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Obama’s Finance Speech: Other Voices

Ed Kilgore:

… there’s no way you can read this speech and give much credence to the right-wing voices describing Obama as a crypto-socialist.

Beldar (who says some very nice things about yours truly’s post on the speech):

I’m not saying Barack Obama is a wild-eyed Marxist. But he definitely shares their same basic conviction — the conviction that “I’m the smartest guy here, and I can fix all of this if you’ll just give me the power.” (A goody-basket of financial treats and preferences is then immediately promised in order to persuade the electorate to give him the power.) As with the rest of Barack Obama’s plans and platform, when you peel away the attractive messenger and articulate delivery, the underlying policy today showed itself to be sadly typical of hard-left Democratic politicians for the last seven-plus decades: pro-regulation, anti-free market, and arrogant as hell.

Obviously, I’m with Beldar on this one.