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(Newser) - It turns out race isn't what's fueling the conservative opposition to Barack Obama, at least according to focus groups conducted by a Democratic organization. It found that white, self-identified conservatives believe Obama is harboring a "secret agenda" intended to destroy America's founding principles and turn it into a socialist... More »

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Barack Obama • socialism • racism • conservatives • President Obama

 Socialists Win Big 
 in Greek Election 

Left-wing government set for power as voters turn on conservatives

Oct 5, 09 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Socialists won a thumping victory in a snap Greek election yesterday as voters threw out a conservative government after corruption scandals and poor response to a string of devastating wildfires. The socialists won 43% of the vote, 9 points ahead of the ruling party, and will have an absolute majority... More »

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socialism • Greece • Socialist Party • election • George Papandreou • left wing

OPINION

 How We Get 
 bin Laden: 
 KFC's New 
 Double Down 

It's a bacon and cheese sandwich, except with fried chicken instead of bread!

Sep 27, 09 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fed up with all haute cuisine? Foodie babble? An organic garden at the White House? KFC looks to have just what you need in the Double Down, a bacon and cheese sandwich in which the bread is replaced by fried chicken fillets! “Forget food porn,” Scott Gold writes... More »

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obesity • entertainment • Canada • socialism • cheese • Osama bin Laden • KFC • bacon • Kentucky Fried Chicken • tofu • salad

ANALYSIS

 Right Revives Red Scare, 
 Despite Lack of Reds 

Fears of secret socialism prove a fertile ground for right-wing outrage

Sep 9, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The right has been energized by a good old-fashioned Red hunt—never mind the fact that there are precious few old-style leftists around in America today, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal. The centrist Democratic administration has been in power for well under a year, Frank writes, but... More »

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socialism • Communism • right wingers • Obama administration • tea parties

'European Model' Could Die: French PM

'Sluggish growth' may destroy safety net,
job security

Sep 5, 09 7:40 PM CDT
(AP) - The prime minister of France, the country perhaps most associated with the cherished "European model" of job security and social safety nets, warned today that it may prove unsustainable because the region's economies are too stagnant. "With this sluggish growth, we cannot preserve the European social model or... More »

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Europe • France • socialism • recession • Francois Fillon • job security • economy

 Opposition to 
 School Speech 
 'Silly': Gibbs 

Obama press secretary also hints at possible racially-driven censorship

Sep 4, 09 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Gibbs fired back today at critics of President Obama's planned address to school children, calling it "a little bit of the silly season," the Hill reports. Noting that that Ronald Reagan and the elder President Bush both made school addresses, he painted Obama's critics as... More »

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censorship • socialism • racism • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • schoolchildren • presidential address

 Chicagoan 
 'Fesses Up 
 to 'Joker' 
 Poster 

But Firas Alkhateeb isn't behind 'socialism' campaign

Aug 18, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 20-year-old college student from Chicago is the artist behind the now-famous image of Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s Joker, the Los Angeles Times reports. Firas Alkhateeb made the image using Photoshop and Time magazine’s Obama cover when he was bored one day during winter break. It attracted... More »

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Barack Obama • socialism • Photoshop • Heath Ledger • the Joker • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Posters of President Obama in Heath Ledger-like Joker makeup from The Dark Knight with a caption reading “Socialism” have sprung up in Los Angeles and Atlanta, the Daily Contributor reports. Similar posters online have the caption “why so socialist?” The guerilla art attacks, not yet claimed by any... More »

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Atlanta • Los Angeles • socialism • The Dark Knight • Heath Ledger • health care reform • the Joker • posters • makeup • Obama administration • guerilla art • street art • President Obama

(Newser) - Jeb Bush has a pretty dim view of President Obama, but he wouldn’t go so far as to call him names. When Tucker Carlson asks the former Florida governor if Obama is “a socialist” in an interview for Esquire, Bush demurs. “I don't know,” he... More »

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Bush administration • socialism • Republican Party • Jeb Bush • budget deficit • interview • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Pope Benedict delivers a broad criticism of contemporary capitalism in his latest encyclical, the Washington Post reports. The biggest problem with businesses today is that “they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors,” Benedict writes in the 144-page document. He proposes a radically different economic model in which... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • economics • G8 summit • Vatican • socialism • capitalism • economic crisis

