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And What if He is a Marxist?
Townhall.com ^ | February 14, 2014 | Ken Blackwell

Posted on 02/14/2014 7:53:30 AM PST by Kaslin

It’s getting harder even for sincere media supporters of President Obama’s signature legislative achievement—the government takeover of health care known as Obamacare—to defend the indefensible. Kirsten Powers has spoken up for the compassionate idea of covering everyone. But she signaled on FOX News that it was getting harder to defend the botched rollout and, now, losing her own coverage, she is looking less and less willing to stand up for this deeply flawed program. Powers attributes all this confusion—and the thirty-five “fixes”Mr. Obama has unilaterally mandated—to “incompetence.”

“Why I’m getting sick of defending Obamacare,” was the blunt title of Ron Fournier’s recent column in National Journal. Like Kirsten Powers, Fournier once hoped that this measure would bring greater equity in health care to millions who lacked coverage.

The failures of Obamacare are not a surprise to conservatives. We have been hostile to this thing from the outset. Not only do we oppose a government takeover of 1/6 of the economy, we have the deepest concerns about the dangers it poses to freedom. Under Obamacare, the states lose their unique standing in the federal system that is the United States of America. They become mere branch offices of HHS. Corporations, non-profit organizations, and individual citizens lose a great measure of freedom from the mandates that Obamacare imposes. As columnist George Will has noted, if Congress can require you to buy health insurance, why can’t it require you to eat broccoli? After all, if health is the rationale, many things contribute to a healthy population. Might we see someday weigh stations on our Interstate Highways—not for trucks, and not for cars—but for the occupants of those vehicles?

Most troubling of all is the HHS Mandate that forces corporations, non-profits, and citizens to violate their consciences by subsidizing drugs that can kill unborn children. This HHS Mandate represented the gravest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.

In the midst of all this, and a time of the most lethal threat to religious and civil liberty in 225 years, it is understandable that some on the conservative side get overheated. For example, in Northern Virginia in `12, a GOP fundraiser showed a zombie portrait of the president—with a bullet hole in his forehead! On a gun range in the South, one overly enthusiastic backer of a presidential challenger yelled to her favorite candidate: “Pretend it’s Obama!” The candidate probably never heard that comment as he fired away at the profile target, but the liberal media sure did. It was an ugly episode that did no credit to our side.

But when our cooler heads prevail, they often go too far in the other direction. For example, the claim that President Obama is a Marxist is offered as an example of right-wing rodomontade. If we want to keep the dialogue civil, we are lectured, then we need to avoid such lurid charges.

Well, what if the President is a Marxist? Stanley Kurtz was one of those cooler heads in 2008 who rejected the claim that Barack Obama was a Marxist, a socialist. Then, he researched the record and wrote Radical-in-Chief. Kurtz’s book is a long, detailed, and very carefully researched analysis of the Obama record.

Kurtz finds Obama acknowledging in his own words, in Dreams from my Father, that he was mentored as a teen growing up in Hawaii by a man he identifies only as “Frank.” We know now that that man was Frank Marshall Davis, a lifelong communist. Grove City College professor Paul Kengor has documented Davis’ attachment to the USSR in his book, The Communist.

On campus, Barack Obama sought to prove he had not “sold out” to the system, so he consciously sought out the Marxist professors on campus (p. 150) Sought them out. We can understand why President Obama may not want his college course grades spread all over the Internet. But there is something more than a little weird about the fact he won’t even disclose the college courses he took.

Stanley Kurtz provides incontrovertible evidence that young Barack Obama attended the April 1983 Socialist Scholars Conference at Cooper Union in New York City. This big confab is doubly significant. It’s important because it brought together committed Marxists from all over the country. It’s important because it was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death.

Kurtz notes that Barack Obama himself admits he went to this meeting (and Kurtz believes but properly adds that he cannot prove that young Mr. Obama probably attended the follow-up socialist meetings in the 1980s, as well.)

What Stanley Kurtz does not offer us in his otherwise very well-documented book is the historic context of these socialist conferences. The first of these was held just a month after President Ronald Reagan had warned of an “evil empire.” And a month after he called for a Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

The successive conferences were held after the USSR had shot down the Korean airliner KAL-007 and murdered 269 passengers and crew in cold blood.

