{"id":28132,"date":"2012-06-05T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/is-obama-a-socialist.html"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:06:34","slug":"is-obama-a-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/is-obama-a-socialist.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama a socialist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure which is a bigger laugh &#8212; the accusation itself, or that Rush Limbaugh is included as a credible person making it.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fextras.mnginteractive.com%2Flive%2Fmedia%2Fsite333%2F2012%2F0604%2F20120604__USPoliticsSocialism%7E1_VIEWER.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_20778968\/obama-socialist-many-scoff-but-claim-persists'>Obama a socialist? Many scoff, but claim persists &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNEW YORK\u2014When President Barack Obama\u001bs re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/e4bXqTtYVfa' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure which is a bigger laugh &#8212; the accusation itself, or that Rush Limbaugh is included as a credible person making it. Embedded Link Obama a socialist? Many scoff, but claim persists &#8211; The Denver Post NEW YORK\u2014When President Barack Obama\u001bs re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/is-obama-a-socialist.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Obama a socialist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13644,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/01\/socialist_socialist_socia.html","url_meta":{"origin":28132,"position":0},"title":"Socialist!  Socialist!  SOCIALIST! Eeeeeeek!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Nov-08 10:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Much has been made of late by accusing Barack Obama of being (gasp!) a socialist. 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