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[...] However,
given that the President’s ideology did incline this way back then
(even if it doesn’t anymore [yuck-yuck]), then one can see where the Obama campaign
might want to avoid further scrutiny of Obama’s time in college, since
it would bolster (however
hardly unfairly) the narrative that the President is a dyed-in-the-wool
Left wing radical. As Newsrealblog puts it:
The conferences in
question
were presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, self-described
as the largest socialist organization in the country. Though there’s no
specific mention or evidence of Obama attending any of these
conferences, Kurtz has found Obama’s name on the organization’s
conference mailing lists from that time frame. Kurtz also draws a
conclusion that since the 1983 conference, timed with the anniversary
of the death of Karl Marx, was practically a who’s-who of the American
far Left, Obama would no doubt have been there.
At these conferences, Obama is certain to have had
exposure
to some scholars and philosophers who would influence his life in
extremely consequential ways. The conferences featured speakers like
Frances Fox Piven, whose strategy for collapsing capitalism made her a
darling of the Left, and James Cone, who devised the notion of Black
Liberation Theology.
The conferences also featured workshops like “Poverty
In
America,” “Social Issues,” “Black Theology and Marxist Thought,” “Race
and Class in Marxism,” and “The Case For Transitional Reform.” (Yep,
the conferences sure sound like a great way to spend time in New York.)
Many of these workshops centered around the concepts of Alinskyite
community organizing and working from within the system to push the
political direction of the country toward the Left, to socialism. [Full]
A
nice For-the-Record article from The
Blaze. It appears then that Wayne
Allyn Root and
friends never heard of Obama because they didn't spend time closeted in
dens of Marxist theorists There is still mystery
surrounding Obama's
Columbia and Harvard years; principally, who paid his tuition?
And why?
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