Barack Obama A Marxist Since College?
Fox News reports. You decide.
Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
Obama’s interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”
After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as “a Ralph Nader offshoot” in Harlem.
“In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia,” Obama wrote in “Dreams,” which he published in 1995. “At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature.”
Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how “carefully” he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: “I am a Marxist.”
Barry’s actions, statements, and policy initiatives make it pretty clear that he has more than “flirted” with socialism. In fact, I’d say he’s approaching 3rd base.
Don’t you find it amazing that Obama has tried to play down is friendships with the likes of Ayers and Khalidi yet he makes the point in his book that he chose his associates “carefully.” Yeah, that tells me that he knew who these people were and what they’re about and yet he still made a conscious decision to associate with them.
There’s no explaining this one away Barry. Why won’t he admit that he’s a Marxist? Answer: Because he knows the majority of Americans aren’t Marxists. After all, it sounds sexier to say you’re for “change” than to readily state the kind of “change” you stand for, especially when said “change” has been tried by various dictators throughout history.
Not all of us are fooled Barry, and most of us don’t believe you’re The Messiah (I’m not Spike Lee after all).
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