The head of the Teamsters said the Republicans’ name-calling is ‘desperate.’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.
“I don’t care whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat, a liberal or a conservative — or if you’re almost anything except maybe a socialist. I don’t see that you really have a choice,” Giuliani said Tuesday about the choice for president between Obama and Republican John McCain.
Giuliani told a crowd of about 250 packed into the Mahoning County Republican Party headquarters that Obama wants a “distribution of wealth,” specifically mentioning that it’s an idea espoused by 19th-century socialist Karl Marx.
When asked later by The Vindicator if he believed Obama was a socialist, Giuliani said he didn’t.
“He does embrace some views that are socialist such as the distribution of wealth,” Giuliani said of Obama. “... That doesn’t make him a socialist or a Marxist. It means he embraces one of those views.” Full Story.......
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