Obama Socialist Trojan Horse and Hive Builder. Hear the Buzzing?
Is Obama a Marxist/Stalinist Trojan Horse…..a Marxist Mole?
How else is one to explain this candidate who came out of nowhere and since 1996 and involvement with the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, he has been able to “leap” every three years up the power ladder…..looking for the GOLD Ring of being the most powerful person in the United States?Going back to his roots we find:
He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending (prestigious) Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979.
In his book, Obama writes about “a poet named Frank,” who visited his family in Hawaii, read poetry, and was full of “hard-earned knowledge” and advice. Who was Frank? Obama only says that he had “some modest notoriety once,” was “a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago…” but was now “pushing eighty.” He writes about “Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self” giving him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18.
Professor Gerald Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 “at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson,” came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man’s mentor, influencing Obama’s sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.
As Horne describes it, Davis “befriended” a “Euro-American family” that had “migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago.”
Takara says that Davis “espoused freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. He urged coalition politics.”
Is “coalition politics” at work in Obama’s rise to power?
4.After graduation from Punahou School in 1979, Obama attended the Occidental College in L.A for two years.
In his first memoir, “Dreams,” Obama included a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
5.From Occidental College, Obama transferred to Columbia University and majored in political science and international relations. In 1981, Obama arrived at Columbia University, where he majored in international relations. He wrote his senior thesis on the North-South debate on trade then raging as part of the demand for a “new international economic order.”Marxism1981
A recurrent theme in Obama’s career is Power to the People gestures and Ivy League results.
Obama transferred to Columbia and majored in political science with a specialization in international relations — and swaps drugs for Marxism.
Marxism 1982 He regularly attended the Marxist-Socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives until they worried he’d become “one of those freaks you see on the streets around here.”Socialist Scholars Conference-almost certainly what Obama was referring to. Bogdan Denitch;
“Cooper Union” is the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a privately funded college in Downtown Manhattan.
For many years, from the early ’80s until 2004, Cooper Union was the usual venue of the annual
SSC was for many years the largest socialist gathering in the USA, attracting up to 2,000 participants.
The SSC was founded by a group of socialists from City University of New York led by sociology professor
Since DSA’s formation in 1982 its City University branch has sponsored and organised the Socialist Scholars Conference.
The bulk of SSC’s organizing committee were DSA members, as were many conference speakers.
SSC was no love-in for aging hippies and peace loving “democratic” socialists.
Speakers often included members of the Communist Party USA and its offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence, as well as Maoists, Trotskyites, black radicals, gay activists and radical feminists.
Barack Obama speaks of “conferences” plural, indicating his attendance was not the result of accident or youthful curiosity.
Obama graduated with a BA in 1983 from Columbia University and moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer.
He was inspired by Harold Washington the city’s new mayor, a longtime associate of the Communist Party and Chicago’s socialist community.
So, who did “send” Obama? The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers – not just Bill Ayers, but also Bill’s father Tom Ayers and his brother John as well. Obama was a community organizer from about 1985 to 1988, when he left Chicago for Harvard Law School. During that time a critical issue in Chicago politics was the ongoing crisis in the public schools. A movement was underway from two angles: below in black, latino and other communities for more local control of schools and from above by business interests who wanted to cut costs.
A 1987 teachers’ strike brought those two sides together to push for a reform act passed by the Illinois legislature in 1988 that created “Local School Councils” (LSC) to be elected by residents in a particular school area.
The LSC’s were to be made up by a majority of parents and have the power to hire and fire principals thus creating a new power center in the school system against what both reform groups viewed as the bureaucratic and expensive school board, on the one hand, and, on the other, the teachers union. In my view these types of councils are reminiscent of the manipulative “community” bodies set up in regimes like those of Hugo Chavez and the Sandinistas - used to control genuine democratic movements such as trade unions.
Active in the local control from below, on the “community” side of this effort, was Bill Ayers who had returned to Chicago in 1987 as an assistant professor of education at the University of Illinois’ Chicago Circle campus, after surfacing from the underground and earning his Ph.D. at Columbia. Another ally in this battle at the same time was Barack Obama’s Developing Communities Project (DCP), as Obama notes briefly in his Dreams From My Father.
