Kerry Plagiarizes Communist Poet to Concoct Campaign Theme

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[frmrda]

The Kerry campaign sure is starting to look like the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. According to the Drudge Report today, John Kerry's campaign has settle on the words "Let America be America Again" as their campaign theme.

There's only one problem. Kerry plagiarized the phrase from a poem written by black writer Langston Hughes. The punchline that follows Kerry's line reads, "America never was America to me."

Even worse for the embattled presidential candidate is the fact that Langston Hughes was a well-known Communist.

Langston Hughes is a man who once added an extra S to USA in a poem. The extra S stood for Soviet. In the same piece, Hughes also wrote, "good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on."

Hughes took to communism in the 1930's when he actually left the United States to live in the Soviet Union.

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[Puddleglum]

I actually think that's a fine poem. Sure it has the worker's freedom tone that's akin to Marxism, but not ONLY to Marxism. It's also skin to the reasons so many immigrants settled America.

Also, it's important to recall that before there union goons there were strike breaker goons, and that there have always been folks who exercise the most predatory aspects of capitalism on those least likely to withstand them. America's not just about laisse faire capitalism, though that concept does dovetail with the freedom of outlined in its founding documents.

I don't fault what Hughes wrote, and I think 9/10 of the sentiment in his poem is true of most free people's aspirations. It remains to be see how Kerry invokes that sentiment, however.

The funniest things to me about him using it is that the phrase "Let America be America" has the same mirror structure as a flip-flop ("which is the real Kerry?"). Will Kerry be Kerry after he's elected - which Kerry?

[SJackson]

It is a nice poem, hit’s all the right notes, particularly for his time. Of course Hughes wasn’t interested in letting America be America again, but rather turning it into a Marxist state. I have to assume Kerry didn’t know about the connection, and it won’t get reported much anyway, but given the connection, it’s a bizarre choice.

[Cocoa]

Laura Bush honored Langston Hughes's poetry at the White House as important American poetry. I don't think this means she's a communist, or that she is promoting communism.

[Kenny Bunk]

Sarge, I had better explain the basics to you.

What the troll is trying to make you understand is that to be killed by the Communists means you have been willingly sacrificed in a noble human experiment for which the world will be much better off.

Ya see Sarge, if you are killed by a fascist like Hitler, or General Pinochet, it is a terrible terrible thing and somehow, you would be much more dead than if you had been one of Stalin's 50 million victims.

Lemme give you another example: The Viet Cong had to kill and maim many of their own people for their own good. That was a very good thing. So, for us to kill Viet Cong was a very bad thing because it kept the VC from killing more of those Vietnamese whose deaths were necessary to make the world a better place.

If a silly Republican Senator Packwood gets a bit frisky with a woman, that is the heinous crime of sexual molestation. If you are raped by Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, it is a chance for personal growth.

I hope I have been helpful.

[Old Sarge]

Ah. Such enlightenment I have achieved. The gates of higher wisdom have opened for me tonight.

I am indebted to you, for bringing me out of my obviously self-absorbed independent existence, and setting my feet upon the path of the Glorious Cause.

Excuse me a moment...

::retching::

I feel much better....

[Kenny Bunk]

You're welcome.

Now Sarge, I don't know what your old MOS was, but if you will just keep repeating my post, there will be a golden future for you in journalism. Just a question of getting the right thought process and believing it with every fiber of your being.

I hope you can achieve this on your own, because when the Communists take over, the re-education camps they will sent (us) you to, are a good deal less lenient than I.

But just like the deaths of those 100 million or so, it is for our own good, and the world will be a better place when all thoughts are aligned and at close interval, dressed to the left.