Does Obama See Himself as Lenin?
“It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” – Barack Obama
“The great task before our founders was putting into practice the ideal that government could simultaneously serve liberty and advance the common good. and Government, he believed, had an important role to play in advancing our common prosperity.” – Barack Obama
Collective? Common prosperity? “the ultimate goal of socialism is common prosperity” Source: Yang Chungui, The Marxist
“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” – Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)
“Political discussions, the kind at Occidental had once seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union” – Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)
Nothing more to say here…
“Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.” – Barack Obama
No, not because it would increase revenue, but for “fairness”. Yes that’s right…punish success…
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, carl george