Is Barack Obama a socialist? Well, let’s read what he had to say about it.
“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.”
Obama’s interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”
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“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.”
Of course, later, he launched his political career int he living room of two avowed Marxists. He glad-handed socialist Congressional candidate Danny Davis and said at a campaign rally, “You just heard of one of the best Congressmen in the country, and the reason he’s one of the best Congressmen in the country is that he shares our values”. He was close friends with the violently anti-Semitic Rashid Khalidi, mouthpiece for would-be genodical killer Yasser Arafat and received effusive praise from him at a farewell dinner where speakers cheered the destruction of Israel.
Did palling around with Marxists for the better part of twenty years have some effect on his way of thinking? How could it not?
But even if you don’t think it did for whatever bizarre reason, ask yourself this question. Would you say the same thing if John McCain had palled around with white supremacists and apologists for the Klan for twenty years?
(via protein wisdom)
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Socalism in America, William Ayers
Who is he exactly anyway? All I know is he’s very tuned into and friendly with people that either hate America or find it just inherently sad and disappointing. I would walk away from him at a party.
He is a bit of a cipher, isn’t he? I’m amazed that we know more about Calvin Coolidge than we do about Barack Obama.
“Would you say the same thing if John McCain had palled around with white supremacists and apologists for the Klan for twenty years?”
What if he palled around with Pinochet? I’ll condemn him for that, will you?
Nice dodge attempt, but I’m asking the questions and you didn’t answer the one I asked.
Okay, so this what you asked:
“Would you say the same thing if John McCain had palled around with white supremacists and apologists for the Klan for twenty years?”
Well, McCain’s been palling around with G Gordon Liddy. Not an apologist for the Klan, but someone who advocates shooting federal law enforcement officials in the face. And someone who planned the disruptions of protests advocating the rights of African Americans. And someone who was convicted of federal felonies. And McCain is best buddies Pinochet, a convicted war criminal (though not extradicted). And he pals around with Henry Kissinger, the world’s most notorious unconvicted war criminal. Nobody alive has killed more innocent people, yet he is protected by the US. And don’t worry, Obama will protect Kissinger, too. Much to my dismay. But at least Obama will not meet with him. Why should he? Kissinger is as evil as it gets, and he controls no country. So what’s the upside unless you are truly evil? Evil like, say, Sarah Palin. Kissinger can only give you advise about how to lose a war and still get some good genocide in. But killing brown skinned people is the goal for you folks, isn’t it?
And I notice by your absence of refusing to condemn Pinochet, that you approve of right wing dictatorships. Yeah, that’s pushing it, but prove me wrong: condemn McCain being pals with that guy, or defend Pinochet.