Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

IBD Editorials ^ | July 28, 2008

[Kaslin]

Election '08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.

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During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. "I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served," he said at the group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.

And as president, "we'll ensure that economic justice is served," he asserted. "That's what this election is about." Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.

It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark, which is why we're launching this special educational series.

"Economic justice" simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism.

In the past, such rhetoric was just that — rhetoric. But Obama's positioning himself with alarming stealth to put that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the birth of the welfare state.

[Kaslin]

No sorry I don’t

[the anti-liberal]

I guess I'll just have to keep my eye out then.

:^)

[Kaslin]

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[Cindy]

IN THE NEWS:

http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&q=%22economic+justice%22&btnG=Search+News

BLOGS ARE TALKING ABOUT:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22economic+justice%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

[John Semmens]

Well, there is his Global Poverty Act...

Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) chided those who say he has no significant legislative accomplishments by pointing out that his Global Poverty Act (Senate Bill 2433) has already been passed by the House of Representatives and is now in the U.S. Senate.

“This bill exemplifies the message of change I bring to the world,” Obama said. “It commits this country to an unconditional worldwide war on poverty.”

If enacted, the legislation would commit the United States to spend over $800 billion to alleviate worldwide poverty. This amounts to more than $7,000 for every taxpayer in America. The funds would be transferred to the United Nations. The UN would determine which foreign governments would receive the funds.

“With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces,” Obama said. “Americans have more than they need. It is their moral obligation to share their abundance with the less fortunate.”

The Senator derided the idea that markets, trade, and hard work are the path to economic prosperity—calling this approach a reliance upon the “engine of capitalistic greed.” “We must replace out-dated notions of self-reliance and individualism with a new social compact that recognizes the collective obligation the able have to carry the needy,” Obama said. “America is able. The Third World nations are needy. Our duty is clear.”

[Whle the bit above is semi-satire, the bill is real, as are its implications for the future direction of the US under an Obama regime.]

[the anti-liberal]

Thanks - bookmarked.

(to think I didn't have it before and yet I used to subscribe to IBD for stock analysis...)

[the anti-liberal]

Some support for the conclusions in this article here:

Red Faces Over Obama’s Red Mentor

In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis’s commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.

This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama’s official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to Davis and edited his books.

[smedley64]

Obama at Harvard, proudly teaching "Saul Alinksy for DUmmies." "Power Analysis: Relationships built on self interests."

"It's all about the POWER, BABY!"

Then, Obeymao went to Chicago and left it just as crappy as it was when he arrived to "community organize." But hey, he and his buddies practiced their "Power Analysis/Acquisition!" Woohoo!

[Boucheau]

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[JACKRUSSELL]

(Thanks for the graphic. I will put it to good use.)


This portion of the article needs to be repeated and passed on to as many people as possible:

The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his formative years as a teenager in Hawaii — and they were far more radical than any biography or profile in the media has portrayed.

A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 — a man he cryptically refers to as "Frank" — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his "subversive," "un-American activities."

As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis' feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment.

"They'll train you so good," he said, "you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh**."

After college, where he palled around with Marxist professors and took in socialist conferences "for inspiration," Obama followed in Davis' footsteps, becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago.

His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity Obama also tries to hide in his book. Turns out Kellman's a disciple of the late Saul "The Red" Alinsky, a hard-boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the "Rules for Radicals" and agitated for social revolution in America.

The Chicago-based Woods Fund provided Kellman with his original $25,000 to hire Obama. In turn, Obama would later serve on the Woods board with terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. Ayers was one of Obama's early political supporters.

After three years agitating with marginal success for more welfare programs in South Side Chicago, Obama decided he would need to study law to "bring about real change" — on a large scale.

While at Harvard Law School, he still found time to hone his organizing skills. For example, he spent eight days in Los Angeles taking a national training course taught by Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. With his newly minted law degree, he returned to Chicago to reapply — as well as teach — Alinsky's "agitation" tactics.

