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| Obama Espoused Radical Views in College |
| 2010-02-15 |
| Via New Zeal Blog As a college student, Barack Obama expressed Marxist views, including the need for a new socialist U.S. government, according to a student who says he shared the future president's opinion at the time. Such views by a college student may not be surprising. And like most students who hold radical views, Obama's positions, at least publicly, have evolved substantially. However, this new window on Obama's youth and early political thinking demonstrates how little is known about the background of America's 44th president. Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University. Drew's then girlfriend, Caroline Boss -- now Grauman-Boss -- knew Obama because she shared classes with him at Occidental. During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss' home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan. "Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together," Drew says. "We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics." For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism. Also Video Interview |
| Posted by:ed |
| #17 OOOOOPPPSIES, my bad, that should be RENSE > UNDER OBAMA, US COUNTER-TERRORISM MURDERS SOAR. * Also from RENSE > EASTMAN - ZIONIST, COMMUNIST ORGANIZED CRIME TAKE OVER PLANET. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-15 20:25 |
| #16 Gee Whizzz. its only going to be a mere 77-88% US DEBT-TO-GDP come 2020, thats all! OTOH NEWS KERALA > BIDEN: 12 OF TOP 20 AL QAEDA LEADERS KILLED UNDER OBAMA [ + 100 AQ "Associates"]; versus RENSE > US COUNTER-TERRORISM MURDERS CONTINUE UNDER OBAMA. and IIRC WORLD NEWS > SAVAGE REVENGE: HOW BRITISH HOSTAGES WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF BRITISH SAS' TARGETING OF IRANIAN TERRORISTS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-15 20:21 |
| #15 Mitch, IIRC Mussolini invented the term and corporatism and fascism and they were used at the time interchangeably with fascism. The key identifier is that Profit is privatized and Loss is socialized all under the heavy regulatory hand of gov't. Ownership in the socialist/communist sense is not all that important if the government controls whatever gets done anyway. In our system we are slipping farther and farther down that slide. This is not only a Democrat feature but it is primarily so. They are the ones that insist on using Federal Tax funds to protect their cronies from loss with the likes of FDIC, Fannie & Freddit. Check out One West just for rage sake. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-02-15 13:45 |
| #14 Johnson! Stop the presses!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-02-15 11:45 |
| #13 What's most interesting is how they afforded the BMW, had a nice restaurant meal and then ranted AGAINST capitalism!? No doubt it was young Mr. Obama's friend's car, just as no doubt said friend paid for the dinner, just for the pleasure of Mr. Obama's conversation. This is the same friend, after all, who took him pheasant shooting over Christmas break back home in Pakistan. And no doubt Mr. Obama tactfully refused to take notice of the sordid financial transactions occurring under his nose as he pontificated so charmingly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-02-15 10:33 |
| #12 Eh, Alan, I wouldn't go so far as to call crony capitalism "synonymous" with fascism, or even with corporatism. They're both characterized by an emphasis on rent-seeking over competitive activities, but crony capitalism tends more towards private corruption, whereas corporatist rent-seeking relies on "a place at the table"-type public corruption. I'd say that Geithner and Paulson were crony capitalists, and that Summers and Reich are corporatist. I'm not sure that Obama's economic personality is well-developed enough to accurately diagnose his rent-seeking condition, but limited evidence from his time in Chicago suggests he's a crony capitalist in private life and a corporatist in public affairs. Giannoulias and Ayers, in other words, are the mobbed-up and Maoist angels on Barrack's shoulders. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-02-15 10:28 |
| #11 No, I mean, really shocked! |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2010-02-15 09:57 |
| #10 As one of the biggest B.S. artists around in my teens and twenties, I become serious in equal measure to my former B.S. ways in my thirties. Which is exactly why Obama never fooled me, it takes one to know one. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Thrineper8949 2010-02-15 09:23 |
| #9 Socialism , the gateway drug to communism. Muppets fall for it every time , then whine and moan about government impositions on their life .. BP's 'What's most interesting is how they afforded the BMW, had a nice restaurant meal and then ranted AGAINST capitalism!?' Is the one that stands out for me too . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-02-15 08:08 |
| #8 I am shocked, shocked, at these revelations... |
| Posted by: Raj 2010-02-15 08:02 |
| #7 Lot's of people woke up after being socialists at uni (not me, I could see socialism was an externalisation of hidden narcissism). What's most interesting is how they afforded the BMW, had a nice restaurant meal and then ranted AGAINST capitalism!? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-02-15 07:35 |
| #6 Is this supposed to be news? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-02-15 07:09 |
| #5 g, you do know that crony capitalist is more or less synonomous with fascist, right? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-02-15 06:59 |
| #4 Well he's a crony capitalist nowadays. Posted by: g(r)omgoru Sorry, nope g(r)omgoru . Democrats have "nationalized two automobile companies and want 1/6th of the American economy under "State" control via the "National Health Care Bill"; they are being influenced as a Marxist - Socialist Party as past experience has shown in 2009. The Marxist conception of socialism is that of a specific historical phase that will displace capitalism and be a precursor to communism. The major characteristics of socialism (particularly as conceived by Marx and Engels after the Paris Commune of 1871), are that the proletariat will control the means of production through a workers' state erected by the workers in their interests. Economic activity is still organised through the use of incentive systems and social classes would still exist but to a lesser and diminishing extent than under capitalism. |
| Posted by: Slusosh Barnsmell6132 2010-02-15 06:55 |
| #3 Well... a number of people (not on the Burg) owe me apologies. He is still a volk-marxist, BTW- it comes out in his off-hand comments. He probably sees statism as a good start. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2010-02-15 06:26 |
| #2 Grant hoer Black Mamba calls Boa Constrictor a slithering, socialist snake. Think I'll just stick to believing my own lying eyes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-15 03:53 |
| #1 Well he's a crony capitalist nowadays. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-02-15 03:00 |
