Mar 17 2008
Foxx: Hillary and Obama are Socialists
“I think what the Democrats are doing in terms of raising taxes and adopting the budget they are adopting should scare people in this country,” said Foxx, whose district includes part of Iredell County. “We are going down the wrong road. We are spending money we don’t have. We are raising taxes on hard-working Americans, and I’m very concerned about the direction they are taking this country.”She also defended comments she made to a local radio program, 3WC radio’s “Focus on the Foothills,” about Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. Foxx said the presidential candidates “basically are socialists, he more than she.”
“I believe they are socialists, and if you look at their platforms you will see their plan is to take money from part of the population and give it to other people in the population,” she said later, referring to their universal health care plans.
“I don’t know the dictionary definition of socialism, but most people would see that as socialism.”
Her Democratic campaign challenger, Roy Carter of Ashe County, issued a press release saying her radio remarks were disrespectful and out of line.
The hell they were out of line. Foxx’s comments are dead on. It’s about time someone started calling these people out for what they are. Today’s Democratic Party is very much America’s Socialist party and Obama definitely fits the mold. This is why I left the Democrats several years ago. They don’t believe in the American dream. They punish people who work hard and make a successful life for themselves so that they can addict the rest of the population on government handouts and entitlements, ensuring a permanent underclass in our society and a reliably ignorant voting bloc.
“Socialist,” like “liberal,” is rejected by the left only because it has the negative connotation it deserves.
If Virginia had called them “progressives,” which is simply the current code word on the left for “socialists,” no one would be up in arms about this.