Even when making the case—a powerful case—that President Obama is a socialist, a devotee of Karl Marx, Stanley Kurtz does not engage in hysterics. He suggests that Obama seems to be tracking with the left wing of the Swedish Socialist Party. He is seeking to bring Marxist socialism to America, but not by employing the brutal methods of the Soviet-era KGB.

Well, that’s a relief. But it would explain Obamacare. Is it really incompetence? Is it really just a “botched” rollout? Or, is it, as The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber says, “a deceptively sneaky way to get” single-payer socialized medicine?

For a man as intelligent as Barack Obama is, it is hard to imagine that all of this trouble is accidental, that it all is the result of “folks” who just made some mistakes in their zeal to do good.

If President Obama actually is a Marxist, then all of this suddenly makes sense. And he has never given us any indication he is anything else. That alone can explain the current crisis for this Great Republic.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: g42; obama; obamacommunist; obamalies; obamamarxist
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1 posted on 02/14/2014 7:53:30 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Most Democrats are these days anyways.


2 posted on 02/14/2014 7:57:26 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Kaslin

IF?! If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

Obama has no native intelligence. 57 states? Corpse-men? Speaking Swiss?

He’s a programmable teleprompter reader who hates traditional America. And conservative Americans.

This article gives him way too much credit.


3 posted on 02/14/2014 7:59:27 AM PST by Tigerized (So. Are YOU better off than you were 5 years ago?)
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To: Kaslin

Well, Duuhhh! Of course he is.


4 posted on 02/14/2014 8:00:38 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Some needs post the bear in the woods sign.


5 posted on 02/14/2014 8:03:06 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Tigerized

calling him obama gives that obarstard WAY too much credit


6 posted on 02/14/2014 8:03:50 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Tigerized

Admit it. Obama is incompetent as an American, and certainly as the leader of this government. He seems to know less and less.


7 posted on 02/14/2014 8:04:09 AM PST by Rapscallion (Had enough? Let me know.)
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To: Kaslin

What if Obama has plans to stay in the White House ?


9 posted on 02/14/2014 8:06:03 AM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Kaslin
Democrats lead to Socialist, which leads to Marxist, which leads to wide scale Death.
10 posted on 02/14/2014 8:07:29 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Mouton

Yep. The bear would be embarrassed by the comparison.


11 posted on 02/14/2014 8:07:48 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Tigerized
Obamacare. Is it really incompetence? Is it really just a “botched” rollout? Or, is it, as The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber says, “a deceptively sneaky way to get” single-payer socialized medicine?


12 posted on 02/14/2014 8:08:28 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Kaslin

“Kirsten Powers has spoken up for the compassionate idea of covering everyone. But she signaled on FOX News that it was getting harder to defend the botched rollout and, now, losing her own coverage, she is looking less and less willing to ………….

How sweet it is!


13 posted on 02/14/2014 8:09:00 AM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Kaslin

That’s funny! I listened to a couple of this bass turds campaign speeches about how he was going to regulate (take over) the coal industry and close coal powered electricity plants.

It was then, back in 2007, I figured out, that this phony was a Marxist. No surprise here!


14 posted on 02/14/2014 8:10:01 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

It is not what if Obama is a Marxist..he definitely is one Sadly the Democrat party has become just about as red as Obama.


15 posted on 02/14/2014 8:17:04 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Kaslin

Do we know who gave the order to shoot down the Korean airliner? Yuri Andropov was then the leader of the USSR, but did he know about it before the plane was shot down? In 1988 the US mistakenly shot down an Iranian plane, killing all the passengers, but none of us would say Reagan “murdered” those people. The KAL-007 incident could have been a lower-level guy taking a “shoot first and ask questions later” approach.


16 posted on 02/14/2014 8:17:24 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin
There should be no "If" in the last sentence.

5.56mm

17 posted on 02/14/2014 8:17:40 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin
For a man as intelligent as Barack Obama is,

and how intelligent is that? i just do not see a trace of intelligence in this guy... he is an empty suit... and an empty chair...

18 posted on 02/14/2014 8:18:51 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Kaslin

Our Founding Fathers knew what to do with people like Barry Soetero.


19 posted on 02/14/2014 8:19:46 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: The Great RJ

The question to ask any leftist that denies that Obama is a Marxist is

“If he’s not, then how would he act differently if he were?”


20 posted on 02/14/2014 8:20:08 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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