Radical Son? Obama at Columbia
Has the president moderated his views from when he was a radical student activist in college?
I don’t think anyone can seriously make the argument at this point that Barack Obama did not dabble in radical leftist politics in his youth. It is also difficult to ignore the fact that throughout his adult life, the president has been attracted to left-wing radicals and, for whatever reason, kept them close as advisors and mentors.
His relationships with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Michael Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, as well as his ties to ACORN and his use of the radical Chicago New Party in Chicago in his first run for state senator were widely reported prior to the election. It’s not as if voters were unaware of these connections. Poll after poll prior to the vote showed that while up to two thirds of Americans knew of Obama’s radical associations, they didn’t hold it against him.
It is also clear that Obama and his campaign tried to hide the extent of these radical associations prior to last year’s election. The reason was simple: Being “acquainted” with Ayers et. al. was one thing, but holding similar views as these radical associates was quite another. Hence, Ayers was “just some guy in the neighborhood” and not a close collaborator on radical education reform in Chicago. And Obama knew nothing regarding Wright’s radical sermons even though he sat in the same church for 20 years.
But this tells us little about what Barack Obama actually believes. What it shows is that the campaign was worried about the perception being spread that Obama held radical views, not whether the candidate himself believed in a radical philosophy. That question is still an open one as far as I’m concerned. Certainly some of the president’s policies have been radical. But the excuse given — that the nearly unprecedented economic problems we are experiencing demanded radical action — seems to have been acceptable to most Americans. (Or it was at first. Recent polls now say otherwise.)
Here is where an independent press corps should have stepped in and solved the mystery for us. Is Obama still a radical or isn’t he? It turns out that they didn’t want to know the truth and refused to pursue what is turning out to be a fascinating story that gives deep insights into the thinking of our current president.
A recently unearthed article by Barack Obama from his student days at Columbia University is significant because the language, imagery, and substance of the piece clearly reveal a young man in thrall to the radical leftist ideology of the day. In the article titled “Breaking the War Mentality,” the future president of the United States reveals a belief that U.S. militarism is only a symptom of what really ails us: economic and political injustice.
Generally, the narrow focus of the [Nuclear] Freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second strike capabilities, suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets. When Peter Tosh sings that “everybody’s asking for peace, but nobody’s asking for justice,” one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself.
At his age, I thought John Lennon was a great philosopher, so we might excuse the president his childlike belief that a reggae singer has anything profound to say about war and peace. But it is crystal clear from reading this overly long, tiresome reiteration of leftist claptrap about America being the center of all evil and radical groups agitating for disarmament being heroic examples of grass roots activism that at one time in his life our president was much farther left in his thinking than the man who stood before the people as a candidate last year.
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1. David Thomson:“But it is also true that Obama is probably not the radical he was when he burned with revolutionary fervor at Columbia.”
I have always described Barack Obama as a non-violent radical in the tradition of Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He was never in the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn camp in that respect. And yet, he is instinctively a self hating American who believes this country is an imperialist and racist hegemon that craps on the dark skinned people of the world. Obama has not worked out his hostility towards white folks. On top of that, he is a very shallow and poorly read man. He spent his student years focussing on how best to manipulate guilt tripped whites. All this was quite obvious early in last year’s campaign season. Unfortunately, there were countless, well meaning people who desperately wanted to prove that they were not racists. Voting for Obama would cleanse their souls and bring them redemption.
“Poll after poll prior to the vote showed that while up to two thirds of Americans knew of Obama’s radical associations, they didn’t hold it against him.”
That’s not quite accurate. Few Americans truly understood the extent of the relationships Obama had with these radical people. They were essentially conned to believe that he knew them only on a very superficial level. Bill Ayers, for instance, was merely a guy who coincidentally lived in the same neighborhood. The politically correct John McCain refused to even mention Obama’s close association with Jeremiah Wright.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:11 am 2. Steve:What heck is Rick Moran talking about?
Other than polishing up his rheoric, Obama still holds the same anti-white, anti-American views that he has held his entire life.
