The Independent View

Several weeks ago Barack Obama smoothly explained to “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to spread Joe’s wealth around (See Barack Obama Meets “Joe the Plumber”). He advo­cated tak­ing the wealth of suc­cess­ful Amer­i­cans and giv­ing it to oth­ers as the gov­ern­ment saw fit. Barack Obama intro­duced a hereto­for unseen side of his ideology — Marxism.

From each accord­ing to his abil­ity, to each accord­ing to his need – Karl Marx, 1875.

When asked on Good Morn­ing Amer­ica (Octo­ber 24, around 2 min­utes), Barack Obama said he did not regret his ‘spread the wealth’ com­ment. Why should he? His social­ist and Marx­ist past and ide­ol­ogy is com­ing into sharp focus and out-​of-​the-​closet so-​to-​speak (See, for exam­ple, my arti­cle, Obama is Hid­ing a Rad­i­cal Past). Past com­plaints about Obama not hav­ing any dis­cern­able ide­ol­ogy can now be firmly laid to rest.

In a 2001 pub­lic radio inter­view (see below the fold), Obama clearly faulted the Supreme Court for not rein­ter­pret­ing the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion to force redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth and faulted the civil rights move­ment for not doing more “polit­i­cal and com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing and activ­i­ties on the ground.…to put together the actual coali­tions of power through which you bring about redis­trib­u­tive change.”

Obama aligned him­self with a social­ist party in 1996 and has long­stand­ing ties to Marx­ists (e.g., Bill Ayers, Mike Klon­sky) who have a record of attack­ing the United States.

In about one week the Amer­i­can pub­lic will have a choice of vot­ing for Barack Obama, a man with per­sonal and pro­fes­sional ties to peo­ple espous­ing Marx­ist and social­ist ide­olo­gies, or John McCain, an Amer­i­can patriot who has fought Marxism.

Here are some points to consider:

• Obama’s child­hood friend and men­tor was avowed com­mu­nist Frank Mar­shall Davis, a Soviet agent and mem­ber of the Com­mu­nist Party USA
• Obama is a self-​proclaimed Marxist
• Obama has indis­putable ties to groups asso­ci­ated with, sup­port­ing, or sup­ported by social­ist and com­mu­nist organizations
• Obama is a trained agi­ta­tor, a dis­ci­ple of Saul Alin­sky. He in turned taught tac­tics to ACORN.
• Obama has close per­sonal, pro­fes­sional, and polit­i­cal ties to ter­ror­ists (yes, plural)
• Obama has per­sonal, pro­fes­sional, and busi­ness ties with a con­victed and jailed felon, Antoine Rezko, and his finan­cial patron, Auchi, a close asso­ciate of the late Sad­dam Hussein.
• Obama has a 20-​year per­sonal and pri­vate rela­tion­ship with anti-​American, hate-​filled and racists preachers.
• Obama entered pol­i­tics with the endorse­ment, fund­ing, and sup­port of ter­ror­ists, social­ists, and oth­ers bent on under­min­ing or over­throw­ing our country.

The details on each that sub­stan­ti­ate Barack Obama’s long-​held views and associations…

• Obama’s child­hood friend and men­tor was Frank Mar­shall Davis, a black rev­o­lu­tion­ary who was a well known card-​carrying mem­ber of the Com­mu­nist Party USA and a “key high-​level oper­a­tive in a Soviet-​sponsored net­work in Hawaii” (See AIM). Davis even gets men­tion in one of Obama’s books. In refut­ing Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, Barack Obama pub­lished Unfit for Pub­li­ca­tion that sim­ply claims Davis was a poet and civil rights activist. (Note that Obama equates ‘civil rights activist’ with being a black rev­o­lu­tion­ary, a com­mu­nist, and a Soviet agent. Nice.)
• In the 1980s after grad­u­at­ing from Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity and work­ing in New York City for up to two years, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a “com­mu­nity orga­nizer” for the Devel­op­ing Com­mu­ni­ties Project (DCP). DCP employed Saul Alinsky’s approach wherein Obama was a com­mu­nity agi­ta­tor. Mike Krug­lik, an Alin­sky desci­ple and Obama men­tor said of Obama, “He was a nat­ural, the undis­puted mas­ter of agitation.”

