One of the biggest news stories to come out of New Orleans and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend, was the somewhat odd statements made by Texas Congressman Ron Paul over the definition of Obama's political beliefs.

From the Wall Street Journal Washington Wire blog:

NEW ORLEANS–Republicans and tea party activists are fond of accusing President Barack Obama of being a socialist, but today party gadfly Ron Paul said they had it wrong.

“In the technical sense, in the economic definition, he is not a socialist,” the Texas Republican said to a smattering of applause at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

“He’s a corporatist,” Paul quickly added, meaning the president takes “care of corporations and corporations take over and run the country.”

Tim Daniels, top libertarian-conservative blogger of Left Coast Rebel responds:

Of course in the realm of semantics he may be correct. But on the other hand in clear terms Obama is a socialist. Everything that Obama desires and stands for moves towards the ends of taking freedom from the individual American citizen and placing it in the hands of a centralized Federal government, planner, bean counter, bureaucrat, committee, or someone that will deemed to be better at 'guiding' your life than you are. Whether that is G.E. or Uncle Sam matters not. Whether or not corporations play a heavy hand in that (which they do, which is corporatism), does not take away from the fact that it is socialism. The end-result is indentical.