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Newt Bemoans Obama’s “Secular Socialist” Agenda

John Nichols: Gingrich’s silly crusade against ‘secular socialism’

Gingrich’s Labor Day fundraising appeal pointed to the unemployment figures that spiked after George W. Bush’s economy crashed and asked his potential donors to imagine: “Stagnant economic growth is the inevitable result of President Obama’s commitment to class warfare and bureaucratic socialism.”

I say “imagine” because, of course, Obama is neither secular nor a socialist. Americans would be hard-pressed to identify any measure of religious commitment where Obama did not rival or, in many cases, trump Gingrich. And the notion that Obama, who abandoned social-democratic fixes such as single-payer health care, breaking up the big banks and progressive taxation of billionaires, is steering America toward socialism has been rejected not just by the president but by actual socialists.

Indeed, if you want to find a group that’s disappointed in Obama, visit a gathering of Democratic Socialists of America, the venerable left-wing group that has been revitalized in recent years by a boom in youth membership. In Washington recently I spoke at a DSA forum where Obama’s name was barely mentioned. Indeed, DSA’s slogan these days is a subtle rebuke to the president, whose 2008 campaign theme was “Change We Can Believe In.”

If Obama is a socialist, Newt is the political love-child of Ayn Rand and John Birch.  Obama is only a socialist in the eyes of those who hide behind their skewed theology, using it as an excuse to remain blind to the evil and injustice in this world.  Unwilling to admit their worldview is flawed, they sheepishly eat up such nonsensical tripe as this and rabidly vote for the one who promises to save them from the socialist boogeyman who waits in the dark to steal their paycheck and burn their Bibles.

If our God is a truly powerful God, which we know he is, and is omnipotent and in control of everything, as we are assured of by his word, why do we get so worked up about things like this?  Why do we allow ourselves to be led astray by woolen wolves such as Newt, a man who is hardly the epitome of a Christian? 

It’s a very sad commentary on today’s Christian society.  We’d sooner believe the lies of a thrice-married man who is a blatant liar and hypocrite, seeing him as the best leader of our supposed Christian society.  All the while, the man he criticizes is a once-married father of two who is a professed and practicing Christian.

Just testin'.

Half of all Americans think Republicans are purposefully sabotaging economy

Half of all Americans think Republicans are purposefully sabotaging economy

Latest dKos/SEIU poll by PPP: 50% think GOP intentionally stalling economy, incl 51% of Indies, & 15% of GOPers. Details Tuesday.

Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Elizabeth Warren and American History -

Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Elizabeth Warren and American History -

Long before the New Deal and Great Society, federal and state governments played essential roles in developing the economic and social potential of the United States. The Republican rhetoric that government “intervention” is inconsistent with traditional American values and practices clashes with American history. As Elizabeth Warren pointed out, no American entrepreneur or businessperson has ever succeeded without an enormous amount of local, state, and federal assistance. Rather than “class warfare,” her arguments are firmly within the American grain.