[Rhodes22-list] Politics and Economics - another street again

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Having read most if not all of Coulter's books, I understand that Ann
is much focussed on selling more books and getting more TV time.  That
said, she is at least entertaining and often makes some very salient
points, albeit often times obnoxiously.  The same could be said of
Senator McCarthy.  In no way am I defending McCarthy or "McCarthyism"
but much of what we're witnessing in the current battle for "hearts
and minds" is a reverse "McCarthyism" in action.

Is it fair to ask why a candidate for POTUS was tutored as a youth by
a known Soviet sympathizer and how that candidate's worldview was
shaped by that experience? Is one being a racist for asking why one
would associate with a racist minister for 20 years?  Unrepentant
terrorists?  Known crooks?

Everything Barack Huessein Obama has done as a "community organizer"
and as a politician has followed the pattern and theory of Saul
Alinsky, avowed Marxist.  Obama's first run for office was "classic
Alinsky", get the other candidates thrown off the ballot -  the ends
justify the means.  Every race since has followed the same pattern.

Does studying under Marxists, applying Marxist theories and organizing
principles, and espousing Marxist economic theories make one a
Marxist?

I say, "looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck,
it's a duck!"  Unfortunately, Marxism is still quite popular in some
circles.  It isn't popular in my house of course, if you ask my wife
about it she'd say, "no thanks, been there, done that".

Brad



On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
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> Brad,
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> We have all heard how bad Joe McCarthy was.  Many years later we can see he
> was on to something.  Yes, there were Communists around.  And their 'fellow
> travelers' did not like the truth exposed.  There have been references to
> McCarthyism on this forum.  Are those references just a way to stop the
> truth?
> Here is an interesting read by a current Liberal attacking Ann Coulter's
> perception of Joe McCarthy:
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> http://hnn.us/articles/1622.html
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> Whittaker Chambers was an anti communist writer of that time.  He wrote, "At
> issue [is] the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there
> still remain[s] the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the
> immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts."  He said,
> "The revolutionary heart of Communism is not the theatrical appeal …, it is
> a simple conviction: It is necessary to change the world."  Obama's manta of
> change echoes Chambers words and so few have the courage to ask what change
> he stands for.
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> How many read the analysis of his words such as this one?  "Listen to his
> rhetoric on class warfare. Listen and put this into context with what Obama
> says about the working man and the best way for the working men, that there
> has to be a fundamental change of redistribution of wealth. Or Michelle
> Obama's words, "Some people are going to have to give up their piece of pie
> so others can have more."  [American Issues Project] These words are pure
> Marxism and should correctly be labeled treasonous.
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> The real issue of the coming election is should a Marxist be President of
> the United States?
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> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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