There's a site up, "The Obama Files," that examines everything about Barack Obama; his upbringing, his activism, his associations, his schooling and his beliefs. Here are a few of the nuggets posted on it:
"Stanley Ann (Anna) Dunham, Obama's mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960, touted herself as an atheist.The Dunhams moved to Seattle in the mid-50's and Anna was greatly influenced by left-wing and communist teachers in the Mercer Island High School, who had the students read the philosophers Sartre and Kierkegaard, "The Communist Manifesto" and question the existence of God.In the 1950s, the Dunhams joined "the little Red church on the hill," where the McCarthyism and the skepticism that Anna's father embraced and passed on to his daughter was welcomed.
A high school classmate described Anna as "a fellow traveler. . . We were liberals before we knew what liberals were."Anna established a relationship with Barack Obama Sr., who she meets at the University of Hawaii, and spent weekends in discussions that seemed to be, in part, a logical extension of the long coffeehouse sessions in Seattle and the teachings of Wichterman and Foubert, Anna's left-wing high school instructors.The forum involved graduate students from the University of Hawaii. They spent weekends listening to jazz, drinking beer and debating politics and world affairs.Neil Abercrombie, the Democratic congressman from Hawaii, was part of those regular gatherings and described Anna as "the original feminist." Very comprehensive history of Stanley Ann Dunham here.
. . . In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama included a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles."There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
. . . In 1982 He (Barack Obama) regularly attends the Marxist-Socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives until they worried he'd become "one of those freaks you see on the streets around here."
. . . Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.
One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an interviewer of The New Republic, about Obama:"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.
"The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.In these methods, euphemistically labeled "community organizing," Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.
. . . Obama received the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)for the Illinois state senate seat. Obama is an associate of the Chicago branch of the DSA.
. . . An analysis of "lifetime voting records," shows Obama as the most liberal Democrat in Congress, with a score of 84.3 after two full years in the Senate. The most liberal score possible was 99.The study, released in March by the National Journal, a respected inside-the-Beltway research report, places Obama even in front of Dennis Kucinich, with a lifetime score of 79.4."
I've saved one of the best for last: In 2007 during a campaign speech, Barack Obama revealed the depth of his Marxist beliefs when he said, ". . .We don't care about the world as it is, we imagine the world as it might be. We want to write a new chapter. That is the moment that we are in right now." [Emphasis added]
With that statement Barack Obama joined Francois Babeuf, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, and a host of other leftwing radicals, including his friend Bill Ayers, in articulating a willingness to trade -- and by logical extension to abandon or destroy -- a hated present for the chimera of a future paradise.
