Was There a Hidden Message in Obama's Osawatomie Speech?

The New American ^ | Tuesday, 13 December 2011 | Selwyn Duke

[Paladins Prayer]

We’re told that Barack Obama chose the obscure locale of Osawatomie, Kansas, for his recent domestic policy speech because it was the site of a seminal Teddy Roosevelt speech 101 years ago. This may very well be true. Through the distinctively named city of 4,500, Obama could make a symbolic connection with the man who once offered Americans a Hamiltonian conception of state power dubbed the “New Nationalism.” Yet, unbeknownst to virtually everyone, Obama is connected to “Osawatomie” through another man.

It’s a connection that’s odd and alarming — and at least a bit spooky.

I didn’t know about this connection when I wrote my recent article about the President’s communist ties. But just to provide some background, I pointed out how Obama claimed in Osawatomie that our relatively free market system not only “doesn’t work,” “it has never worked.” Furthermore, I mentioned the fact that the President has appointed avowed communists to his administration, that he was mentored by communist Frank Marshall Davis, that a contemporary of his at Occidental College said that Obama was a flat-out “Marxist-Leninist” during his time there, and that he has no known history of renouncing these views. More to the point here, however, I mentioned well-known Obama closet skeleton and self-proclaimed communist Bill Ayers, who, as you probably know, was a Weather Underground terrorist in the 1970s. Now, to get exactly to the point, I’d like you to take a gander at the following image and see what jumps out at you.

[BfloGuy]

Now that's some good sleuthing. Very interesting.

[Mercat]

Don’t want to go to those sites. yuk. evil.

[Irish Eyes]

From the same link a video with obama saying “we have traveled 57 states with I think one left to go” (about 1 minute in). I do not know that I saw that clip before.

What planets were alined to have made him President?

[Brown Deer]

Born in 1908, Leon Mathis Despres moved as an infant to Chicago's Hyde Park area and lived there almost his entire life. Despres studied law at the University of Chicago, gaining his degree in 1929. In the late 1920s Despres became friendly with the future father of "community organizing" Saul Alinsky- a sociologist and sometime associate of Chicago's Capone gang. Despres joined the Hyde Park branch of the Socialist Party USA in 1933-remaining a member until 1937 In 1937, a fellow lawyer asked Leon Despres to deliver a suitcase of clothing to Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik living in Mexico. The Despreses traveled south and met not only Trotsky but his ally, artist Diego Rivera.

Leon Despres, Icon Of Chicago Politics, Dies
May 6, 2009

Former Chicago Alderman Leon Despres, known for standing up to the machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, when no one else would, died Wednesday in his home in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was 101.

Despres' legacy includes leading the independent political coalition that eventually helped elect Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983, and some argue he helped pave the way for the election of the country's first black president, Barack Obama, who cut his political teeth in the same Chicago neighborhood.

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A little over a decade later, in 1996, the remaining pieces of that coalition helped elect a young community organizer named Barack Obama to the Illinois Senate.

In a statement Wednesday, President Obama said, "Through two decades on the Chicago City Council and a long lifetime of activism, Len Despres was an indomitable champion for justice and reform. With an incisive mind, rapier wit and unstinting courage, he waged legendary battles against the corruption and discrimination that blighted our city, and he lived every one of his 101 years with purpose and meaning. I have been blessed by his wise counsel and inspired by his example."

Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.

Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.

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“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness,” Alinsky Jr. wrote to the Globe. “It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

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“Alinsky considered himself a realist above all, the ultimate pragmatist.” (American Thinker, Aug. 30, 2008). “As a confirmed atheist, Alinsky believed that the here and now is all there is, and therefore had no qualms about assorted versions of morality in the pursuit of worldly power. He didn’t coddle his radical acolytes or encourage their bourgeois distinctions between good and evil when it came to transferring power from the Haves to the Have Nots. Alinsky saw the already formed church communities as being the perfect springboards for agitation and creating bonds for demanding goods and services.”

