Politics of Words: GOP stirs campaign with ‘socialist’ talk

[struggle4progress]

Published:Wednesday, October 22, 2008
By David Skolnick

BOARDMAN — Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and one-time presidential candidate, is the latest Republican to use the word “socialist” when talking about Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee ...

When asked later by The Vindicator if he believed Obama was a socialist, Giuliani said he didn’t ...

... Republicans can’t talk about the economy because “it’s in the tank” and they can’t talk about the success of President Bush, a Republican, so they resort to name-calling, said James P. Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which supports Obama.

“The McCain-Rudy Giuliani attacks are getting ridiculous,” Hoffa told The Vindicator on Tuesday. “... When you do that so late in the campaign, that’s desperate” ...

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/oct/22/politics-of-words/

[DBoon]

1. now let's compare the so-called socialist countries with the USA

Longer life span, lower infant mortality, higher levels of education, greater upward mobility

Now tell me why socalism is so terrible