(A video-streamed bio on Obama's Web site includes a photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom. If you freeze the frame and look closely at the blackboard Obama is writing on, you can make out the words "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self Interest" — terms right out of Alinsky's rule book.)

Amid all this, Obama reunited with his late father's communist tribe in Kenya, the Luo, during trips to Africa.

As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated economist, grew to challenge the ruling pro-Western government for not being socialist enough. In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965, he argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing businesses "owned by Asians and Europeans."

His ideas for communist-style expropriation didn't stop there. He also proposed massive taxes on the rich to "redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all."

"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed," Obama Sr. wrote. "I do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more and syphon some of these revenues into savings which can be utilized in investment for future development."

Taxes and "investment" . . . the fruit truly does not fall far from the vine. (Voters might also be interested to know that Obama, the supposed straight shooter, does not once mention his father's communist leanings in an entire book dedicated to his memory.)

In Kenya's recent civil unrest, Obama privately phoned the leader of the opposition Luo tribe, Raila Odinga, to voice his support. Odinga is so committed to communism he named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

With his African identity sewn up, Obama returned to Chicago and fell under the spell of an Afrocentric pastor. It was a natural attraction. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches a Marxist version of Christianity called "black liberation theology" and has supported the communists in Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere.

Obama joined Wright's militant church, pledging allegiance to a system of "black values" that demonizes white "middle classness" and other mainstream pursuits. (Obama in his first book, published in 1995, calls such values "sensible." There's no mention of them in his new book.)

With the large church behind him, Obama decided to run for political office, where he could organize for "change" more effectively. "As an elected official," he said, "I could bring church and community leaders together easier than I could as a community organizer or lawyer."

He could also exercise real, top-down power, the kind that grass-roots activists lack. Alinsky would be proud.

Throughout his career, Obama has worked closely with a network of stone-cold socialists and full-blown communists striving for "economic justice."

[cricket]

It is stealth; only if 'stealth' wears big, heavy boots. . .

That said, would offer it more than a 'socialism'; Obama's Economic Justice surely includes economic reparations - however they work this - to include all (Blacks. . .) those who have suffered at the hands of a White population; and those as well, who have not.

Get ready folks; it is so much more encompassing - and fraudulent - than you can imagine.

[cricket]

It is proudly offered that - surprise! - Obama supports Bush's 'Faith Based' initiatives. WOW!.

No one even questions - (& odd given the Church he has matured in)Obama's 'faith based roots' and what he means when h says he supports the idea of 'faith based' support/education.

Not even an eyebrow raised, it seems, within Bush Admin who should know better by now.

[JACKRUSSELL]

This whole thing is getting scarier and scarier by the minute.

[cricket]

It is proudly offered that - surprise! - Obama supports Bush's 'Faith Based' initiatives. WOW!.

No one even questions - (& odd given the Church he has matured in)Obama's 'faith based roots' and what he means when he says he supports the idea of 'Faith based' support/education.

Not even an eyebrow raised, it seems, within Bush Admin who should know better by now.

Well, probably an eyebrow raised here; but just a 'why go there' response here.

[Dick Bachert]

[Dick Bachert]

Shot taken at the exact moment the Obamessiah’s HALO slipped slightly off to the left. It would NEVER go to the right.

[Nevadan]

“Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed,” Obama Sr. wrote. “I do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more and syphon some of these revenues into savings which can be utilized in investment for future development.”

Wow! I have never heard of anyone with the audacity to propose taxing 100% of the peoples’ income. So that was one of the dreams of Obama’s father. Sounds more like a nightmare. Dear God, please help us.....

[Scotswife]

Obama wins - a struggling economy will become even worse.
McCain wins - a struggling economy will begin to turn around.

[Scotswife]

ahhhh....this is new to me.

Didn’t know daddy was a true blue commie “economist”.
That explains alot - and adds a twist of humor to today’s meeting (er..photo op) on the economy.

[Candor7]

ROTFLMAO!

A definite,"Pull My Finger" moment!