Posts Tagged ‘Michelle Obama’
Granny Dunham not so important after all
It appears that Granny Dunham has served her purpose during the campaign as the oh-so important “rock of the family” but yet “typical white person” in now President-elect Barack Obama’s life. After a silent, but both respected and disrespected foil in Obama’s campaign, she died election day. Obama made barely the slightest mention of her passing. Today he even skips her memorial.
Recall that the week before the election now-President-elect Obama traveled alone, without his wife and daughters, to make a last brief visit to her. Michelle did not go and pay her respects, nor did she and Barack allow a last visit by their daughter’s to see their great-grandmother. Indeed, last summer when they visited Hawaii, only Barack ventured a visit.
Now, today, we see even more evidence of how little Granny Dunham meant to the family and we see a stark example of President-elect Obama’s ‘family values’. At 5 p.m. today, Hawaiian-time (See Star Bulletin), the memorial service for Madelyn Payne Dunham will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, where President-elect Obama’s grandfather is already buried. Not attending is President-elect Obama. In fact, none of the Obama family apparently care enough to travel, even for a brief moment, to attend today’s memorial service.
Obama Seeks to Spread the Wealth à la Karl Marx
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.