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Breaking the War Mentality (Obama article from 1983 -- full text)
Sundial (via NY Times) ^ | March 10, 1983 | Barack Obama

Posted on 07/05/2009 7:30:40 PM PDT by FocusNexus

Two groups on campus, Anns Race Alternatives (ARA) and Students Against Militarism (SAM), work within these mental limits to foster awareness and practical action necesary to counter the growing threat of war. Though the emphasis of the two p:roups differ, they share an aversion to current government policy. These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track.

The Reagan administration's stalling at the Geneva talks on nuclear weapons has thus already caused severe tension and could ultimately bring about a dangerous rift between the United States and Western Europe. By being intransigent, Reagan is playing directly into the Russians' hands.

(Excerpt) Read more at documents.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiwar; bho44; fifthcolumn; obama; obama1983
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Link to full pdf (easier to read):

Obama: Breaking the War Mentality (1983) (full article in pdf)

Related article from NY Times, mentioning this article"

Obama's Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision

Isn't it interesting that Obama's article was not discovered during the presidential camapaign?

1 posted on 07/05/2009 7:30:40 PM PDT by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus
Wow, he uses big words like "extrapolate" (completely out of context, of course, and quite bizarrely).

And oh, he was wrong about Reagan and is a marxist moron crypto-muslim usurper and security risk.

2 posted on 07/05/2009 7:34:29 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: FocusNexus

BUMP!

FACTS are Obama is a wimpy loser. He drags us DOWN.


3 posted on 07/05/2009 7:34:59 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: FocusNexus; All
Isn't it interesting that Obama's article was not discovered during the presidential campaign?

Not sure of the date it was originally discovered, but it was linked to on an FR thread at least several months ago. So the discovery of O's Sundial article is old news.

4 posted on 07/05/2009 7:36:06 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: FocusNexus

Who wrote it for him? You can tell someone else wrote this no “uh’s” or “um’s” in it.


5 posted on 07/05/2009 7:36:07 PM PDT by repubpub
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To: FocusNexus

I assume it’s translated from Kenyan.


6 posted on 07/05/2009 7:37:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: nmh
FACTS are Obama is a wimpy loser.

Nope...not a wimp.A collaborator.

7 posted on 07/05/2009 7:37:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: FocusNexus

but its ok for Iran to have nukes. what a joke.


8 posted on 07/05/2009 7:38:01 PM PDT by bluedressman
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To: Rome2000

“And oh, he was wrong about Reagan “

BINGO!

History proved Reagan right and Obama’s judgement wrong and it’s still wrong. THAT’s why this article was not allowed to see the light of day during the campaign — even the gullible American public would have started to get a clue.


9 posted on 07/05/2009 7:38:57 PM PDT by FocusNexus ("Good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise." GW Bush)
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To: repubpub
Who wrote it for him?

I wouldn't doubt that he wrote it himself. They style is kind of pedestrian, nothing exceptional for an Ivy League college senior.

10 posted on 07/05/2009 7:39:31 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: FocusNexus

Wrong then. Wrong now. Always wrong, all the time.


11 posted on 07/05/2009 7:39:46 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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“Wrong then. Wrong now. Always wrong, all the time.”

Unfortunately for us, now he is in a position to do us great harm.


12 posted on 07/05/2009 7:41:57 PM PDT by FocusNexus ("Good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise." GW Bush)
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To: FocusNexus

ping for later


13 posted on 07/05/2009 7:42:19 PM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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14 posted on 07/05/2009 7:42:28 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Achtung. preparen zie fur die obamahopenchangen.)
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To: TheWasteLand

Now I know where the phrase “Pussy Galore” came from.


15 posted on 07/05/2009 7:44:07 PM PDT by pankot
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To: FocusNexus

That is some of the most piss-poor writing I have ever suffered through.


16 posted on 07/05/2009 7:45:22 PM PDT by HighWheeler (The higher the concentration of libs, the bigger the tragedy that follows.)
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To: FocusNexus

And now he is on his way to do what Reagan was too wise to do. Reagan said “Trust but verify.” BO says he is going to “temporarily bypass” the Senate ratification of this treaty, as required by the Constitution, in the new agreement he intends to reach with the Russians. Does anyone really believe that the Russians will not outmaneuver him on every issue and point? He has been planning since 1983 to undermine this country’s security, and now he’s got the chance. This will not end well.


17 posted on 07/05/2009 7:45:32 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yup. 5th column.


18 posted on 07/05/2009 7:45:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: FocusNexus

TOTUS would never tolerate drivel like this.


19 posted on 07/05/2009 7:52:54 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (For the first time, in my life, I am not proud of my country. Thanks ZerO.)
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To: FocusNexus
What a good little marxist he is.
20 posted on 07/05/2009 7:55:22 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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