July 31st 2008
Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism
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‘m going to tip my hat regarding one of my Watcher’s Council votes by directing your attention to a rather hefty Investor’s Business Daily Editorial, Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism.
This is one of those rare pieces that I actually copied into an email and fired off to a bunch of family members. Why? Because I love my family and I don’t want them to be hurt.
Here’s how it kicks off:
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called “economic justice.” He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.
And as president, “we’ll ensure that economic justice is served,” he asserted. “That’s what this election is about.” Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn’t have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.
It’s the rest of the public that remains in the dark, which is why we’re launching this special educational series.
“Economic justice” simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It’s a euphemism for socialism.
We all know about BO’s chumminess with unseemly characters like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. This piece introduces us to a number of others, including Frank Marshall Davis:
A careful reading of Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 — a man he cryptically refers to as “Frank” — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his “subversive,” “un-American activities.”
As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis’ feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment.
“They’ll train you so good,” he said, “you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh**.”
And Gerald Kellman:
His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity Obama also tries to hide in his book. Turns out Kellman’s a disciple of the late Saul “The Red” Alinsky, a hard-boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the “Rules for Radicals” and agitated for social revolution in America.
The Chicago-based Woods Fund provided Kellman with his original $25,000 to hire Obama. In turn, Obama would later serve on the Woods board with terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. Ayers was one of Obama’s early political supporters.
There’s much more, including a bare-knuckled outline of Obama’s policies that would make Lenin proud.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Youthful folly. People change. Is that really a bet you want to make when the other candidate’s credentials are decent, solid, open to all and carved in granite?
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July 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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