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Forward to Socialism!
The Patriot Post ^ | May 2, 2012 | Ken Blackwell

Posted on 05/02/2012 11:08:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Someone in the Obama campaign should find a new line of work. They've adopted as a slogan the single word: Forward! You've heard those complaints from conservatives that Obama is a socialist? Well, Forward! is one sure way to validate those concerns. Forward! has been the slogan of Marxists for more than a century. Vorwärts is not a soccer rival to Harry Potter's Hogwarts school, that home of witchcraft and wizardry. Vorwärts was the German language name of the Socialist newspaper for generations of European leftists.

In Russia, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks used the word Vperyod! Now, if you had been accused day in and day out of being a Marxist, would you run for re-election with such a freighted word? It's a comment on American education that a candidate for president can use a Communist word and expect no one will notice or object.

Maybe the Obama team is just taking cues from MSNBC. They try to deny their far-left orientation with the disarming slogan: Lean Forward. Try to imagine that we're on the rim of the Grand Canyon, staring down at the chasm of debt that this administration has dug for. This president has dug a hole of debt in three years deeper than all previous forty-three presidents. And while we're hanging out over that canyon rim, MSNBC tells us to lean forward.

It's surprising that President Obama didn't pick up on the unsavory associations with the word Forward! It's like David Duke not getting the problem with white sheets.

In his book, Radical-in-Chief Stanley Kurtz takes great care to document Mr. Obama's ties to American socialists. Obama admits in his memoir that he attended the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City in April 1983. The way Obama tells it, going to that conference was part of the delightful intellectual smorgasbord of activity that a Columbia student samples in Manhattan. You know, Lincoln Center, the Bronx Zoo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's Tomb -- all that cultural stuff in the Big Apple.

The only problem with this scenario is that the agenda of the Socialist Scholars Conference in 1983 was pretty clear: How to bring Socialism to America without importing all that nasty, brutish KGB and GuLAG apparatus from what President Reagan was calling the evil empire.

Those democratic Socialists may well have hit on the formula: work against the family, abolish marriage, crush small businesses, take over big ones. Nationalize student loans and home mortgages, the two biggest items in the American family budget. You don't have to nationalize everything. As former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsby said, just the "commanding heights" of the economy. Nice Marxian phrase there, Austan.

Stanley Kurtz is quite careful to distinguish President Obama's radicalism from that of the Continental Marxists. Kurtz will not go where the evidence does not lead. He finally concludes that Barack Obama is a Socialist, but he's a Socialist like the left wing of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Now, it was hard enough to get Americans to muster on the village green when Paul Revere rode through "every Middlesex village and farm" crying out "The British are coming! The British are coming!" But stand they did and fired the shot heard `round the world.

During the Cold War, Hollywood's Alan Arkin made fun of anti-Communists here with a spoof called "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!"

So it's not hard to figure out why Stanley Kurtz's book did not raise greater alarms. How do you get folks stirred up yelling "The Swedes are coming! The Swedes are coming"?

The serious question we need to ask ourselves: Does the Swedish Socialist model work, even for Sweden? Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia will find it increasingly impossible to meet the demands of their social welfare systems with an ever-shrinking native-born population. That's why Sweden has taken to importing folks from the Third World. And that, tragically is why the ancient city of Malmő has become dangerous for Jews. The children and grandchildren of people who fled there with the rise of Hitler are being forced out by the rise of jihadist anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism is the inevitable result of the politics of re-distribution. We should not forget that in Germany, it was National Socialism that blamed the Jews as that nation's one percent. Socialism didn't work in the USSR, but anti-Semitism was rife. That's why millions of Soviet Jews fled when they had the chance.

The reason Socialists always proclaim Forward! as their slogan is that they never want you to look at their record. Don't look back at the wreckage of the economy and the dangers to liberty. Just keep marching together, Forward! indeed.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2012; communism; forward; green; kenblackwell; marxism; radicalleft
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Andrew Breitbart left us knowing more than he had time to disclose to us.

What did he know that we need to re-discover, document and publish?

Why are ALL of Obama’s important early documents forged?

Where was Obama during his “Lost Years?”

Why are there so few known Obama childhood friends?

How many of Obama’s childhood buddies are still alive?

Was Obama a FOREIGN student at Occidental, Columbia or Harvard?

Who wrote the checks for Obama’s education?

Where these question that Andrew Beitbart knew some of the answers to?

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To tie the above with some speculative food for thought, please indulge me, (but DO ponder the speculations), as I re-post one of my recently updated comments as follows:

A dictator, such as Obama, only has the power that the people give him.

Currently, at least 40 % of polled American voters are gladly willing to give Obama the necessary power to continue his arrogant dictatorship.

