Posted on 07/25/2012 6:44:32 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
The Communist who's the subject of the stunning new biography by Paul Kengor is Frank Marshall Davis. He's the black poet, journalist, and activist whom the young Barack Obama hung out with as a teenager in Hawaii, then wrote a weird, disturbingly affectionate poem about entitled "Pop" while a student at Occidental College. He's the man whom President Obama describes as his mentor in the latter's autobiography, Dreams from My Father.
Here's Kengor's summary of the man our president so admires:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in."
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....
A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-peoples movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all peoples movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and peoples unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isnt it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Cant we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isnt the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system a system steeped in racism no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Makes Vogon poetry sound almost musical.
This is what Barack Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis preached and then taught his protégé Barack:
Rejected and blasted Winston Churchill;
Vilified and targeted General Motors;
Advocated wealth redistribution from (in his words) greedy corporations to health insurance and public works projects;
Favored taxpayer funding of universal health care;
Supported government stimulus and trumpeted the public sector over the private sector;
Constantly bashed Wall Street;
Dismissed traditional notions of American exceptionalism and framed American not as selflessly serving the post-World War II world but instead as selfishly flaunting its so-called mountainous ego and racist-imperialist-colonialist ambitions;
Warned God-and-gun-clinging Americans about huckster preachers and instead sought the political support of the social justice Religious Left for various causes and campaigns;
Perceived the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state;
Confidently declared certain government actions constitutional or unconstitutional;
Excoriated the tentacles of big business, bankers, big oil, the Big Boys, excess profits, corporate fat cats and their fat contracts, millionaires and rich men, and the wealthy;
Attacked GOP tax cuts that spare the rich and that only benefit millionaires;
Singled out the corporation executive for not paying his fair share;
Used slogans such as change and forward.
Sound freeping familiar? It should.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_commies_commie.html#ixzz21h6RFKZo
This POS will bypass Congress as usual to open the borders by executive order and then regulate this country into a collectivist hell hole. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that it won’t happen here. Who the hell is going to stop it?
From the article posted at the top (The Commie’s Commie/Obama’s Frank Marshall Davis):
“Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China, card-carrying member of Communist Party USA (CPUSA). His Communist Party card number was 47544. He did endless Soviet propaganda work in his newspaper columns, at every juncture agitating and opposing U.S. attempts to slow down Stalin and Mao in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He favored Red Army takeovers of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Central and Eastern Europe as a whole. In China, he urged America to dump the “fascist” Chiang in support of Mao’s Red forces. He wanted communist takeovers in Korea and Vietnam. He was adamantly, angrily anti-NATO”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_commies_commie.html
But as they used to say in Moscow: Comrades, there are no coincidences.
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