What evidnce is there that he is longer a Black Liberationist? NONE. Even when he was FORCED to distance himself from Jeremiah Wright he never renouced their shared ideology. In fact, he went on to praise Wright’s replacement, Otis Moss, who shares Wright’s racist anti-white, anti-American views.
Obama recently sought out and appointed Moss to his faith based program.
Everything he has done domestically has been right out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook. He believes that America is no longer a Christian nation while at the same time states we are one of the world’s largest Muslim nations.
He will soon control our auto, banking, airline and health industries. Just like any other communist country. If he can take control our media and have Michelle launch an army of government sponsored brownshirts, he will.
In foreign policy he NEVER acts in America’s best interest. He ALWAYS praises, aplolgizes to, and sides with America’s enemies. Chavez, Castro, Ahmandinejad are fine with him and have nothing to fear. Netenyahu is another story.
He speaks as if he’s never read a book on American history or Western civiliation. He thinks Hitler spoke Austrian. The man is a sick joke to be sure.
Rick Moran wonders if he’s the same radical that he was in his youth?
Jul 9, 2009 - 3:27 am 3. vb:What Obama believes is rather obvious to me: he believes he is the greatest. He knew everything about how the world should be run when he was 20. Perhaps now, with reality hitting him over the head and his self-preservation instincts dictating his actions, he is indeed working toward less radical goals. The real problem is that he lacks the humility to analyze his own mistaken thinking. He just tacks a new layer on the Obama persona and moves on. He has not explained why his promises and actions have and must have differed. His response to his disappointing results as community organizer was that he needed more power. The only thing I have heard about his failed judgement was that the Rezko deal was boneheaded, which simply means he was caught. I haven’t seen that it inspired more cautiousness about grand schemes or greater follow-up on the real results of legislation. Had this occurred, he would have been more involoved in the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. Instead, he just plows ahead with the next scheme to save the world.
The big difference is that previously Obama could choose his venues, moving from the poor South Side to Hyde Park to the moneyed connections in the Loop. World affairs won’t give him this space to operate. Powder kegs don’t wait in line till it’s their turn to blow. Had he thought more about his own immature thinking, had he developed a more mature world view, he would have had a sounder basis for responding to crises. As it is everyone will soon know that he is winging it.
Jul 9, 2009 - 4:00 am 4. LeighB:Oh my! The unearthed article is enlightening and is worth reading in its entirety. Even then, such reliance on the passive voice!
There were a few in the media (Sean Hannity comes to mind) who thought it was fair to judge Obama by the company he kept during the last 20 years or so. Perhaps there is more to learn about Obama’s time at Columbia. And where is that transcript? I am particularly interested in his grades in any economics courses.
Jul 9, 2009 - 4:18 am 5. misanthropicus:[...] He no longer sees America as quite the villain he did in his youth. And judging by the speeches he has given since becoming president, he has come to realize that America can indeed be a force for good in the world. [...]
My, Ricky! But this is wonderful! Gretchen, listen, Rick Moran says that our president might be not just some foreign adventurer propelled into the job by a sick convergence of events, but someone who is willing to accept and understand us as we are! But this is marvellous! We must thell the children! The neighbors!
Yes, Moran, we cry, we laugh, we learn… then again, we cannot decide whether we should cry or laugh…
Then, reviewing your article I discovered the Rosetta Stone of the wisdom displayed in this piece: “[...] the president’s attitude toward America, as he took his own journey of self discovery as related in Dreams of My Father [...]”
Bingo! “self-discovery”! Personal growth!
Yes, we, as a nation, live through the exhilarating opportunity of offering little Barry room for self-growth!
How wonderful, we’re the epitome of the social contract, collectively & generously surrendering liberties, security, prosperity and prospects in order to offer a luminous leader the chance of fulfilling himself!
Yes, let the sunshine in, this is all about after all…
Rick Moran, you often do well and this is not little thing in such a cacophonous space like the blogosphere – however, I noticed your tendency of falling for mushy, New Age stuff and suspend your critical abilities.