The DCP had its origins in the “radical” movement started by Saul Alinsky. (It should be remembered Alinsky’s world view was one that is and was often in tension with many in the trade union movement - for example, Alinksy was an almost uncritical admirer and biographer of trade union bureaucrat par excellence John L. Lewis. For one independent approach that urges re-examination of the Alinsky view of unions today in light of rise to power of SEIU’s Andy Stern, see Staughton Lynd, Commentary: Another World is Possible, Working America, March 2008).
Ayers, of course, had long held what the left once knew, broadly, as “maoist” politics – a view of the world that was opposed to Russian style bureaucratic communism from above, instead advocates of this approach supported sending revolutionary cadre to “swim among the masses like fish in the sea” or attempting to establish guerilla foco as romantically theorized by Regis Debray and carried out with disastrous results by Che Guevara.
Today one of the approaches used by these types is the “long march” through the (presumably “bourgeois”) institutions. (See this discussion of it by “Progressives for Obama” supporter, Fidelista and former SDS leader Carl Davidson.) Of course, the “long march” referred to is that taken by Mao and the Red Army in 1934. Now, Davidson et. al apply the concept to the tactics of the “left” inside various “reform movements” such as the anti-war movement. Davidson was one of the organizers of the 2002 anti war rally at which Obama first spoke out against the war.
Bill (Ayers) raised money to start the Small Schools Workshop in the early 90s and eventually hired another former maoist from the 60s (and actually someone who was a bitter opponent of Ayers as SDS disintegrated) named Mike Klonsky to head it up. [Bill's brother John later got in on the small schools approach also, raising money in part from the Annenberg Challenge program started by Bill and chaired by Obama.
A leading figure in the Chicago business groups that were lobbying for cost cutting and "efficiency" in the Chicago schools in the 1980's was Bill Ayers' father, Thomas Ayers. Tom Ayers, of course, was a very prominent Chicago business man, a retired head of Commonwealth Edison, a lifelong liberal, and a supporter of open housing campaigns.
Tom Ayers co-authored a report of a joint public-private task force on school reform and was later nominated to head up Chicago United, a business backed school reform group that Ayers helped found, by Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, but was opposed successfully by black community activists.
When the 1988 Reform Act was passed a group called Leadership for Quality Education (LQE) was formed, according to Shipps, by the elite business lobby that was in part behind the new reforms, to train the newly elected local school council members.
Interestingly, one LSC member was John Ayers, son of Tom and brother of Bill. In 1993, John was made head of the LQE - which, by then, according to Shipps, was caught in the middle of the battle emerging to re-centralize control of the schools in the hands of the mayor.
In the fall of 1988, however, Obama left the city to go off to law school. My best guess, though, is that it was in that 86-88 time frame that Obama likely met up with the Ayers family. I will explain why I believe that in a minute. Interestingly, after his first year in law school Obama returned in the summer of 1989 to work as a summer associate at the prestigious Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin. This in and of itself is a bit unusual.
Very few top tier law students work for big law firms during their first summer. The big law firms discourage it because if you work for them in the first summer you are likely to work for a second firm the following year and then the firms have to compete to get you.
So, why or how did Obama - at that point not yet the prominent first black president of the Harvard Law Review (that would happen the following year) - end up at Sidley?
Sidley had been long time outside counsel to Commonwealth Edison. The senior Sidley partner who was Comm Ed's key outside counsel, Howard Trienens, was a member of the board of trustees of Northwestern alongside Tom Ayers (and Sidley partner Newton Minow, too). It turns out, Bernardine Dohrn worked at Sidley also. She was hired there in the late 80s, because of the intervention of her father-in-law Tom Ayers, even though she was (and is) not a member of any state bar.
It is possible that Tom Ayers introduced Obama to Sidley. That might have happened if Obama had met up with Bill and Tom and John Ayers prior to attending law school when Obama's DCP group was supporting the reform act passed in 1988. Or it might have been Dohrn who introduced Obama to the law firm.
