Being for Programs that Help Other People Make Someone a Christian, Not a Marxist!

Florida television anchor Barbara West is getting national attention after an interview with Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden. She kicked off the interview by asking Biden whether he was embarrassed by "blatant attempts to register phony voters by groups like ACORN".

She then asked:"How is Barack Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"

Biden asked, "Are you joking?"

The Obama campaign responded to the interview:"This campaign has now spanned 21 months and Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden have done countless tough interviews and they've answered every single question. Let's be clear: This station's interview with Joe Biden wasn't tough -- it was just absurd!"

Of course, Right wing pubahs Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck, CNN's water carriers for the Republicans, thought she was just wonderful. (I wish CNN would fire them like they fired their brother Tucker Carlson).

I think she was offensive and out of line! Tax cuts do not equal Marxism, Mrs. West! When tax cuts are for the rich they are good for the country, according to your Republican dogma, but what is wrong with helping the working people for a change? Mrs. West, are you implying that FDR, LBJ, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton were also Marxists, because they all backed either tax cuts or social programs or both. Of course, you may not be much of student of history. Few neo-cons are. Which is why we got into the quagmire that is Iraq.

West was just another blonde, pretty talking points attack dog. West is married to a GOP media consultant, and her bio, in which she delights in covering Clinton's impeachment and seems to brag about scuttling Hillary's Heath Care program tells you everything you need to know about her objectivity.

The truth is that social programs, which some call socialist, have really helped this country -- such as social security, medicare, job corps, Comprehensive Education and Training Act (CETA), WPA, Head Start, Legal Aid, and many more. Social programs make it possible to balance the predatory nature of capitalism, so that it can work for the whole country, not just a chosen few wealthy capitalists.