http://bit.ly/3wZKVm - - - There is another way to characterize the distinction between Obama's politics and the politics of his Democratic brethren. While the latter's identity is sufficiently discernible, it is nevertheless a sort of ramshackle construction, a clumsy composition of disparate ideas, many of which lie obscured by the positions on policy issues within which they are buried; just a little digging readily exposes expected incoherences. The former, in stark contrast, is animated by a robust and grandiose philosophical vision that pervades and unites each of its parts.
There is ample evidence to substantiate my description of Obama, the strongest of which is to be found within his first memoir, Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. It is here that he admits to having immersed himself, as a college student, in the avant-garde literature that is the standard diet required by humanities and liberal arts departments in the contemporary university. Such Marxian and neo-Marxian variations as feminism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism are among the leftist studies in which Obama engaged. It was during this time that he familiarized himself with the radicalism of Marxist "anti-colonialist" Frantz Fanon, and found himself indelibly impacted by The Autobiography of Malcolm X. ... This, of course, is not to say that Obama subscribes to every, or even most, of the prescriptions that Karl Marx specified in The Communist Manifesto. Much less is it intended to suggest that Obama endorses Marx's metaphysics, epistemology, or philosophy of history. In fact, I am not so sure that Obama ever read much of Marx's (and Engels') own work, for the Marxist flavor which Obama has never been able to purge from his mouth derives, at least primarily, from the literature of Marxists - feminists who substitute gender and "anti-colonialists" and "critical race theorists" who substitute race for Marx's focus on "class." Doubtless, Obama is interested in amassing power, but this isn't because he is primarily interested in his own self-aggrandizement. Obama is genuinely committed to the ideological vision that he holds, and it is for the sake of promoting and implementing this vision that he desires the enormous quantum of power that he so fervently pursues: a vast apparatus of power is necessary for grandiose wealth redistributive schemes. No, Obama is not your typical crass Democratic politician; he is a leftist ideologue, a true believer. - - - Obama's father was a communist. His step-father was a communist. His mother was a communist "fellow traveller" who met his father when they were both studying Russian, the language that radical lefties studied in the 60's. His mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist who was under FBI Surveillance. His close buddy of twenty seven years (yes, they met in 1982) Bill Ayers is a communist. He sought out Marxist Professors in college (his words) and found them - Edward Said, former PLO spokesman, and close friend of Obama AND Ayers from 1982. His hero, and author of his playbook, Saul Alinsky, was a communist. His friend and neighbor Mike Klonsky is a communist. His friend, and current Palestinian Authority spokesman, Rashid Khalidi, is a communist. His Preacher of 20 years preaches Black Liberation Theology, a Marxist ideology. His cousin in Kenya, Raila Odinga, is a communist. Obama actively campaigned for Odinga in 2007. Odinga lost the presidential election by a couple hundred thousand votes but "negotiated" his way into the PM job by inciting violent bloody riots after he lost. Obama campaigned actively for Odinga as a US Senator. So what the hell else was anybody expecting him to be??? - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