In any case the summer of 1989 was eventful for Obama as he did meet his future wife, Michelle, there, already a lawyer and working as a Sidley associate. Michelle was Obama's first supervisor or mentor there. Obama went back to Harvard in the fall of 1989 where, of course, he became president of the law review in the spring of 1990. After graduation in 1991 he went back to Chicago to run a voter registration campaign (which would turn out to be an important step in his career).
Then Obama joined a tiny, little known (outside Chicago, at least) public interest law firm called Davis Miner Barnhill. The partner who hired him was Judson Miner. Miner was a well known left wing lawyer in Chicago who had been counsel to the progressive black mayor in the 80s, Harold Washington. But Miner possibly also had ties to the Ayers family. He was law school classmates with Bernardine Dohrn at the University of Chicago (both Class of 1967). He formed a lawyers group against the war after graduation and organized a left wing alternative to the local Chicago bar association.
Then, in late 1994 or early 1995, Obama made what I think was probably the key move in his early career. He was named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million grant program to funnel money into reform efforts at Chicago schools. It turns out that the architect of the Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers, who designed the grant proposal and sheparded it to success. The purpose of the program was to defend the controversial and troubled local schools council effort that had been put in place back in 1988. The first Executive Director of the Challenge was Ken Rolling, who came there from the much discussed Woods Fund (where he had been a program officer). The Woods Fund had provided grants to Obama's DCP in the late 80's and Rolling was a part of the school reform effort in which both Bill Ayers and Obama participated. Obama joined the board of the Woods Fund in 1993 in 1999 he would be joined on the board by Bill Ayers.
The local control movement in Chicago, though backed by radicals like Ayers, gave "business the clearest voice in system wide reform." In retrospect, the Ayers/Ayers (business from above, local activism from below) joint campaign against both the Chicago School District bureaucracy and the Teachers Union is reminiscent of the kinds of alliances one finds in neo-stalinist regimes like that of Cuba, China or Sandinista-run Nicaragua. In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, for example, Mao appealed to local activists to attack the party bureaucracy.
One educational policy analyst called the early 90s Chicago school system "dysfunctional." The former business allies of Bill Ayers and the local control advocates broke away from their support of the LSC's in favor of recentralization of power in the hands of Chicago's new Mayor Daley.
But the Annenberg Challenge money came through anyway due to the efforts of Bill Ayers, among others. It had to be matched 2 to 1 by corporate and foundation money (in fact, they raised an additional $60 mn by 1999), so the Board Chairmanship would have allowed Obama to be in touch with the powerful money interests in Chicago, including possibly the Pritzker Family. Penny Pritzker would join the board of the Chicago Public Education Fund which received its startup funding from the Annenberg Challenge as the Challenge wound down in 2001 - the Challenge, in effect, handed the baton of support for school reform to the CPEF. Penny Pritzker is now a key Obama campaign insider in charge of fund raising.
Thus, we have one possible answer to the question: Who "sent" Obama? It was the Ayers family, including Tom, John, Bill and Bernardine Dohrn.
It is highly unlikely that a 30-something second year lawyer would have been plucked from relative obscurity out of a left wing law firm to head up something as visible and important in Chicago as the Annenberg Challenge by Bill Ayers if Ayers had not already known Obama very well. One possibility is that Obama proved himself to the Ayers's in the battle for local school control when he was at the DCP in the 80s.
One guess as to why Obama does not play up his educational experience more thoroughly now – it certainly could be of use to him one would think in beefing up his “I have the experience to be President” argument – is that it would lead to a renewed discussion of the Ayers connection, which is clearly toxic for Obama. And it turns out the impact of the Annenberg Challenge on actual students in Chicago schools is considered mixed at best, although Bill Ayers deemed it a success on political grounds.
Perhaps this would be of just historical interest if it could be firmly established that Bill Ayers no longer has any role in the Obama campaign. But that is not something we know for sure yet. John Murtagh, a Republican town council member from Yonkers, New York, said that Ayers is currently an "advisor" to Obama.
