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July 10, 2011
The Communist Party USA helped their “friend” Barack Obama win his 2004 US Senate primary race and hailed the result as a “victory for independent, grassroots coalition politics over money and machine politics.”
Obama was always connected to Illinois communists. As the late Marxist leader Manning Marable, wrote in the December 2008 issue of British Trotskyite journal Socialist Review;
What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organiser. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years…
The CPUSA’s People Weekly World of March 27, 2004 makes it clear that the Party approved of Obama’s primary win and saw his campaign as inspirational.
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Not only did the Illinois Communist Party cheer Obama’s primary victory, they actively campaigned for it. “Immersed” in the campaign , according to Illinois CPUSA organizer John Bachtell.
Peoples Weekly World, April 14, 2004, page 10
There is little doubt that Obama would have won his Senate primary without Communist Party help. The question is – why did the communists single out Obama for special attention?
What did the communists know about Barack Obama in 2004, that most Illinois voters did not?
What does the Communist Party , which still loyally supports Obama to this day, know about the US president, that most American voters still do not?
Or do the communists support Obama simply because they believe in “hope” and “change”?
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ADD THIS:
Through Obama’s eyes
By Linda Prussen-Razzano
web posted July 11, 2011
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Excerpted:
Dr. Marable described several key policy initiatives that the President needed to address in his first term. He correctly predicted that the President would use a Keynesian approach to address them, and that the President would align his core constituencies to implement them. They included, in priority order ascribed by Dr. Marable, himself:
- Ending the war with Iraq.
- Addressing the economic crisis and implementing investment in infrastructure.
- National healthcare.
- Green energy.
- Immigration and a path to citizenship.
- Addressing the foreclosure crisis.
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President Obama touched on the final piece, infrastructure, during his State of the Union address and unveiled an Infrastructure Plan in a Labor Day Rally in 2010. Originally estimated at a modest $50 billion, Senate Democrats are now asking for $500 billion, a figure that will undoubtedly cause push-back among Republicans, members of the Tea Party Caucus, and Democrats who have expressed concern over the ballooning federal debt. [14] The Republicans can point to the nearly $4.4 trillion added to the debt that, as the President recently admitted, failed to alleviate the 9.2% unemployment figure as just cause to reject additional spending.
Did the President, as Dr. Marable suggested, govern from a centrist-left position? No. With substantial majorities in both the House and Senate for the first two years, the President was able to push his coalition’s agenda even if it went against the will of the majority of Americans. But why? Why didn’t President Obama take a page out of Bill Clinton’s playbook and find common ground?
The answer can be found in the same article, where Dr. Marable writes: “What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years. But to differentiate, this new generation of elected black officials are unlike the older group who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s whose constituencies were entirely black.”
Ironically, when Conservative pundits made similar allegations, they were vilified for doing so. There is ample evidence that, indeed, Dr. Marable was correct in his assertion, as he was intimately connected with the Progressive-Socialist-Marxist movement in Chicago and well acquainted with the key players.
The most notable connection made by Conservative pundits was that of former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers. The Weather Underground was a 1960s activist movement that evolved out of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), turning to violence to achieve its ends. In a declassified report by the FBI [15], Weather Underground members David Joseph Gilbert stated that the goal of the group was to bring about “world communism.” This is reiterated by now deceased Underground member Theodore Gold, who insisted they were creating “a Red army.” Ayers, himself, had several aliases, and his organization distributed literature that called for the destruction of America. The Weather Underground is linked to several bombings and deaths, including that of Sgt. Brian McDonnell of the San Francisco Police Department. The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association issued a request to Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Ayers and his wife, fellow Weather Underground member Bernadine Dorhn, based on evidence provided by FBI Informer Larry Grathwohl and investigator Cliff Kincaid. To date, no action has been taken.
Both Obamas have business and personal ties with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn. While those on the Left attempt to downplay both the Weather Underground movement’s history and the connection between the Obamas and these two individuals, Dr. Marable’s association with both refute it.
Dr. Marable served as Chairman of the Movement for a Democratic Society, a branch off of the newly invigorated (SDS). In the April 17, 2007 edition of The Nation, Christopher Phelps detailed the movement’s rebirth in his article, “The New SDS.” The SDS is comprised of members who range from liberals to anarchists, with Marxists and Socialists in the mix. Who was one of the featured speakers at the first SDS conference held in Rhode Island in 2006? None other than Weather Underground provocateur, Bernadine Dorhn.
Others include Obama’s pick for Labor Secretary Hilda L Solis, who has spoken to socialist groups and was whose choice was applauded by the Communist Party USA’s publication.
Vernon Jarrett, father (in law) of Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, was praised by Dee Myles, a Chicago activist and Chair of the Education Commission of the Communist Party USA, as someone who “talked the talk and walked the walk.” [16] Valerie Jarrett is credited with recruiting Anthony Van Jones, who founded the communist activist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) to serve as Obama’s Green Jobs Czar. In youtube.com videos, Obama appointee to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, was caught on tape at a Future of Labor Unions in America conference encouraging his folks to “forget about the law” and in a separate video boasts that he is in contact with the White House two to three times a week. Trumka also admits to realigning the organization, despite a drop in membership, to support progressive causes. [17] Most recently, it was announced that the AFL-CIO will join forces with Van Jones’ Progressive Tea Party, despite that fact that Jones resigned from his position due to his controversial and communist sentiments. [18]
Ultimately, Marable insisted that Obama was neither a Socialist nor a Marxist, but a Progressive Liberal. One can be inclined to take Dr. Marable at his word; however, the President’s clear adherence to the agenda put out and endorsed by the extreme left, and his willingness to entertain the ideas of Communists, makes understanding his words, positions, and actions a lot easier for the average American, and much more unpalatable.
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