Posted on 09/14/2011 1:39:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What would you do if you knew that the top Democrat running for president was lying about his past?
That is the question I was faced with in 2008. I had met the young Barack Obama while he was a sophomore at Occidental College, and I knew that his commitment to socialism was deep, genuine, and longstanding. See my earlier article on American Thinker.
I had been a leader of the Marxist students at Occidental College myself, starting in 1976 when I founded the precursor of the Democrat Socialist Alliance on campus. The young Obama I knew was a Marxist socialist who would have been quite comfortable with Communist party members like his Hawaii mentor Frank Marshall Davis, retired domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers, or active socialist politicians like Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer.
The Obama I knew was nothing like the lifelong pragmatic centrist that he was pretending to be in the 2008 presidential campaign. When I talked politics with the young Obama, he expressed a profound commitment to bringing about a socialist economic system in the U.S. -- completely divorced from the profit motive -- which would occur, in his lifetime, through a potentially violent, Communist-style revolution. In this context, I saw my report on young Obama as a key piece of evidence suggesting a profound continuity in his belief system.
Although I was surprised by Barack Obama's insistence on his mainstream ideological credentials, I was shocked that my attempts to spread the news about young Obama's Marxism failed to gain any media traction with reporters, activists, or campaign staffs during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Once I saw the significance of my face-to-face observations on the young Obama, I went out of my way to get my story on record with the Orange County Register.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I can appreciate his frustration. However, even BamBamKennedy’s own words to Joe the Plumber about his intentions to redistribute this nation’s wealth hardly got a raised eyebrow. The hysteria over electing the first person of color overshadowed the ‘reality’ of what was ahead. And there has not been one democrat outside of the ‘Donald’ who has uttered a discouraging word. Congress in the majority supported everything BamBamKennedy mandated.
Ahhhhh, Communism. Unfortunately our electorate either have no clue what it means or have a warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling about it (love, peace, Woodstock, etc). I’ve tried to illustrate the Marxist tendencies of Obama and all I get is a blank stare. Or, I’ve even had some argue that Jesus was a liberal or a socialist so what could possibly be so bad about distributing wealth!?
1. The exposure of "Affirmative Action" to be the biggest con game ever foisted on the the American people.
2. The complete destruction of the Democratic party as a national political organization.
“there are two positives that have come out of his election:”
I think you are waaaaaayyy too optimistic.
“The shocks the world has been feeling these last years”
Bush’s fault! (sorry couldn’t resist)
I am more and more convinced that Marxism is our greatest threat. The world has been lulled to sleep since the Berlin wall came down. Radical Islam? I think they are mutually “using each other” to bring down western civilization. They both think they will be on top when the dust settles.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter!
It’s what you get with government schools.
Just tell Americans that the Federal government will provide them with:
1. jobs
2. housing
3. food
4. education
5. healthcare
6. transportation
and they will vote for you everytime. Never mind that:
1. effective unemployment is 17%. Among African American youth it is 50% but they voted 95% for Obama in 2008
2. the number of defaulted mortgages is the highest in American history and the majority of mortgaged homes are underwater.
3. food prices are skyrocketing
4. the government spends more money on education than we have ever done and we fall far below other countries in science and math scores, our dropout rates among African Americans is tremendous and our youth know nothing about American history, civics and how our constitutional form of government works.
5. Obamacare is about to take our economy down and death panels will determine your access to heath care or whether you will just have to die.
6. Our roads and bridges are crumbling but we continue to explore outer planets and for life on Mars.
Is there any hope for us?
bflr
Marxism, which is called socialism and “progressive” is merely what I call statism.
Atheists fall into this because they replace a supernatural god with the god of government.
Islam is for the diehard theists, but it is the worship of a twisted, hateful false god as well.
As an old cold warrior,I can only say, No s___ Dick Tracy.
In 2008, John McCain foolishly decided that his campaign would not go after Obama’s dodgy, radical Left background lest McCain and the GOP be accused of racism. Consequently, an undocumented personal account from someone who knew Obama was not given much weight by the McCain campaign or conservative friendly media outlets.
1. The exposure of "Affirmative Action" to be the biggest con game ever foisted on the the American people.
2. The complete destruction of the Democratic party as a national political organization.
I agree and I would add that the mainstream media, having sold us this bill of goods, has lost its ability to persuade. The 2010 elections are evidence of this, the media shilled for each and every dem candidate, and they were shellacked. Last night's NY 9 race indicates that the people have begun to consider the opposite of what the media seems to want.
No.
The Third Reich destroyed Germany, and the Chocolate Reich will destroy America unless we elect a reformer in 2012.
That is assuming there is a free, fair election next November.
LOOK FOLKS WHAT MADE YOU THINK HE WAS GOING TO LISTEN TO SOMEONE ELSE WHEN HE SAID OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH THAT HE WAS GOING TO fundemetally Transform the United States of America.
His own wife said we are going to have to change our History,change our Traditions,get to a different place.
If they were not listening to him and his wife they were not going to listrn to anyone else
A lot of them knew but were afraid to risk criticizing a black candidate. Many still are.
And...
3. The complete destruction of the Mainstream News Media as a branch of the Democratic party.
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