About 47 % of American voters pay NO Personal Federal Income Taxes. These voters are the “fair share” voter base for Dictator Obama. We, in the 53 %, then are paying this 47 % to vote for Obama by virtue of us paying taxes for ourselves AND them.

In this manner we are supporting the voters who vote for Obama, and they will vote to do so again in November.

Dictator Obama has designed Obama”care” to become active only AFTER he is to be re-elected, thus enabling THE NINE SUPREMES to delay ruling on the Constitutionality of the dictate of the individual mandate until Obama is once again the Illegal Foreign White House Occupier, (IFWHO).

The purpose of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack is simple: 1.) Regulate; 2.) Control; and 3.) Destroy. By his own count he has already achieved 60 % of his goals, according to the note he says he carries in his pocket.

Obama’s obvious arrogant and deep hatred of America could have only come from what he was taught in his childhood.

Since there are no known networks of childhood friends from Obama’s past, Obama was probably a member of a Marxist sleeper cell funded by wealthy men with a Marxist view of the World.

The lack of credible documents that has NOT been forged requires a long-term, highly skilled and well-funded support group.

Who the key members of Obama’s probable support group and probable sleeper cell were and are is well known to the Interpol, CIA and the FBI.

Will “Citizen Journalists” such as Breitbart Editor Joel Pollack be able to out-spy the latter two US tax-funded spy entities?

BTW, forget about the LAM, (Liberal Agenda Media), as they are saving their notes to write their tell-all Obama books after Obama has SAFELY retired back home in Kenya.

BTW, BTW, to all the doubters of the above speculations: what does your gut tell you?

______________________

The questions we ask
Are simple to say,
One wonders why they
Were not asked,
Back in the Day?

Meanwhile the drumbeat of Dictator, (in his own mind), Obama grows louder:

regulate —— control —— destroy —— Regulate —— control —— destroy —— REgulate —— control —— destroy —— REGulate —— control —— destroy —— REGU


41 posted on 05/02/2012 12:54:21 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Always A Marine

That’s not the choice we are facing this is the choice we are facing. Your family is going to be shot in front of you by a squad of riflemen. Your choice is will it be a squad of enemy riflemen or a squad of your own riflemen.


42 posted on 05/02/2012 12:56:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
FORWARD! (on the first count)
MARCH! (on the second count)

Its a command, people. Just follow the cadence of the group leader and everything will be just fine.

43 posted on 05/02/2012 1:00:02 PM PDT by oyez ( Yomomacare going done once, going down twice, going---..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
With reference to your acknowledgement of my previous post, please note that this exquisite bit of satire by Richter was written in 1893.

Coincidentally, in "The New Laws" section, he mentions that the new "organ" under the new order is called "Forward." How interesting is that?

Had most of us read this writer's work twenty years ago, it might not have the chilling effect it does today. After the last 3 years, however, the descriptions of life described, even in satirical terms, in such a state, is as current as today's news.

44 posted on 05/02/2012 1:20:07 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Most slogans have meaning and inspire the thought process. Not this one. It’s confusing and makes me wonder how much the DNC paid for such an uncatchy phrase? The DNC has been stuck in Reverse so long that Forward is an unnatural direction.


45 posted on 05/02/2012 1:23:00 PM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They are working within the churches as we type.

http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/c.frLJK2PKLqF/b.5846377/k.6B57/Environmental_Justice.htm

vob


46 posted on 05/02/2012 1:31:53 PM PDT by Vob (free radical community organizer)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Zero’s people use the “Forward” slogan precisely because it is a century old Marxist theme. They are fully confident that their fellow travelers will feel more empowered and that the media will play it down for the “sheep.”


47 posted on 05/02/2012 2:24:50 PM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: Vob

Thank you for the link.

Check these out.

http://nccecojustice.org/campaigns/

http://www.creationcareforpastors.com/

http://www.sej.org/


48 posted on 05/02/2012 2:25:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Oldexpat

Well, considering that Jon Corzine and all the Goldman Sachs fat cats seem to have bought “Get-out-of-jail-free” cards, maybe their slogan should be “FOR-SALE!”


49 posted on 05/02/2012 2:42:55 PM PDT by pfony1
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To: Oldexpat

Well, considering that Jon Corzine and all the Goldman Sachs fat cats seem to have bought “Get-out-of-jail-free” cards, maybe their slogan should be “FOR-SALE!”


50 posted on 05/02/2012 2:43:17 PM PDT by pfony1
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To: gusty

I have heard the name bain capital, but have no knowledge (to date) of what it is or it’s significance...


51 posted on 05/03/2012 4:10:09 AM PDT by joe fonebone (If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil.)
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