Why are folks just now seeing this?
Carville almost got something right. It would have been interesting to see how many would have agreed with the term, Marxist? [BTW: You have not seen the last of Hillary and Bill. Watch what happens if Obama loses big in the Off-year Elections]
I disagree that Socialist is an accurate label. Socialist does not cover this man's ultimate agenda for fundamentally transforming America. Any modern, run-of-the-mill, friendly European is a socialist. Carville may be out to legitimize the term... that's all. That makes self-describe "Progressive," Hillary Clinton, look like a more moderate choice. [My little "spy" heart does not trust Carville's wife, token Republican Mary Matalan's judgments either.]
I am convinced, from some personal experiences with the East Germans and Soviets, that Obama is a convinced Marxist Revolutionary. You won't see this in public persona. You will see only the charming family man and the 24/7 Campaigner. Obama is a Front Man for the ideas of friends and backers like Maurice Strong and George Soros.
Obama can and does surround himself with socialists, collectivists and even known communists as advisors
Obama can and does surround himself with socialists, collectivists and even known communists as advisors mixed in with Liberals and "moderates," and Progressives. This allows him to claim "plausible deniability" when someone's ideas like Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, and Van Jones percolate out into public view. He also has friends in the MSM who cry "Racism" when a critic says anything about his leadership or appointees. The Justice Department's alleged mis-handling of the Black Panthers' voter intimidation case, the reported instructions from Holder to not prosecute Black on White allegations, and the farcical case against Arizona are prime examples. He wields Labor Unions as if they were a part of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The former President of the SEIU [Andy Stern, who now holds an appointment as the Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence at the
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations] was the most frequent visitor of Obama during his first year in office. Obama's SCOTUS appointees, Sotomayor and Kagan, lack Constitutional fidelity and judicial gravitas. Both are political activists first and foremost.
Obama's behaviors are modeled after FDR, whose "Brain Trust" and group of advisors were riddled with homegrown Marxists and Collectivists. FDR also manipulated race & racial politics. He appointed activist judges. He savaged all Republicans [who were true Republicans back then] and Conservative Democrats [an extinct species today] alike.
Here's some ideas of some of Roosevelt's closest buddies just to show a few threads of continuity [This is all right out of Wikipedia so you know it is not "tainted" by conservatism]:
Rex Tugwell [oft called Rex the Red]: After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tugwell saw global planning as the only sure way to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. He participated in the Committee to Frame a World Constitution from 1945-48. He also viewed a revised national constitution as necessary to enable economic planning, and late in life composed a constitution for the Newstates of America. In it, Planning would become a new branch of federal government, alongside the Regulatory and Electoral branches.
Adolf Berle: Berle theorized that the facts of economic concentration meant that the effects of competitive-price theory were largely mythical. While some advocated trust busting, breaking up the concentrations of firms into smaller entities in order to restore competitive forces, Berle believed that that would be economically inefficient. Instead, he argued for government regulation and became identified with the school of business statesmanship, which advocated that corporate leadership accept (and theorized that they had to a great extent already accepted) that they must fulfill responsibilities toward society in addition to their traditional responsibilities toward shareholders. Corporate law should reflect this new reality, he wrote in
The Modern Corporation: "The law of corporations, accordingly, might well be considered as a potential constitutional law for the new economic state, while business practice is increasingly assuming the aspect of economic statesmanship."
James Warburg: One World Government - "We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest." (Feb. 17, 1950, to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations)
FDR routinely and roundly condemned anyone or any Party that stood in the way of his vision
FDR routinely and roundly condemned anyone or any Party that stood in the way of his vision. When the Congress wouldn't cooperate, he operated by edict, When the SCOTUS ruled most of the sweeping collectivization and socialization within his New Deal as "Unconstitutional" FDR sought to pack the Court with his own political nominees to rubber stamp his actions and thwart challenges. Not a few of FDR's supporters saw what was happening under the New Deal.
Raymond Moley, one of FDR's early supporters, like Ronald Reagan, became a bitter critic of the New Deal:
In mid-1933 he broke with Roosevelt and became a conservative Republican. As a columnist for
Newsweek magazine from 1937-1968, he became one of the best known critics of the New Deal and liberalism in general. Moley's
After Seven Years (New York: 1939) was one of the first in-depth attacks on the New Deal, and remains one of the most powerful. Moley was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Richard Nixon on April 22, 1970. He wrote the majority of Roosevelt's first inaugural address, although he is not credited with penning the famous line, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Raymond Moley also wrote various pamphlets and articles on the teaching of government.
It is interesting that it took more than two years for people to start waking up to this man Obama. We are stretched very thin. We don't have the time to take two years to mobilize for another threat, to lean forward in the foxhole. Some enemy would likely attack us at will. The Iranians are close, the North Koreans are even crazier. How long will the Chinese be our banker before they take actions. How long will Russia's Medvedyev be Obama's new hamburger-eating buddy? How long until our Southern border goes bang or a major city goes boom?
FDR failed to mobilize against Hitler and Tojo until it was too late. [He was having way too much fun setting Republicans' hair on fire, fixing the price of gold by whim, and Playing Poker and Partying with his Brain Trust on the Sequoia, "the Floating White House.] He had promised to keep our boys out of this war.... so did Wilson twenty-five years earlier. Lack of preparedness and disarmament is a sure sign for a future war if you have something that someone else wants.
As we fight Obama's War [yes... this is Obama's War, Steele was correct but muffed the message... Bush handed over a strategy to complete the job begun in Iraq and to stabilize Afghanistan, and Obama trashed it]. We are woefully unprepared for what is being readied to be unleashed on us from any number of other threats, some from yet known by the public or from yet undefined quarters. Follow that thread on your own.
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