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TIME TO CALL A COMMUNIST A COMMUNIST
Townhall.com ^ | Oct. 16, 2008 | Laura Hollis

Posted on 10/16/2008 6:33:45 PM PDT by patriot08

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The author tells it like it is, and the American public is too dumb to see.
1 posted on 10/16/2008 6:33:45 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: patriot08

Excellent! Who’s listening?


2 posted on 10/16/2008 6:38:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Don't let me interrupt your prayers for a suffering celebrity!)
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To: patriot08
The author tells it like it is, and the American public is too dumb to see.

No, it's American Public - it's our media too scummy and corrupt to release anything other than cover-up, agitprop and a nauseating praise of the Dear Leader.
3 posted on 10/16/2008 6:41:27 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: patriot08
He’s not a “liberal,” or a “Democrat,” or a “progressive,” or even a “socialist.”

The terms are not mutually exclusive.

There are Democrat voters and candidates who are Communists. Call him a Communist, but don't try to make the argument that he isn't a socialist, or Democrat, or even a progressive.

He's a Communist AND a liberal Democrat Socialist.

4 posted on 10/16/2008 6:41:55 PM PDT by weegee (My wealth is not to be spread like Country Crock Senator Obama!)
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To: patriot08

Going after Joe the Plumber as they did was Communistic, too. Shut down the opposition using propaganda and media. Thing is, the “kids” under 25, or so, don’t understand what Communism means. It has been almost invisible to them thanks to President Reagan. They don’t know enough to fear it and embrace Obama due to ignorance.


5 posted on 10/16/2008 6:42:21 PM PDT by madison10
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To: weegee

He has something in mind we’re not familiar with. The only term I can come up with Obamanism.


6 posted on 10/16/2008 6:48:46 PM PDT by taraytarah
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To: patriot08

And now it seems the article is gone.


7 posted on 10/16/2008 6:56:09 PM PDT by ladymac
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To: taraytarah

No, it’s Obamunism. I have the T-shirt. But this post is exactly right and we should all be shouting it from the rooftops. Radio announcers are afraid to say he hates this country when it’s plain to see he does.


8 posted on 10/16/2008 6:59:44 PM PDT by Rsgood Dsbad
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To: patriot08
Standing Ovation for the author!

Having seen first hand the horrors of the reality of communism, I heartily applaud the message of this post...

There will be hell to pay if that bastard (he is you know) ascends to our Presidency...

9 posted on 10/16/2008 7:03:26 PM PDT by JDoutrider (Pray for our Nation! Stop the big Zero!)
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To: Rsgood Dsbad

Yes indeed, he is a full fledged C O M M U N I S T.

I said that to one of his deceived supporters and this person said - I don’t even know what that is.....

How does one respond?

I gave this person “Witness” to read and then said look it up on Wikipedia, for the “light” definition - then go read Coming Out of the Ice, What Is Communism, Solzhenitzen, etc.

She has no idea. The younger ones have even less of an idea.

America is trying to elect a pure t COMMUNIST - through voter fraud of course.

Think intimidation was bad under Clinton???? We haven’t seen anything yet.

LIves will be lost - even more than on 911 - even more than in Clinton’s trail of death - thousands - untold tens of thousands will die.

THAT is what communism does. As Whitaker Chambers well learned - IT KILLS.


10 posted on 10/16/2008 7:05:20 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (We are now living in AMERIKA thanks to Comrade Obama's promised Communistic Changes in Missouri)
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To: patriot08

Thanks for the article but the link did not work.


11 posted on 10/16/2008 7:06:14 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (We are now living in AMERIKA thanks to Comrade Obama's promised Communistic Changes in Missouri)
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To: patriot08

Laura, how about “TIME TO CALL A PROGRESSIVE A COMMUNIST”.

Because, you see, that’s how they managed to fool so many all the time, by adopting a clever euphemism, who after all would be against ‘progress’. Time to expose the Left’s use of language to achieve their goals!


