Or as Barack calls it, mission accomplished.
Via CSM:
Two of every five Americans today say their country is evolving into a socialist state.
That finding, contained in a new nationwide poll, highlights a central debate in the 2012 election campaign and a major challenge for President Obama.
The “socialist state” survey is just one many indicators that Americans are worried that the federal government is growing too large – a feeling that works against Mr. Obama’s reelection hopes.
In a Christian Science Monitor/Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP poll completed last week, 40 percent of respondents generally agreed with the statement: “The US is evolving into a socialist state.” That outnumbered the 36 percent who disagreed. About one-quarter of respondents expressed a neutral view or said they were unsure.
The same poll asked other questions that took America’s temperature on the size of government. A majority said it should not be the government’s role to redistribute wealth, and a majority said they prefer “a smaller government providing less services.”