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Anyone Remember When Communists Were the "Bad Guys"?
Townhall.com ^ | February 16, 2015 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 02/16/2015 10:53:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Paladin2

Obama and his henchmen are commies!!!!


41 posted on 02/16/2015 11:45:39 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: tet68

How could any of us forget when the Communists were our enemies, but we have now “met the enemy and he is us.”


42 posted on 02/16/2015 11:47:03 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Rome2000

And never forget that the CPUSA endorsed Obama for both elections.

In a sane world that would have destroyed his campaign.


43 posted on 02/16/2015 11:54:44 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray

The election of 2008 and re-election of 2012 was about more than just Obama, his arrogance, his empty resume, and his traitorous comrades. As a people deserve the government they vote into office, they also deserve the consequences resulting from that government’s actions or inaction. The consequences of a government not securing a country’s borders is that a people will lose their country as we are now losing ours to an invasion of illegal aliens. The consequences of not securing a country’s electoral processes to prevent voter fraud is the country will lose its Democracy to a Thugocracy as we have lost ours to a Chicago-mob run Coup d’état.

But the final insult to our Republic is with the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an avowed Marxist Communist, a significant chapter in American History finally closed. Our sixty year long Cold War with Communism is over and the Communists won the war.


44 posted on 02/16/2015 12:00:15 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: RandallFlagg
Yep, those were the days."
45 posted on 02/16/2015 12:01:07 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Kaslin

***Fidel Castro, the Stalinist rebel who helped overthrow Batista, was a known communist***

yet, when he appeared on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW, he claimed NOT to be a commie.


46 posted on 02/16/2015 12:29:50 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Kaslin

We forget this at our extreme peril.

I can understand how some people in the old days became Communists. They saw it as a solution to horrible poverty and social ills. They were attracted to it out of idealism, or to be part of something bigger than themselves: a movement to change the whole world for the better.

They were wrong, of course, and anyone who stayed Communist after about the mid-1930’s, after the Soviet Union’s true colors became evident, has something wrong with him. And certainly anyone who became Communist since then after knowing the Communist track record around the world, has something really wrong with him and is not to be trusted.


47 posted on 02/16/2015 12:30:10 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Kaslin

I think that ship sailed when Nixon went to China.


48 posted on 02/16/2015 12:46:13 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Kaslin

They still are- they just don’t call themselves communists anymore- progressives, they say.


49 posted on 02/16/2015 12:52:32 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Kaslin

I remember when the term “the masses” was a part of the communist lexicon and no non-communist journalist, politician, analysit, etc., would every refer to the citizens of this country as “the masses” under any circumstance whatsoever, ever! How I hate that phrase!


50 posted on 02/16/2015 1:40:56 PM PST by erkelly
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To: Kaslin
Anyone Remember When Communists Were the "Bad Guys"?

That hasn't changed; they just call them other things now- liberal, progressive...

51 posted on 02/16/2015 1:50:41 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Viet Nam era expression, “Kill a commie for mommy.”

Joe McCarthy has been vindicated several times over.


52 posted on 02/16/2015 2:14:14 PM PST by MountainYankee
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To: Kaslin

Communists are still the bad guys. So are Nazis. That about sums up the new European politics in the U.S.A.


53 posted on 02/16/2015 2:14:50 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Kaslin

Well, with between 85-100 million murders in the 20th Century, the Communists are beginning to rival the Muslim Horde's record of 250 million or so.

But who is counting any more?

54 posted on 02/16/2015 3:06:16 PM PST by Gritty (Islam is not a peaceful religion. It never has been. It never will be .- Franklin Graham)
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To: ripley

When Obie leaves the Whitehouse and the Castos die he will take over Cuba.


55 posted on 02/16/2015 5:01:07 PM PST by ully2
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To: Kaslin
I was nine years old when Castro took over. One year later our Catholic school had two new school children from Cuba. They were the children of a Cuban doctor who was forced to evacuate Cuba.

Nobody I knew at the school thought Castro was some great hero. In fact, a few cutups used to make the class laugh when the teacher left the room by imitating Castro giving one of his ridiculous speeches. Communists and communism were held in very low regard where I lived.

Little did I know at the time that American leftists and libs were conspiring to make Castro a hero. Norman Mailer in particular called Castro the first hero of the 20th century. It was later on that I realized that most of our so- called "intellectuals" were commie-loving, America-hating bast..ds.

56 posted on 02/16/2015 5:08:57 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: RandallFlagg
"accents'

I remember "Mission Impossible" and the protagonists going to multiple foreign countries able to speak the foreign language perfectly. Strangely enough, it all sounded like English with a bad Slavic accent. (snicker)

57 posted on 02/16/2015 5:13:11 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: ully2

“When Obie leaves the Whitehous and the Catros die, he will take over Cuba.”

That sounds like a good bet! (would probably feel more at home anyway wearing one of those worker’s cap with the little red stars on top.)

IMHO


58 posted on 02/16/2015 5:39:24 PM PST by ripley
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To: Kaslin
Anyone Remember When Communists Were the "Bad Guys"?

I do. It was today.

59 posted on 02/16/2015 8:13:05 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin

We didn’t know at the time, but Jane Fonda turned around America’s “thinking” on communism. She said the day would come when the American people would pray for communist victory. Well, it’s here.


60 posted on 02/16/2015 10:00:01 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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