You took the words right out of my mouth.

Deana

We’re all bitter, according to Barry. So what’s his excuse for hanging out for twenty years in the church of a man who is perhaps among the bitterest people currently extant, who is incidentally building a mansion (with other people’s money) in the most exclusive neighborhood in Chicago?

Along with being a standard-issue product of Chicago democrat machine politics about whom there is nothing original, he has all the democrat elitist attitudes - and all of their tone-deafness, too.

John Kerry, the ultimate elitist, probably blew the election in 2004 as much as by any other single act, when he decided it was time to identify with the little folks, and went hunting. Remember “kin Ah get me a huntin’ license here?” WHAT a horse’s patoot!

I think Obama has just ceased to be a problem, and for the same reasons. You don’t go out to middle America, tell them how dumb and pathological they are - and why; and then expect to win a national election.

Obama is an elitist, but his elite seems to consist only of himself. Having no judgment, and apparently very little self-control without cue cards, I would be surprised to find that he hasn’t just inflicted almost terminal damage on himself.

Marxism did not die with the fall of the USSR. It found a very welcoming home in academia and is the basis for a considerable part of the Democrat Party agenda.

When your reasoning for everything–literally everything–is that there isn’t enough money in it or that a government program should be made or should be made *larger*, those are basic Marxist principles. Does it require that the person espousing it know they are Marxist? Of course not. An African tribesman speaking Swahili might not know the name of his language but speaks it nonetheless.

The reason I use it with reference to Obama is that if you read his writings, look at his speeches, look at his acquaintances, he is largely a Marxist. In his speeches, his solution for every possible problem is to create a government program or throw more money at it. He will say he believes in the free market and then spend five minutes talking about proposed programs that are decidedly anti-free market and wholly socialist…

Read up on Marxist principles and goals:

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S

17. Get control of the schools.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. ” Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.”

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

40. Discredit the family as an institution.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.

Any of those read as familiar in light of the Democrat Party and the Left over the past 40 years?

“The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Alinsky got his start as a criminologist, but in 1936, fed up with the failures of social policy, he committed himself to attacking the supposed root cuases of criminality. He eventually becamse a labor organizer in his native Chicago…. ‘It was here,’ writes p. David Finks, ‘that Saul Alinsky would invent his famous “method” of communite organizing, borrowing tactics from the Catholic Church, Al Capone’s mobsters, University of Chicago socilologists and John L. Lewis’union organizers’. His violent, confrontational rhetoric often sounded much like that heard from Horst Wessel or his Red Shirt adversaries in the streets of Berlin.

Alinsky joined forces with the churches and the CIO – then chockablock with Stalinists and other communists – learning how to organize in the streets. In 1940 he founded the Industrial Areas Foundation, which pioneered the community activism movement. He became the mentor to countless community activists – most famously Cesar Chavez – laying the foundation for both Naderism and the SDS. He believed in exploiting middle-class mores to achieve his agenda, not flouting them as the long-haired hippies did. Alinsky believed that working through friendly or vulnerable institutions in order to smash enemy redoubts was the essence of political organization. And he was, by universal consensus, an “organizational genius”. He worked closely with reformist and left-leaning clergy, who were for most of his career his chief patrons. Perhaps as a result, he mastered the art of unleashing preachers as the frontline activists in his mission of “rubbing raw the sores of discontent”.
(Liberal Facism, Jonah Goldberg, pp321-322)

Sound familiar??

Makes me wonder why Obama goes to church.