Has anyone gone to the website! These are complete goofballs as far as I can see. They think that Obama is really named Barry Sartoro in his Marxist re-incarnation. Obamas birth record is sealed. His academic record is sealed and on and on. This is Glenn Beck on steroids.
http://www.anonymouspoliticalscientist.blogspot.com/ Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html --- On Wed, 3/17/10, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] Obama, a College Marxist? > To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" > <[email protected]>, "PEN-L list" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 2:38 PM > (This appeared on a rightwing > website. I have Obama's first memoir > at home and plan to read it at some point, with an eye to > seeing > who the hell he really was. If he was indeed a "Marxist", > then you > would have to say that his transformation was as dramatic > as > Mussolini's from SP leader to fascist after WWI.) > > http://www.academia.org/obama-a-college-marxist-2/ > Obama, a College Marxist? > Deborah Lambert, February 22, 2010 > > Until now, precious little information has come to light > about > President Obama’s youthful political views. That may > change as > disclosures by former political science professor Dr. John > C. Drew > eventually surface in the mainstream press. > > During an evening he spent with Obama in late 1980, Drew, a > former > Marxist-turned-conservative-Republican, recalled during an > > interview on Breitbart TV’s “The B-cast” that the > young Obama was > not only a passionate Marxist, but a Marxist-Leninist, > devoted to > the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system in > America. > > The meeting occurred in late December, 1980 when Drew, a > 1979 > Occidental College graduate in his second year of Cornell > University grad school, visited his girlfriend, still an > Occidental student, who shared a political theory class > with Obama. > > Drew recalled that Obama, then a college sophomore, showed > up in a > BMW with his closest friend Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, and > “we all > went out to dinner, partied and drank, smoked > cigarettes—and we > did what young Marxists do—we basically argued > politics.” > > Before the get-together, his then-girlfriend described > Obama as > “one of us.” What she meant by that was that “he was > on our team . > . . a blood brother . . .a fellow revolutionary,” said > Drew. > > As a serious Marxist revolutionary himself in those days, > Drew > said that as soon as he met young Barack, he realized that > this > radical college sophomore wasn’t just “dabbling in > Marxism . . . > he was a Marxist-Leninist dedicated to the overthrow of the > > capitalist system.” > > Drew says on his website > (www.anonymouspoliticalscientist.blogspot.com) that his > “most > vivid memory of Obama was the way he strongly argued a > rather > simple-minded version of Marxist theory,” while he (Drew) > had > moved on to a more pessimistic graduate school view that > true > revolution would never happen in this country. > > Drew’s meeting with the young Obama occurred shortly > after he > experienced his first taste of campus notoriety when > publicly > speaking out on the anti-apartheid issue and co-founding > the > anti-apartheid group that is mentioned in Dreams of My > Father. > > During their meeting, Drew recalls that Obama believed that > > “America was definitely the enemy, and American elites > were the > enemy, and whatever America was doing was definitely wrong > and > bad. He thought that perhaps the Soviet Union was > misunderstood, > and it was doing a better job for its people than most > people > realized,” Drew noted in a Newsmax interview. > > Although Drew did his senior honors thesis at Occidental on > > Marxist Economics, his doctoral research at Cornell in 1984 > > triggered a move to the political right when he realized > the > fallacy of the Marxist class struggle argument. > > However, when Drew crossed the ideological divide from > Marxist to > conservative Republican, it may have made his academic > career a > bit more challenging. > > As an assistant political science professor at Williams > College > from 1986 – 1989, Drew was one of three registered > Republicans on > the faculty. Armed with his newly adopted belief system, > Drew says > he complained to the powers-that-be about the school’s > affirmative > action policies that favored less qualified > African-American > faculty candidates over white candidates, saying that these > > policies “took away the honor of being a Williams College > professor.” > > Now a grant-writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, > California, Drew > says that his meeting with Obama some 30 years ago provided > useful > evidence of why he was able to win the trust and support of > people > like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Alice Palmer. He > believes > that Obama “never surrendered that tough, Marxist > socialist > ideology I saw in him as a sophomore at Occidental > College.” > > When Drew is asked why he took so long to go public with > this > story, he is quick to explain that although he tried to get > the > story out during the presidential campaign in 2008, no one > in the > media would touch it. > > In fact, Drew says he was frustrated when he couldn’t get > this > information out during campaign season, since candidate > Obama “was > making it sound like people thought he was a socialist > because he > didn’t share his toys in kindergarten, but I thought he > was a > socialist because I’d seen him argue from a hard Marxist > point of > view.” > > Obama’s career path was entirely predictable, according > to Drew, > who says the first logical career move for a revolutionary > right > out of college is to become a labor organizer or a > community > organizer. The second step is to become a college > professor. > > During his stint as a University of Chicago adjunct > professor, > Obama “was basically promoting the socialist revolution, > saying > that our Constitution promotes negative liberties but not > the > positive liberties of a society that advocates wealth > distribution.” > > Drew’s encounter with the future president nearly 30 > years ago > sheds some light on the young Obama’s political ideology, > one of > the many aspects of his life that has not undergone any > serious > scrutiny by the mainstream press. Drew regards his “15 > minutes of > fame” that began with a Newsmax interview in February, > 2010 as an > “opportunity to share what I know about the ‘red > diaper’ ideology > of the young Barack Obama.” > > Saying that he would still be teaching in Massachusetts > were it > not for the liberal Democrats that control Williams > College, Drew > says he was pleased that Scott Brown was recently elected > as the > state’s newest senator, adding that his election “marks > the end of > the Obama revolution.” > > Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for > Accuracy in > Academia. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
