I love when people use the term "wealth redistribution". Capitalism at its best is wealth redistribution. It is a system that allows a few to amass most of the wealth while leaving everyone else poor. What socialism tries to do is put restrictions on how much wealth can be redistributed, i.e. how rich or how poor people can get.

That said, I am a socialist and I can tell you that Barak Obama is no socialist -- not even close. If zero on the political spectrum is socialism, and ten is capitalism, he is maybe a 7, while McCain is a 9. And in my lifetime, nobody lower than a 6 has ever been nominated to run for president for one of the major parties. If you were to look through the entire Senate, the only member who would fall below a 6 on my scale is Bernie Sanders from VT, who is probably around a 4 or 5.

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