Daniel J. Flynn at the City Journal details quite a list of 1960s radicals who support Barack Obama for president.
Radical Michael Klonsky of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is one. His group had clashes with police, and Klonsky eventually formed the Maoist Communist Party in the 1970s.
Mark Rudd is another supporter. He led an SDS chapter which formed a student strike at Columbia University. The article also says Rudd presided over the "the {SDS] organization’s metamorphosis into Weatherman" and was connected to the Fort Dix bomb plot that instead killed three Weathermen. Have he and his ilk changed much?
“Probably the biggest difference between Columbia SDS people in 1968 and in 2008 is forty years,” Rudd explained in an e-mail.
Also mentioned is Carl Davidson, another SDS nut who dabbled with Marxist groups.
Good ole Tom Hayden is another of these radicals backing Obama. Among his notorious accomplishments are causing trouble at the 1968 convention and marrying traitor "Hanoi" Jane Fonda.
Klonsky remembers Hayden plotting to spread nails on a highway; another SDS leader recalls Hayden encouraging activists to firebomb police cars.
Hayden is also one of the organizers of Progressives for Obama, a group Flynn says is a 'Who’s Who of SDS luminaries."
And of course there's Weathermen Bill Ayers who is a known associate of Obama's. Ayers is the domestic terrorist who bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, several post offices and other locations. This is the man who said in a column on 911: "I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough."
And there are more...
Do these associations mean Barack Obama is an anti-American dirtbag like Tom Hayden or Bill Ayers? No.
But you have to ask yourself: would they be supporting Obama if Obama wasn't a pretty sure bet for advancing the kind of things they believe in?
3 comments:
This crap is just silly.
I'm an 'acquaintance,' not a 'friend' and if he even remembers my name at all, it's because of bugging him to spend money on the learning centers.
Today I run 'Progressives for Obama', a web site completely independent of him. We distance ourselves from him, and he can do likewise. Technically, we don't even endorse him; we simply say he's our 'best option.' So there's no need for him to reject what's not there. We do want people to vote for him, mainly as a way to end this horrible, unjust and stupid war. But we criticize him on many things all the time
But if you look out there in rightwing cyberspace, I'm the dreaded 'terrorist' and 'Communist Mentor' responsible for shaping the 'Marxist Obama.' I kid you not.
And this crap gets bounced around as 'Research' and 'Fox-Hannity truth.' Spare me. These guys have such tiny brains that they wouldn't know serious research or polemic if they saw it.
With my trusty Google, and six degrees of separation, I can show 'connections' between this author and advocates of Biblical slavery and worse, and it would mean just as much.
What he really wants to do is 'Willie Hortonize' the entire 1960s new left, which number in the millions, and 'demonize' them to shut them up.
He doesn't even bother to ask the most interesting questions. Why is Bill Ayers a widely respected educator and school reformer, acknowledged and defended by even Mayor Daley, despite his over-the-top politics of 40 years ago?
The irony is that none of these guys, including me, could give a hoot if Obama 'throws them under the bus,' because it's not about us, and never has been.
Here, we're only scary, carefully made-up cartoons, with little connection with who we really are, designed to scare gullible people, to play all of you as suckers, and some of you are falling for it.
I've been part of the real Chicago left for decades, and believe me, Obama has never been part of it. He's a decent reformist liberal with ideas far removed from socialism or Marxism.
Obama is a 'high road' industrial policy capitalist and multipolar globalist--just read his Cooper Union speech a while back. Clinton is a garden-variety corporate liberal capitalist, which got her on the board of Walmart for years. And McCain is a US hegemonist and an unreconstructed neoliberal capitalist--'state all evil, market all good'--that kind that says 'We're in business to make money, not steel, so we'll gut these plants and speculate in oil futures, and the workers and towns be damned.' In other words, the ones who 'cut taxes' by putting everything on the China Visa card and got us into this mess.
Actually, truth be told, Obama's brand of capitalism is best for productive businesses, as opposed to many speculators, and does least harm to the working class. That doesn't mean we can't press him to be better at it, as in promoting and building infrastructure for new green businesses and green jobs for youth. All those solar panels and wave and wind turbines have to be built somewhere by someone.
If you want to criticize him, all this stuff is fair game, that is, if you want to get out of the nasty-name calling of the kindergarten sandbox and learn enough to play with the big kids, let alone the grownups.
But being enthralled by Mr. Flynn just means you have a ways to go.
These are just few of unknown Obama truths. Lont term Rezko, discounted home mortgage, 20 years of Pastor wright and black liberation theology, Auchi, Khalidi, sharpton, Jackson... and list is expanding.. Oh! did I forget his anti-american wife.
His flip flops are unbelivable..
Isn't it enough for Americans to discard this guy? Dems made a mistake here selecting Obama with a muslim heritage and radical theology.
All these things brought to light late in the game during primary.. but will not cut it for dems in fall.
This gives Mccain and RNC a real shot.
Paid obama bloggers might jump on this but..they should learn to accept the reality that these are the sentiments of true americans.. regardless of what they throw out on the web.. calling out racism is old now find something new and get a life for yourself.
Obama would not care about you folks once election is over regardless of results
You say "Do these associations mean Barack Obama is an anti-American dirtbag like Tom Hayden or Bill Ayers? "
I say yes !
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