Posted on 07/06/2009 10:08:31 AM PDT by lewisglad
During the campaign, I wrote a piece called "Why Won't Obama Talk About Columbia? — The years he won't discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about." So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya know? The New York Times unearthed a 1983 article called, "Breaking the War Mentality," that Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American "militarism" and its "military-industrial interests," while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement.
Moreover, while indicating a preference for the political wisdom of reggae singer Peter Tosh over Ronald Reagan or Scoop Jackson, Obama bewailed the "narrow focus" of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the "symptoms" rather than the real "disease," namely, America's underlying economic and political injustice:
Generally, the narrow focus of the [Nuclear] Freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second strike capabilities, suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets. When Peter Tosh sings that "everybody's asking for peace, but nobody's asking for justice," one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself.
Obama nevertheless did see some advantage in homing in on a small target:
Mark Bigelow [a graduate student who helped run "Arms Race Alternatives" (ARA), another of the campus organizations lauded in Obama's article] ... points to fruitful work being done by other organizations involved with disarmament. "The Freeze is one part of a whole disarmament movement. The lowest common denominator, so to speak. For instance, April 10-16 is Jobs for Peac [sic] week, with a bunch of things going on around the city. Also, the New York City Council may pass a resolution in April calling for greater social as opposed to military spending. Things like this may dispell the idea that disarmament is a white issue, because how the government spends its revenue affects everyone."
Obama, the budding community-organizer, also took time to praise "Students Against Militarism, an obscure campus group more ambitious in scope than ARA:
Also operating out of Earl Hall Center, Students Against Militarism was formed in response to the passage of [military draft] registration laws in 1980. An entirely student-run organizatoin, SAM casts a wider net than ARA, though for the purposes of effectiveness, they have tried to lock in on one issue at a time.
"At the heart of our organization is an anti-war focus", says junior Robert Kahn, one of SAM's fifteen or so active members. "From there, a lot of issues shoot forth — nukes, racism, the draft, and South Africa. "We have been better organized when taking one issue at a time, but we are always cognizant of other things going on, and collaborate frequently with other campus organizations like CISPES and REEL-POLITIK." [Quotation break in original.]
Student Obama summed up with near incoherent Lefty gobbledygook:
Indeed, the most pervasive malady of the collegiate system specifically, and the American experience generally, is that elaborate patterns of knowledge and theory have been disembodied from individual choices and government policy. What the members of ARA and SAM try to do is infuse what they have learned about the current situation, bring the words of that formidable roster on the face of Butler Library, names like Thoreau, Jefferson, and Whitman, to bear on the twisted logic of which we are today a part. By adding their energy and effort in order to enhance the possibility of a decent world, they may help deprive us of a spectacular experience — that of war. But then, there are some things we shouldn't have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.
Who knew?
Nice as it is of the media to scratch the surface journalists should have been mining over a year ago, the current disastrous straits for the country are that — as Jen Rubin contends at contentions — the Obama who is off to Russia to cut unratifiable deals with the recrudescent Soviets hasn't really changed in the ensuing quarter-century.
“Dispell” is the new “Potatoe”
Breaking the War Mentality (Barack Obama, circa 1983 at Columbia) (Sundial (via Columbia University Archives) 03/10/1983 Barack Obama)
Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:30:27 PM by Ultra Sonic 007
"Most people my age remember well the air-raid drills in school, under the desk with our heads tucked between our legs."
He lies. He was in Indonesia as a youth going to school and they weren't doing "duck and cover" drills in the US in the 1970s when he returned to the states.
Where is the Bill Ayers connection?
“Most people my age remember well the air-raid drills in school, under the desk with our heads tucked between our legs.”
That is Ayers talking.
Obama mentions Earl Hall a couple of times in his article which is kind of interesting from a Larry Sinclair angle if you know what I mean.
Great. And this guy is in Russia negotiating, right now.
Where is the Bill Ayers connection?
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Actually I see it is attributed to “Don Kent”. This did not come to my attention when I read it earlier this year.
American enemies like North Korea and Iran have done their homework well enough to size up Obama as an anti-US, anti-US-militarism zealot. They know they’re in like Flynn with this panty waist. Of course, the US media has done its best to keep information about the real Obama from the US public. They’ve pooh poohed the significance of him sitting in a church with the racist Reverend Wright; they’ve accepted that Obama’s friendship with Bill Ayers was irrelevant; and they’ve ignored his pro-Casto/Chaves/Adminejad foreign policy.
I already tried to wade through her compendium of racially-based gibberish and found it unreadable.
If you posted the link for others, thanks. As for me, I’d rather be “tortured” by wearing panties on my head or be waterboarded than have to try to read her “thesis” again!!
I didn’t see anything about Bill Ayers. Why did you put that into the heading?
It is the Obama Kneepad Tour ‘09. More knee time than Monica Lewinski.
Clearly, Jack Cashill is right. After reading this, there is no way Obama could have written “Dreams of My Father”.
“Obama bewailed the “narrow focus” of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the “symptoms” rather than the real “disease,” namely, America’s underlying economic and political injustice:”
Obama is out to destroy our freedoms and our economy.
Is that a picture of bill ayers in the article?
MSM did more investigation of Joe the Plumber in 24 hours than they did on Baraq in 24 months.
I believe that implicitly.
Joseph McCarthy gave a speech on the Senate floor in 1951, and later wrote a book that expounded on and backed up his points that he made on the floor, called "America's Retreat from Victory".
Like many people, I was unwilling to attach any negative aspirations or actions to someone who was hailed as a war hero and one of the greatest men of the 20th century.
McCarthy was not so shy, and was willing not only to say what he thought publicly, but to back it up with documentation, which he did in his book mentioned above (A copy of which I purchased a couple of years ago)
It is a stunning book, but how it relates to this subject here is this: In his analysis, Joseph McCarthy made the point that if some of the things that were done by Marshall that helped the communists were simply the result of a poor analysis or choice on his part, someone with his intellect would be likely to choose correctly at least SOME of the time, as a matter of averages. And that never happened. Without fail, nearly every choice and action in which Marshall was part of, they all were to the advantage of the communists.
The same can be said of Obama, in my estimation. If some of his actions were due to his stupidity or inexperience, at least some of his actions would be helpful.
None are. And that tells me something.
Everyone has been saying “community organizer”. Shouldn’t it have been “communist organizer”?
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