions from the Times regarding whether or not he was a socialist. The Times had asked Obama:

The first six weeks have given people a glimpse of your spending priorities. Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?

GregSargent

Zing! Times Asks Obama: "Are You a Socialist?"