Posted on 11/25/2008 8:40:53 PM PST by RWB Patriot
Throughout Barack Obamas campaign for the presidency, as I watched him backtrack on the nature of his many questionable relationships, on issues such as gun control, abortion rights, and taxation, and on his feelings about the United States, the words of another famous revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, kept coming to mind. Said Lenin, To tell the truth is a petty bourgeois habit, whereas for us to lie is justified by our objectives.
Lenin, along with Leon Trotsky and his other comrades in arms, was a character right out of the book Eric Hoffer published years later (in 1951): The True Believer. Whether its global warming or cooling, gay marriage, animal rights, or any other cause, a genuine true believer has no problem telling blatant lies in order to further that cause.
After all, if one believes that the end he seeks is truly noble, then any means is justified, no matter how immoral the means or how harmful they may be to others. As the esteemed college professor William Ayers dispassionately pointed out, In revolutions, innocent people have to die. His humanitarian words are enough to warm the cockles of your heart.
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I'll post the next two parts of the article probably tomorrow.
To tell the truth is a petty bourgeois habit, whereas for us to lie is justified by our objectives.
Lenin must’ve been a Muslim.
And he's a community organizer. Actually he was a drug dealer and took tips from his pornographic mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
We need to impeach Barack Obama.
>In revolutions, innocent people have to die.
This is true. Though the only truly innocent person, Jesus, died to bring us the only true revolution.
But hey....he’s black. That’s all that matters, right?
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To tell the truth is a petty bourgeois habit, whereas for us to lie is justified by our objectives.
Sounds like Clinton.
“I did NOT have sexual relations with THAT woman, Ms. Lewinsky” Liar, Liar
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