Posted on 06/16/2008 3:21:21 PM PDT by vadum
Red diaper baby Barack Obama's collectivist beliefs go way back. We dug up an enlightening old article, "What Makes Obama Run?" (by Hank De Zutter, Chicago Reader, Dec. 8, 1995) that offers more insight into what Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential candidate, thinks about America and traditional American values. The short answer: not much.
In it Obama, at that time a candidate for the Illinois Senate, criticizes individualism as what intellectual John Ralston Saul has called the cult of the Hero:
"In America," Obama says, "we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations."American individualism is poppycock, according to Obama. Explaining his theory on how communities can go about "getting [their] fair share," he denigrates the can-do spirit of Americans, calling it, in effect, right-wing propaganda:
"The right wing talks about this but they keep appealing to that old individualistic bootstrap myth: get a job, get rich, and get out. Instead of investing in our neighborhoods, that's what has always happened. Our goal must be to help people get a sense of building something larger."In other words, Americans need the helping hand of government. And Americans on the political right are racist, stupid, and backward-looking, Obama says:
"We must form grass-root structures that would hold me and other elected officials more accountable for their actions. The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility."Elias Crim and I looked at Obama's radical roots in the current Foundation Watch.
Yep. He’s a commie muzzie.
Obama uses the word “collective” quite a bit.
Brit Hume played a clip a few weeks ago of the candidates talking at graduate exercises this year. If I recall correctly, Obama mentioned it to the graduates as what they should be striving for.
Actually, Obama is a “red diaper doper baby,” courtesy of Michael Savage.
Arrogant commie muzzie.
Che Guevara believed in collectivism. Individuals don’t matter, just kill ‘em if they get in the way or deviate from the collective.
How come no one understands that socialism and reducing society to the lowest common denominator, stifles individualism and actually breeds more contempt? That making a four year degree on a par with a High School dropout is somehow good for society?
Ping
What if I don't want to be part of Obama's Collective?
Okay, everyone, time to dust off and reread "Atlas Shrugged" - (BTW, 51 years after it's publication, Atlas Shrugged if finally slated to become a movie. It was supposed to hit the screens this spring. It has been delayed until next year. Anyone think the Hollywood crowd and their Comrades in DC were afraid that too many of the Sheeple would see it and wake up to what our FREE form of Gov't is versus "Collectivism" aka "Communism" -
That aside, name me one great invention/advance that came about by collective/committee?
It has, inevitably, been the individual that makes the big breakthroughs.
As someone once said: "The perfect committee is made up of 12 people - 11 of whom are home sick."
All that aside, these early obamama quotes - we need to cache them NOW - they are pure Marxism....
The Communists always have this stupid idea of a utopia here on earth. Anyone who has read the Bible knows that no such utopia will ever exist on this planet. It is the will of God for humans to always have poverty, disease, war, natural disasters and other very difficult times.
Does Obama think he can reverse the will of God?
By imposing Communism as the solution to America's problems, Obama will subsequently bankrupt the Republic.
Economic stagflation and energy shortages will spread the world over.
I will forever hold Obama's voters responsible for the coming disaster.
Collective = COMMUNity = Commune = communism
“It Takes a Commune”
a collective bump
The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it’s always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia.
What a guy.
So he’s saying that it’s harder to get leftist/progressive organizations of accountablility because leftists are more tolerant, broad minded ???
Here I figured it was because they were authoritarian crooks
who hid from accountablity.
Collective PING
“But it’s always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility”
If this guy gets elected, we’re screwed. Our only hope will be to broadcast messages into space in the hope that aliens will save us before we go extinct.
But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia.
And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.
First he says we are "bitter", now we are "narrow minded" and hold some sort of "false nostalgia".
By that I think he means a distorted view of the ways things should be. I guess the historical concepts of wright and wrong, truth, and justice that allowed western civilization to prosper were wrong all along.......The third world way of chaos and despotism must be the ticket in his mind.
It's true, we are screwed if he is elected. What an A$Z.
Rand was overly verbose -- the book could easily have been one-third its size and just as effective -- and I don't agree with her moral/irreligious points of view. But her depiction of the actions of a corrupt state -- with the willing accomplices of weak-spined politician collaborators and an indifferent, sheeplike public -- are frighteningly accurate and deadly.
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