 Voight Takes 
 Obama-Is-Marxist 
 Rant to O'Reilly 

Even Bill O'Reilly doesn't agree with all his theories

Jun 10, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just in case you missed Jon Voight's speech at a Republican fundraiser where he accused a “weak” President Obama of thinking “he’s going to bring all the enemies of the world into a little playground where they’ll swing each other back and forth,” the actor... More »

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entertainment • Barack Obama • politics • Bill O'Reilly • socialism • celebrity • Jon Voight • conservatives • economic policies

OPINION

Ooops: Socialist Quote Sure to Dog Sotomayor

Princeton yearbook cites would-be prez Norman Thomas

May 27, 09 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives are likely to go crazy any second now, when they realize that Sonia Sotomayor is a (gasp) socialist. Sotomayor’s Princeton yearbook quote—“I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won”—is from Norman Thomas, a six-time presidential candidate of the... More »

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White House • socialism • Socialist Party • US Supreme Court • Obama administration • President Obama • Sonia Sotomayor • Norman Thomas

 Against Economic Tide, 
 Norway Thrives 

Often standing in contrast to Europe, strict state control puts Norway in good stead

May 14, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - While the rest of the world struggles with recession, Norway’s socialist-leaning government looks pretty smart, the New York Times reports. Norway enjoys a budget surplus of 11% and is free of debt (the US owes $11 trillion), and its economy grew 3% last year. Oil revenues are pouring in—... More »

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socialism • Norway • capitalism • welfare • Arctic oil • housing bubble • banks

(Newser) - In a much-touted recent Rasmussen poll, only 53% of Americans said they preferred capitalism to socialism. Among those under 30, that figure fell to 37%. “If you comb the annals of Americans’ ideological preferences, you won’t find figures like these,” writes Harold Meyerson of the Washington ... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Soviet Union • socialism • poll • capitalism • Sean Hannity • Rasmussen Reports • President Obama • Eugene Debs

Sanders to Bachus: Who You Calling a Socialist?

Wants other 16 names in new red scare

Apr 14, 09 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Spencer Bachus’ pronouncement last week that he knew of 17 socialists in Congress seemed to come right out of a '50s playbook, but he's turned out to be a reluctant Joe McCarthy. Capitol Hill went into a tizzy over the use of the "S" word, Politico reports, but... More »

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socialism • Spencer Bachus • Bernie Sanders

Alabama Rep. Says He Has List of Socialists

Vermont Sen. Sanders is one, as are 17 in House: GOP's Bachus

Apr 10, 09 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Alabama congressman says 17 of his colleagues, plus a senator, are socialists who are pushing President Obama too far leftward, the Birmingham News reports. “Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists,” Republican Spencer Bachus declared yesterday—though he wouldn’t name... More »

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Congress • House of Representatives • socialism • Alabama • Spencer Bachus

OPINION

Obama's Not
One of Us,
Says Socialist

Lefty says prez sticks to center; a socialist only to 'odd conservatives'

Mar 15, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to conservative politicians and pundits, socialists are in the limelight as never before, writes Billy Wharton in the Washington Post—and Wharton, as editor of Socialist magazine, ought to know. Mike Huckabee and John McCain became "our most effective promoters," he says, as they portrayed Obama... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • John McCain • Mike Huckabee • socialism • nationalization

analysis

Earth to GOP: Obama's
No Socialist 

Obama favors free-market approach

Mar 8, 09 6:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Horrified by President Obama's stimulus plan, conservatives are calling him a European-style socialist—when in fact he's all-American, Jacob Weisberg writes in Newsweek. Obama envisions “cradle-to-grave opportunity, as opposed to the European model of cradle-to-grave security,” writes Weisberg, who explains that Obama’s plans to tackle hot issues... More »

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climate change • education • health care • Barack Obama • Europe • socialism • free markets • financial crisis • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - A California congressman thinks President Obama’s economic policies are leading the country down the path described in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the Washington Independent reports. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike,” Republican John Campbell... More »

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Barack Obama • California • congressman • socialism • liberals • Ayn Rand

OPINION

 For Chavez, the End Is Near 

Referendum will keep him in power, but Venezuelan economy makes it 'irrelevant'

Feb 14, 09 4:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez has a slight lead in tomorrow’s referendum that would allow him to extend his rule in Venezuela, but the realities of the country’s economy make the issue “mostly irrelevant,” Edward Schumacher-Matos writes in the Washington Post. No matter the outcome, his days are... More »

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Venezuela • socialism • dictatorship • President • Hugo Chávez • referendum • oil prices • coup d'etat

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