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Clinton Mocks Allen West Calling Democratic Representatives Communists: ‘This Isn’t The 1950s’
Mediaite ^ | June 5, 2012 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 06/05/2012 11:26:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Former President Bill Clinton mocked Rep. Allen West (R-FL) at a fundraising event for President Barack Obama on Monday night. Clinton mocked West’s claim that House Democrats were communists – he said that “this isn’t the 1950s” and “no one has seen a communist in over a decade.”

Clinton praised the work that Obama has accomplished in his first term in office and said that he’s had to accomplish the reforms he has instituted amid significant adversity. “He’s had to get all this done while people as recently as last week were still saying he wasn’t born in America,” said Clinton.

Clinton continued by targeting House Republicans, singling out Rep. West who he described as one of the “tea party members.” Clinton became animated when he highlighted Rep. West’s comments where he implied that the House Progressive Caucus were communists.

“This is not the 1950s,” said Clinton. “At least Joe McCarthy could skate on the fact that there was one or two living communists walking around. Nobody’s seen a communist in over a decade.”

Clinton concluded saying that “no criticism [of President Obama by Republicans] was too vicious and too fact-free.”

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More than a "couple of communists kicking around," Bubba.

Venona Project Homepage, NSA (Decrypted Soviet Cables, Coulter source for Treason book) (FR thread 2003)

These messages provided extraordinary insight into Soviet attempts to infiltrate the highest levels of the United States Goverment.
(That line was removed from the NSA website.)

VENONA (NSA website)

The U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service, the precursor to the National Security Agency, began a secret program in February 1943 later codenamed VENONA. The mission of this small program was to examine and exploit Soviet diplomatic communications but after the program began, the message traffic included espionage efforts as well.

Although it took almost two years before American cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption, the information gained through these transactions provided U.S. leadership insight into Soviet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees until the program was canceled in 1980.

The VENONA files are most famous for exposing Julius (code named LIBERAL) and Ethel Rosenberg and help give indisputable evidence of their involvement with the Soviet spy ring.

The first of six public releases of translated VENONA messages was made in July 1995 and included 49 messages about the Soviets' efforts to gain information on the U.S. atomic bomb research and the Manhattan Project. Over the course of five more releases, all of the approximately 3,000 VENONA translations were made public.


21 posted on 06/05/2012 11:46:27 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If it's no longer the 1950s, if focusing on the Communist threat is merely an exercise in nostalgia, then why would Rep. West's words be any kind of a threat?

[Me and my pesky questions...]

22 posted on 06/05/2012 11:50:00 AM PDT by danielmryan
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That there happens to exist a misbegotten political animal, the left wing, liberal chimera of which is America’s worst nightmare is all the proof you need that Communism and all its innumerable iterations are alive and doing all too-well.


23 posted on 06/05/2012 11:51:53 AM PDT by lbryce (OMG. What have we done to deserve the likes of the miscreant Zero?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Clinton mocked West’s claim that House Democrats were communists – he said that “this isn’t the 1950s” and “no one has seen a communist in over a decade.”

“At least Joe McCarthy could skate on the fact that there was one or two living communists walking around.

Actually, Willy-Jeff, you are partly right. Back in the 1950's there were one or two. Now there are over seventy.



World English Dictionary

communism

— n

1. advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community

2. any social, economic, or political movement or doctrine aimed at achieving such a society

3. ( usually capital ) Marxism Marxism-Leninism See also socialism a political movement based upon the writings of Marx that considers history in terms of class conflict and revolutionary struggle, resulting eventually in the victory of the proletariat and the establishment of a socialist order based on public ownership of the means of production.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism

So...

When the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA PAC lists the seventy some odd members that are currently holding office IN CONGRESS and Rep. Allen West points out that fact, the screeching from you and the "progressive liberals" (communists) proclaims West's statement as "stupid and dissociated from reality," "trying to make it in the press with comments that don’t even make sense" and Allen West is "an ignorant, mean guy."

Yeah, that load of crap from the communist agenda donks is supposed to convince me that they are not communists?

Oh.

OK.

.

