Posted on 10/23/2010 5:05:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the heady days of 2008, Americans warmed quickly to the prospect of Barack Obama as our 44th president. Obama promised to be just what our fractured nation needed -- a non-ideological, post-partisan consensus builder, guided by mainstream pragmatic thinking.
When the story broke about Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- his pastor for 20 years, a "black-power" radical and a fan of Fidel Castro -- we raised our eyebrows. We did the same when we heard of Obama's longtime connection to Bill Ayers, an unrepentant former Weather Underground terrorist. But Obama blew these relationships off as exaggerated or unimportant, and we trusted his assurances.
Now a new book by Stanley Kurtz -- a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Harvard PhD -- reveals why we should have probed the disconnect when we had a chance. Americans increasingly sense we were sold a bill of goods, and Kurtz explains why in "Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism." Our president isn't what he claims to be, says Kurtz. Obama's plummeting approval ratings, and the electoral tsunami about to hit Democrats, reflect voters' sense of betrayal.
In fact, Kurtz goes further, and makes an electrifying charge: Obama has purposely disguised what he believes, and is actively seeking to mislead the American people about his agenda. Obama, says Kurtz, is a socialist. He believes -- not in state ownership -- but in a savvier version of socialism that seeks to transform and undermine American capitalism through ever-expanding government control; irreversible entitlements; and a metastasizing public sector...
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Some people are just slow or in deep denial.
Sincerely, thanks for sharing that. Glad you’re on our side.
When uhbama won, I was truly happy for the little black children in our nation. I still like to think of them being able to see the American dream of being ' anything you want to be ' bear such important fruit in their minds.
That said, I still believe you can always judge a person by the company he or she keeps. Character matters (sorry bill). Where is Martin Luther, Jr. when we need him?
We had the clues for insight into uhbama's character. It was the press that shut down genuine in depth reporting of all of it, to all of us, because of their own liberal bias. They hurt us by being so blithe about it and by taking uhbama at his word. They still do this.
No... simply you must teach the truth about Marxism.. thats all..
The left always trys to boguard the colleges and secondary schools if they can..
They want to control what is taught and not taught..
And control the media.. they want to brain wash..
Proper logic will expose the errors of their dialectic..
The only thing needed is healthy discussion.. they HATE that..
This is NOT Allowed on American colleges...
Okay, so how are we to get the leftards out of teaching positions, the courts, and the media?
I agree, Mad_as_heck. What a stunning article. I had to check the source three times: The Minneapolis-St Paul Star-Tribune??
I'm not so sure I'd call it awareness. It is more like someone raising their head in a drugged stupor and saying "Oh. It's daytime." before lapsing back into a nearly comatose state.
Only it is worse.
The lemmings have been merrily diving into the sea for two years now, and some in the back of the herd are getting belated second thoughts...
What exactly do you know about "the likes of Katherine Kersten"?
Katherine has been the lone voice of sanity on that paper for years. You should not be surprised to read such an article under her byline. She is a friend of the writers of the Powerline blog, who have referenced her good work many times in the past. She did not just suddenly figure out that Obama is a dangerous fraud. Rather, her column is an attempt to awaken the typical lib readers of that rag to what has been going on.
The bashing that is going on in this thread makes the bashers look, well, uninformed at the very least.
I agree he's always been a radical and that few have been willing to address it only because in part the word "socialist" has lost so much of its meaning anymore.
This article is more a review of Kurtz's book, citing yet another author who'll corroborate what she's always known about His Obamaness.
Unfortunately, our experience with the first African-American President may well preclude the chance of another one for a long, long time.
Hell, out of the country.
Permanent forced exile. Like the Greeks did for the Medizing Greeks who aligned with Xerxes and retreated with him into Asia.
About 150 years later, Alexander found them where they'd settled in central Asia (Turkestan or Kazakhstan somewhere) .... wiped them out, to a man. Every man, woman, and child. (I thought that was a little harsh ......)
