Don Boudreaux asks if Obama is a socialist in this CSM piece.
It’s apparent that Obama is touchy about this, as John Hood has noted. Evidently he is worried that there are enough people who work and have at least a glimmering that, despite all his talk about jobs, progress, and helping the middle class, his socialistic economic philosophy means the slow strangulation of economic vitality that he could lose. So he tosses off a flip line about sharing toys in hopes that people forget about the issue.