Jul 9, 2009 - 4:27 am 6. geokstr:Yet, my friend, Vladimir Putin, Ahmadinejad and many other leaders at the helm of nations with interests conflictiong ours don’t have appreciation for “let the sunshine in -”
They’re serious and we’re are not and Obama’s views and talents are not serving at all this nation – and this will have serious consequences.
“But it is also true that Obama is probably not the radical he was when he burned with revolutionary fervor at Columbia.”
You didn’t even mention that both his father and mother were communists, that his mentor throughout his teenage years in Hawaii was a card carrying member of the Communist Party USA, that both Ayers and Dohrn still consider themselves communists, that the Black Liberation Theology of Wright is based on Marxism, and that in his own book he boasts of having sought out the Marxist professors and other radicals while at Columbia.
I’ll bet Horowitz and most of the other radicals who managed to finally grow up weren’t that steeped in Marxism their whole life. It’s no wonder all the records of Obama’s formative years remain sealed, like his college transcripts at all three universities he attended. Maybe they show how persistently radical he really is.
Jul 9, 2009 - 4:41 am 7. Ron Watson:It easy to be radical in USA. Humans rights, democracy,freedom. Tough guys really prove themselve their radicalism and toughness trying to change things where most needed; in Africa for instance, writhled with caos and ruling tribal kings. What some of these “radicals” do not want to do is, how easy they have in this the GREATEST LAND ON EARTH, whether they like it or not, all their couples are not proud of this country; the best !
Jul 9, 2009 - 4:50 am 8. Eileen:The only people Obama inspires is the weak minded, lazy, do for me crowd. I will be so glad when this four year nightmare is over. This administration is a fruad and a sham. Michelle as first lady is an embaressment to this country.
Jul 9, 2009 - 5:15 am 9. misanthropicus:Re #4/LeighB: [..] Perhaps there is more to learn about Obama’s time at Columbia. And where is that transcript? I am particularly interested in his grades in any economics courses. [...]
LeighB, Barry Soetoro was a brilliant student at Columbia U, everybody remembers him immersed in studies, sometimes visiting a brilliant political scholar going by the Bill Ayres name who used to live next door.
Also, in case you still want to push your reprehensible bitter white male transcript thing, anyone can inform you that young Barry Soetoro greatly exceeded the university’s graduation requirements by writing TWO (2) magisterial graduation thesis, one titled “American-Soviet Nuclear Disarmament Issues” and “North-South Relationships In The Post Colonial Age”, both papers constantly quoted by admiring political science scholars and available @ http://www.snopes.com, http://www.dailykos.com and so on.
Jul 9, 2009 - 5:44 am 10. blotto:So now you know it -
Geez, there is so much pap in the commentary, it is difficult to know where to begin to rebut it.
“But their calls for revolution fade away as they join the political mainstream and become good Democrats.” The Democrat party is full of all-out revolutionaries: From radical environmentalists, to radical blacks, to radical gays to radical communists. Their calls for revolution have been on display for years, but it has only been since their take over of Congress in 2006 and now the WH that they have been able to pursue those radical calls for revolution.
How about the Congresses latest bill on censoring and making it a federeal crime to “be offensive” towards someone using electronic, tv or radio means. The Democrats are a bunch of revolutionaries.
“He no longer sees America as quite the villain he did in his youth.” Everything he has said in speeches overseas is to disparage and denigrate America. Everything he has done as president has been to topple and “change” the culture, economics, history and traditions of America because he does see it as the world’s villian.
This bilge masquerading as commentary is written by someone who obviously does not want the wrath of the dear leader to be directed towards him.
Jul 9, 2009 - 5:56 am 11. blotto:H.R.1966 will spell the end of free speech and Moran thinks Obama and the Dems have lost their zeal for revolution. Yep!
