Posted on 08/07/2013 10:28:14 PM PDT by neverdem
All I wanted to do last week was enjoy my vacation. Instead, I was assaulted by another breathtaking statement from the president of the United States, provided courtesy of an official White House press release. The occasion was a July 25 meeting between President Obama and the leader of communist Vietnam. Obama stated: “President Sang shared with me a copy of a letter sent by Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman. And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
This, of course, is utter nonsense. Ho Chi Minh was a committed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who cut his teeth at Moscow’s Lenin School. He became one of the Soviet Comintern’s most successful agents. Among the testimonies to his efforts are the countless boat people from Vietnam who now live in America (many of whom voted for Obama).
But not only is Obama’s statement nonsense; it’s also the product of communist propaganda.
In 2010, I published a book called Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. There, I shared numerous lines cooked up by Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to dupe liberals. One of them was precisely the line Obama echoed on July 25. CPUSA and its mouthpieces regularly compared Ho Chi Minh to the American Founders, claiming he was fighting for the ideas not of the Bolshevik Revolution but of the American Revolution. This line was employed constantly, and it worked magically with wide-eyed liberals. In Dupes, I gave several examples, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leftist dupe easily manipulated by American communists.
To wit:
In 1968, Spock published an influential screed against the Vietnam War, titled simply, Dr. Spock on Vietnam, and co-authored with Mitchell Zimmerman, a Princeton grad student and...
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Raymond Shaw, er I mean John McCain to back up Obama on this claim in 3....2....1....
Odumba sees evil as good and good as evil, he has no moral compass!
Dr. Benjamin Spock is responsible for the deaths of over 60,000 babies according to some sources. About how many were killed in Vietnam.
In the 1950’s his book told parents to put their babies to sleep on their stomachs. This was medically discredited and by the 90’s found to be responsible for “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome”. They should have called it “Dr. Spock’s Quack Advice Death”.
“Odumba sees evil as good and good as evil, he has no moral compass!”
Sure he does. It’s just that Obama’s moral compass points toward evil, that’s all. Quite simple actually.
I still remember when Ho’s “freedom fighters” took over a village or refugee Vietnamese. His “freedom Fighters” forced the village to assemble, then the “freedom fighters” turned flame throwers on them.
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