Barack Obama’s Communist connections.

Tsukasa Buddha said:
Um, IIRC, it wasn't an official campaign office. And what his supporters do has nothing to do with what he believes.
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I agree and disagree.
I agree about it not being an official Obama Campaign anything,but what Obama's supporters do can hurt Obama.
Frankly, it is not a good idea to hang posters of Marxist Icons up in ANY office,official or unofficial , if you are running for political office.
I am sure the word went out from Obama headquarters about taking down the posters are five minutes after those photos hit the airwaves and/or internet.
But,frankly,the person who hung them up should have known better.
 
Upchurch said:
I've seen conspiracy theorists with better arguments than that. Are you trying to imply that Obama's mom was a communist?
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Yes, she is identified as a "fellow traveler" which means a communist but not a party member.

Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0703270151mar27,0,5157609.story?page=3

"If you were concerned about something going wrong in the world, Stanley would know about it first," said Chip Wall, who described her as "a fellow traveler. . . . We were liberals before we knew what liberals were."
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Communist Party members know Obama is one of them.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/1/32/

...Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir ‘Dreams of my Father’, the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation – though you would never know it from reading so-called left journals of opinion. At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir, "Living the Blues"...
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Let's see, Obama hanged around with a communist poet as a kid.

This is pretty thin, even by Republican smear standards. Try this:

McCain willingly stayed with Communist militants for five years during a time of war.
 
Random said:
Let's see, Obama hanged around with a communist poet as a kid.

This is pretty thin, even by Republican smear standards. Try this:

McCain willingly stayed with Communist militants for five years during a time of war.
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Ooooooh. You're good. :D
 
MaGZ said:
Obama at the very least is a fellow traveler of the Communist Party just like him mom Stanley Ann Durham.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
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His mother's first name is Stanley?

dudalb said:
You might argue..and I would agree..that Hitler was the greater menace of the two and a alliance with Staling was justified on the grounds of necessity,but let's not have any illusions that Commusnism was often as brutal as Nazism at it's worst.
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I think the most recent numbers show that anybody, Adolf included, was a piker when compared with Stalin.

Re: the OP, can I just say: Jee-SUS!
 
It may seem like a mountain that Obama has to climb to overcome this kind of hatred and bigotry, but really it's not really that new. Since even before McCarthy, right-wing politicians have been using the red or pink scare tactics to frighten Americans. Yet there have been a number of politicians elected who did not toe the line to these scare-mongers. Today, when Communist Russia is a thing of the past, Communist China is one of our biggest trading partners, and Communist Cuba is but a depressed island with no power whatsoever, it is amazing to me that these tactics still can rouse the faithful.

But it can be overcome, and I suspect it will be this year. The messages of hate have gotten a little to strident for all but the most intransigent of Americans. And of course, the combined voting power of Hispanics, blacks, immigrants, liberals and moderates should be enough to drown out these sputum-laced cries. No, they won't go away, and maybe they shouldn't. We need to be reminded from time to time what hatred can do. It's a lesson that is too easy to forget.
 
MaGZ said:
Obama at the very least is a fellow traveler of the Communist Party just like him mom Stanley Ann Durham.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
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I've seen some pretty stupid stuff on Accuracy In the Media. This fits the pattern.

These guys are in for a big surprise, the only people that are going to be swayed by this junk are the fundies that wouldn't have voted for a Democrat anyway. But they have few other options. They have rejected McCain to a certain extent. They would have either voted for McCain or just not voted. Or maybe they'll write in Huckabee who knows?

It's good to get this silliness out now. Ties to Farrakhan, wearing a turban in Somalia, went to a madrassa, middle name Hussein, ....Obama supporters are laughing or they are incensed, but they are not going to be swayed. I'm still favoring Clinton, but this stuff is just childish.

And yes, I know the Clinton campaign supposedly sent the turban picture to Drudge. I also heard they were just emailing it to each other asking why the news media had not used it. I'll wait for the real facts to come out, who knows? I could see some Clinton staffers in some low level position getting frustrated at the incessant media denigration of Clinton sending the turban foto around.

This sort of nonsense from AIM certainly seems desperate of them. Maybe they are floundering without Rove there to put out the talking points.
 
MaGZ said:
Yes, she is identified as a "fellow traveler" which means a communist but not a party member.

Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0703270151mar27,0,5157609.story?page=3
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"She was not a standard-issue girl of her times. ... She wasn't part of the matched-sweater-set crowd," said Wall, a classmate and retired philosophy teacher who used to make after-school runs to Seattle with Dunham to sit and talk -- for hours and hours -- in coffee shops.
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I didn't know Seattle had coffee shops kids hung out in in the 60s.


This cracks me up though:
..on a small island in the Pacific Northwest.
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The reference is to Mercer Island. It's a friggen suburb of Seattle, the only thing about it making it an island is you have to get on the freeway bridge to get there. It's less than a couple miles from Mercer Is. to either downtown Bellevue or Seattle. In fact it is 10 miles from here to downtown Seattle and Mercer Is. is in between.

His Mom was an atheist. Maybe he's a closet atheist. Hmmm, that could make him more attractive as a candidate.
 
KingMerv00 said:
Do we have any communists in the forum? If so, we are all commies...MaGz included.
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I don´t think we have any commies here. But considering that MaGZ posts here, this means we are all Nazis.:eek:

Excuse me for a moment. I need to throw up. :boggled:
 
skeptigirl said:
I didn't know Seattle had coffee shops kids hung out in in the 60s.
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My impression, derived entirely from TV/films (and therefore quite possibly totally wrong), was that this was kids main hobby in the 50's / 60's.

http://windows.fileoftheday.com/archives/games_coffee_tycoon.html

"As the youth culture of the 1960s evolved, non-Italians consciously copied these coffeehouses. Before the rise of the Seattle-based Starbucks chain, Seattle (and other parts of the Pacific Northwest) had a thriving, largely countercultural coffeehouse scene; Starbucks cleaned up, standardized, genericized, and "mainstreamed" this model."

In addition it suggests that the reason kids hung out in coffee shops was that they were too young to go to bars.
 
The Painter said:
Does this count???? It's a Che flag at an Obama campaign office in Houston. Looks like a Cuban/commie flag to me!!

[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Lexapro/barack_obama_che_guevara_2.jpg[/qimg]

[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Lexapro/barack_obama_che_guevara_1.jpg[/qimg]
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IIRC FOX actually did an on air retraction of it being a "Obama campaign office."
 
Chaos said:
I don´t think we have any commies here. But considering that MaGZ posts here, this means we are all Nazis.:eek:

Excuse me for a moment. I need to throw up. :boggled:
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TobiasTheCommie is a poster here, which is close enough to count.
 
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