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:01 am 12. pelaut:During the 60s/70s turbulence I asked Margaret Mead what our future held given the degeneration of our youth (my contemporaries, BTW). She said, like Rick Moran does here, that they’d grow up, get married, pay taxes and have children. That I shouldn’t worry. It’s just all part of the marvelous haphazardnous of human experience …
Well, Rick, they grew up all right. They made children all right. They didn’t bother to get married. They didn’t pay their taxes like I did. But they had children anyway and their children became worse than they. They now run and ruin our financial institutions, our corporations, our universities-community colleges-high schools, our government agencies and NGOs and all media propaganda mills.
The “great” anthropologist was dead wrong. She knew less after her lifetime in academia than my young man’s common sense knew.
And you are just as wrong about =:obama, this American Che Guevara. Like Che, Obama stands frozen in his adolescent authority rejection period. He’s a product of Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alynski, Bill Ayres, Tom Hayden, you name ‘em. Note his praise yesterday of the Italian communist fundamentalist Napolitano.
But also like Che he carries a monstrous load of resentments beneath his genius demagoguery that, as it erupts, will produce an American holocaust which will dwarf the destruction of any former civilization.
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:20 am 13. LeighB:What me, push a “bitter white male transcript thing”? How about a two-fer, let’s see the birth certificate and the transcript. And misanthropicus, you are sounding an awful lot like sheesh this morning. Delia and Rachel are arranging the intervention right now. Chuck Pelto has already RSVPed.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:01 am 14. homeroclon:obama is more radical now then he was then.
people keep apologising for him, or say he is naive. he is doing what he said he would do. he will destroy the free enterprise model that built not just the USA but the best part of the modern world.
this he will gladdly do it …and for what? for his ego. it is really that simple. and really that sad.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:19 am 15. "progressive"watch:“This tells us little about what Barack Obama actually believes.” Yeah,and it may tell us everything he actually believes. What he has done fits with the latter.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:25 am 16. Strawman:You’re asking the wrong question. It’s irrelevant what his actual ideology is at this point, what maters is that he’s such a complete dilettante at everything but teleprompter reading that he doesn’t have the wherewithal to know a good idea from a bad idea. It isn’t so much that he originates radical ideas, I doubt that he’s ever had an original idea in his life. It’s that he sees no problem with any idea, no matter how dumb, because he has no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
He’s not driving the bus. A bunch of visible and invisible czars are. And that guy typing into his teleprompter.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:53 am 17. Blarty Blarckleblart:But this tells us little about what Barack Obama actually believes.
He wrote two best-selling books, Rick. They probably have them at the library you post from.
…we might excuse the president his childlike belief that a reggae singer has anything profound to say about war and peace.
It’s not like a reggae singer or, say, a carpenter could have anything profound to say about war and peace. Only the elite pundits can do that.
Anyway, I thought we didn’t know anything about Obama’s time at Columbia. Now it turns out we do. Will y’all be purging the archives?
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:12 am 18. john from cinncinatti:Obama as a ner’do’well tip toeing thru the tulips on the way to the right? ah huh what did they used to say… just because you’re paronoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. these guys have arrived, what they said, they mean’t and it wasn’t good. they are trashing the place and calling it urban renewal. don’t piss on my leg and call it rain.
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:37 am 19. Professor Guvinoff:Rick Moran is quite generous for giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on so many things. Perhaps the anointed One will grow up, but why should we use the White House as a remedial school? The hard knocks is what a president is supposed to shield us from, not take for his own educational benefit, at our expense.
If we can visualize the man throwing so many unconvenient associates under the bus as one in the process of walking the road to reason, we might as well roll up our sleeves to work on the problem of financing the private purchase of the Brooklin bridge with public money!
I can understand a man writing an autobiography after having been in the White House, but I cannot swallow one who “wrote” two autobiographies before it. Haven’t we learned to be wary of those who profess their own greatness?
Elections can work in the way of a Rosarch test. This nation was wishing for a vacation from reality, and elected the candidate with the most utopian arguments. But reality always comes back, sometimes to avenge itself of the affront.
