Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
Prosperity comes from the private sector.
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.