Posted on 07/12/2008 6:25:07 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
Apparently Andrew Sullivan wants to stigmatize scrutiny of part of Barack Obama's life story. In his Atlantic.com "Daily Dish" column "That Black Man's A Commie", Sullivan equates questions about Barack Obama's Communist Party ties with old segregationist claims that Martin Luther King was a communist.
He does in an article posted perhaps coincidentally (Sullivan does not link or mention my article) one day after my July 8 article, "What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party".
But the deep and profound connections between the Communist Party, USA and Barack Obama are serious parts of his life story. How many of us have connections with communists that trace over parts of six decades, and stretch from a future mother and grandparents in Seattle, to Honolulu, and to Chicago? Barack Obama was unknown to the national public until very recently, and we still know very little about a man who might bear awesome responsibilities and wield huge power.
The comparison between King and Obama is invalid in so many ways that it is difficult to know where to begin. Sullivan tried the same rhetorical tricks in defending Ron Paul.
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Sullivan ignores the extensive documentation of ties between Barack Obama and the Communist Party, USA. He instead focuses on the unknowable: "Is Obama a Marxist?" Sullivan does not even bother to defeat the straw man claim he raises, instead waving it off as just a recycled segregationist smear. He apparently thinks his readers are so simple-minded that they will fall for the sleight-of hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There were probably hoity-toity writers in the late 30’s saying “...they say Adolph wants to exterminate the Jewish race...”
I wonder what the odds are in Las Vegas that Andrew Sullivan had gay sex with Barak Obama?
What a weak article. The “evidence” is loose guilt by association. One would think Oliver Stone ghost wrote it. For example one highlight is that the chairman of Obama’s mother’s high schoolboard admitted during HUAC hearing that he was a member of the Communist party...a year before she even enrolled. If this the best dirt that the GOP can produce, the fall election is going to be very bloody for Republicans.
Andrew Sullivan is an idiot. He should take a course in Symbolic Logic or maybe American history.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043664/posts
Was ACORN Obama’s First Political Party?
How long will the black race let the Left use their history as a springboard to power?
Andrew Sullivan, an idiot who I equate to being the politics Perez Hilton, sounds like he found out Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
Obama is not a communist. He’s a socialist.
Communists believe the path to historical materialism is through violent revolution.
Socialists believe the path to historical materialism is through subverting the existing system.
"Gramsci was a clever Italian neo-Marxist who realized that the West, due to its prosperity, its increasingly-wide access to education and opportunity, social mobility, and its readiness to repair injustices (due to its Judeo-Christian morality), would never be amenable to a violent proletarian socialist revolution." [a la Marx?]
More on Gramsci (and Obama and Alinski) here.
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Walter Lipman, the leading print journalist of his day, wrote the following in the New York Herald Tribune on May 19, 1933 after hearing a speech by the new chancellor of Germany:
“…a genuinely statesmanlike address,” providing convincing “evidence of good faith.”
“We have heard once more through the fog and the din, the authentic voice of a genuinely civilized people. I am not only willing to believe that, but it seems to me all historical experience compels one to believe it.”
He went on the assert that persecuting the Jews served a purpose by “satisfying” German’s yearning to “conquer somebody”; it was “a kind of lightning rod which protects Europe.”
Lipman was a liberal JEW.
self hate must be the other side of the coin of self-love, as connected as it always seems to be with those who are convinced they are "enlightened."
It seems odd to me that a majority of American Jews are democrats....cannot figure our why that would be.
You are confusing all Communists with Bolsheviks. Mensheviks don’t beleive in revolution per se, but in creating communism through governance.
"More on Gramsci ..."
and more here:
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/politicalcorrectness.htm
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Good info! Thanks for the link.
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