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| College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist” | | Print | |
| WRITTEN BY SELWYN DUKE | ||||||||||||||||||||
| FRIDAY, 09 DECEMBER 2011 14:53 | ||||||||||||||||||||
What did Obama say that brought cheers from the Left and jeers from the Right? Among other things, he stated that our relatively free enterprise system not only “doesn’t work” — “it has never worked.” The first thing to note is the blindness and ingratitude evidenced by this statement. Our nation enjoys wealth unprecedented in man’s history, with its supermarkets stocked with thousands of products from the world over; and with how its “poor” people usually have cars, TVs, cellphones and other luxuries, as well as bellies that come out and greet you. So while “never worked” may describe Obama’s constituents, it can hardly be said about our system. So our system shouldn’t be on trial here — Obama should be. But is it really fair to suggest he may be a Marxist? Or was there evidence for it all along? Well, consider the words of John Drew, a man whom writer Paul Kengor calls “Obama’s Missing Link.” A contemporary of Obama’s at Occidental College three decades ago, Drew says that he himself was a Marxist at the time — and part of Obama’s inner circle. And what does he reveal? Obama was an “ardent” “Marxist-Leninist” who “was in 100 percent, total agreement with [his] Marxist professors,” said Drew. In fact, Drew states that while he was a more nuanced Marxist who tried to convince Obama that old-style communist revolution was unrealistic in the West, the future President would have none of it and considered Drew a “reactionary.” Drew doesn’t believe the President has changed, either, and I agree. I explained why in a follow-upto Kengor’s piece, writing: Some may say that a person can change markedly over a 30-year period. This is true. …Yet a transition from flat-out "Marxist-Leninist" to someone who rejects the red menace is a pretty big change, don't you think? In fact, wouldn't such a personal evolution — some might say revolution — be a kind of conversion? I think so. …There's an interesting thing, however, about conversions. You hear about them. You see, a conversion is a sea change, a rebirth, a turning point in your existence. You may become, as Christians say, a new creation, and you're at least a reformed old one. And you reflect your new state of being and often want to voice it. And those around you will know about it. As for this writer, everyone who knows me would say that my religious conversion was a seminal point in my life. Now consider something. Barack Obama is one of the most famous, most discussed individuals on the planet. But we have not heard about any soul-changing conversion in his life. Not a whisper. Nothing. Nothing that could reconcile the flat-out Marxist-Leninist Obama was in his college days with the man he supposedly is today. There's no one who says, "Yeah, he was a radical guy in his youth, and I just couldn't believe how he became disenchanted with his old ideas." Why, my friends, might this be? Now, something else about conversions is that they often breed a person who hates what he has rejected as much as he once loved it. This is why ex-smokers can be the most ardent anti-smoking activists or why Christian converts can be the staunchest critics of secularism. But from Obama we see no visceral contempt for communism. What we do see, however, is a man who just a few years ago had an alliance with former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, who called himself a “small c communist” and was caught on tape saying that 25 million capitalists may have to be killed to advance the Marxist program. Even more damnably, Obama appointed communists to office upon taking power. One of these was Van Jones, another man who called himself a communist; and former communications director Anita Dunn, who said that Mao Tse-tung — who murdered 60 to 70 million people — was one of her two favorite philosophers. Unfortunately, for some people, this still isn’t enough to see a red flag and menace with regard toBarack Obama. Yet it doesn’t take a behavioral scientist from the FBI to draw proper conclusions from his profile. We have in the President a man who: 1. Had communist Frank Marshall Davis as childhood mentor. 2. Was a flat-out Marxist-Leninist in college. 3. Has no known history of renouncing these views. 4. Later in life built an alliance with a “small c” communist and other assorted radicals. 5. Upon achieving high office, appointed avowed communists to his administration. Given this profile, what is the radical position? That the man is a communist or at least a communist sympathizer? Or that he is just your everyday moderate politician? Perhaps we don’t have proof beyond a reasonable doubt that would stand up in a criminal proceeding for either of the above propositions. But asking for it is unreasonable and irresponsible. In the court of public opinion, there must be no higher burden than in a civil court: a preponderance of the evidence. And a preponderance of it in the President’s case points to a simple conclusion: Barack Obama is likely a communist or communist sympathizer. Now, there are many reasons why people would deny what is plain about Obama. The most obvious is partisan loyalty, but there is another factor: The “it”-couldn’t-happen-here mentality. We see this when people are shocked to learn that a neighbor is a serial killer or child molester and say that “he seemed so normal” or when there is a heinous crime in a neighborhood and residents just can’t believe that “it” could happen in their little Mayberry. In the example relevant here, an American President could never be a communist sympathizer. Sure, you read in history books about such leaders attaining power in places such as Cambodia, Russia, and North Korea. But the US of A? “It” is something that happens to the other guy’s nation. Of course, this isn’t reality. Say what we will about American “exceptionalism,” the fact is that we receive no special dispensation from the laws governing man. There is no “it” that can’t happen here. And while we don’t vote for our next-door neighbor, we do choose our President. We’d be wise to make sure that, some years hence, we’re not witnessing disaster with our mouths agape and left saying, “But he seemed so normal.”