Certainly Ayers' politics remain unapologetically authoritarian. He recently traveled to Venezuela - only the most recent of several such trips - and delivered a speech in front of Hugo Chavez in which he spoke of education as the "motor force of revolution" and his interest in "overcom[ing] the failings of capitalist education” and said he thought Chavez was creating “something truly new and deeply humane.” He closed his speech by mouthing typical slogans of the authoritarian left: “Viva Mission Sucre! Viva Presidente Chavez! Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta La Victoria Siempre!”
As it turns out, there are other ex-SDS types around the Obama campaign as well, including Marilyn Katz, a public relations professional, who was head of security for the SDS during the disaster in the streets of Chicago in 1968. She is close (politically) to Carl Davidson, a former vice president of SDS and longtime Fidelista, who is webmaster for a group called Progressives for Obama, that is headlined by other former 60s radicals like Tom Hayden and the maoist Bill Fletcher. Davidson and Katz were key organizers of the 2002 anti-war demonstration where Obama made public his opposition to the Iraq war that has been so critical to his successful presidential campaign. Davidson apparently moved into the maoist movements of the 70s after the disintegration of SDS.
Now that we have some idea of who “sent” Obama, the left and labor movement deserve to know more about how the exhausted ideas of the authoritarian side of 60’s politics may still be influencing the thinking of a potential U.S. president. Maybe Andy Stern’s endorsement of Obama makes more sense, now.
Okay, now let’s look at all “Obama’s Connections”
1.Father: Socialist from KenyaHayden authored the SDS political manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, which the group’s founding members adopted in 1962. This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills — including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.
5.The Ayers FAMILY connection: Father Tom and Sons William and John. Let’s not forget Bernadine Dohrn.A. The Chicago branch of the DSA. http://www.chicagodsa.org Barack Obama Was Endorsed by Chicago Marxists [the DSA - Democratic Socialists of America.]
The DSA was formed in 1983 by from a coalition of former Trotskyists, “new left” activists, ex Socialist Party and Communist Party members.
DSA is now the US’s largest Marxist organisation, however its moderate name has allowed it to infiltrate other parties, including the New Party, the Working Families
Party, the Greens and particularly the Democratic Party.
DSA is strong in Chicago where it has real influence in the left wing of the Democratic Party.It was in the incestuous circles of the Chicago Democratic Party/Socialist left that the young lawyer, Barack Obama began his political career.Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the Progressive Caucus. Following a subsequent expose of the link between the two entities, the Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of Congress. But DSA and the Progressive Caucus remain intimately linked. All 58 Progressive Caucus members also belong to DSA. In addition to these members of Congress, other prominent DSA members include Noam Chomsky, Ed Asner, Gloria Steinem, and Cornel West, who serves as the organization’s honorary Chair.
B. The Progressive Caucus of Congresshttp://www.cpc.lee.house.gov They are DSA, but use the “Progressive Caucus name to be assimilated easier by new liberal voters. Headed by none other than Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. http://www.sovereignty.net/center/socialists.htm:
Look up the members of the Caucus. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fl) the vocal outspoken, fist pounder at the Rules and Bylaws Committee Hearings recently on Michigan and Florida. http://www.observer.com/2008/nancy-pelosis-not-so-secret-support-obama
15.The CPUSA (Communist Party of America). http://www.cpusa.org The CPUSA is strong in several large cities, including Chicago, where it has influenced city and state politics for decades.
In 1983, the party and its Marxist allies from Democratic Socialists of America, was a driving force behind the election a very sympathetic Chicago mayor, the late Harold Washington.
In 1992 the CPUSA and DSA helped elect another sympathiser, Carol Moseley Braun to the US Senate.
For several years the CPUSA and DSA have backed another Chicago rising star-Barack Obama.
The CPUSA learned a lot from Harold washington’s successes. Indeed the Harold Washington campaign appears to be almost blueprint for Barack Obama’s spectacular presidential campaign.**Creamer blogs for the Huffington Post.
