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Joe Klein: NY-26 Was A "Victory For Socialism"
realclearpolitics.com ^ | May 25, 2011
Posted on May 25, 2011 9:38:51 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
"It was a victory for socialism," TIME's Joe Klein said of last night's election result in NY-26. A Democrat won a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House from a very conservative district in New York.
For the last two years, Republicans have been lambasting Barack Obama who is right in the middle of the political spectrum, a mild liberal, as being a wild-eyed socialist. Well, there ain't anything that he has proposed that is purely socialistic as our Medicare program; a single payer program run by the government. And the folks love it," Klein also said.
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