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:41 am 20. Mike W.:I can’t wait to come back and visit this cesspool when Obama gets re-elected in 2012. It’s going to be a riot to see all of you nutcases bawling about the horror of it all.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:06 am 21. ked5:ricki, it’s nice you still want to give the guy the “benefit of the doubt”, but I will warn you – in this case, it’s suicidal. He *is* a radical – and even more radical than he was as an idiot college student.
as I had drilled into me by my ‘liberal/do-what-I-want-and-keep-your-consequnces’ mother, ACTIONS speak louder than words – and in his case, his early uneloquant words are supporting his current actions as an ultra-radical. IOW, WATCH what he does, it’s more important than what he says.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:14 am 22. MO:Blarty Blarckleblart wrote:
…we might excuse the president his childlike belief that a reggae singer has anything profound to say about war and peace.
It’s not like a reggae singer or, say, a carpenter could have anything profound to say about war and peace. Only the elite pundits can do that.
Nice Blarty…….Comparing Jesus to a reggae singer. How do you reason with someone like yourself. Our core values are completely different.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:15 am 23. Pat J:Wll MO, both Jesus and Peter Tosh preferred peace instead of war. Which do you prefer?
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:25 am 24. blotto:MO: You don’t. He and MikeW are both brain-dead sycophants. They both use the same tactic: make snarky retorts and use false or misleading rhetoric to lead their debator away from the topic. Which they cannot debate honestly.
They are typical white male, eunuch, progressives.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:26 am 25. Mike W.:“At his age, I thought John Lennon was a great philosopher, so we might excuse the president his childlike belief that a reggae singer has anything profound to say about war and peace.”
Why can’t a reggae singer have anything profound to say about War and Peace? Sounds pretty elitist to me. If you numbnuts can hang on every ludicrous musing spouted by Joe the uneducated Plumber or Sarah the non-reading Quitter, why can’t you accept that a reggae singer can add anything of value to the discourse?
Oh, right, because Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Quitter are white, and a reggae singer is not. Hypocrite.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:31 am 26. Blarty Blarckleblart:Nice Blarty…….Comparing Jesus to a reggae singer.
Actually, I was comparing the relative capability of carpenters and reggae singers to speak profoundly on the topics of war and peace.
You may substitute “plumber” for “carpenter” if you like.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:32 am 27. susieQ!:Obama is what he is and will not be changing soon…
He hates the whiteman, he hates people that work hard and make a decent living, he hates the people not dependent on the state…he hates..period.
He pees like a puppy , but tries to run with the big dogs…Putin showed him that.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:42 am 28. Delia:Peace instead of war are all fine and good until another 9/11 happens or a nuke takes out one of our cities.
Then what do we do? ‘Talk’ is cheap.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:44 am 29. dwall:are you certain che-O wrote his books? His voice and literary devices are unlike any of his previous writings, as few as they are.
Che-O’s books sound more like they came from ayers or cornel west.
Jul 9, 2009 - 10:42 am 30. Blarty Blarckleblart:He hates the whiteman, he hates people that work hard and make a decent living, he hates the people not dependent on the state…he hates..period.
Links?
Jul 9, 2009 - 11:12 am 31. Blarty Blarckleblart:are you certain che-O wrote his books? His voice and literary devices are unlike any of his previous writings, as few as they are.
Really? How so?
Jul 9, 2009 - 11:14 am 32. homeroclon:dwall …you are most probably correct.
telepromter guy probably wrote the books.
what can a 30 something have to write about anyhow. he didn´t do anything concrete in his entire life.
would people have voted for him if he was a union organiser, and not a community organiser.
they are the same thing but one seems more noble. we have let the left hi-jack the english language and let them describe us in unflattering language. …well it is in the marxist handbook on how to frame the opposition and how to use words to mislead fool and deceive people.
their ugliness runs deep. why would anyone want a leader who uses deception as a tool.
like things can be better if deceit is the launching point of their cause.
good luck all. just finishing the Gulag Archipeligo. oooch we look like we are doomed to repeat the past.
Jul 9, 2009 - 11:24 am 33. Pat J:Quitter/Plumber in 2012.
