Posted on 07/08/2008 5:58:28 PM PDT by workerbee
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Obama the symbol possesses the enviable quality that Walker calls "projectability," and Obama himself has marveled that he often seems to be "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." He is, in short, a cutting-edge brand. But if he does win the general election, what then? A brand can't be president of the United States. Once in the Oval Office what beliefs, values and ideas would Obama bring to the job? Rather than look at calculated official pronouncements (a recent release cited William Shakespeare and Ernest Hemingway as the candidate's favorite authors) it's time to take a closer look at some of the formative books in his intellectual and political life to see if we can learn more about the man behind the movement.
If Obama is elected, he'll be one of the most literary presidents in recent memory. Although his boyhood and youth in Hawaii and Indonesia were not especially bookish, Obama the reader blossomed as an undergraduate at Occidental College in California and, especially, during the two monkish years he spent finishing up his degree at Columbia University in New York. "I had tons of books," he told his biographer, David Mendell ("Obama: From Promise to Power"), about this time in his life. "I read everything. I think that was the period when I grew as much as I have ever grown intellectually. But it was a very internal growth." Even after he left New York to work as a community organizer in Chicago, Mendell reports, Obama lived so much like a retiring writer -- spending many hours holed up in a spartan apartment with volumes of "philosophy and literature" -- that some of his colleagues assumed he was gathering material for a novel.
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everything he has EVER done in his life is far leftwing, so therefore he obviously will govern from the center.
BS
Center of what, the Central Committee of the Supreme Soviet.
Obama would govern from the center of Havanna or Mecca, or Bejing.....so the article sounds pretty accurate.
I’m sure the works of Marx and Engels were studied extensively.
I saw on another board that contributions to Obama’s campaign had been traced to Saudi, Muslim countries and communist countries. Anybody hear that?
That say they heard on a talk radio show that Maureen Dowd had written about it. But THAT couldn’t be. Could it?
Notice the breathless recitation of Obama’s work for Saul Alinsky’s organization. Wow. This woman gives “puff piece” a whole new meaning. She’s practically orgasmic midway through.
I heard from reliable sources the Maureen Dowd column was a hoax.
If Obama was “mentored” by Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party operative, then certainly Marx and Stalin/Lenin and Engels were studies. (www.usasurvival.com)
However, the Obama spinmeisters will claim that he only read Groucho Marxs and Marty Engels.
The author of this article will need a hose to blow this smoke up our butts.
Never saw him touch a piece of Pork not a slice of bacon not a single rib.... Muslims don’t eat pork.... hmmmm
So basically everything the guy has ever read (that left an impression) was written by Socialist/Communist, and every vote he ever got around to making was extremely left of center but I’m suppose to believe he will govern from the center? Nice try Ms. Miller but I’m not buying. Unfortunately the sheople may.
Yes, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and China.
He’s got to be getting a lot of the cash he’s raking in from foreign countries.
Notice where it says ‘donations’ on his website, it says, ‘what country are you from?’
Three page article from Salon.
No thanks.
Bottom line: Obama is a hardcore lefty.
An old comrade of Hitler's sent a telegram to President Hindenburg regarding his new chancellor. Former General Erich Ludendorff had once supported Hitler and had even participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.
"By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action." - the telegram to Hindenburg from Ludendorff stated.
Amazing how all the leftists tell the same lie at the same time.
You can fool some of the people some of the time let us hope you cannot fool a majority of the peole all of the time.
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