At the heart of the Alin­sky method is the con­cept of “agitation” – making some­one angry enough about the rot­ten state of his life that he agrees to take action to change it; or, as Alin­sky him­self described the job, to “rub raw the sores of dis­con­tent.”—Krug­lik in The New Repub­lic.

• In a 1990 inter­view by Asso­ci­ated Press in the Daily Her­ald, a sub­ur­ban Chicago paper, Obama dis­cusses build­ing orga­ni­za­tions, as opposed to move­ments that dis­si­pate. He described the 1960s as fail­ures for rais­ing issues but not offer­ing a viable alter­na­tive. In dis­cussing racism and sex­ism, he called for reshap­ing Amer­ica to be, in appar­ent ref­er­ence to eco­nomic redis­tri­b­u­tion and repa­ra­tions, “less mean-​spirited and more generous.”
• Obama is a self-​proclaimed Marx­ist. Spread­ing the wealth is Marx­ism, pure and sim­ple. It is not a casual state­ment on Obama’s part. Con­sider his 2001 Chicago Pub­lic Radio inter­view (includ­ing com­plete tran­script) where he bemoans that the Supreme Court did not rein­ter­pret the Con­sti­tu­tion to force redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth in America.

As this inter­view becomes widely viewed on the Inter­net, the McCain cam­paign already has out a response:

“The Amer­i­can peo­ple con­tinue to learn more about Barack Obama. Now we know that the slo­gans ‘change you can believe in’ and ‘change we need’ are code words for Barack Obama’s ulti­mate goal: ‘redis­trib­u­tive change.’ In a pre­vi­ously uncov­ered inter­view from Sep­tem­ber 6, 2001, Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn’t been more ‘rad­i­cal’ and described as a ‘tragedy’ the Court’s refusal to take up ‘the issues of redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth.’ No won­der he wants to appoint judges that leg­is­late from the bench – as insur­ance in case a uni­fied Demo­c­ra­tic gov­ern­ment under his con­trol fails to meet his basic goal: tak­ing money away from peo­ple who work for it and giv­ing it to peo­ple who Barack Obama believes deserve it. Euro­peans call it social­ism, Amer­i­cans call it wel­fare, and Barack Obama calls it change,” McCain senior pol­icy adviser Dou­glas Holtz-​Eakin said in a statement. — From Foon Rhee, Boston Globe.

