nuff said
Posted on 05/06/2012 5:45:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Forward!"
It seems like a sufficiently innocent, positive word – doesn’t it?
It’s been a week since the Obama re-election team unveiled "Forward" as the President’s new campaign motto. And it’s been a week of commentators noting the similarity between Obama’s “Forward,” and liberal tv network MSNBC’s slogan "Lean Forward;" Communist Chinese Dictator Mao Zedong’s "The Great Leap Forward;" and "Spring Forward," the slogan used by communist Russia Dictator Vladimir Lenin.
Some have insisted that the Obama campaign’s similarities to Chinese and European communism are only rhetorical, and, therefore, the choice of this word was simply an unfortunate mistake. Others suggest that this is a flagrant display of the true philosophical colors of our President, and those of the people by whom he’s surrounded. But there have been multiple Obama Administration appointees who have spoken favorably and eloquently about communism. And President Obama has for years been promising to use government power to improve people’s lives – just like communist dictators do.
So is America comfortable with communists advising the President? And is Obama improving anything, as he gobbles up more control of our lives with executive mandates and big-government policies?
Since taking office in 2009, there have been at least three Obama Administration appointees who have expressed their fondness and appreciation for communism. Van Jones, President Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar,” is perhaps the most widely known communist appointee who didn’t last long at the White House. After being appointed by the President in March of 2009, Jones became embroiled in “controversy” when it was discovered that he had previously identified himself as an “avowed communist,” and had ties to a Marxist group back in the 1990’s. After this came to light in the media, Jones was terminated by President Obama with less than four months on the job.
Then there was former Obama White House Communications Director (now a Democrat Party political strategist) Anita Dunn. Ms. Dunn, whose White House career dates back to the Carter Administration, was the subject of a brief moment of controversy in 2009 when it was discovered that in a speech she had noted that Mother Theresa and Mao Zedong were two of her “favorite political philosophers.”
As if that isn’t sufficiently accommodating to communism, President Obama’s former “Manufacturing Czar” had similar accolades to his name. During his tenure at the White House, Czar Ron Blum became famous for noting that “the free market is nonsense,” and that “Chairman Mao” had it right with idea that “political power comes largely from a gun…” A communistic campaign slogan and three Administration appointees with affections for communism – accidental or not, there has nonetheless been a recurrent theme with the kinds of people with which our President surrounds himself. And then there are the policies and the promises, with the accompanying loss of individual liberty.
After less than two years at the White House, President Obama had successfully put in to place a system of tremendous governmental control over the otherwise private economy. By the middle of 2010, the President had become a de-facto C.E.O. over huge chunks of the economy, with the power to hire and fire executives, establish compensation limits for executive management, and to determine what products and services are produced. Insurance companies, car manufacturers, lending institutions and energy producers – President Obama has forced his will upon them, and they have reacted.
So where has the President’s agenda led us thus far? Forward to $13 trillion of government debt? Forward to government spending that outpaces GDP? Forward to a government debt downgrade? Forward to skyrocketing healthcare prices?
When Chairman Mao rose to power earlier last century, he implemented what he called his “First Five Year Plan,” noting that the first three years would be difficult but thereafter things would go well. His reign over China, as we know today, brought about the deaths of somewhere between fifty and eighty million “peasants,” and eventually gave way to the more westernized “People’s Republic of China” – still a communist government, yes, but with more private control of economic resources instead of less.
Will President Obama be implementing a second “four year plan?” We, the people, will make that decision and not the President himself. For now we’d all do well to consider whether or not the President’s plan has moved us “forward” at all.
nuff said
To turn a socialist, 60’s, Seeger song back on them...
We’re waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool says to push on.
Awesome image.
I know you were being nice, but that's not mud.
Words mean things; save in the case of sleight-of-word, Liberals; whereby, for the Lefty; they mean the precise opposite; or just as often; mean nothing at all.
What 'was', Clinton's meaning of is? Did Clinton et al; ever reconcile to the truth of the matter? Think, not entirely.
Most critically; for the Left and the rest of us; The American Way; is NOT. . .and we must insure; it never will be.
Words mean things; save in the case of sleight-of-word, Liberals; whereby, for the Lefty; they mean the precise opposite; or just as often; mean nothing at all.
What 'was', Clinton's meaning of is? Did Clinton et al; ever reconcile to the truth of the matter? Think, not entirely.
Most critically; for the Left and the rest of us; The American Way; is NOT. . .and we must insure; it never will be.
Countdown until the wrecking ball I call 'Jackwagon' leaves Office: 259 days as of May 6, 2012.
LOL! Well Seeger is close to a hundred years old...
Happy to purchase as well!
It’s not mine
Check out the Web site it came from, it’s frigging hilarious!
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/forward-with-obama-mao-and-lenin-t8936.html
People’s Cube is great - many of there signs were/are used at Tea Party rallies. Just make sure their website is shown and print away!
I can see the cliff from my back yard.
As was the choice of Marx's birthday (May 5th) to officially kick off their campaign.
Thanks!
Great image. I would love to make a sticker out of that and place it on every gas pump I visit from now through November.
Per Chinese Wisdom. ..'one picture - worth a thousand words'.
