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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Laura Hollis :: Townhall.com Columnist
Time to Use the "C" Word
by Laura Hollis
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“I’ve looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.
What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real...
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well- trodden corridors into the valley of steel.”

                                                             - Roger Waters

I am tired of all the dancing around the subject with respect to Barack Obama’s political, social, and economic views.  He’s not a “liberal,” or a “Democrat,” or a “progressive,” or even a “socialist.”  Let’s call it what it is, shall we?  It’s time to use the “C” word.  His policies are communist, pure and simple.

Even without the power of the Presidency, a filibuster-proof Senate, and U.S. Supreme Court appointments under his belt, Obama has already:

*  called for a national citizen military force;

* sent government agents to intimidate American citizens who have said they don’t agree with him and will not vote for him;

* tried to use the offices of state Attorneys General to silence any opposition or dissent;

* offered questionable “support” for the Second Amendment “right to bear arms” – as long as it isn’t in self-defense;

* proposed his version of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need;”  (plumbers – plumbers, for pity’s sake, should pay more taxes???)

* trained, funded and utilized organizations like ACORN that are notorious for voter registration fraud;

* consorted with and funded terrorists and anti-American radicals;

* attended a church led by a racist, black supremacist, anti-American bigot;

* been mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, who was apparently not only a Communist and a bigot, but also a pervert, and who warned Obama not to go off to college or fall for “equal opportunity and the American way and all that s***.”

Despite concerted efforts by the media to hide this information, Obama’s connections with the Communist Party have been unearthed by independent investigators, journalists and bloggers.  And like clockwork, Obama apologists and handlers are trying to assuage the public’s concerns with assurances that Obama is “not that radical;” he knows that “socialism is dead;” he is a pragmatist, not an ideologue.

Uh-huh.  Sure.  Well, they got the “pragmatist” part right, anyway.  Obama’s immersion in the philosophy of Saul Alinsky has made him a master of political pragmatism.  Conservatives make another fundamental error when they wonder why Obama is heralding policies like higher taxes that have been proven, time and time again, to fail.  Newsflash: You don’t get it.  It’s not that Obama is ignorant, or misguided.  He knows – as do his Red backers – that the policies he espouses will cause further economic trauma.  This is deliberate.  Because the worse things get, the more receptive the public will be to Obama’s & Co.’s honey-tongued assurances that the government will step in and “make it all better.” Look at Hurricane Katrina, and the recent financial crisis: how many people were clamoring for the government to “do something”?  And that’s nothing compared to what we’re going to face when Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid collapse.

Obama’s colleagues are shrewd; they know that they have little chance of taking over all of private enterprise by force.  Instead, they want the public to hand it over to them, bit by bit.

Even the briefest study of Communist Party ideology dating back to the 1930s reveals a concerted campaign to infiltrate and destroy the United States from within, by gaining control of the universities, of the media, of primary and secondary school, of the courts, and ultimately the entire government.  Joseph McCarthy’s monumentally bad rap notwithstanding, dozens of former spies have come forward, as have the documents, attesting to the Party’s intentions.  When the Soviet Union fell in 1989, those ideas pretty much went the way of the dodo in Russia, but they have been alive and well in this country for 80 years.  People like William Ayers are proof. Continued...

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Laura Hirschfeld Hollis is a Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois.

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One more thing
Just as an aside, people are forgetting that the "experience" of BHO is limited to only 143 days. He has spent almost two years campaigning and 143 days in the Senate where his voting record speaks for itself. He authored two books and some of the excerpts have come back to haunt him. If you're a medical intern for 143 days, does that qualify you as being a doctor? I think not. Hopefully our citizens will do the right thing for our great country. I'm 75 years of age so there would be little impact on me but I fear for my kids, grandchildren and those of my friends and citizenry. God Bless America, the land of the free and may our flag always wave o'er the land of the brave.

Finally....FINALLY! Thank YOU!!!
Communism In Chicago and Hawaii - What The Media Are Not Telling You
http://www.usasurvival.org/obama.html

Communist Roots of The Old And New "Progressive" Movement by Herbert Romerstein
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck101408.html

Wright 101
Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism
http://article.nationalreview.com:80/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWR hZjI2MmM4NTQ4NGM5Mjg0MzU

Obama Signed a Contract with the Chicago Socialist Party
"The fact is that as recently as 1996 Senator Obama was an active member of the Chicago Democratic Socialist Party"
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/10/senator-obama-signed -contract-with.html

Why Obama's Communist Connections Are Not Headlines by Paul Kengor
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist _connectio.html

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis by James Simpson
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the _strategy.html

The Obama File - Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.html

How Obama Applies Alinsky's Rules
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=30697714158304 1

Russian Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZ4Lkm6JQw
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