24 posted on 06/05/2012 11:51:53 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So I take it he hasn’t woken up next to the critter he is married to for a while.


25 posted on 06/05/2012 11:52:42 AM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Dear [Lt.] Colonel Holmes West,

. . . [I and] so many fine people have come to . . . loathing the [U.S.] military . . . To many of us, it is no longer clear what [you did] is service and what is disservice [to our country]

Sincerely,

Bill Clinton

A 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical (spoiled brat) speaks out.

A reminder.. to best of my recollection there were questions who was the real father of William Jefferson Blythe (Clinton).

Another egomaniacal psycho kid spoiled by a lifetime of people feeling sorry for him?

26 posted on 06/05/2012 11:52:42 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And for the bonus round, “Who is Van Jones?”


27 posted on 06/05/2012 11:53:02 AM PDT by Noumenon (If people saw socialists for what they truly are, slaughter would ensue - in self-defense.)
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To: TigersEye
More than a "couple of communists kicking around," Bubba.

That's one thing about a natural con man like Slick Willie: he's astute enough to know that he can't simply bullroar his way past the Communist theat. Slick Willy, despite his obvious faults, can't get up the gumption to say "never never never" and blind himself. He knows that he can't be Slick unless he barely acknowledges the truth.

In this sense, he's better than his wifey-wife.

28 posted on 06/05/2012 11:57:46 AM PDT by danielmryan
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To: RC2

RE: I believe that communism is worse now than in the 50’s

At least then we had Joe McCarthy attempting to keep the ship of state on the straight and level


29 posted on 06/05/2012 12:00:25 PM PDT by jesseam
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Socialists.com and Communists.com redirect to Obama campaign website

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/socialists-com-and-communists-com-redirect-to-obama-campaign-website/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#Earlier_activism
In October 2005 Jones said he was “a rowdy nationalist”[14] before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.

“The Nation’s” Top 50 Progressives… and Socialists and Communists

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/30/the-nations-top-50-progressive

CPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6247


30 posted on 06/05/2012 12:04:18 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: danielmryan
In this sense, he's better than his wifey-wife.

That's true. Hillary has always disdained the games of politics and would like to get straight to the executions and mass roundups. Bill would be happy if he could just have Lt. Col. West get him some coffee.

"I'll have a mocha latte with whip cream on top in a blue cup.
And don't spill any."

"Does anybody else want coffee?"

31 posted on 06/05/2012 12:04:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A progressive by any other name would still stink of communism.


32 posted on 06/05/2012 12:09:10 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: All

Joe Biden told Clinton to say that.............


33 posted on 06/05/2012 12:11:46 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“This is not the 1950s,” said Clinton. “We call ourselves ‘Progressives’ now.” Har-de-har


34 posted on 06/05/2012 12:13:49 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...“no one has seen a communist in over a decade.”

That's a big laugh. It doesn't take a membership card to make a communist. And there are probably some of those around too.

36 posted on 06/05/2012 12:17:38 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Clinton - “Nobody’s seen a communist in over a decade.”

I believe many progressives are just one step away from communism. All they need is an excuse and an opportunity.

Also, I think he’s married to one.
(I was gonna say he kisses one ‘Good Morning’ but I doubt the Clintons have slept in the same bed in a long, long time. I’m not trying to be mean; I really do doubt it. I think Hillary tired of the “Love Master” years ago and has decided to stick with box lunches from now on.)


37 posted on 06/05/2012 12:18:51 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Clinton isn’t a moron but he is convinced we are. It’s like an article about the Argentine oil seizure. The article actually said the the nationalization was not socialism per se because the government has appointed a CEO and Board of Directors to replace the Spaniards. Now didn’t we do something similar which we are told isn’t socialism? GM springs to mind.

Go Allen West!!!!


38 posted on 06/05/2012 12:21:30 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Communism ended in the 50s? What the Fluke is Slick Willie talking about? I never heard that! Has anyone told the communists up on Capitol Hill yet?


39 posted on 06/05/2012 12:24:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’s just using ridicule because he can’t disprove West.


40 posted on 06/05/2012 12:24:29 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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