Obama's Stealth Socialism

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

Before friendly audiences,

Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called

He uses the term obliquely, though,

speaking in code — "socialist" code. <<== JwA - Progressive is more accurate

During his NAACP speech earlier this month,

Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times.

he said at the group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.

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And as president,

he asserted.

"That's what this election is about."

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Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but

he didn't have to.

His audience knew what he meant,

judging from its thumping approval.

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It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark,

which is why we're launching this special educational series.

It's a euphemism for socialism. <<== JwA - An attempt to frighten conservatives

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In the past, such rhetoric was just that — rhetoric. But

Obama's positioning himself with alarming stealth to

put that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the

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In his latest memoir he shares that he'd like to

"recast" the welfare net that FDR and LBJ cast

while rolling back what he derisively calls the

"winner-take-all" market economy that

Ronald Reagan reignited

(with record gains in living standards for all). <<== JwA - Not True

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Obama also talks about

a segment of society he fails to understand that

includes mom-and-pop businesses filing individual tax returns.

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It's clear from a close reading of his two books that

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He assumes the economy is a fixed pie,

whereby the successful only get rich at the expense of the poor.

Following this discredited Marxist model,

he believes government must step in and redistribute pieces of the pie.

That requires massive transfers of wealth through

government taxing and spending,

a return to the entitlement days of old.

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Of course,

Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such

He's disguising the

"that give us a fighting chance," whatever that means.

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Among his proposed "investments":

• "Universal," "guaranteed" health care. <<=== People are happier

. in countries that provide this !

• "Universal national service" (a la Havana). <<=== Why Not ????

• "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families"). <<=== Sounds OK to me.

• "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).

• "Free" child care and "universal" preschool. <<=== I'l buy that!

• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.

His new New Deal also

guarantees a "living wage,"

with a

"fair trade" and "

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That's just for starters — first-term stuff.

Obama doesn't stop with

He wants to

"socialize" your entire human resources department — from

payrolls to pensions.

His social-microengineering even extends to

mandating all employers provide seven paid sick days per year

to salary and hourly workers alike.

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You can see why Obama was ranked,

hands-down,

Some, including colleague and presidential challenger John McCain,

think he's the most liberal member in Congress.

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But could he really be "more left,"

as McCain recently remarked,

than self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders

(for whom Obama has openly campaigned,

even making a special trip to Vermont to rally voters)?

Obama's voting record,

going back to his days in the Illinois statehouse, says yes.

His career path — and those who guided it —

leads to the same unsettling conclusion.

The seeds of his far-left ideology

were planted in his formative years as a teenager in Hawaii — and

they were far more radical than any biography or profile in the media has portrayed.

A careful reading of Obama's first memoir,

"Dreams From My Father,"

reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 —

a man he cryptically refers to as "Frank" —

was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, <<== Guilt by association !

who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress

opened investigations into his "subversive," "un-American activities." <== McCarthyism !!

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As Obama was preparing to head off to college,

he sat at Davis' feet in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions.

Davis plied his impressionable guest with

liberal doses of whiskey and advice,

including:

Never trust the white establishment.

"They'll train you so good," he said,

"you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and

the American way and all that sh**." <<== YES - all those MYTHS

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After college,

where he palled around with Marxist professors and

took in socialist conferences "for inspiration,"

Obama followed in Davis' footsteps, becoming a

"community organizer" in Chicago.

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His boss there was Gerald Kellman,

whose identity Obama also tries to hide in his book.

Turns out Kellman's a disciple of the late Saul "The Red" Alinsky,

a hard-boiled Chicago socialist

who wrote the "Rules for Radicals" and

agitated for social revolution in America.

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JwA - Just what is wrong with Saul David Alinsky ??? A great man.

