A man on my TV told me today that Barack Obama is running on an "unapologetic socialist platform." I don't think that's true but let's say it is. Does that mean that if Obama wins next week by a wide margin, he has a mandate to bring Communism to these United States?
The definition of socialism, by the way, seems to have changed in light of the big bailouts. It no longer includes the government taking over companies and sinking our money into industry. It does apparently involve rolling the top tax rate back to what it was in the Clinton years.