• Obama has indis­putable ties to groups asso­ci­ated with, sup­port­ing, or sup­ported by social­ist and com­mu­nist orga­ni­za­tions. As I wrote in Obama is Hid­ing a Rad­i­cal Past, Obama was involved with the Illi­nois New Party, which was an umbrella group that included par­tic­i­pa­tion by the Chicago DSA, the lcoal affil­i­ate of the Demo­c­ra­tic Social­ists of Amer­ica, the com­mu­nist Com­mit­tees of Cor­re­spon­dence, ACORN, and SEIU. Fur­ther, as noted in the DSA’s pub­li­ca­tion, New Ground, “When Obama par­tic­i­pated in a 1996 UofC YDS Town­hall Meet­ing on Eco­nomic Inse­cu­rity, much of what he had to say was well within the main­stream of Euro­pean social democracy.”
• Obama is a trained agi­ta­tor, a dis­ci­ple of Saul Alinksy. He in turned taught tac­tics to Pub­lic Allies and to ACORN. In fact, con­trary to Obama’s claims that he had no con­nec­tion with ACORN, Ms. Foulkes, ACORN’s leader in Chicago and mem­ber of ACORN’s National Asso­ci­a­tion Board, says, in the Win­ter 2003 issue of Social Pol­icy (as quoted by Lynn Sweet), that “every year since 1992 until at least the win­ter of 2003, Mr. Obama taught a “ses­sion on power” for ACORN.”
• Barack and Michelle Obama have close per­sonal, pro­fes­sional, and polit­i­cal ties to ter­ror­ists (yes, plural). William Ayers, along with his wife Berna­dine Dohrn, and asso­ciates that include Michael Klon­sky, a one-​time Obama adviser, are domes­tic ter­ror­ists who bombed U.S. Cap­i­tal, the Pen­ta­gon, and other loca­tions. They backed up their calls for insur­rec­tion with vio­lence against the United States. The Oba­mas indi­vid­ual or together worked for, worked with, col­lab­o­rated with, spon­sored, or helped each other. Barack helped Bill dis­pense $160 mil­lion on failed projects in Chicago. The New Yorker played on Obama’s ties much the same as many Obama sup­port­ers have adopted Hus­sein as part of the online names to neu­tral­ize the impact. Any­way, only Obama seems con­cerned about his mid­dle name but every­one should be very con­cerned about what his asso­ci­a­tion with ter­ror­ists sug­gest about his judgment.
• Obama has per­sonal, pro­fes­sional, and busi­ness ties with a con­victed felon, Antoine Rezko, through whom Obama has long finan­cial deal­ings, includ­ing a self-​proclaimed ‘bone­headed’ deal to buy a man­sion in Chicago. More impor­tantly Rezko involved Obama with his finan­cial patron, Nadhmi Auchi, a close asso­ciate of the late Sad­dam Hussein.
• Obama also has a 20-​year per­sonal and pri­vate rela­tion­ship with anti-​American, hate-​filled and racists preach­ers like Rev­erend Jere­miah Wright, Rev­erend James Meeks, and Father Michael Plfeger. His ties to Min­is­ter Far­rakhan are unclear though Min­is­ter Far­rakhan has mir­rored his reli­gious brethren in pro­claim­ing Obama The One, The Messiah.

• Obama entered pol­i­tics with the endorse­ment, fund­ing, and sup­port of ter­ror­ists, social­ists, and oth­ers bent on under­min­ing or over­throw­ing our coun­try. The evi­dence is still com­ing out and is doc­u­mented in numer­ous posts. This is no longer spec­u­la­tive or excep­tions, it reflects the core of who Obama is and who he has cho­sen to sur­round him­self with as he sought polit­i­cal office and sought higher office, includ­ing now the U.S. presidency.

To go so far as to vote for a social­ist and Marx­ist as pres­i­dent of the United States is, in my opin­ion, national sui­cide. The United States is a suc­cess­ful market-​driven cap­i­tal­ist soci­ety. We fought and won the Cold War, fought in Korea, and fought in Viet­nam to pro­tect our val­ues against social­ism, Marx­ism, and com­mu­nism. That we’d now con­sider vot­ing for a can­di­date who actu­ally sup­ports the views of our ene­mies is uncon­scious­able and dis­re­spect­ing every­thing we stand for as a nation. This touches on the very foun­da­tions of our coun­try and truly tran­scends party labels.

Sen­a­tor Biden today, regard­ing in par­tic­u­lar ques­tions he got last week (See Obama, the Marx­ist):

Karl Marx and says in a sense, isn’t Barack Obama Karl Marx? You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you’re hear­ing — this stuff you’re hear­ing in this cam­paign, some of it is pretty ugly and some of the innu­endo is pretty ugly.”

With all due respect, Sen­a­tor Biden, it is ugly. It is also in Obama’s own words – both to Joe the Plumber and in a 2001 inter­view. Not only ugly, but this does not rep­re­sent what Amer­ica is all about.

There can be no more patri­otic choice for all Amer­i­cans than to reject Barack Obama and vote instead for John McCain. He knows what Amer­ica stands for, he has fought for Amer­ica, and he believes in America.

Cross-​posted at NoQuar­terUSA.

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