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Alinsky formed the Industrial Areas Foundation in 1940. Since its formation, hundreds of professional community and labor organizers and thousands of community and labor leaders have attended its workshops. Fred Ross, who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In Hillary Clinton's senior honors thesis at Wellesley College an analysis of Alinsky's work, Clinton noted that Alinsky's personal efforts were a large part of his method. She later noted that although she agreed with his notion of self-empowernment she disagreed with his assessment that the system could only change from the outside. Alinsky's teachings influenced Barack Obama in his early career as a community organizer on the far South Side of Chicago. Working for Gerald Kellman's Developing Communities Project, Obama learned and taught Alinsky's methods for community organizing.[

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The Chicago-based

Woods Fund provided Kellman with his original $25,000 to hire Obama.

In turn, Obama would later serve on the Woods board with terrorist Bill Ayers

of the Weather Underground.

Ayers was one of Obama's early political supporters.

After three years agitating with

marginal success for more welfare programs in South Side Chicago,

Obama decided he would need to study law to

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While at Harvard Law School,

he still found time to hone his organizing skills.

For example, he spent eight days in Los Angeles

taking a national training course taught by

Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation.

With his newly minted law degree,

he returned to Chicago to reapply — as well as teach —

Alinsky's "agitation" tactics. <<=== ???

(A video-streamed bio on Obama's Web site includes a

photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom.

If you freeze the frame and look closely at the blackboard

Obama is writing on, you can make out the words

terms right out of Alinsky's rule book.)

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Amid all this,

Obama reunited with his late father's communist tribe <<== ???

in Kenya, the Luo, during trips to Africa.

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As a Nairobi bureaucrat,

Barack Hussein Obama Sr.,

a Harvard-educated economist,

grew to challenge the ruling pro-Western government for

In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965,

he argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing businesses "

owned by Asians and Europeans."

His ideas for communist-style expropriation didn't stop there. <<== more scary words

He also proposed massive taxes on the rich

to "redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all."

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"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from

taxing 100% of income so long as the

Obama Sr. wrote.

"I do not see why the government cannot

tax those who have more and

syphon some of these revenues into savings

which can be utilized in investment for future development."

the fruit truly does not fall far from the vine.

(Voters might also be interested to know that

Obama, the supposed straight shooter,

does not once mention his father's communist leanings <<== more guilt by association

in an entire book dedicated to his memory.)

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In Kenya's recent civil unrest,

Obama privately phoned the leader of the opposition Luo tribe, Raila Odinga,

to voice his support.

Odinga is so committed to communism he named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

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With his African identity sewn up,

Obama returned to Chicago and fell under the spell of an Afrocentric pastor.

It was a natural attraction.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches a Marxist version of Christianity

called "black liberation theology" and

has supported the communists in Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere. <<== JwA - so did !!

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Obama joined Wright's militant church,

pledging allegiance to a system of

"black values" that demonizes white "middle classness" and <<== tsk tsk tsk

other mainstream pursuits.

(Obama in his first book, published in 1995, calls such values "sensible."

There's no mention of them in his new book.)

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With the large church behind him,

Obama decided to run for political office,

where he could organize for "change" more effectively.

"As an elected official," he said,

"I could bring church and community leaders together

easier than I could as a community organizer or lawyer." <<== OK

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He could also exercise real, top-down power,

the kind that grass-roots activists lack.

Alinsky would be proud. <<=== YES ! !

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Throughout his career,

Obama has worked closely with a network of

He's been traveling in an orbit of

collectivism that runs from Nairobi to Honolulu, and

on through Chicago to Washington.

Yet a recent AP poll found that

only 6% of Americans would describe Obama as "liberal,"

let alone socialist.

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Public opinion polls usually reflect media opinion, and

the media by and large have portrayed Obama as a moderate "outsider"

(the No. 1 term survey respondents associate him with)

The few who have drilled down on his radical roots have tended to

downplay or pooh-pooh them.

Even skeptics have failed to connect the dots

for fear of being called the dreaded "r" word.

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But too much is at stake in this election to continue mincing words.

Both a historic banking crisis and 1970s-style stagflation loom over the economy. Democrats, who already control Congress,

in what could be a watershed election for them —

at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

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A perfect storm of statism is forming, and

our economic freedoms are at serious risk.

Those who care less about looking politically correct than

that's made this country great

have to start calling things by their proper name to avert long-term disaster.

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