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Is Barack Obama a Social Democrat?

Published: 19 May, 2009, 10:50
Edited: 05 September, 2010, 10:01


Illustration by Theo Rudnak

US President Barack Obama has inherited a global economy at its weakest in decades. But to overcome these hurdles it appears he may be radically changing the format of the American economy.

 
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Zoltan de Burgh September 05, 2010, 07:10 quote
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Quoting the opinion of the Far Right side of the American democratic experience does not a presidency nor a Federal government a social democracy make. The system is already tilted socially democratic: Private capital relates socially on the golf course and corporations' Board of Directors vote democratically. Why does RT (sometimes too often) quote opinions from "front men" for ilk like the John Birch Society and bankrollers for the Tea Party (1776 Toryists??) astro-turf grass roots, e.g. Grover Nordquist, CATO fndn.

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