It looks like your post may show the government in general has communist properties and I don’t disagree, but nothing you showed is connected to a single candidate.

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State “income” taxes. We call it “paying your fair share”.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public “law” 99-570 (1986);

Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of “terrorists” and those who speak out or write against the “government” (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.

We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver’s licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.

7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.

8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two “income” family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920′s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Fedral Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public “law” 89-136.

10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.

People are being taxed to support what we call ‘public’ schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based “Education”.

If, Obama gets on national television and promises to eradicate these programs from government … including all E.O.’s and agencies not enumerated in the constitution … maybe he’ll get my vote. (Just kidding. It will never happen).

Obama and all the other candidates have no business advocating anything that is not within the delegated powers of the constitution. As for anything that is not delegated in the constitution to the feds … it goes to the states … unless specifically prohibited by the constitution.

You didn’t know that … did you? Or, you just don’t care. I could go on, but then again, communist and socialists are a pretty hard headed lot. I might as well be talking to a petrified _ _ _ _.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

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10. Free education for all children in public schools.
Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form.
Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.

So, everyone who thinks progressive taxation and public funding of elementary schools are a good idea, and five year olds crawling through active machinery a bad idea (factory labor at that time).

Wow, I guess more than 90% of the U.S. is Marxist. If you take these positions as implying Marxism, you’ve distorted the word beyond any useful meaning.

Or do you want to argue he supports other planks?

Provocative!

Ok … read the constitution.

Then read the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto.

(Gee … come to think of it, most of these idiots that are elected are communists/socialists. Hmm. Which means most people who voted for them are … communists/socialists).

Well, I guess the good news is, is that Bush is a communist/socialist and a fascist!

Ha! Take your pick!

Enjoy the ride. No doubt that most of you are not even prepared.

There’s a reason I keep my hair cut short. If it was any longer, I’d be tearing it out.

I’m with Aaron. Please show where Obama has endorsed the philosophies of Karl Marx. If you can’t, don’t say he’s a Marxist. You can still disagree with his policies without resorting to hyperbole.

No gun control is worthwhile. No infringements on civil rights are worthwhile, especially when the justification is inanimate objects.

Bob Barr may be orders-of-magnitude less horrific than McCain and Obama, but supporting gun-control is a deal breaker for me. Being just a little evil is still evil.

Ron Paul

Let me clarify. We can debate which of the two candidates is less-horrific all day long, but in the end, we’re going to be stuck with one of them and either will accelerate our nation’s decline (more debt, more nanny-state, more police-state, less choice, less freedom, etc).

So I will use my vote for its only useful purpose in this Presidential election, to protest.

My support of Ron Paul is not the cult-of-personality many deride it as. I wish there were better candidates to choose from. As it is, he is the only candidate to even consider the best interests of our republic.

Obama is a Marxist, not just a big-government, not very pro-freedom, RINO (not that I’m fond of Republicans either). He’s not just forgotten what America’s principles are all about, he DOESN’T LIKE them!

It seems that a lot of Americans want to committ cultural suicide like the Europeans by voting for someone who will lead them to destruction but make them feel good as they go.

No thanks. I’ll go down swinging.

No matter who wins, we’re still a morally deficient nation that’s carrying untenable debt into our future…all the while (still) spending like drunken sailors. We’re like a generational-wealthy family that has recently gone broke. We just can’t afford to pay for the hired help (our government) to do things for us, things that we are well capable of doing for ourselves. It’s time to pare back and live within our means. Until a candidate makes some approximation of that noise, I intend to treat voters with scorn. These days, it’s all “Coke or Pepsi?”, when what we need is water.