Reclaiming our country [the Communist Party USA's veiled endorsement of Obama]

The United States now stands at one of the most significant crossroads in our history. The choice before voters on Nov. 4 is crystal clear: Continue the catastrophic slide of the last eight years into the abyss of economic disintegration, growing human misery at home and costly, deadly adventurism abroad. Or, continue instead to build the broad labor-led coalition which can help a new administration and Congress chart a path to peaceful, cooperative international relations and an economy where people earn decent wages for producing needed goods and services and are assured quality affordable health care and other human needs, while protecting our environment.

Such a new administration and Congress will have much to overcome. On the heels of two decades of Reaganomics and provocative military skirmishing, the eight Bush years have seen the burgeoning of the military-industrial complex and the further hollowing-out of the economy under the impact of parasitic and rapacious finance capital.

In the Bush years, Americans have lost jobs, pensions, health care and homes, and have become ensnared in the lenders’ web as they struggled to meet their families’ needs. Infrastructure has decayed, education has deteriorated, human services and safety nets have been shredded, and racism and chauvinism have been cultivated under the banner of national security. The Supreme Court has been pushed farther to the right, the foreign incursions of the late 20th century have morphed into disastrous and devastating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the environment has been strip-mined, and the gap between the incomes of the top 1 percent and the majority of people has become a yawning gulf.

Finally, even the powerful financial industry has overreached itself, and cries out for help at the expense of the very taxpayers who have borne the brunt of its excesses.

But enough of that legacy. Ordinary Americans know it well. What’s ahead? A very broad coalition of labor, environment and community organizations is bringing forward shorter- and longer-term programs to resolve the present financial crisis and build a stable and expanding economy meeting the needs of the vast majority of Americans.

Under the auspices of the Campaign for America’s Future, over 30 national organizations including the AFL-CIO and SEIU have issued a “common sense” program to overcome the immediate financial crisis. Included are public oversight of “bailout” measures with participation of workers and consumers, re-regulation of the finance industry, major public investment in new energy and infrastructure projects, extending and expanding unemployment insurance and food stamps, measures to keep threatened homeowners in their homes and help to states so they can avoid catastrophic cuts in human services.

The Communications Workers of America’s long-range economic recovery program focuses on quality jobs and worker bargaining rights, emphasizing passage of the Employee Free Choice Act to level the playing field for organizing unions and building a world-class health care system funded by a broad-based tax.

The Apollo Alliance, uniting labor, environmental, community and business, projects a program for national energy efficiency, renewable energy, infrastructure and public transit and rebuilding American manufacturing based on a clean energy future.

Peace organizations are demanding an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the return home of all troops and contractors, elimination of nuclear weapons and development of a foreign policy based on cooperation and peace.

Racial justice and immigrant rights organizations are demanding a new push to end injustice and move toward equality in all areas of life, from jobs and workers’ rights to housing, education and health care.

What all these programs have in common is ending actions that devastate people and the environment, and rebuilding a productive economy and society to meet the needs of workers and their families through producing needed goods and services, assuring sufficient income for a decent living standard, upholding labor and human rights and protecting the environment.

Putting them forward are the same forces that have come together to elect a president and Congress with a new, positive approach to the functioning of the United States in the 21st century. That president and that Congress will need guidance, help and —yes — pressure from this broad coalition if the changes so urgently needed are to be won.

Troll Alert!

You might as well do a "find and replace" and replace all instances of "Communist Party" with "Democrat Party"...they are one and the same.

It's time the suckers in this country who are falling for the left "free candy" routine to wake up, and GROW UP and learn that there is no "free ride" in life. Anything worth having is worth working and fighting for.

The democrat party has evolved from the party of the working man, back in the 40's and 50's, to the pathway to communist dominance in the year 2008.

How did a half-arabic, half-white person, with no resume', and no experience rise to be the democrat nominee for President of the United States?

Where can anyone - no matter what there level on the bell curve - see that this man can do nothing but harm to this country.

A good example of things to come are Hawaii's recent debacle with children's free health care. As soon as others saw some getting freebies, they took their children off the insurance and enrolled them for freebies...and the whole thing collapsed and went broke.

You start taking my income to support people who live to party, then I'll quit work and party too. I've been eligible for disability and social security for some time now, but, I keep on working everyday. I do this while millions of young, able bodied people suck of the teat of America...(read: our tax money).

Obama is not AFRICAN AMERICAN, he is ARABIC-AMERICAN. He has no "slave blood", in fact, his ancestors were slave TRADERS in Kenya. That's about as racist as you can get, to be a slave TRADER...his family made money from buying and selling human beings. WHITES freed the slaves, Obama's people SOLD them.

Barack Obama, from Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, New York, Revised Edition, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3, p. 76-7:
"But by the time I met Frank [Frank Marshall Davis] he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar."

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From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

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Frank Marshall Davis

Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

"Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."
-People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405

AIM article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis, Vernon Jarrett - One Degree of Seperation
New Zeal blog ^ | Oct 17, 2008 | Trevor Loudon
"Why did Barack Obama move to Chicago? Why did he choose a city famous for its corruption and distrust of outsiders as a launching pad for his political career? Did Obama's boyhood mentor, life long communist Frank Marshall Davis influence that choice?"
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html

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From the Traditional Values Coalition, March 13, 2008:

"At some point in the 1970s when Barack was attending school in Hawaii, he became acquainted with Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party, USA. Davis had moved to Hawaii in 1948 from Chicago where he had been involved in Marxist-related activities.

In Hawaii, he became a mentor to Barack Obama, the man who seeks the Presidency of the United States.

Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D., a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii, has written at least two lengthy analysis of Frank M. Davis’s political activities both in Hawaii and while he was living in Chicago. Takara created the first Black Studies department at the U of H in 1971 and is an associate of such notable leftists as Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael.

Takara’s paper, 'Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Social Movements In Hawaii,' describes Davis’ radical activities in Hawaii as both a writer and labor organizer.

How this committed Communist became a mentor to Barack Obama remains a mystery, but it is likely that his mother was somehow involved in far left activities in Hawaii and met Davis through her left-wing network on the University of Hawaii campus. Perhaps an enterprising reporter could ask Senator Obama how he met Davis and what sort of influence he may have had on him. Likewise, one can only speculate on the influence his rebellious, left-wing mother had on his political beliefs and aspirations.

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama’s Mother Profiled By 'Chicago Tribune' In 2007:
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/print.php?sid=3282

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