He certainly IS too a socialist and very radical

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/12/obama-im-not-a-socialist-151997.html

POLITICO 44: A Living Diary of the Obama Presidency

Obama: I'm not a socialist

By DONOVAN SLACK |

12/14/12 10:20 AM EST

President Barack Obama on Thursday brushed aside concerns that he favors socialism, saying in an interview with Univision that his policies are so mainstream that he would have been considered a moderate Republican in the 1980s.

Via the transcript of the interview by Alina Mayo Azze of "Noticias Univision 23" in Miami:

AMA: One issue that Cuban-Americans are worried about is, they believe that you favor a socialist model for our country. Cubans and Venezuelans especially because of what they have gone through. What do you think of that?

PBO: I don't know that there are a lot of Cubans or Venezuelans, Americans who believe that. The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican. I mean, what I believe in is a tax system that is fair. I don't think government can solve every problem. I think that we should make sure that we're helping young people go to school. We should make sure that our government is building good roads and bridges and hospitals and airports so that we have a good infrastructure. I do believe that it makes sense that everyone in America, as rich as this country is, shouldn't go bankrupt because someone gets sick, so the things I believe in are essentially the same things your viewers believe in.

The president for years has been dogged by critics who say that his policies -- the stimulus, the bailouts, the health care law, the proposed tax hikes on the rich -- bear the hallmarks of socialism.

Former opponent Mitt Romney, sensing a potential weakness for Obama with Latinos, ran a Spanish-language ad in Florida linking Obama with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.

The president has tried to squelch such criticism before, notably telling a business group in 2010 that he is an "ardent believer in the free market." But his responses have done little to allay the questions.