Who fouled that perfectly good pile of poop with that stinking Obama sign?!
The danger remains Communism.
It was the Communist plan in 1934. It is 0bama’s Communist plan today.
Richter's work illustrates the fact that in every century throughout human history there have been those who, like Obama, envision a sort of utopian future in which persons like themselves get a shot at ruling the society by foolinig others into becoming dependent upon them and their "superior" wisdom (sarcasm).
When one looks around at what has happened to America already, and the degree to which the backward "forward" ideas of "progressives" have dimmed the light of liberty which once beamed from America, then Richter's pages take on new meaning.
Click on any of the segments and find something relevant to today's discussions. Please note that this exquisite bit of satire by Richter was written in 1893.
Coincidentally, in "The New Laws" section, he satirically comments that the "organ" (i. e., "Pravda") under the new order is called "Onward." How interesting is that?
Other sections describing family, work, etc., in a world centered around a philosophy devoid of religious or spiritual thought, as well as individual freedom, ought to stir deep feelings in the hearts of most who have memories of a different time.
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 in a "socialistic future," as described, even in satirical terms, is current as today's news, and too realistic to be amusing.
Obama's "Julia" is a caricature of what it means to be a truly independent woman in America. There is a long line of strong and influential women who precede her, perhaps beginning with Abigail Adams.
Can someone post the pic of Obama and his family in commie red and black at his victory speech! I knew then Michelle and he were without a doubt diehard commies.
Very nice video.
Thinking about going to the inauguration to celebate.
Seems like they are one of these:
1. Oblivious/incompetent and stumbled on this accidentally
2. Too clever by half, thinking they could do this and only THEY would (wink wink) be in on the meaning.
3. Just out there IN YOUR FACE...as in “yes we are Communists and what is wrong with that?”
4. There is someone on the inside whom they trust completely, but is actually in the process of subtly exposing them...sort of a double agent. Seems there has been an uncanny number of exploding cigars of late.
There’s no way Obama is oblivious to the meaning of his slogan. He knows its history just like we do, and all of his tuned-in lefty friends know it too. So it’s a dog whistle shout out to them, and a middle finger to us. However, he’s banking on most people not knowing or caring.
An interesting collection of “coincidences” in just the past week:
1. “Forward” - century-old communist agitprop
2. “Julia” - Name of Winston’s girlfriend in “1984” who reports Winston to the state, is re-educated, and learns to love Big Brother more than Winston.
3. “Obama 2012” Campaign kicks off on Karl Marx’s birthday, May 5.
I agree. It is impossible to believe this was a simple unlucky blunder. Arrogance likely made them think that we would either not know, or, in the case of the RINOS not have the courage to point out the obvious. Actually this reminds me of what Glenn Beck predicted about two years ago. He said it would be: “We are not Communists. We are not Communists. We are not Communists....then it would switch to “Okay, we ARE Communists and what is wrong with that?” His reasoning was to point out the way it went with Clinton and Monica Lewinsky...a long line of “it didn’t happen” and then “ok so what, who cares because it is just sex.”
Lyrics to Vorwarts :
Unzerstörbar zieh’n wir unsere Bahn
Keine Müh’ zu groß, kein Weg zu lang
Will uns jemand stören, werden wir’s nicht hören!
Keine Zeit vertan und nichts versäumt
Alle Hindernisse aus dem Weg geräumt
Wir gehen volles Tempo
Stoppen kann uns nur der Tod!
Prognose
Aussicht
Diagnose
Scheiß drauf! Scheiß drauf!
Unsere Körper sind der Motor, unser Wille das Benzin
Mit ungebändigter Schaffenskraft werden wir weiter zieh’n
Mit euch an unserer Seite, das Ziel fest im Blick
Unaufhaltsam vorwärts - für uns gibt’s kein zurück!
Prognose - negativ
Aussicht - keine
Diagnose - tödlich
Scheiß drauf! Scheiß drauf!
Feuer über den Wolken
Stürme am Himmel
Fluten auf Erden -
Nichts hält uns auf!
Wir stürmen vorwärts!
Unsere Kinder, unsere Väter, unsere Mütter - für alle, die uns wichtig sind!
Unsere Freunde, die Geliebten, die Getreuen - und allen, die uns wichtig sind!
Vorwärts!
Vorwärts!
Vorwärts!
Folgt uns, wenn Ihr könnt!
Unzerstörbar zieh’n wir unsere Bahn
Keine Müh’ zu groß, kein Weg zu lang
Will uns jemand stören, werden wir’s nicht hören!
Wer sich in den Weg uns stellt
Ist einfach dumm oder doch ein Held
Doch siegen werden diese Helden nie
Denn Helden sterben früh!
Feuer über den Wolken
Stürme am Himmel
Fluten auf Erden -
Nichts hält uns auf!
Wir stürmen vorwärts!
Unsere Freiheit, unsere Ehre, unser Stolz - für alles, was uns wichtig ist!
Für die Wahrheit, für die Liebe, für den Hass - für alles, was uns wichtig ist!
Vorwärts!
Vorwärts!
Vorwärts!
Folgt uns, wenn Ihr könnt!
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