Obama denies that he is a socialist

Not at all, he says; instead, he is an "ardent believer in the free market." (Yes, he said that.)

I seem to recall that Bush said the same thing. In the same way that inflation is not the Fed's doing, no one is actually growing government. It just happens by the forces of history - or something like that.

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