Friday, October 8, 2010

Stealth socialism: Obama’s past as the key to his plans for our future

This article in Roger's Rules is a prelude to his recommendation of Stanley Kurtz's book "Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism". Evidently, Kurtz, in his book, is attempting to unveil the past and overall motivation of Obama. I for one intend to read it.

Excerpt:
For several years now, the distinguished journalist Stanley Kurtz has been endeavoring to answer a simple question: Who is Barack Obama? It is not an easy question to answer.

Back in August of ’08 when Obamamania swept the country, Mr. Kurtz was patiently looking into the murky abyss that is the history and background of our 44th president. The chap who during the campaign presented himself as a “post-partisan,” “post-racial” uniter of America was, when you scratched the surface, pretty much what Winston Churchill said of Russia in the 1930s: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. What, after all, did we really know about this freshman senator from Illinois? His upbringing was — was what? We don’t know much about the who, what, where, or when, do we? A Kenyan father and American mother. Some years in Indonesia. And what about his education? We have the place names: Occidental, Columbia, Harvard: but what did he study, how did he do? We don’t really know, do we? Later on? We know that he began his political career in the living room of that “just a guy in the neighborhood” domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers. We know that he was a faithful congregant and financial supporter of Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. But somehow that wasn’t relevant to the mass hysteria that catapulted this greenest (in two senses of that much-abused word) of politicians into the Oval Office.

Stealth socialism: Obama’s past as the key to his plans for our future

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