lewis diuguid
Was there any doubt?
Posted on 10/26/2008 7:21:22 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his allies bristle at the notion he is a socialist. But columnist Lewis Diuguid of the Kansas City Star took the left's angry objections to another level this week when he claimed Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are racists for tarring Sen. Obama with the socialist brush.
Mr. Diuguid claimed "socialist" was former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's code word for black civil-rights leaders, specifically the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois, and political activists Paul Robeson and A. Philip Randolph. "Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black."
No, shame on Mr. Diuguid for his clumsy playing of the race card to try to divert attention from Sen. Obama's agenda.
The Rev. King had many socialist/communist advisers and was himself a socialist who endorsed "a guaranteed minimum annual wage" that is "pegged to the median income of society" and "automatically increases as the total social income grows." From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The NAACP Web site says Mr. Du Bois "was a member of the Socialist party from 1910 to 1912 and always considered himself a Socialist." In 1961, he joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Mr. Robeson was a Stalinist. During the Soviet purges of the 1930s, he told a reporter for the CPUSA newspaper that from "what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot!" Upon the death of Josef Stalin, who was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 million Russians, Mr. Robeson wrote: "How consistently, how patiently, he labored for peace and ever increasing abundance, with what deep kindliness and wisdom. He leaves tens of millions all over the earth bowed in heart-aching grief."
In bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Mr. Randolph, Lyndon Johnson called him a socialist who advocates "any political effort to redistribute society's wealth more justly."
If it quacks like a duck, ... Messrs. King, Du Bois, Robeson and Randolph were called socialists not because they were black, but because they were at the very least socialists. The same is true for Sen. Obama. He is the Senate's No. 1 liberal, and his voting record is to the left of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the chamber's only admitted Socialist. Sen. Obama's agenda reeks of socialism, and he would use the power of government to confiscate the profits of family businesses so he can "spread the wealth around." Quack, quack.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Oh pleeeeezzzzz. These people know one word and it applies to them. Racist.
Indeed, Socialist does fit.
**Indeed, Socialist does fit.**
And it is one of the NICER TERMS that would also Fit!
STUPID!!! Just like you, Lewis Diuguid.
living in KC I discontinued reading the Kansas City Falling Star as this was typical of their editoral cooments. They are on the credit watch list as McClatchy their owner is Junk Bond status.
0be is an International Socialist.
Great code word, Mr. Dogood. The problem is that there were 10 times as many white socialists as there were black ones. Another problem is that there are few alive today who know what Hoover said anyway, so until you told them, they had no idea that socialist supposedly “meant” black 70-100 years ago.
Did you know that in the old days, ‘gay’ meant ‘merry’ or ‘cheerful?’ And a ‘faggot’ was a bundle of sticks?
FREEPERS! I need your help, we need to get this link posted for all to see. This is a radio interview with Obama in 2001 where he talks about distribution of wealth.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=205883
Can anything good come out of Waterbury, CT?
The Waterbury Republican & American is a rag!
The Waterbury Republican & American is a rag!
I've posted hundreds of editorials from this paper, all conservative.
Sorry, this is off topic.
You’re right, but Waterbury is still a rag town full of corruption! I think it’s tied to the mob. The drunk mayor Bergin lined his pockets and then Sanapietro line his nostrils and finally the Feds busted him.
lewis diuguid
Was there any doubt?
Guy Burgress, one of the members of the infamous Philby spy ring, was a flagrant homosexual back in the 1950's when he was posted by Her Majesty's Government to a diplomatic position in Washington, D.C. He was advised that there were three topics that were taboo in American society in those days, homosexuality, race and Communism. He reportedly replied, "Oh, so I mustn't make a pass at Paul Robeson?"
Still, you gotta like his style.
BO should not become president. He is a socialist!
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