FLASHBACK: Obama's 1983 College Magazine Article

NY Times ^

[TigerClaws]

Obama's call for disarmament in the threat of facing the Soviet Union.

[TigerClaws]

30 years of Obama being on the 'wrong side of history.'

[JimSEA]

Good find. It reinforces my opinion that if we were to be attacked by a nuclear power, we would not respond or retaliate. Obama would not react to an offensive nuclear strike from Russia, Iran or China. It’s free season on us.

[MtnClimber]

Looks like he wanted the soviet union to win back then. Now he wants ISIS to win, and to change the name to ISIL since that implies the destruction of Israel.

[Windflier]

I remember John Lott (author of ‘More Guns - Less Crime’) telling of meeting Obama before he was _resident.

According to Lott, Obama walked up to him and said, “You’re the gun guy, aren’t you?” Lott acknowledged that he was. Obama then replied, “I don’t think citizens should be able to own guns.”

As Lott tells it, Obama then turned on his heel and walked off.

[UCANSEE2]

So... apparently Obama did attend a college.

[Vendome]

Dumber than a turnip...

[JimSEA]

I quite agree.

[UCANSEE2]

A related thread.

War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? - Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3371136/posts

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wrong then and wrong today!

[Fungi]

Turnips are not “dumb.” This feckless fool on a hill is not “dumb,” he is a reckless, feckless fool, more stupid than a turnip, a human turnip possessing human DNA, that cannot be said of a turnip.

[TigerClaws]

Lefties to the same argument on both Communism and Islam.

“Soviet Union? That’s not true communism? Cuba? No way. Vietnam? Not real communism...”

Now we get:

“Iran? Not real Muslims. ISIS? Not a true Islam.”

Same delusion.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s still his professed dream to take our nuclear arsenal to ZERO.

He’s already taken their use off the table in response to any attacks on the US.

He’s been downsizing our arms and showing off our bases to the Russians.

[a fool in paradise]

Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, China, et al.

They aren’t ‘real’ Communism but Commies in the US loved them all and they were aided by global Communism.

[Milton Miteybad]

It's perfectly obvious from the first sentence of this "article" that this Obama guy's writing is simply dreck. Poor diction and sloppy sentence structure, combined with irresolute and unfocused thoughts, make reading this "article" a distasteful task not even worth undertaking. The utter stupidity of the premise of this "article" (to the extent there is one) is bad enough; the reader's pain is then compounded by having to wade through poorly-crafted prose only to discover that the guy who wrote it is a sh*thead who apparently thinks he's much brighter than he actually is.

And the same guy who produced this laughably bad doggerel, many would have us believe, also wrote two (not just one, but two) autobiographies by the time he was 40 years of age.

I guess literacy and the written word weren't exactly cherished concepts there at Columbia back in 1983. ;-)

[Yaelle]

Holy hell, I hadn’t heard that one.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Wow....that got zero play in the media.

[MagnoliaB]

Did Bill Ayers ghost write this for him too? Seems like it has too many ‘big’ words to be written by him.

[combat_boots]

I read about that, too.

[o_1_2_3__]

We all know what barama is. The question is, “why is the NYT pushing this [after 7 years]?”

[Krosan]

I skipped some parts, but the last page seems extremely incoherent. Is he first saying that Reagan is playing right into Russian hands by refusing to appease them and then saying Reagan is Hitler?