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GatorBud said: 
 | ... All the proof you need is in his actions! Forget what he says - look at what he does. He's undoubtedly trying to bring this Country of ours to its knees. He's trying to bring everybody down a notch. Unfortunately, he's succeeding - at least temporarily. WE MUST GET THIS SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST OUT OF OFFICE IN 2012!! |
Charleston Voice said:
 | Major Racey Jordan - Bravest, Most Heroic Patriot Whistleblower of All Time Major Racey Jordan - Bravest, Most Heroic Patriot Whistleblower of All Time I read this short book decades ago. It nearly brought me to a violent rage. Treason at the highest office in our land is not unknown, nor is it rare, I've been led to conclude. For any President to betray his own country is too abominable to even discuss. Communism at any price for America. This is the same copy from Amazon I have.... more>>http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/...eroic.html |
Bill Whitfield said:
 | Whatever he is, he isn't American! One thing is certain about Obama - he has no American Values about him at all. In the schools he attended, during his formable years, they did not teach Honor, Integrety, Dignity, Honesty, and apparently, the value of Hard Work! Course, they were Islamic schools, which also clarifies why hates us so much! |
John C. Drew, Ph.D. said:
 | Thanks for Connecting the Dots I'm shocked that more people haven't woken up to the cold reality of Obama's Marxist socialist roots. Thanks for connecting the dots in your article. For a quick look at how hard it was to get out the news about young Obama's radicalism, please see my recent article in American Thinker. http://www.americanthinker.com..._past.html |
bruinbirdman said:
 | ... "Upon achieving high office, appointed avowed communists to his administration." Let's not forget Carol "Director of Socialists International" Browner, appointed Political Commissar of Energy and Climate Change Policy. That's CZAR of EPA and Energy. yitbos |
Drew said:
 | lies Proof Obama is not a Marxist: He isn’t forcing business to meet production quotas. Those same businesses that aren’t forced to meet production quotas are also not run by the workers. He has never called for a mass workers revolution. Nor are the above three points ever going to happen. Left wing, does not mean Marxist. If you accept the lie that Obama is a socialist, you can also accept the lie that all socialists hate America. If you accept the lie that Obama is a Muslim, then you can also accept the lie that all Muslims hate Jews and thus the lie that Obama hates Jews. These lies, and many others about Obama are readily embraced by racists who are desperate to view themselves as superior to the black man in the White House. Rick Perry, like Fox “News”, is simply exploiting the racist mindset of people who are ignorant enough to take him seriously. |
John C. Drew, Ph.D. said:
| Please. I Saw Obama Call for a Mass Workers Revolution with My Own Eyes In response to "lies" above, I think it is important to point out that young Obama was calling for exactly the sort of things you mention in your post. See,http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldK.../id/349329 The questions is when, if ever, didObama change his underlying beliefs. I have a painful conversion story that explains how I dropped out of the Marxist-Leninist thinking process. Where is Obama's conversion story? |
fifthgentxn said:
 | The traitors leading the blind... In any belief, story, purpose, following or person, there are those that will never open their eyes and peer past the blinders that hinder their vision. Drew, in his "lies" rebuttal, is the prime example of those that will never turn on their "messiah". He is completely, 100%, died-in-the-wool sold out on his socialist/marxist/leninist leader. Barak Hussein Obama has done more damage to the American economy in his short, three-year tenure than any other politician in American history. If he and his regime aren't stopped, and soon, America will crumble into a heap within 10 years. Some of those that are against the direction that the president is taking, chalk it up to in-experience, ignorance and that he's like a bull in a china shop and doesn't have a clue of what he's doing. But OH I beg to differ. Barak Hussein Obama knows exactly what he's doing. He's been devising a plan for decades at the chance he'd be able to occupy the Oval Office. In order to "turn the ship around" and get it headed in the direction of a Cuba, Venezuela, Red China or USSR, you have to get control of the most important aspect...the people. And how better to do that than to take their jobs, money and destroy their livelihood so they will depend on an ever-increasing nanny-state federal government. Don't take your eyes off of this man for one second. He is a freedom despising wrecking ball. I just wish his followers and fellow "kool-aid" drinkers would be man or woman enough to admit it. I pray the Lame Stream media gets its head out from between his cheeks long enough to see the light and to wake up the rest of the sheeple in America, so they don't continue to follow him off of the cliff of destruction. November, 2012, the NEW American Revolution. Steve D. Cleburne, Texas United States Navy, Retired |
Outraged said:
 | John C. Drew, you're a fraud... You met Obama briefly, by your own admission, no more than four times (http://www.americanthinker.com...obama.html) AFTER you graduated, yet you have no problem with yourself being repeatedly described as "a contemporary of Obama's at Occidental College". Therefore, anything you have to contribute is suspect in my book. That, and working for that other fraud, David Horowitz. |
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