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Video: Obama calls for 'democracy with a small d'
WND ^ | 9/18/12 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 09/18/2012 10:21:46 PM PDT by jwsea55

NEW YORK – A 1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for “democracy with a small ‘d,’” while pushing a society based on collectivism and “common good.”

In the video unearthed by KleinOnline, Obama hails unions and collective bargaining as encapsulating the societal “common good” of which he speaks.

Obama urges society to collectively move “forward” – a word that would later serve as his 2012 campaign slogan.

Obama was speaking in an Aug. 11, 1995 interview pushing his just published book, “Dreams From My Father.” At the time, Obama was a community organizer planning to launch a political career.

Obama tells the interviewer the “best part” of the dream of his “African father and white American mother,” was the “notion that we collectively can decide on our fate.”

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To: jwsea55

Sounds a lot more like Communism with big “C” to me.


21 posted on 09/19/2012 3:53:21 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: jwsea55

“Democracy is like a street car; you ride it as far as you need, and then you get off” R.T. Erdogan, PM of Turkey

Another 4 years under obama-alinsky and the street car may finally reach the end of the line in the USA


22 posted on 09/19/2012 4:01:59 AM PDT by silverleaf
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To: servo1969

Yep, he’s talking from the Marxist line of thought that says the US has ‘political democracy’, but not yet ‘economic democracy’.


23 posted on 09/19/2012 5:01:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jwsea55

We have a gutless congress who is too afraid to start impeachment until after the election. And if bam looses they will just drop it for sure and probably won do anything if bam wins.


24 posted on 09/19/2012 7:36:29 AM PDT by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: Apparatchik; rfp1234; Golden Gate; LegendHasIt; Bon mots; servo1969; silverleaf; 9YearLurker; ...
Friends ask me if I have seen the movie 2016. Why?

Dizousa(sp)overlays how he grew up and views the world on to someone else and says this is that guys paradigm of the world.

Why can't we just accept who surrounded him for his entire life?

- His grandparents went to the Little Red Church in Seattle
- His mother concentrated on Russian/Marxist studies
- His big mentor in life was Frank Davis Marshall
- He essentially major in Marxist thought
- His major professorial influences were far leftist
- He is a disciple of Alinsky
- He is a disciple of Piven
- The people who took under their wings after college (giving that the benefit of the doubt), were and still are far leftists, unrepentant about murdering people
- His major political advisers are far leftists/Marxists
- Most of the people whom he surrounded himself with in the White House are.....ummmmmmm, Marxists
- The groups that wrote his esteemed healthcare are linked or fronts to the Communist Party

Yet we are supposed to ignore all that for someone else's view of the world.

vpintheak, you are so right: we let our congress just do whatever it wants.

25 posted on 09/19/2012 8:09:35 AM PDT by jwsea55
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To: jwsea55

See my tagline...


26 posted on 09/19/2012 9:30:04 AM PDT by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Random_User_250

Yep!


27 posted on 09/19/2012 10:06:38 AM PDT by jwsea55
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To: Nachum

Is that like socialism with a small s? Or terrorism with a small t? Or totalitarianism with a small t?


28 posted on 09/19/2012 3:12:58 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: Cincinna

[ Is that like socialism with a small s? Or terrorism with a small t? Or totalitarianism with a small t? ]

No its more like Cowardly republican with a capital “C”..


29 posted on 09/19/2012 6:17:57 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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