Obama File 103 Barack Obama's "Respectable" Socialist Mentor - Abner Mikva

Newzealblog ^ | 5/15/2010 | Trevor Loudon

[mojitojoe]

President Barack Obama and his latest Supreme court nominee Elena Kagan have a friend in common -prominent former Congressman and Chicago lawyer, Abner Mikva.

Fresh out of Harvard law School Elena Kagan clerked for then Judge Mikva in Washington DC in 1986-87. In the 1990s Obama, Kagan and Mikva were all on the Faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.

Obama's relationship with Abner Mikva is long and deep, but has been subject to little scrutiny. After all Abner Mikva is no radical, he is a highly respected "liberal" and Chicago elder statesman.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times April 14, 2009;

Abner Mikva, a revered figure in Illinois politics, was an early Barack Obama booster and mentor. Mikva's backing--he is the gold standard for integrity in Illinois politics--was important in Obama establishing his credentials in the early days of his political career and in his U.S. Senate run.

Abner Mikva, was one of Obama's early admirers, beginning in 1990 when he tried to hire the first black president of the Harvard Law Review for a coveted clerkship. (Obama turned him down, saying he was going to move to Chicago and run for public office). "I thought that showed a lot of chutzpah on his part," says Mikva.

[mojitojoe]

hen the Obamas settled in Hyde Park and Obama became a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Mikva, "whom Obama already knew from Washington", also taught there, and the two renewed their acquaintance and became close. "We would have lunch and breakfast together and talk about a lot of things, different issues,"

How the pair knew each other "from Washington", where Obama never lived or worked, or studied, is an interesting question.

[mojitojoe]

ping

[NTHockey]

This is the same Abner Mikva who was so rabidly anti-Second Amendment.

[I am Richard Brandon]

If he talks like a Socialist, keeps the company of Socialists, is the son of Socialists, and Legislates like a Socialist, then he must be a ..................... Libertarian?

[az_gila]

“...Mikva’s backing—he is the gold standard for integrity in Illinois politics...”

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Who would have thought there was a gold standard for integrity in Illinois politics?

Perhaps it's a local measurement?

[steveab]

‘.....then he must be a ..................... Libertarian?’

Thanks I haven’t had a good laugh all day.

[melancholy]

If he talks like a Socialist, keeps the company of Socialists, is the son of Socialists, and Legislates like a Socialist, then he must be a ..................... Libertarian?

LOL! Very true!

0bagger plays indignant when he's called a Socialist. Calling him a Socialist makes his regime sounds like a Western European government. Nothing is farther from the truth, IMO.

0b0z0's regime is a full-fledged COMMUNIST dictatorship that's taking hold and consolidating its power by the minute. The regime wouldn't mind at all being called "Socialist" even if they play offended.

As "The War on Terror" is called "Overseas Contingency Plan," this "Communist Regime" loves being called "Socialists" without the word "Regime" attached to it.

Therefore, we should call them what they are in order for people to know what they are subjected to and fend of the Communist Regime's attempts to subjugate the populace.

[melancholy]

fend of -———> fend off

[newfreep]

So true and worth repeating!

If he talks like a Socialist, keeps the company of Socialists, is the son (and grandson) of Socialists, and Legislates like a Socialist, then he must be a ..................... Libertarian?

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[mojitojoe]

“In 1947 leftist lawyer Arthur Golberg became senior partner with Abner Mikva in the Chicago law firm of Goldberg, Devoe, Shadur, & Mikva.

Arthur Goldberg sponsored several local Communist Party fronts, including the Chicago Conference on Race Relations, the Conference on Constitutional Liberties in America and the National Emergency Conference. He was also president of the Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, accurately described in government hearings a “the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party”. Surprisingly these affiliations did not stop Goldberg later becoming a Supreme Court Justice and US Ambassador to the United Nations under Lyndon Johnson.”