Posted on 08/21/2008 6:41:37 AM PDT by ETL
[from pg 2 of 2] Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
You are aware that Black Liberation Theology is also based in revolutionary Marxism, as was Bill Ayers' Weather Underground?
"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a 'white fighting force' to be allied with the 'Black Liberation Movement' and other 'anti-colonial' movements[1] to achieve 'the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.'"-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0
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For much more on the ObamaRats and the strong communist angle in all this, i.e. the one being largely ignored by both the left AND most of the right-wing media, particularly the more popular personalities like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Bill O'Reilly, etc, please check out my FR Home page. Thanks.
Very well done.
They're coming from all over the country, lured by their faith in Barack Obama, to spend a weekend in Tamarac, then six weeks bringing the Obama message to Floridians.It's part of a massive mobilization of volunteers for Obama's campaign throughout the nation. The 3,600 volunteers — the campaign calls them "fellows" — include 400 in the key battleground state of Florida.
They're unpaid, save for food and gas stipends for some, and they covered their own expenses to travel to the 2 1/2 days of training that begins today.
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You can say that again. But neither do the widely popular conservative talk show hosts make the commie connections to Rev Wright's Black Liberation Theology or Bill Ayers' Weather Underground. Sean Hannity only refers to the Weather Underground as "domestic terrorists", without ever linking them to the larger international movement. Yet the SOBs were trained in part by the KGB! For much more on all this, please see my Profile page. Click on ETL below.
Yes.
> the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture
I, for one, resent muslim encroachment on American culture.
Disraeli Obama.
clever
But Oprah loves him, and that’s all that matters.
She got it from her father, Obama's grandfather, who helped raise Obama. Remember Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist Party friend of Obama from his youth? Obama was introduced to him by his grandfather:
His white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was friends with Mr. Davis - both had roots reaching back to Kansas and had families of mixed races - and the black writer took an interest in Mr. Obama."Our grandfather - thought [Mr. Davis] was a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother," Maya Soetoro-Ng, Mr. Obama's half sister, said during a recent interview.
They are more similar than they are different, at the core. Both are ideologies which deny individual freedom, where the individual is a slave of the Group.
I, for one, resent muslim encroachment on American culture.
Just to clarify, I didn't make that statement. It was a quote from the posted article. However, it's certainly true that many Muslim nations oppose American culture, as does any oppressive, totalitarian system, including communism. They all have this 'thing' against personal freedom and individual growth.
You should add the references about Grandpa Dunham from my post #49 to your homepage. Grandpa Dunham spent a lot more time forming Obama’s Leftist personality than his mom did
Famous “red diaper babies”
Barbara Sorel, murdered New York City lesbian writer
David Horowitz, right-wing polemicist and former communist and “New Left” leader
Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary
Ron Radosh, political writer and activist
Eric Foner, Columbia University professor of American History.
Suze Rotolo,Parsons School of Design professor
Betty Friedan, American feminist writer
Tupac Shakur, Rap Star & child of Black Panthers Afeni Shakur & Billy Garland.
Barack Obama, 2008 U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Nominee
Thanks. I'll take a look. Sorry for not doing so earlier.
There was one exception, a poet named Frank who lived in a dilapidated house in a run-down section of Waikiki. He had enjoyed some modest notoriety once, was a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago-Gramps once showed me some of his work anthologized in a book of black poetry. But by the time I met Frank he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar. As the night wore on, the two of them would solicit my help in composing dirty limericks.It sounds like Frank and Grandpa were old comrades, with Barak being a classic Red Diaper Baby
“carnival mentalist”...
folks I think we’ve just found another way to describe the ObamaNation!
carnival mentalists!
And Herr Olbermeister is chief karnak illusionist.
hissy fit matthews is the man missing an intellect.
I appreciate your fr page. :o)
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