[Magus]

Well certain policies Obama would have wished to have enacted (such as single-payer healthcare) are socialist policies but since he failed to enact any socialist policies he certainly can't be proclaimed a socialist.

I do think it's funny that conservatives in the U.S. regularly decry things that have been around for 80 years (like social security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage or welfare) as "radical" socialist policies, instead of moderately "socialist" policies that have been around for almost a century.

Of course, even those could hardly be described as "socialist" since they barely even scratch the definition of "progressive".

EDIT: I don't think it's that any particular socialist policy wouldn't work in any particular country, there would just be problems with acceptance based in culture. Single-payer healthcare for example would work just as well here as it does in any other country, it would just cost more money because there's more people. But there are more people so they have more money to work with.

Except not because of our horrid tax policies but anyway...