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Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college.

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, a skinhead full of hate, it seems, for our Capitalist economic system. Hatred for the rich; a hatred based on envy. Now, he's ready to take charge of America and sell out his country, to CHANGE.

With his amorphous and undefined desire to CHANGE the nation's entire economic fabric because he's spent his entire adult life hating. Hating whites, for their capitalism. Hate he sought out and to learned in school, and hate he nurtured...in Church.

In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.

Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, “Young African-American men” were “dying for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on Bush’s lies” and is being “fought for oil money.”

Obama’s most famous celebrity backer, Oprah Winfrey began attending Wright’s church in 1984. Last year, Newsmax magazine reported that Winfrey abruptly stopped attending years ago, and suggested that she did so to distance herself from Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. She soon found herself a target of Wright, who
excoriated her for having broken with “traditional faith.”

The Reverend Wright’s anti-white theology that Senator Obama expressed surprise over is evident on the church’s website. The site says the congregation subscribes to what it calls the Black Value System, which is described as a disavowal of “our racist competitive society” and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in the church-affiliated magazine Trumpet four years after the attacks. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

That troublesome Black Liberation Theology. White-hating theology, that's the bottom line.

Socialism as "public control of the means of production" is not the definition that we apply to Barack Obama, tgirsch. The meaning for Barack Obama's sort of socialism is Webster's third in line..

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

Giving goods taken from someone who works (confiscatory taxes), and 'redistributing the wealth' (Obama's own words!) to those who do not work is Obama's definition of socialism. Allowing non-productive members of society to get a share of the fruits of another person's labor. Undeservedly so? I think so. But then, I'm a capitalist, as would be most Americans if they would take the time to realize that Capitalism is responsible for their very way of life, responsible for the excellent health care system enjoyed by Americans, responsible for the advanced technology and devices we enjoy. Capitalism made our way of life possible. Socialism drags a society down; instead of requiring people to reach their potential by expending a bit of effort, it 'trickles up' the poverty. All are equally treated, when none are allowed to succeed without the punishment of unfair taxation.

But that taxation just seems Wright to some.

We don't need no stinkin' socialism, not here in America.

(Oh...third in line...now, that rings a bell, doesn't it?)