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To: Las Vegas Ron
I looked at your link. It mentions Obama's associations with Ayers and Wright, neither of whom is a Communist, and to call either of them his "mentor" is quite a bit of a stretch, to say the least.

Bill Ayers was a leftwing anarchist, not a Marxist. There's a difference. Furthermore, to call him bambi's "mentor" is a bit of a stretch given that they didn't work together until he was an adult, and even then the extent of their collaboration was rather limited.

They sat together on the board of a nonpolitical, nonprofit organization, and Ayers held some Obama fundraisers at his house. To say that makes him a mentor seems rather silly to me.

As to Wright, he's a black liberationist. While undoubtedly influenced by Marxism, black liberation theology isn't the same thing as Marxism. In fact, the central tenants of of Black liberation theology are antithetical to Marxism. That doesn't make it any less dispicable or less dangerous; just different.

I'd also say that the extent to which you can call Wright Obama's "mentor" is rather questionable. True, Obama was a member of his Church. The fact that he chose to join a Church that preaches such insidious doctrine is, of course, very alaraming and speaks very ill of his character.

Still, I don't think you can assume that just because Wright was Obama's pastor that he was his mentor. I would suspect few people who attend Church would describe their pastor as their mentor. I certainly wouldn't call my pastor my mentor.

674 posted on 04/12/2010 2:10:52 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity
You look at the totality of people bammie has surrounded himself with and still chose to defend him, or at least appear to.

Bammie may not meet the classic definitions of socialist/communist/marxist/fascist but he certainly takes certain aspects of each and combines them into his own brand of obamunism.

For you to nit pick each definition and conclude he is not any one in the classic sense is to ignore what he is, i.e. defend him.

678 posted on 04/12/2010 2:19:22 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: curiosity
I'd also say that the extent to which you can call Wright Obama's "mentor" is rather questionable

Yeah right, besides marrying bammie to the wookie, baptizing his kids and listening to him for 20 years, nothing to see here.

You are bordering on delusional.

680 posted on 04/12/2010 2:23:40 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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