Obama the Marxist Part III
Posted on October 28, 2008
First were the revealing remarks to Joe the Plumber about spreading the wealth. Part two was the Obama tape espousing redistribution of wealth has been dug up, all kinds of marxist quotes are coming out of the woodwork.
FOX News:From Dreams From My Father:
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia,” Obama wrote in “Dreams,” which he published in 1995. “At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature.”
Thomas Lifeson wonders about the Red Star on Obama’s latest logo. Oddly, it matches the shirt his best friend, terrorist Bill Ayers, was wearing when O’Reilly confronted him.
And another speech from Obama espousing redistribution in 1996 to a meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Barack Obama observed that Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in the 1960s wasn’t simply about civil rights but demanded jobs as well. Now the issue is again coming to the front, but he wished the issue was on the Democratic agenda not just on [Pat] Buchanan’s.
One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left. He felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution. The current proposals for welfare reform are intended to eliminate welfare but it’s also true that the status quo is not tenable. A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties. By “workforce preparation strategy”, Barack Obama simply meant a coordinated, purposeful program of job training instead of the ad hoc, fragmented approach used by the State of Illinois today.
The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.
McCain quips: Obama Is Running To Be “Redistributionist In Chief”
Senator Obama is running to be Redistributionist in Chief. I’m running to be Commander in Chief. Senator Obama is running to spread the wealth. I’m running to create more wealth. Senator Obama is running to punish the successful. I’m running to make everyone successful.
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Bill Ayers, Communism, Domestic Enemies, Education, Elections, Marxism, News, Socialism
Trackback URL
Comments
14 Responses to “Obama the Marxist Part III”
Leave a Reply
I read that earlier. Excellent article by Sammon.
Das, why do you have a proxy server?
Excellent article! Obama, by his own admissions, is now an “out-of-the-closet” Marxist.
Check out Obama’s new logo..complete with red star!
http://www.democratnationalcommittee.com/candidates/barack_obama.htm#Link_1
I’m happy that the real news about Barack Obama is finally getting out. Thanks for the great article!
Typical Fox right-wing propaganda ad-nauseum.
If Obama adheres to “Das Kapitol” as Fox and its readers suggest, then I would just assume Fox and it’s readers adhere to “Mein Kaump” by none other than Fox’s “hero” Adolph Hitler.
oh yeah, “Seig Heil” everyone. lmao
As much as I would love for the Obama campaign or DNC to be that incredibly honest, the website democratnationalcommittee.com is owned by “Victory Enterprises” in Davenport, IA. They claim to be “The Midwest’s Largest Political Polling and Consulting Firm”. It appears this is something they have done on their own and is an extension of their own victorystore.com. $.02
david get off are website you socialist
To call Obama Marxist means that you guys understand nothing. marxism is the fight by the proletarain class to control the means of production tocinsure that everybody has according to his needs. I do not see any of this in Obama
Do you means to say that:
1) you see a proletarian class fighting? I do not
2) you see a proletarian class controlling the means of production? UH? do you see workers of GM controlling the plants or accountants taking control of Goldman Sachs? I do not.
You DO NOT want to see that socialism for the rich is in full swing NOW: they socialize the losses but privatize their profits.
That is not even conservatism: that is fascism, and that is what we are living in not socialism. Please.
I want everyone to remember, that if Oboma violates his oath to uphold, defend and protect the constitution that we have the legal right to dispose of him. I pledge everything I have to see that this is done if he betrays this oath. If this s a threat, so be it. IT IS LEGAL.
Kenneth Turner
L.A. Times refuses to release Obama video
McCain campaign slams newspaper, demands evidence be made public
——————————————————————————–
Posted: October 28, 2008
7:15 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Rashid Khalidi
JERUSALEM – The Los Angeles Times says it will not release a video it obtained of Sen. Barack Obama attending an anti-Israel event in which he delivered a glowing testimonial for an anti-Israel professor who excuses terrorism.
“When we reported on the tape six months ago, that was our full report,” Times spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan told the Politico website, refusing to elaborate on the reason behind keeping the tape under wrap.
Sen. John McCain’s campaign, in response, accused the Times of intentionally suppressing the video.
“A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb.
“The election is one week away, and it’s unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job – make information public,” he said.
Goldfarb was referring to videotape the Times said it obtained of Obama delivering in-person testimonial in 2003 at the farewell party of anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, who at the time was departing the University of Chicago for a new teaching position at Columbia University.
(Story continues below)
In a piece last April, L.A. Times writer Peter Wallsten reported that while praising Khalidi, Obama reminisced about conversations over meals prepared by the professor’s wife Mona Khalidi.
Unreported by Wallsten was that the event was sponsored by Mona Khalidi’s anti-Israel Arab American Action Network, which, as WND first reported, received large sums of money from the Woods Fund, an ultra-liberal Chicago nonprofit for which Obama served as a board member alongside Weather Underground radical William Ayers.
According to a Times account of the farewell dinner, Obama said his talks with the Khalidis served as “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. … It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation – a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”
Khalidi’s farewell dinner was replete with anti-Israel speakers.
One, a young Palestinian American, recited a poem in Obama’s presence that accused the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticized U.S. support of Israel, the Times reported.
Another speaker, who reportedly talked while Obama was present, compared “Zionist settlers on the West Bank” to Osama bin Laden.
In the kicker, Wallsten wrote, “The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.”
But that detail went largely unnoticed until this past weekend, when the Gateway Pundit blog made an issue of the tape.
Wallsten did not immediately return a WND e-mail and phone call seeking comment.
Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel. He has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an “apartheid system in creation” and a destructive “racist” state. He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings a response to “Israeli aggression.”
He dedicated his 1986 book, “Under Siege,” to “those who gave their lives … in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.” Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.
Obama, Khalidi closely tied
According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003, while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.
Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama’s failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi.
Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor radio show, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.
“I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician,” Khalidi stated.
Khalidi said he supports Obama for president “because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause.”
Khalidi also lauded Obama for “saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can’t talk with the Iranians.”
In 2001, the Woods Fund, which describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to Mona Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network, or AAAN. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line. The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, “The Subject of Palestine,” that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding in 1948.
Obama hijacked phrase from Khalidi?
In May, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a “constant sore” in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the “Palestinian question” a “running sore.”
In his piece, “Palestine: Liberation Deferred,” Khalidi suggests Israel carried out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israel’s establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authority’s stated acceptance of a Palestinian state “only” in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem; and argues Israel should be dissolved and instead a bi-national, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.
——————————————————————————–
Sorry, but this is a bunch of hooey. Is quoting from Fox News supposed to prove something? Obama’s record and his plan – including this “scary” tax plan – is actually less progressive and “socialist” than Bill Clinton’s for pete’s sake. There’s nothing scary nor socialist about it. So many scare tactics coming from the right, it’s almost laughable. By the way, how’d that trickle down economics idea work out for all of us? The past eight years have been real kind to the upper middle class, middle class and lower class eh? Yeah, right.
The Republican party is imploding purely on its own accord — first resorting to scare tactics and flat out lies and now attacking itself in a circular firing squad. Whatever happened to the party of Barry Goldwater? And afraid of Obama’s tax plan? You have to be kidding — nothing is scarier than the economic implosion (and yes, Democrats should share some of the responsibility for that as well) we’re witness to this year. Corporations receiving corporate welfare and overseas tax breaks as jobs dry up and banks close.
Obama may not be perfect but he actually knows what it means to be middle class and work your way up from nothing. That isn’t Socialist, that’s AMERICAN.