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Former Occidental College mate: Obama an “ardent Marxist-Leninist”
Flopping Aces ^ | 12-09-11 | Mataharley

Posted on 12/10/2011 8:45:22 AM PST by Starman417

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1 posted on 12/10/2011 8:45:27 AM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417

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2 posted on 12/10/2011 8:47:02 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Starman417

Shouldn’t this be in “chat”?


3 posted on 12/10/2011 8:54:26 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Starman417
Obama an “ardent Marxist-Leninist”

Well, DUH.

4 posted on 12/10/2011 8:58:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
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To: Starman417

FINALLY!!!!!
This guy has NO past to report...
like he was born YESTERDAY...
(in Kenya!)


5 posted on 12/10/2011 9:01:17 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Paladin2

Why?


6 posted on 12/10/2011 9:01:58 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Starman417

Revealing facts about The Anointed/Appointed One’s past is RACST!


7 posted on 12/10/2011 9:07:30 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Williams

It’s not news around here.


8 posted on 12/10/2011 9:09:09 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fred Nerks

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/obamas_missing_link_1.html

Drew: As far as I can tell, I’m the only person in Obama’s extended circle of friends who is willing to speak out and verify that he was a Marxist-Leninist in his sophomore year of college from 1980 to 1981. I met him because I graduated from Occidental College in 1979, and I was back at Occidental visiting a girlfriend.

Kengor: Was Occidental known for radical-left politics? Would that have been an attraction to Obama?

Drew: It was considered the Moscow of southern California when I was there. There were a lot of Marxist professors, many of whom I got to know pretty well. ... What I know absolutely for sure — and this is where I really sought you out and I really wanted to be helpful in terms of the historic record — was to verify that Barack Obama was definitely a Marxist and that it was very unusual for a sophomore at Occidental to be as radical or as ideologically attuned as young Barack Obama was.

Kengor: You said that Obama was introduced to you at Occidental College as a Marxist? Because you were one [a Marxist] at that point?

Drew: Yeah, that’s embarrassing for me, but I studied Marxist economics when I was at the University of Sussex in England. I had a junior-year scholarship over there and I did my senior honors thesis on Marxist economics when I was at Occidental College. And I also founded [the] Democratic Student Socialist Alliance, you know, under a different name, in 1976.

Kengor: John, now you had told me before, and I’m reading from my own book here, “Obama was already an ardent Marxist when I met him in the fall of 1980. [Quotation from above continued.]”

Drew: Yeah, that’s exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him — this was probably around Christmastime in 1980 — because, you know, I had flown out during Christmas break from Cornell, where I was doing my graduate work. Young Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution — literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.

Kengor: And you would know this because you were a comrade, so to speak.

Drew: Yeah, I was a comrade, but I was kind of more what Michael Savage called the “Frankfurt School” of Marxism at the time. I was, you know, I felt like I was doing Obama a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and [our friends] were hoping for was really kind of a pipe dream, and that there was nothing in European history or the history of developed nations that would make that sort of fantasy — you know, Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution — come true.

Kengor: So you had a realistic sense that even though you liked these ideas, it [Marxist revolution] really couldn’t happen or really wouldn’t even work.

Drew: Right. I was ... still a card-carrying Marxist, but I was kind of a more advanced, East Coast, Cornell University Marxist, I think, at the time.

Kengor: But Obama thought it was practical — he thought you could make this happen in America?

Drew: Oh yeah, and he kind of thought I was, you know, a little reactionary —

Kengor: — that you were conservative compared to him!

Drew: Yeah, like I was kind of insensitive to the needs of the coming revolution. So that’s why I said [Obama] was full-bore, 100% into that simpleminded Marxist, revolutionary mental framework.


9 posted on 12/10/2011 9:15:32 AM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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Anyone and I repeat anyone who looked a trillionth of an inch below President Obama’s “calm” surface would have been able to see long before the last election that he is a Marxist. His parents and grandparents were leftists. The people who influenced him growing up and many of his associations now are Marxists. President Obama hates this country and is doing everything in his power to destroy it. John McCain had a twisted sense of fairness, and he didn’t even try to show the voters who Barack Obama was. In this sense, McCain didn’t just harm himself; he did irreparable harm to this country. We will be paying for McCain’s sense of “fairness” for years to come.


10 posted on 12/10/2011 9:21:07 AM PST by Essie
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To: Old Sarge

Right you are. What most folks refuse to accept is that is doesn’t matter one bit what is revealed about him there is absolutely nothing that will be done. The halfrican-american is THE first “black” president thus untouchable. As someone called him “the fresh prince of bill ayres”. Now that struck the old funny bone in an odd sort of way.

Go NAVY!!!! Game day. Woo Hoo!


11 posted on 12/10/2011 9:23:42 AM PST by rktman
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To: Starman417

Too many in this nation believes that there is nothing wrong with communism as long as the RIGHT people are in charge and the media along with academia are the biggest cheerleaders of this ideal.

We conservatives care but the rest of the nation is asleep or brainwashed.


12 posted on 12/10/2011 9:29:55 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Essie
John McCain had a twisted sense of fairness, and he didn’t even try to show the voters who Barack Obama was. In this sense, McCain didn’t just harm himself; he did irreparable harm to this country. We will be paying for McCain’s sense of “fairness” for years to come.

McCain's a fool - he's our 'Jimmah Carter'...

13 posted on 12/10/2011 9:37:51 AM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: Essie
John McCain had a twisted sense of fairness, and he didn’t even try to show the voters who Barack Obama was. In this sense, McCain didn’t just harm himself; he did irreparable harm to this country. We will be paying for McCain’s sense of “fairness” for years to come.

McCain's a fool - he's our 'Jimmah Carter'...

One more reason to back Newt - he's no one's fool and he's a fighter.

14 posted on 12/10/2011 9:38:45 AM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: Starman417
[Occidental College] was considered the Moscow of southern California when I was there.

I can vouch for that--I was at "Moscow on the hill" for four years.

15 posted on 12/10/2011 9:42:45 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Starman417

Every day there’s at least one news story calling for Captain Obvious.


16 posted on 12/10/2011 9:50:33 AM PST by lurk
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Oh they are brainwashed alright. A friend of mine in his 50’s has started back to night classes and his English assignments are mostly term papers on the evils of the Founding Fathers or “practice” letters to Congress explaining the need for more money into “higher education”. Sheesh!


17 posted on 12/10/2011 9:54:32 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Essie

Exactly so. All you really had to do was read Dreams From My Father and have the tiniest bit of historical context and ability to read between the lines. And really you didn’t have to read between the lines much, most of it was in the open.


18 posted on 12/10/2011 10:00:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Starman417

“Page not found” at link.


19 posted on 12/10/2011 10:18:55 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Essie

McCaine new exactly what he was doing during his campaign and his job was to hand Obozo the presidency. McCaine’s reward was being handed his senate seat again. In national politics, if the people’s voice meant anything it would threaten the grip the ruling elite and the mob have on this country. They own most of the media and I understand there is a conglomerate buying up American arms manufacturing companies. It’s obvious how that fits with their ploy to control.


20 posted on 12/10/2011 10:43:05 AM PST by drypowder
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