Jul 9, 2009 - 12:21 pm 34. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:Obama/Joe Camel in 2012
Jul 9, 2009 - 12:40 pm 35. Mike W.:32. homeroclon: “what can a 30 something have to write about anyhow. he didn´t do anything concrete in his entire life.”
Are you kidding me? Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises in his twenties.
Jul 9, 2009 - 1:22 pm 36. Banned by Huffpo:After only six months, The One’s approval rating is falling like a turd from a tall moose. People are starting to wake up.
In about a year, when unemployment reaches 33% and there are food riots, he’s either going to resign in disgrace or start locking people up by the tens of thousands . . . .
We live in interesting times.
Jul 9, 2009 - 1:27 pm 37. dwall:quitter will help patriots and anti-communists get elected in 2010!! And get rich with the book deal and speaking fees – yes!
Slowly Che-O is painting his own picture and there is less and less doubt he is a radical leftie committed to the Bolivian revolution.
His actions against Honduras are more brush strokes.
Will be interesting to see his reactions if the Russian bear gobbles up the Ukraine and Georgia.
Jul 9, 2009 - 1:35 pm 38. Tri Geek:Mike W; “The Sun Also Rises” was not an autobiography. It was a novel. What kind of person thinks so much about himself that he writes two autobiographical books while he is so young? Narcissist anyone??
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:05 pm 39. Delia:36. Banned by Huffpo,
Interesting ‘times’ indeed. Just wait until the freezing temps hit in winter and the sweltering heat in Summer and people can’t afford their heating or cooling bills or their ‘gas’ to even get to work if they can find work.
Exciting isn’t it? I hope the suspense lasts!
Ugh.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:17 pm 40. Delia:38. Tri Geek:
“What kind of person thinks so much about himself that he writes two autobiographical books while he is so young? Narcissist anyone??”
-And, BINGO was his name-O!
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:20 pm 41. Delia:34. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:
“Obama/Joe Camel in 2012″
LOL! OR, Zer0 will run ‘wifey’ as his running mate!
So help me, I SWEAR M.O.’s usual expressions are so hateful and scary looking that she resembles those demons from the movie ‘The Devil’s Advocate’. *gulp*
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:23 pm 42. Tri Geek:The hypocracy of the left- Obama must be smart, he graduated from Harvard (sponsored by a Saudi prince); Bush is an idiot despite graduating from Harvard Business School (he only got in because of his father). Al Gore flunked out of Law school, despite his powerful father. Bush was a self-described party boy at Yale, while Kerry described himself as a serious student at the same school. Results, the party boy ended up with a higher GPA. But clearly Kerry gets more credit for being “serious”.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:51 pm 43. Blarty Blarckleblart:I reckon my inquiries at 30 and 31 will go unanswered.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:55 pm 44. Tri Geek:Blarty: Here is your answer- read his books and read his paper for yourself. It doesn’t take a professional editor to see the difference in writing style and syntax.
Jul 9, 2009 - 3:06 pm 45. abi:Mike W …is on every site I’ve seen… Spews hatred all day on EVERY post I’ve seen. The guy can’t have a job. Probably paid by Soros. parasite
Jul 9, 2009 - 3:58 pm 46. misanthropicus:RE #13/ LeighB: [...] What me, push a “bitter white male transcript thing”? How about a two-fer, let’s see the birth certificate and the transcript. And misanthropicus, you are sounding an awful lot like sheesh this morning. [...]”
Sorry, sorry, LeighB, do I sound like Sheesh? Wow, sorry looks like I have to work on my transparency thing -
Jul 9, 2009 - 5:01 pm 47. Banned by Huffpo:39. Delia:
Oh yeah, and how are those bunch of losers in Congress going to spin the continued loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs a month as “not as bad as expected?”
2.6 MILLION jobs lost since The One took office, and he keeps running up the tab . . . truly a nightmare.
How long until we see dog-on-a-stick barbies on every corner? Hmm, probably February 2010 . . .
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:17 pm 48. Delia:“How long until we see dog-on-a-stick barbies on every corner?”
OHHHHHHHHHHH gnarlyyyyyy!
