EDITORIAL: Barack Obama in his own words

[stephanie]

'An ominous tone of authoritarianism'
Around this time in the presidential election cycle, Democratic candidates traditionally start "running to the center."

With a wink and a nod to their core, far-left constituencies, the candidates in effect say, "For the next five months I'm going to sound like a small-government Republican, talking about tax cuts and free enterprise and a strong defense and cutting back the welfare rolls. But don't worry, this is just to have a calming effect on all those oxen we're going to get back to collectively goring next year."

The rhetoric then shifts to the right -- until the day after the election, of course.

We hope our congratulations are not premature, but it's worthy of note that, so far, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama does not seem to be taking this path. If Sen. Obama is elected president, it will not be because he has disguised the fact that he is a dyed-in-the-wool collectivist.

According to a transcript of the graduation speech Sen. Obama gave at Wesleyan University last weekend -- he filled in for the ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy -- this career politician (who lives in a house worth $1.65 million, made more than $4 million last year, and who wears very nice suits, indeed) advised the young graduates: "You can take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy. ... But I hope you don't. Not because ... you have a debt to all those who helped you get to where you are today, although I do believe you have that debt to pay. It's because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation."

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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/19595329.html

[No_Socialism]

Barack and Michelle's Marxist Quotes:

"They don't want the whole pie," she told the women. "There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach. If we don't wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership, for how we want this country to work, then we won't get universal health care. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
- Michelle Obama

Commentary: Well I can't say it any better than Mr. Beck does:

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"So we're going to provide a $4,000 tuition credit, every student, every year, but, students, you're going to have to give back something in return. You're going to have to participate in community service. You're going to have to work in a homeless shelter, or a veteran's home, or an underserved school, or join the Peace Corps."
- Barack Obama

Commentary: So he wants to make "every student, every year" an employee of the state? And is this another step towards socializing higher education?

"And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiments as a way to explain their frustrations"
- Barack Obama

Commentary: Karl Marx famously claimed that religion was an opiate of the masses. He was explaining his view that the wealthy bourgeoise cynically used religion as a device to keep the poor, simple proletariat happy in their misery and squalor so they would find it immoral to rise up and overthrow their capitalists oppressors.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,"
- Barack Obama

Commentory: Hmm, is this quote for Marxist or Fascist? I can't decide...

"It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
- Barack Obama

"The great task before our founders was putting into practice the ideal that government could simultaneously serve liberty and advance the common good. and Government, he believed, had an important role to play in advancing our common prosperity."
- Barack Obama

Commentary: Collective before individual? Common prosperity?

"I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
- Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)

"Political discussions, the kind at Occidental had once seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union"
- Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)

Commentary: Nothing more to say here...

"Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness."
- Barack Obama

Commentary: No, not because it would increase revenue, but for "fairness". Yes that's right...punish success...



I'll find more later...

Oh ya...and why is Socialism so bad anyway? This is why:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007....international

[PostmodernProphet]

Steph, can you print a larger version of your avatar.....my eyes aren't good enough to read what's on their t-shirts....

[stephanie]

Steph, can you print a larger version of your avatar.....my eyes aren't good enough to read what's on their t-shirts....

I'm not sure how to make it larger(computer wiz, I'm not)..

But it says.....WHITE-LIBERAL-GUILT.