[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

What does Comrade Hussien have to say?

[MilspecRob]

Did he book the band. Really, this multi-posted thread is really grasping at straws

[MuttTheHoople]

It does put a lie to Barry being an appeaser. At least Neville Chamberlain loved Britain and thought what he was doing was best for his country.

[Slapshot68]

What’s funny is that this band, who seems to have a fascination/admiration for communist Russia, probably wouldn’t be allowed to play most of their stuff in a totalitarian regime.

[Billthedrill]

The name Decembrist refers to an 1825 revolt over the Imperial Russian succession, and is not related to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917...

Except that Marx was a major admirer and wrote of them in 1848...certainly they were "related." The Decemberists weren't communist, if that's what the author meant. Nor was Marx a Bolshevik.

[rabscuttle385]

I would wager that not a single member of the band, nor Obama and his folks, nor the folks in attendance have family that grew up in a Soviet satellite or have even bothered to visit the former Soviet Union.

It's easy to pretend to be Socialist...hell, it's chic and vogue and in fashion. But, when you live under it, when you see its effects, you will turn Capitalist very quickly, especially after the first toilet paper shortage.

[ariamne]

It gets worse. The Wikipedia entry for the Decemberists was edited by someone AFTER the band opened for Obama who claimed, and I paraphrase, that the song is not about the Bolshevik revolution. Who added this information, (still noted by Wiki editors as “uncited”) and why did they think they needed to do this right after the band opened for Obama? Talk about a memory hole. This kind of manipulation is straight out of Stalin’s playbook.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Is anyone surprised that he is comfortable with marxists?

[RichardW]

Obama is a crypto communist. We are signing our death warrants if he is elected. The gulags will come next.