Posted on 02/14/2014 9:55:14 AM PST by Dqban22
And What if Obama is a Marxist?
WHAT IF HE IS MARXIST? Ken Blackwell
2/14/2014
Editor's Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison.
http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2014/02/14/and-what-if-he-is-a-marxist-n1795046/print
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. Kurtzs 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 wont 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. Its important because it brought together committed Marxists from all over the country. Its important because it was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Karl Marxs 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.)
Even when making the casea powerful casethat 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, thats a relief. But it would explain Obamacare. Is it really incompetence? Is it really just a botched rollout? Or, is it, as The New Republics 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.
Robert Heinlein cautioned us about attributing to malice that which is more properly attributable to stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
I don’t think they are mutually exclusive. Once can be malicious and stupid, or stupidly malicious, or maliciously stupid. Which one is Obama?
So what if he is a Maoist Vampire? Not like anything will be done to stop him.
I am waiting with baited breath to see who “they” have appointed to take Obama’s place. Mrs. Clinton is not radical enough.
IF?
The press is like the blind referee in a wrestling match.
While the tag team partner is unfairly bashing the guy on the ground from outside the ring, he is looking the other way.
There is NOT ONE of them who can honestly say they didn’t know he is a socialist and gosh they’re sure surprised to find out now...
Obama is a Marxist
I, for my part, am waiting with bated breath.
Regards,
Why was there a question mark in the title?
Obamas Communist Mentor - Frank Marshall Davis
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/48895
By Alan Caruba Sunday, August 19, 2012
In the 1970s, when Obama was an adolescent growing up in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, among their circle of friends was Davis. His grandparents wanted to provide a black man as a role model for the young mixed-race child, the result of a short marriage between their daughter and Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan she had met while both were studying Russian at the University of Hawaii.
Obama came of age in a household devoted to leftist ideologies, so it was no surprise that Davis was among their circle of friends. He had moved to Hawaii from Chicago in the late 1940s, continuing a lifetime of work as a journalist editing and writing for newspapers advocating the communist ideology and the party line set forth by the Soviet Comintern, short for the Communist International whose aim was to extend communism worldwide. It directed the work of the Communist Party USA whose members were devoted to the Soviet Union. Most members like Davis, when questioned, denied membership, taking the Fifth Amendment.
Presently the leading historian on communism in America is Dr. Paul Kengor, the author of Dupes: How Americas Adversaries have Manipulated Progressive for a Century. His latest book is The Communist: Frank Marshall DavisThe Untold Story of Barack Obamas Mentor.
There were hundreds of thousands of American communists like Frank, writes Dr. Kengor, who agitated throughout the twentieth century. They chose the wrong side of history, a horrendously bloody side that left a wake of over 100 million corpses from the streets of the Bolshevik Revolution to the base of the Berlin Walldouble the combined dead of the centurys two world wars.
Davis influence over Obama is carefully documented by Dr. Kengor who says, The people who influence our presidents matter.
Not once in his memoir does Obama identify him, referring to him only as Frank, neglecting to mention that Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China, card-carrying member of Communist Party USA whose card number as 47544. It should come as no surprise that Davis found Chicago a favorable place to live. It was where he founded and edited the Chicago Star, known among the locals as the Red Star.
He would repeat this later in Honolulu.
Frank Marshall Daviss political antics were so radical, writes Dr. Kengor, that the FBI placed him on the federal governments Security Index, which meant that he could be immediately detained or arrested in the event of a national emergency, such as a war breaking out between the United States and the USSR.
I guess only because it was in the form of a question. No doubt in my little pea brain of what the “lyin’ king” is.
Welcome to the light, Ken. FReepers have been telling you idiots the truth about Obama since 2008. You picked a fine time to wake up. The fundamental transformation of America is nearly complete.
Now, think hard. What ELSE have we been telling you that you have refused to acknowledge?
That’s right. It’s way past time.
OBAMA - REVOLUTION YOU CAN BELIEVE IN
By Melanie Phillips
Obama model of radical community organizer.
The Spectator
September 09, 2008
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.html
The seditious role of the community organizer was developed by an extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound influence on the highest levels of the Democratic Party.
Alinsky was a transformational Marxist in the mould of Antonio Gramsci, who promoted the strategy of a long march through the institutions by capturing the culture and turning it inside out as the most effective means of overturning western society.
In similar vein, Alinsky condemned the New Left for alienating the general public by its demonstrations and outlandish appearance. The revolution had to be carried out through stealth and deception. Its proponents had to cultivate an image of centrism and pragmatism. A master of infiltration, Alinsky wooed Chicago mobsters and Wall Street financiers alike. And successive Democratic politicians fell under his spell.
His creed was set out in his book Rules for Radicals a book he dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the first radical. It was Alinsky for whom change was his mantra.
And by change, he meant a Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means which turned society inside out. This had to be done through systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through peoples organizations.
Community organizers would mobilize direct action by the oppressed masses against their capitalist oppressors. In FrontPageMagazine.Com John Perazzo writes:
These Peoples Organizations were to be composed largely of discontented individuals who believed that society was replete with injustices that prevented them from being able to live satisfying lives. Such organizations, Alinsky advised, should not be imported from the outside into a community, but rather should be staffed by locals who, with some guidance from trained radical organizers, could set their own agendas.
The installment of local leaders as the top-level officers of Peoples Organizations helped give the organizations credibility and authenticity in the eyes of the community. This tactic closely paralleled the longtime Communist Party strategy of creating front organizations that ostensibly were led by non-communist fellow-travelers, but which were in fact controlled by Party members behind the scenes
Alinsky viewed as supremely important the role of the organizer, or master manipulator, whose guidance was responsible for setting the agendas of the Peoples Organization
, Alinsky laid out a set of basic principles to guide the actions and decisions of radical organizers and the Peoples Organizations they established. The organizer, he said, must first rub raw the resentments of the people; fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act.
The organizers function, he added, was to agitate to the point of conflict and to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a dangerous enemy. The word enemy, said Alinsky, is sufficient to put the organizer on the side of the people; i.e., to convince members of the community that he is so eager to advocate on their behalf, that he has willingly opened himself up to condemnation and derision.
Obamas connection with Alinsky, whom he never met but whom he reportedly idolized, was through two bodies promoting the Alinsky model of community organization, ACORN and the Gamaliel Foundation. John Perazzo again:
Obama was trained by the Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) in Chicago and worked for an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation, whose modus operandi for the creation of a more just and democratic society is rooted firmly in the Alinsky method. As The Nation magazine puts it, Obama worked in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky, who made Chicago the birthplace of modern community organizing In fact, for several years Obama himself taught workshops on the Alinsky method.
There’s no point in arguing about it. We have Obummer’s body of work of the last five years and it’s bad, really, really bad. If he could somehow retake the House next year, it would get even worse.
The survival of America is dependent upon our rejection of all variations of Marxist & Marxist influenced efforts to destroy our ethnic & cultural heritage. We do not want any variation or manifestation of the Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Castro or Allende, in America!
William Flax
Added for clarity.
250 million or more if you add in Red China and the smaller communist factions around the world.
I thought we already established that. Marxist/Muslim
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