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Volume XIII, Issue # 72, March 20, 2011
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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: AS RED AS IT GETS
By Alan Caruba
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, COMMUNISM, & THE U.S. MEDIA: HIGH TIME FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA & ALL OTHER
MEDIA SEGMENTS IN THE U.S.A. TO BEGIN AN HONEST EXAMINATION OF THE RECORD & CONCLUDE THAT A COMMUNIST
HOLDS THE REINS OF POWER IN THE U.S. WHITE HOUSE -- AMERICA'S DESCENT INTO MARXISM-LENINISM UNDER THE
LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA -- THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN TEA PARTY MOVEMENT -- THE
DRAMATIC REVERSAL OF POWER IN THE U.S. CONGRESS THAT HAS OCCURRED AS A RESULT THE CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER, 2010 -- AMERICAN VOTERS INCREASINGLY AWARE OF THE LEFTWING LIBERAL & MARXIAN
SOCIALIST NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF PRESIDENT OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE GREAT DAMAGE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGENDA HAS ALREADY DONE TO OUR COUNTRY
FULL STORY:
Isn’t it about time that the mainstream media and all others begin to examine the record and conclude that a Communist
holds the reins of power in the U.S. White House?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, it is often believed that Communism died with it. Not so, Communism is alive
and well in China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
From the days of Harry S. Truman, who discovered that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had given the Soviets Eastern Europe
at the World War II Yalta Conference, American Presidents have steadfastly done what they believed was required to
keep Communism “contained,” some Presidents more successfully than others.
The Communist Manifesto is well worth reading. Among its planks, is the abolition of private property, and a
government that owns or controls much of the U.S. landmass is antithetical to this keystone of American capitalism.
The Communist Manifesto calls for “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax." It calls for the centralization
of credit in the hands of the sovereign state. We have a “Federal Reserve System” that is the central bank, or national
bank, of the U.S.A.
The Communist Manifesto calls for “centralization of the means of communications and transportation.” We have
the "Federal Communications Commission." There’s more and you can read about it here.
America has never had a Communist President, until now.
While others have written how obvious it is that Obama is a “Socialist,” I think this is a matter of caution in a society
that has not seriously used the word “Communist” since the 1950s, when entities like the House Un-American Activities
Committee actively investigated and exposed how many Communists existed and operated in the U.S. government, the
labor unions, and Hollywood.
It’s not like Barack Hussein Obama has come out and said, “Yes, I’m a Communist,” but you don’t have to have a Ph.D.
in Political Science to connect the dots. The process is made murky by the way Obama has deliberately covered his
tracks wherever he could, while dropping broad hints.
Obama is the classic “red diaper” baby, the result of a union between his mother, Stanley Dunham, and Barack Obama, Sr.,
memorialized in Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995). However, Jerome Corsi, the author
of Obama Nation: Leftist Politics & the Cult of Personality (2010), notes that “we are told by Obama outright …
that much of the autobiography is not factually true, at least not as written.” Indeed, much of what Obama has had to
write or say of his life is fiction of one sort or another.
His father abandoned his mother, returning to Africa “to live the life of a chronic alcoholic.” He was also “a man of the
Left.” Obama’s mother remarried and took her son off to Indonesia, but, other than Obama's developing a fondness of
Islam, not much is known of that period. A second divorce put Obama in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, and it
was there where his most formative development occurred.
In his excellent book, Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century (2010),
historian Dr. Paul Kengor traces the role of the former Soviet Union and the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) as it
developed both spies and “fellow travelers” devoted to turning the U.S.A. toward Communism.
Towards its end, the book traces the most important influences in the life of President Obama. The conclusion that he is a
Communist is unavoidable.
Obama’s grandparents were devoted to socialism, raising their daughter in schools known for it, even attending a church
that reflected it. They were close friends with Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the CPUSA and an Afro-American. Dr.
Kengor noted that, during the 1970s, the period of Obama’s adolescence, “His impact is profound because he mentored a
young man who made it all the way to the White House.”
Among the hints Obama drops in Dreams of My Father was a reference to his college years “hanging out with
Marxist professors,” attending “socialist conferences,” and discussing “neocolonialism.” Dr. Kengor quotes Dr. John
Drew, a contemporary of Obama at Occidental College, for whom Obama was “as a fellow Marxist” and said of the
President, “Obama was already an ardent Marxist when I met (him) in the Fall of 1980.”
After graduating from Columbia University, long a hotbed of a Leftist faculty and students indoctrinated with a Liberal
political philosophy, and later Harvard Law School, Obama moved to Chicago where he became close friends with former
far-Left Weatherman terrorists of the 1960s, Bill Ayers, and his wife Benardine Dohrn. His first venture into politics took
place in a fund-raiser in their home. (Ayers calls himself “a communist with a small ‘c’.”)
Obama attended a Black Liberation church in Chicago led by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who rarely had a good word to
say about America.
Among those chosen to be in his administration was Van Jones, “an avowed Communist” named as Obama’s “green
jobs czar.” When exposed, he resigned. Another figure of the far Left was Jeff Jones, whose consulting firm, the Apollo
Alliance, “helped write President Obama’s budget-bursting $800 billion ‘stimulus’ bill passed by Congress shortly into
the Obama Presidency.”
For those still in denial, consider an article by Stanislav Mishin that appeared in Pravda, the Russian newspaper
that was formerly one of the main organs of the Soviet Union. “It must be said that, like the breaking of a great dam, the
American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless
sheep”, much of which he attributed to “the election of Barack Obama.”
That was written before the spontaneous explosion of the quintessentially American Tea Party movement. Since then
we have seen the dramatic reversal of power in Congress that occurred as the result of the November, 2010, elections.
The harm and damage done by our first Communist President will take years to repair, but Americans have wakened to --
• the socialist menace of the nation’s public sector unions,
• the centralization of education in the federal government,
• the threat of the Environmental Protection Agency’s assertion of control over America’s energy sector,
• the refusal of the Interior Department to grant drilling permits,
• the devaluation of the U.S. dollar by the Federal Reserve System,
• and the incremental efforts of an anti-American-controlled U.S. government to undermine defense, national
security, our economy, and our worldwide reputation as a defender of freedom.
Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister who led Britain through World War II and coined the term “Iron
Curtain,” said of Communism, “it is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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