[mukto-mona] Obama and Marxism is mentioned in the same breath!

A week before presidential election, Obama and Marxism is mentioned in the same breath

 

A.H. Jaffor Ullah

 

Unless you've been away from this world, the news that Obama might receive 270 Electoral College votes has not reached you.  The Democrats are beaming with joy and many Republicans are already fretting over the dreadful news that the Congress will be dominated by the Democrats at long last.

 

However, this ominous news is yet to demoralize Senator McCain.  He calls himself an underdog candidate and he is telling his supporters that he will win the election coming from behind.  The trouble is that wherever Obama goes for political rally, 100,000 people or more come to listen to him.  On the contrary, McCain campaign cannot gather more than 10,000 to 15,000 enthusiastic supporters. 

 

Now that it is made abundantly clear by a myriad of editorial write-ups and pollsters' data, Obama is poised to win the election.  The news of a black man about to clinch victory is not seating well in many parts of the world.  Many Europeans are very puzzled about it and so are many Asian folks.  To outsiders America is still a predominantly Whiteman's country.  How come they could elect a person of color?  Can you imagine an Asian being elected as the Prime Minister in Great Britain?  No way!  However, America is very different nation.  If Obama is elected to the highest office in America, this great nation may come to terms with its racial past. 

 

Senator McCain knows that he has a very steep hill to cross to defeat Obama who is up by 5-10% in polls taken by many organizations.  His campaign now realizes that on issue it will be very difficult to compete with Obama; therefore, McCain camp has decided to go very negative on Obama.  To undermine him as a candidate, McCain campaign has unleashed vicious attack on the Democratic candidate.

 

After the third and final debate held in Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee, in which Obama held his ground and the debate ended in a draw, McCain had popularized a person who he called "Joe the Plumber."  Now, "Joe the Plumber" is not a fictitious person.  While in his stumps in northwestern Ohio, Obama met this voter ("Joe") who said to the Democratic candidate that he will not be able to buy a plumbing business because of Obama's tax plan, which would punish him heavily.  Obama told him that if he earns over $ 250,000 annually, only then he would pay more tax.  Obama explained that for the greater good of the nation, the wealth needs to be spread in all parts of the society.  To this "Joe the Plumber" said that it is socialism to him. 

 

In the third debate Senator McCain made "Joe the Plumber" the real hero.  He scared the TV viewers nationally by saying that Obama's tax plan would require most Americans to pay more taxes.

 

A week before the election, the McCain campaign had gone a full tilt on characterizing Obama a socialist par excellence.  McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, went ballistic on Obama calling him of all things a wealth spreader.  To republicans, it is a sinful act to take money (tax) from the wealthy and redistribute it to the needy and poor.  But when I heard it in news that one anchorwoman in Florida by the name Barbara West asking Senator Biden in a television interview the question – "How is Barack Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"  Biden was shocked to hear such question coming from an anchorperson.  Biden shot back, "Are you joking?"  In Ms. West's defense, her employer said that she asked McCain some tough question.

 

The McCain campaign is trying to label Obama as a socialist because the senator from Illinois had said that by taxing the rich people to pay their fair share the wealth will be redistributed.  This assertion is anathematic to hardcore conservatives.  Many Americans abhor the concept of socialism.  Senator McCain is using the phrase "redistributing the wealth" in the same breath when he talks about his rival, Senator Obama.  The idea is to inject fear among voters.  Since Obama's message on deteriorating economy has struck a chord with the voters, McCain realizes that he cannot win in this election.  Therefore, the Republican camp has waged an all out war against Obama.  The McCain camp thinks a seed of distrust could be sown against Obama if Obama is labeled as socialist, or better yet a Marxist or communist.

 

The electoral map is looking ever so friendly to Senator Obama.  If the next 7 days could go past without any international event, the race could become tight but the Democrats could rejoice in the evening of November 4, 2008.  Many analysts think that Obama may receive 320-350 electoral votes when he only needs 270 to come out victorious.  The way the election is shaping up, the tossup states may go for Obama and if that happens, the election will be a blow up for the Democrats. 

 

In the meantime, McCain's surrogates will tell the media that what looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.  In their eyes Obama is a wealth redistributor, which means he is a socialist or worse yet, a hardcore Marxist.  Karl Marx may be rolling in his grave hearing the allusion made by McCain camp.    
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A.H. Jaffor Ullah, a researcher and columnist, writes from New Orleans.

 

          

 

    

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