12 posted on 10/16/2008 7:06:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Don't let me interrupt your prayers for a suffering celebrity!)
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I am tired of all the dancing around the subject with respect to Barack Obama’s political, social, and economic views. He’s not a “liberal,” or a “Democrat,” or a “progressive,” or even a “socialist.” Let’s call it what it is, shall we? It’s time to use the “C” word. His policies are communist, pure and simple.

Yeah, but McCain is a RINO.

Isn't that even worse? < /sarc>

13 posted on 10/16/2008 7:21:05 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: ladymac; All

Sorry everyone that the link did not work.
I got the article and all the info from another board.


14 posted on 10/16/2008 7:23:42 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: patriot08

We need another anti-communist warrior. Like Ronald Reagan.

Sadly, there is none on the horizon.


15 posted on 10/16/2008 7:26:16 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: ladymac

http://townhall.com/Columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/16/time_to_use_the_c_word

poster here changed the title, too


16 posted on 10/16/2008 7:27:24 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: patriot08

Obama, the son of an old Marxist, is a socialist himself, and many of his friends are Marxists.

This despite the fact that Marxism has been abandoned throughout the World.

Obama’s Marxist friends have been revealed in this campaign. They won’t live lives of anonymity anymore.


17 posted on 10/16/2008 7:27:44 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Don't disenfranchise Mickey Mouse!)
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To: Bullish; All

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We need INTERNET WARRIORS
to fight Barack Hussein Obama, Communism and ISLAM.
I’m one. Are you?

McCain’s anemic attempts to fight Obama back is losing this election.
Flood McCain out with emails. DEMAND he fight back HARD- name names!

Flood the MSM out with emails. Send articles/videos and DEMAND they put these before the voting public.

Please go to
http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7

and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.

CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS?


18 posted on 10/16/2008 7:30:12 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Yes, Whittaker Chambers, the former communist who became a witness against the secret communist Alger Hiss, explained the “change” that communists seek and why they seek it in his memoir "Witness":

The revolutionary heart of Communism is not the theatrical appeal: “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to gain.” It is a simple statement of Karl Marx, further simplified for handy use: “Philosophers have explained the world; it is necessary to change the world.” Communists are bound together by no secret oath. The tie that binds them across the frontiers of nations, across barriers of language and differences of class and education, in defiance of religion, morality, truth, law, honor, the weaknesses of the body and the irresolutions of the mind, even unto death, is a simple conviction: It is necessary to change the world. Their power, whose nature baffles the rest of the world, because in a large measure the rest of the world has lost that power, is the power to hold convictions and to act on them. It is the same power that moves mountains; it is also an unfailing power to move men. Communists are that part of mankind which has recovered the power to live or die – to bear witness—for its faith. And it is a simple, rational faith that inspires men to live or die for it.

It is not new. It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: “Ye shall be as gods.” It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man’s relationship to God. The Communist vision is fhe vision of Man without God.

Alger Hiss and the other members of the "Old Left" communists sought to effect their change by concealing their true beliefs and undermining society from within, from positions in government and the media and academia.

The Old Left was dealt a crippling blow by Kruschev's "secret speech" in which the crimes and the cult of personality under Stalin were revealed.

The New Left of the 1960s despised the cringing secretiveness of the Old Left, and openly announced their aims to all -- a revolution, to be achieved through violence to the extent necessary. William Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn and the other terrorists and revolutionaries of the time held press conferences and issued press releases to announce their crimes, which in their minds were acts of revolution acts like those by the Bolsheviks of czarist Russia.

The failure of the New Left has led to the rise of the New New Left. The former members of the New Left, and those of the generation that came after, such as Barack Obama, now follow in the wake of Saul Alinsky. The "change" they seek is no different, but now they again, like the Old Left, conceal the extent of their ambitions and seek to work "within the system" in order to destroy it.

19 posted on 10/16/2008 7:39:09 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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Exactly - thanks for the excerpt from Witness....

Exactly. Excellent synopsis.

The CHANGE O and Ayers and Dohrn seek is nothing other than te DESTRUCTION of our Free Nation. Period.


20 posted on 10/16/2008 7:48:26 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (We are now living in AMERIKA thanks to Comrade Obama's promised Communistic Changes in Missouri)
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