In his new book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, National Review White House correspondent Byron York cites figures from the tracking organization Political Money Line which show that, of the $230 million spent by pro-Democrat 527 committees during the 2004 election cycle, more than $78 million came from just five individual donors.
Clarice Feldman of the American Thinker has named these Democrat mega-donors the “Gang of Five.” They are, in descending order of the size of their contributions:
Peter Lewis ———————— $23,997,220
Stephen Bing ———————- $13,952,682
Herbert and Marion Sandler — $13,007,959
TOTAL ——————————- $78,037,966
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/moonbatcentral/2005/05/shadow-partys-gang-of-five.html
Secondary Affiliates of George Soros and the Open Society Institute:
Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to training future leftist political leaders.
Media Matters for America: Seeking to “systematically monitor [the media] for conservative misinformation” and to discredit anything that “forwards the conservative agenda,” this group, which has intimate ties to Hillary Clinton, works very closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. It is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance , of which Soros is a major financier.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Secondary%20Affiliates1.htm
28. IVI-IPO: Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization with the Greater Chicago Caucus http://www.iviipona.org/ ……connected to Progressive Democrats of America….We are Illinois members of the Progressive Democats of America (PDA). pdamerica.org
Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites — with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside, and outsidePDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victory of November 2006. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles. in movements for peace and justice, the Democratic Party
29.Wes Boyd: Founder of Moveon.org and a strong backer of Obama. Moveon.org financed heavily by George Soros.The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white activism.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of speeches condemning “white men” and Jews, confirmed his organization’s endorsement of Obama in an interview with WND today
In 2002, their assets totaled $653,771,733, and as of 2005, the total was $892,492,212. In that year alone, their grants came to $26,562,335.
That’s almost a billion dollars behind the notion that you’re not intelligent or competent enough to use a gun.
The whole thing sounds like a money-laundering scheme from 1987 or so. It should, since Managing Director Danica Remy learned from the best–she worked for Michael Milken as Vice President of Knowledge Universe. Milken certainly knew a thing or two about shady dealings.
So now you have at least 30-something connections to Barack Obama that would give any red-blooded American cause to think twice before voting for this Democratic Candidate. How come Americans haven’t heard about these connections? Is our MSM gagged or bought off? Now Nancy Pelosi and Congress are trying to reestablish the “Fairness Doctrine” to stifle any news media from exposing the dark shady connections to Barack Obama.
Worst Speaker of Worst Congress Ever Backs Fairness Doctrine
Speaker Pelosi wants to silence conservative voices once and for all.
Because having…
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Wake up America!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=59326
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Barack Obama is on the board, by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2M11BsA3g
Media Fund Joint Victory Campaign 2004
Center for American Progress America VotesThese organizations, along with the many leftist groups with which they collaborate, have played a major role in helping Soros advance his political and social agendas.
http://www.pdamerica.org.
Far left activist group.Tom Hayden, the SDS co-founder who organized the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots in Chicago, has endorsed Sen. Obama.
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
He returned in 1992 and in 1996 he ran for Illinois State Senate with the endorsement of DSA.
That endorsement was partially earned by Obama’s performance at a DSA sponsored forum held at Chicago University in early 1996.
From Chicago DSA’s New Ground March 1996
Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled “Employment and Survival in Urban America”, the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats.
The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago’s 4th Ward; Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District; Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago; Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago; and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA’s National Political Committee.
Toni Preckwinkle and William Julius Wilson (voted one of the 25 most influential people in the USA in 1996)have links to DSA. Michael Dawson has been a leader of the DSA and Communist Party infiltrated Black Radical Congress.
Barack Bbama’s flirtation with DSA seems to have begun in the early ’80s and may continue to this day.
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Obama Socialist Trojan Horse and Hive Builder. Hear the Buzzing?, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
I agree he’s like a trojan horse, but I liken him more to the insidious virus that invade your p.c. under the guise of an innocuous e-mail. In fact, I think more bloggers/posters need to refer to him as The Trojan Horse. The moniker fits in more ways than one!
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