Obama Espoused Radical Views in College

NewsMax ^ | Monday, 08 Feb 2010 09:42 PM | Ronald Kessler

[TBP]

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

Drew’s then girlfriend, Caroline Boss—now Grauman-Boss—knew Obama because she shared classes with him at Occidental.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“He was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

[TheVitaminPress]

Ping

[FTJM]

Obama was involved with the SDS in 1980?

Quite a feat, since the organization disbanded in 1969.

Obama has long been involved with "former" SDS members, and gave his first public speech in college at an event sponsored by an SDS successor organization, the Students for Economic Democracy:

Obama's first public speech was at an Occidental event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy, a group affiliated with far left radical Tom Hayden and Hayden's militant group SDS (Students for a Democratic Society.) David Peck, an organizer of the Occidental rally, is now coordinating Americans in Spain for Obama.

In 1969 Hayden's SDS began breaking into groups including a group calling itself Weatherman. The group proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The new entity formed a terrorist cult and was given the name Weather Underground. Two of the Weather Underground founders were Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. The group is most famous for a campaign from 1969 through the middle 1970s of bombings and riots including the bombing of the US Pentagon in 1972.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obama_and_dohrn_and_ayers.html

[LucyT]

0bama Espoused Radical Views in College
NewsMax ^ | Monday, 08 Feb 2010 09:42 PM | Ronald Kessler

"...when 0bama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles

0bama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan. (Is that the guy in the photo that shows them holding hands? And why was 0's private parts showing?) (Just askin'...)

“He (obama)was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,”

[snip]

"He (0bama) was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

[Thanks, Smokeyblue; good find.]

[Sherman Logan]

It is quite different to say Obama was involved in 1980 with people who used to be part of SDS, and to say he was involved with the SDS itself.

I’m aware of his association with Ayers.

[ccruse456]

Did someone from Newsmax get a hold of Chandoo and not ask about what passport Obama used to visit his home in Pakistan? Or if he remembers Barry actually attending classes at Columbia? Still have yet to see an actual classmate of Barry’s at Columbia.

[LucyT]

were

[bvw]

Well, an underground organization tries to stay ‘underground’ doesn’t it?

How exactly did it get reactivated recently? Two high schoolers got a bug up their keisters? Yeah, ri-ight.

[curiosity]

This is news?

[mcshot]

One thing I know for sure is that he wouldn’t meet the requirements to join any little leagues, 4H or boy scouts.

[bvw]

Care for your split hairs.

[GOPJ]

I have to wonder if Bill Ayers feels he was rewarded adequately for writing Obama's autobiographies, or if he was exploited?

Good one! Hard for BOTH of them to play "pity party victim" at the same time...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Chandoo is probably in a cave somewhere in Pok-ee-stahn with osama!

[caww]

Hey...this stuff really works! Daughter-in-law uses in her beauty shop all the time as customers kept asking for it..now she swears by it...Tsk, a little off topic here.

[Wee-Weed Up]

Exactly. A lot of people say we aren’t open to change. Then I tell them not all chinge is good change. I have been successful where I’m at, I own a home, I’m married, and have 3 kids. We are in no means perfect, and things could always be better, but what we have works. Why would I want to go out and fundamentally change my family’s lifestyle if it’s been working for 15 years?

[GOPJ]

Don’t let anyone give you a hard time - this is an important post. The left is doing everything they can to assure people Obama’s NOT a communist... When we have something, it needs to be put out and bumped.

[Slyfox]

...or how about a long form birth certificate? Any SAT scores available? College transcripts? Does anybody in the MSM care about this fake’s background? How did he get into Columbia and Harvard Law? Affirmative action, anyone?

He'd never make it in the legitimate corporate world without proof of citizenship and a bonafide college resume.

[FTJM]

It is quite different to say Obama was involved in 1980 with people who used to be part of SDS, and to say he was involved with the SDS itself.

I’m aware of his association with Ayers.

The SDS didn't truly disband, it just morphed into other affiliated organizations. The CED (SED) was founded by a founder of the SDS and run by SDS members. But by all means, split hairs.

[bvw]

You betcha. Good stuff, via my own wife’s experience.

[Sherman Logan]

HHow exactly did it get reactivated recently? Two high schoolers got a bug up their keisters? Yeah, ri-ight.

Actually, that is exactly right. The two high school students were Pat Korte of Stonington, Conn., and Jessica Rapchik of Chapel Hill, N.C.

http://www.alternet.org/story/49557/

[khnyny]

Michelle Obama’s salry was $300,000 to do hospital PR work in Chicago. I wonder if Obama thought she was being exploited.

Exactly. This is the same woman who wore a pair of $500 sneakers to a DC soup kitchen.

They want to redistribute the wealth alright - directly into their own pockets.