Obama followed the same path.

It is a fact that activist-cum senator Barack Hussein Obama started off his career as an activist with a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned, in Alinsky’s own words, how to “rub raw the sores of discontent”.

Meanwhile L. David Alinsky, perhaps unwittingly put Obama into the proper perspective by stating without reservation: “Obama learned his lesson well.”

[Tunehead54]

This is the to quote you gotta see:

If it matters that Newt Gingrich was unfaithful to his wives many years ago, it matters infinitely more that Barack Obama has been unfaithful to freedom and the American spirit by continuing, to this very day, his affair with a tyrannical, malevolent force that leaves nothing but the ruin of man in its wake.

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What he said - BTTT! ;-)

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for the ping. I’ve been too busy to get up to speed on this subject, but this one post put it all in perspective for me. Obama is telegraphing what he’ll do if he manages to win another four. The ‘fundamental change’ will be so extreme, none of us will recognize the US any more.

Wish we had a better candidate to go up against him with.

[GOPJ]

If it matters that Newt Gingrich was unfaithful to his wives many years ago, it matters infinitely more that Barack Obama has been unfaithful to freedom and the American spirit by continuing, to this very day, his affair with a tyrannical, malevolent force that leaves nothing but the ruin of man in its wake.

You're right - that's the one.

[combat_boots]

You don’t have to go that far. Ayres and Dohrn have years and years worth of well-indoctrinated students, programs (small schools), states’ educationocrats, and from there, the butterfly effect. Then, there’s the whole U of Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, Hyde Park, multiple foundations’ boards.........

[reformedliberal]

There’s overlap in our two lists.

[combat_boots]

John Brown. Search his name and Osawatomie. There’s even a park for him.

[combat_boots]

Bleeding Kansas

“...the opening shots of the Civil War:

The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas. In May 1856, a band of Border Ruffians crossed the border from Missouri and attacked the free-soil community of Lawrence, looting and burning a number of buildings. Only one person was killed (one of the Ruffians), but the door to violence had been breached.

The Pottawatomie Creek Massacre. A few days later, in retaliation for the Lawrence raid, abolitionist forces under the zealot John Brown attacked a small proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek. On Brown’s orders, five men were executed with a scythe.

The so-called “Border War” lasted for another four months until a new governor, John W. Geary, managed to prevail upon the Missourans to return home in late 1856. A fragile peace followed, but violent outbreaks continued intermittently for several more years.

National reaction to the events in Kansas demonstrated how deeply divided the country had become. The Border Ruffians were widely applauded in the South, even though their actions had cost the lives of numerous people. In the North the murders committed by Brown and his followers were ignored by most and lauded by a few.”

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[LucyT]

. . . . Check out # 44 , relates to # 36 .

Thanks Brown Deer. Good research, and we appreciate it.

[tutstar]

Definitely legion. Have you seen the anonymous video that warns Americans about the new defense bill that allows for indefinite detention?

[tutstar]

I don’t think anyone likes it but if there was ever a time that we better know our enemy it is now!

[central_va]

He feels safe enough to come out into the open and reveal his true beliefs. He’s getting cocky.

[reformedliberal]

No. Got a link?

Not sure I need to see it for my own sake. I am just chilled at the open fascism going down.

[Lady Jag]

Great stuff! Fills a few holes in my info just right.

Thanks.

[little jeremiah]

Placemark for reading carefully.

[x]

If you put it that way there is some sense to it, an ambiguous symbol that hardline activists could interpret as militant if they wanted to, but that doesn't commit the administration to doing anything specifically left-wing.

That is the kind of "dog-whistle politics" politicians can do -- use language and make overtures that activists pick up on and the rest of the country doesn't notice. But the question is whether the activists are going to be the people smiling in the end, or whether they'll feel used and cheated (or be used and cheated and not even realize it).