Katherine Kersten: Obama has been hiding his real agenda
"Gee. Ya think."
I remember your post here when you posted it in FR as well.
Hope you're wrong but would bet against you only because it's the right thing to do.
Disarticulating this Presidency is something the gutless, nutless Yacht Club Republicans had better get a serious bellyburn for, and they'd better knock off the patronization that Chris Matthews was posting clips of this morning on Matthews's little roundtable grotesquerie (Andrew Sullivan, Cynthia Tucker, Dan Rather for God's sake, Katty Kay the ex-Beebstress -- what a crew!!).
It's time for Sarah to show the Yacht Drivers the long knife and promise on a stack of Bibles, divine retribution for business-as-usual Lardass Wing backsliding.
Dan Rather said that Mitch McConnell, Boehner and the rest will intimidate the Tea Party people. And they all had a good laugh at the Tea Partiers over that bon mot.
(Then Matthews showed some "favorite flashback" videos, after making fun of Christine O'Donnell, making more fun of Gerry Ford and Dan Quayle. Ha, ha, ha.)
Fetid little show, no wonder it's syndicated on an off-off-off-Broadway indie station. Nobody responsible wants to pick it up. Because, I suppose, they realize you can't pick it up by the clean end.
**Memo- Tea Party caucus's (local state and national) pointed at education.. the courts.. and the media.. meaning a refinement of the T-P Caucus Groupment..
The T-P caucus is already making political parties almost obsolete.. not completely but almost, riding herd on them.. All that is needed is a refinement toward specific problems.. You cannot solve a problem that has been growing for decades many decades BUT slowly one by one..
Say... a T-P group to watch over the School Boards.. and who gets elected or selected.. then local judges.. then local media.. (and other gov't problems) it can and will grow wider into the whole State or part of it.. then VIOLA!.. it becomes NATIONAL...
The T-P Caucus is presently pointed at National politics.. but as I've said the T-P Caucus is GROWING.. and if you're watching closely you'll notice that it is making party politics pretty much obsolete.. Already the T-P Caucus is learning to police itself.. not there yet but its coming.. with video and everything.. NEXT (I think) the TP needs a constitution to police itself with..
That is just what "I SEE" happening.. but finer minds than mine are zeroed in in this... to be sure.. Maybe "YOU" have some additional "answers" "solutions".. UGH!... "Tactics".. "Gambits" or "Creative Anti-Cloward-Piven Pimp Slapping" to add...
Why do people insist that Obama "hid his agenda?"
What he did, against very weak opposition, is SELL his agenda to 53% of the voters who bothered to show up. The fact that so many Americans were blinded by the obvious is what is insane here.
However, with turn-out as low as it is, The Marxist Moonbeam from Mombasa only had to sell his shoddy goods to 26% of eligible voters. The way things are going, that's welfare recipients, college geeks, union members, minorities, and the ladies.
I took the time to read Dreams From My Father in early 2008. None of what has happened since is a surprise to me.
Why is it a surprise to so many in the elitist chattering class?
Welcome to reality, Katherine””
This woman is in Minneapolis/ St Paul.
She lives where Al Franken got elected after many days & nights of shenanigans by the Demorats.
She is a long way from getting totally cured!!
“Obama has purposely disguised what he believes, and is actively seeking to mislead the American people about his agenda. Obama, says Kurtz, is a socialist. He believes — not in state ownership — but in a savvier version of socialism that seeks to transform and undermine American capitalism through ever-expanding government control; irreversible entitlements; and a metastasizing public sector...”
Kurtz is getting close to the reality.
The reality is 0b0z0 has been creating another Facist regime like those created in Germany, Italy and Spain in the 1930-40’s. The powerful/super elites in those countries become government supported/mandated monopolies.
0b0z0, Reid, Pelosi Galore,Dodd, Barney the gay bounder and others have been pushing America into the Fascist cesspool since the Rats took over Congress 2 years pre 0b0z0. 0b0z0 has accelerated this process in his close to years of tyranny.
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