Of course Barak Obama is a socialist. His entire history, politics, etc lead one that direction I remember a quote, which I wish I could find but can only remember part of where he said "make no mistake, I am a progressive." He said it somewhere on the west coast, after his comments about Pennsylvanians. Progressive is a word often used if "Liberal" or "Socialist" (yes I am aware there are minor differences between them, but they are generally similar) will drive away votes. I am only dissapointed, that in American Politics, people misrepresent themselves to get votes. There are honesty and integrety issues here and I wonder who is truthful. One of the leaders of the Democrats, Nancy Peloci, recently said something to the effect of "you say a lot of things on the campaign trail." And on that point, I'm dissapointed in all politicians and parties who say what are effectively lies.