Socialism Has Arrived

A pre-election interview in October of 2008 with now Vice-President Biden really had me steamed. In case you missed the interview I'll give the short version. WFTV's Barbara West was conducting the interview with Biden when she wondered out loud about a comment then Senator Obama had made to Joe the Plumber about spreading the wealth of the United States. She quoted Karl Marx and then asked Biden what the difference was between the philosophy of Karl Marx and that of Senator Obama.

You would have thought the sky had fallen on Senator Biden. He was flustered and refused (not failed) to answer the question. Was he not prepared for this kind of question? Or was he making an attempt to hide the well kept secret agenda of the far left politicians? With a chuckle designed to remove the embarrassment Biden asked "Are you kidding?" Ms. West answered "No." Senator Biden refused to answer the question. 

Later in the interview she wondered about Biden's comments that Obama could be tested early in his presidency. When she asked if this meant the United States was becoming weaker Biden shot back an angry stare and admitted he didn't know who was writing her questions. Which, of course, brought us no closer to the truth.

A report later stated the Obama people had decided to cut this station out of the loop of access to press releases. Was it Biden who stated, "this television news program has to be taught a lesson. If you ask the wrong questions you get cut off." Isn't this press manipulaton? Is the press being held captive by a political machine which is afraid to allow the general population of America to know the truth? What has happened to freedom of the press? Today "freedom of the press" means freedom to tell the American people what the elite think they need to hear. Are we really at a point in American life where we need someone else to make the hard decisions for us? If our politicians can hold the press hostage, if they will tell us only what they want us to hear and if our wealth, past and present, continues to be freely exported how far are we from living the definition of socialism?