Obama won

[JWFITZ]

Lastly, it would be a worthy experiment for many here to actually read the Communist Manifesto before commenting on it. I'm not a communist, nor advocate it, but in many way neither was Marx. Marx was an economist, and understood that "communism" was the ultimate result of capitalism, and for reasons that are painfully apparent at this moment. He observed that systems run by greed and privilege tend to consolidation and abuse, which then cause failure due to ineptitude and corruption--institutions like the US car industry and banking system come to mind. Of course, these institutions are so entrenched in the fabric of society the government must intrude more and more to support them from failure, and eventually end up owning the whole works. We now have a "communist" nationalized banking system, and will soon be looking at the same with the car industry, and likely aircraft manufacture as well. At some point, Marx observed, that the people who paid for these bailouts will rightly demand compensation for their ownership, and the gig is up. Right now we have public ownership of costs and privatization of profits, the worst of all worlds, and there's only so much that which people will stand for.

So, actually, Bush has done more, effectively, to move the world towards communism than Stalin ever did.