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What Obama Should Learn From Lenin

Bob from PA Wrote: Sep 05, 2010 4:49 PM
Obama does not need to take away our freedoms or close churches or do other such things. He and his adherents in Congress are taking away our economic freedom. The other freedoms won't mean much when we can't control how we use the fruits of our own labor. We will be serfs of the federal governement which will give us an allowance to live on. Marx believed communism would occur in indutstrial countries first, not the USSR. Thus, it was easy for Lenin to retreat to capitalism because under Marx's dialectical history and materialsism, the USSR had to go through the capitalist stage before it could reach nirvana. So, why did the USSR collapse? Because the rest of the world was not communist. If only the rest of the world would...

Thirty-eight years ago a film called The Candidate was playing in theaters around the country. It told the story of a young politician named Bill McKay (played by Robert Redford) and his quixotic campaign to win a seat in the United States Senate from California. That, of course, was the year of George McGovern’s run for the presidency against President Richard Nixon. It was also the first year 18-year old Americans could vote. So the movie tapped into the whole young-rock-star-charisma-change-the-world zeitgeist.

It was a “Yes, we can” political prologue.

In the final scene of the movie, McKay and...

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