Michael Moore & Plumbers for Obama

On Larry King Live last night.

They discuss John McCain's assertion that Obama is a socialist, who wants to "spread the wealth around." Which is just silly, though you wish Moore would have mentioned the fact that it is kinda Obama's fault, in that he has been hijacking the rhetoric of socialist types. You hear him on the campaign trail these days, and it sounds like Naomi Klein or somebody, despite the fact that he isn't planning on doing anything any more socialist than rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

Of course, the reason he does that is because that kind of talk resonates with people. People might not like the word socialism, but they like the idea of socialism more than they think. And Barack Obama's hardly a socialist. Michael Moore did an entire film arguing in favor of a single-payer health care system, which is socialist, and which most people in this country are in favor of. Barack Obama isn't. I'm surprised Moore didn't bring that up. I guess he didn't want to throw any salt right before the election.

Parts 1 through 4 are after the jump.