ACK!
Third world Country here we comeeeeeeee [sung at the tune of 'California here we come'].
Me no likey.
Me want to wake up from nightmare.
*rubs eyes*
*cries*
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:51 pm 49. Tri Geek:Blarty begged for an answer to his posts, and now that I provided an answer, he disappears. Typical. Ever wonder how these lefties can be so condescending and superior while backing policies that have always failed? And then they call us sheep. Sure makes you scratch your head.
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:51 pm 50. Delia:I guess it’s time to start learning Mandarin.
Oh happy day!
Rosetta Stone SUCKS poo though! They aren’t even XP compatible, little lone Vista Compatible and now Microsoft has Windoze 7 coming down the pike.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Jul 9, 2009 - 6:54 pm 51. Delia:49. Tri Geek,
Did you honestly expect honest debat from the tards? They spew out the most inane crap ever. I mean, I’m talking ‘Gossip blog’ crappola. -And, they want to be taken seriously? Sad.
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:53 pm 52. Delia:honest ‘debate’
yeah, long day.
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:53 pm 53. homeroclon:Mike W do you think O-bum-a is in the league of Hemmingway ?? do you think at 30 something there are many people who have the life experience to writeto autobiographies. sure there might be.
Obama is not one of them …there are no exception to the rule here. he is plagerising Marx, Lenin and Chavez in deeds and words.
Jul 10, 2009 - 6:54 am 54. hoads:Obama is a radical period but has learned from the best how to cloak his radicalness in obfuscating rhetoric. My bet is that his college transcripts have been kept under wraps because they would reveal the radical coursework he embraced. He’s already stated he sought out the Marxists professors.
So let’s see, born to radical parents, communists grandparents, big whig communist as childhood mentor, ACORN lawyer and community rebel rouser, jump started his Chicago political career with support from domestic terrorists, 20 years listening to Black Liberation Theology and on and on. There’s nothing Obama has done that demonstrates a moderation from his far left associations.
Jul 10, 2009 - 7:03 am 55. Brutus:As proven yesteday, though, O-Boy likes a cute a$$…
He also proved he had 1/10 the panache of Sarkozy in checking it out.
Jul 10, 2009 - 10:22 am 56. Brutus:And Blarty, I’d instead encourage you to slog through O-Boy’s two books, then read Fugitive Days by his buddy Ayers. Seems that some people who know a lot more about pattern recognition than you or me feel all 3 books were written by the same person.
Jul 10, 2009 - 10:28 am 57. Jim Baker:I knew the Democrats could have gotten a yellow dog elected last year, but I still had to suspend my disbelief in order to accept that the United States of America actually elected this communist clown as its president. I believe that there is no hope for the future of the repibic. The great experiment in citizen government is now over. Democracy has destroyed it and there will be no peaceful return from the darkness of this abyss. Don’t expect the Republicans to ever fix this mess either. They helped to create it. Just like in every socialist government that has come before ours, that promised nirvana just ain’t going to ever materialize.
Jul 10, 2009 - 10:25 pm 58. J Milam:I am just glad I am old, so I probably won’t be around when these pompous as politicians start telling everyone what is for breakfast each morning. Hope and change will be hard bisquits to chew, I bet. So keep listening to the never ending propaganda, just like the proverbial useful idiot, but do let me know when the shooting starts. That will be the change I can believe in!
“Are you kidding me? Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises in his twenties.”
Yeah, and he was stable….
Listen, all you “progressives” can show up and crap on the carpet all you want to distract from the issues, but the issues are still there and they’re still real. If you’re happy with the exponential growth of government, not only in size but power, just say so and move along. Let me give you a little advice; as I read in another’s words here in another thread, I (as well as many here) totally and completely disagree with you and there’s nothing you can do about it. You are “helpless and impotent to control” our “thoughts, conclusions and comments”. Get used to it. You’re having your way right now, but it won’t always be that way and then you’ll have us to deal with in an entirely different format. Don’t burn your bridges.
Jul 12, 2009 - 7:02 pm