if spreading the wealth around is socialism (which it is NOT), then how are george bush or john mccain not socialist? they spread the wealth around to rich people and banks with tax cuts and outright socialist bank takeovers...under any republican president/congress, wealth is redistributed by federal social programs...under george bush, federal social program spending expanded by almost 20%!

according to the invalid republican definition of socialism, the usa has been a socialist country for decades...if that reporter was serious, she would have directed the same line of questioning at mccain/palin who plan to redistribute hundreds of billions of borrowed tax dollars (from future generations) to buy bad mortgages off low income home owners that are at risk of default...OMG! REPUBLICANS ARE SOCIALISTS!! if mccain wins, he will still oversee the state control of the means of production of capital via the federal government's ownership of banks...socialism has already arrived under that pinko republican george bush...the next socialist who moves into the white house will be a piker compared to the socialist who is moving out