Thursday - June 19, 2008

“Progressive”: codeword for Marxist/Socialist for 100 years

It started before World War I. It really gained a foothold with the New Deal. It took a backseat for a while in the 50s when people finally figured out that Communism was more than a Red Herring, but a plaque upon the human race, and a few brave souls like Joe McCarthy pushed hard to get the Red Stain out of our government. During the 60s they sort of went underground, but the Progressive movement was strongly behind SDS, the Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc., were all influenced and supported. After that I think they all moved to Berkley and got high for a few decades.

We started hearing that term again a few years ago. It really hasn’t changed it’s meaning. It’s the furthest left of all the leftist ideologies, and it has moved the Democrats so far over that they’ve disowned Joe Lieberman, who was pretty left to begin with. These days he has to call himself and Independent, because he’s to far to the right for rest of them.

I really don’t want to write a whole essay on this. My guess is that most of my BMEWS readers are pretty well versed in history already, and have paid a fair amount of attention to politics. So you know where a reasonable line between “normal” liberalism and outright Socialism ought to be. And how, at the extremes, the lines blur a lot when trying to identify Fascism, Socialism, and Communism. In all three you wind up with a State with nearly unlimited power and an Elite who is in control of nearly all aspects of your life, For Your Own Good^tm, because they know better than you.

Start reading here; the story of little Barry, the ACORN that didn’t fall far from the Big Red Oak.

On the stump today, Obama often says he helped prevent South Side Chicago blacks, Latinos, and whites from turning on each other after losing their jobs, but many of the community organizers interviewed by the L. A. Times say that Obama worked overwhelmingly with blacks.To rebut this charge, Obama’s organizer friends tell the story of how he helped plan “actions” that included mixed white, black, and Latino groups. For example, following Obama’s plan, one such group paid a “surprise visit” to a meeting between local officials considering a landfill expansion. The protestors surrounded the meeting table while one activist made a statement chiding the officials, after which the protestors filed out. Presto! Obama is immunized from charges of having worked exclusively with blacks — but at the cost of granting us a peek at the not-so-warm-and-fuzzy side of his community organizing. Intimidation tactics are revealed, and Obama’s alliance with radical Acorn activists like Madeleine Talbot begins to make sense.
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So along with the reservoir of political support that came to Obama through his close ties with Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, and other Chicago black churches, Chicago Acorn appears to have played a major role in Obama’s political advance. Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. You begin to wonder whether, in his Springfield days, Obama might have best been characterized as “the Senator from Acorn.”

There are enough links in this article to keep you reading for a while. Almost all of them are worth following.

Next go over to Right WingNut House and read Rick Moran’s piece on the Big O’s alliances with the New Party commies and several domestic terrorists, and how, once elected, he funneled them lots of money.

Furthermore, it is evident that in return for their support, Obama used his position as state senator and board member for the Woods Foundation to funnel public and private money into the coffers of these radical groups thus cementing a relationship that is still paying dividends for Obama to this day.

The New Party, ACORN, and the Arab American Action Network are not by any stretch of the imagination mainstream political or social organizations. They are radical anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist, and in the case of the AAAN a group supporting the terrorist activities of the Palestinians.

The New Party is an unabashed Marxist “fusion” party from which Barack Obama actively sought out and received an endorsement for his state senate candidacy.

It is inexplicable how this group operates so freely in places like Chicago. They are about as non-partisan as a Baath party convention in that if they have ever supported a Republican for anything, it was probably an accident. The bureaucrats whose job it is to see that the law is followed by groups like ACORN are intimidated by their tactics as well as how much stink they could raise with local politicians. Ergo, they skate.

Just what did the potential next president of the United States do for these thugs? He trained their leadership cadres in organizing techniques. Also, through his position as a board member of the Woods Foundation, Obama funnelled money to his friends on a regular basis

This isn’t smear. It’s historical fact. Freaking out yet? Not totally? Ok, clickety click on this one:

This is the second leg of the radical triad that Obama has used to advance his political career. The first leg can be seen in his long time friendship with both Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger - two religious/political powerhouses on the south side of Chicago. Obama’s coziness with those radical preachers gave him a firm base on which to run for office.

The big question mark is the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. The NoI is very powerful on the south side and many are wondering what kind of deal Obama may have made with them. Tony Rezko, long time fund raiser and political mentor of Obama has personal ties to Farrakhan (you couldn’t build a treehouse on the south side without the NoI’s permission) and there has been speculation that Rezko could have been a go-between for the two (Obama not wanting to taint himself with the stench of Farrakhan’s radical separatism and anti-semitism.).

Are we about to elect a president who has made common political cause with Marxists? This should prove interesting as the press wrestles with a way to keep the damage regarding these revelations to a minimum.

Resko was just found guilty on 16 out of 24 counts of political corruption and wrong doing. Is he going to spill the beans to minimize his jail time, or will he pull a Susan McDougal and cover for his master? It is beyond undeniable that he and Barry Boy have major connections.

When even Investor’s Business Daily is running articles that essentially label Oblarney a commie, you’d think the MSM might take some interest?

Obama’s Red RootsIt’s natural to be skeptical of excessive claims about Obama’s radical associations. After all, there are so many. But one bears attention — because it helped him get his start in politics. In 1996, he won an Illinois state senate seat on a “fusion” ticket of the Democratic Party and leftist group called the “New Party.”

The New Party, founded in 1992 with 7,000 members at its peak, had been an explicitly anti-capitalist party of ex-Communists, socialists and activists from ACORN, the hard-left group that’s constantly in trouble over voter fraud. The New Party didn’t ask for Obama’s association; he asked for the New Party’s endorsement.

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That raises questions about what was in the New Party platform that drew in Obama. Maybe its own statements saying it was formed “to break the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over the political process.”

Sound familiar? One of the few things Obama reveals in his vague “change” agenda are plans to punish corporations. He rails against “corporate profits” and even worked in a condemnation of them in his first defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. So there’s little doubt he shares a lot of what the New Party believes.

The New Party also has advocated a bill of rights for children, a shorter work week, a universal “social” wage and military spending cuts. These will undermine parental rights, lower competitiveness, lard up welfare and make the U.S. less secure. All are echoed in Obama’s proposals. They are the hardest battle cries of the left.

Obama should come clean on why he sought these radicals’ support and, better still, disclose just how he intends to pay them back.

So now we have this guy running for President. And he’s ahead in the polls. And nobody knows or cares that he has close, long term association with communists, felons, thugs, bomb throwers, The united Church of Hate, and a bigoted and possibly violent anti-American offshoot of islam. And the loudest shouts against him come from known right-wing demagogue Pat Buchanan?

By June, resistance to Barack’s nomination in the party that he now leads was extraordinary, stemming from a belief that he is too naive to be commander in chief in wartime and too far left, and does not like or understand Middle America or its values.

“He is not one of us.”

If Barack cannot erase this hardening perception in the American mind, he will not be president. Democrats may talk of making the economy the issue this fall, but Republicans are going to make Barack the issue.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/19/2008 at 03:35 PM   
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