Former Occidental College mate: Obama an “ardent Marxist-Leninist”

Flopping Aces ^ | 12-09-11 | Mataharley

[patriot08]

John McCain had a twisted sense of fairness, and he didn’t even try to show the voters who Barack Obama was.
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The Repubs said they won’t this time either. Too dangerous..

[jmaroneps37]

FINALLY some remembers the pos somewhere!

[hattend]

Surprised they found somebody who actually saw Obama at the school.

First one, I believe.

[ExCTCitizen]

Where were you in 2008?? You should have said it then!!!

[hattend]

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.

So, there are degrees of Marxicity?

[GOPJ]

So, there are degrees of Marxicity?

Guess some Marxists look down on other Marxists... Scary to think that Obama was seen (even within that group) as being fringe and out of touch. Spooky stuff.

[Future Useless Eater]

Drew was also interviewed on the radio and there may be other tidbits in the radio interview that weren't covered in this article:

Marlzberg: OK, So there's Barry Obama, and... tell me why you believe that he was a Marxist back then? Drew: OK, well my most vivid memory is how INSISTENT he was in arguing a Marxist / Leninist point of view. I was arguing a more moderate Marxist view that just said that even though a lot of Marxist ideas were correct, it was implausible that we would ever see a revolution led by the working class to overthrow the elite. And Obama did NOT buy that AT ALL. He made a very principled, dedicated, impassioned argument that in fact, a REAL revolution was coming. And in a sense, we should all get on board and prepare ourselves physically and emotionally for that revolution.
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Marlzberg: yea, and so, OK, he wasn't ambitious at the time. But the revolution, that he saw coming, this fit in with some other remarks you made, about the United States, where you say that you believe that Obama perceived America as the ENEMY. In what sense? Drew: He DEFINITELY saw America as the enemy. He believed that the ruling elite had rigged our economic system so that it CAUSED people to be poor. And it was immoral, and it was wrong, and the only way you could tip things back so we all could enjoy a more prosperous lifestyle, was to redistribute the wealth.

A more complete transcript of that radio interview is here:
what Obama's classmate at Occidental said he was like at that time:

[GOPJ]

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