More on Barack Obama, 'The Shady Socialist Communist'
For those who thought that I was being ridiculously hypersensitive when I complained the other day about the racism implicit in the description of Obama as a "shady Chicago socialist" --how does this grab ya:
Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City ā a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics
As you might imagine, this storyline is getting pushed by the usual suspects.
For those who can't abide a click-thru to NRO, Jeff Fecke has a pretty good summary and take-down of the Barack Obama is a secret product of a cabal of communist Jews bent on creating biracial children of African descent in a nefarious plot to seize America's vital bodily fluids contention here.
Schriffen: "I don't know how Barak Obama's parents met."
Well, they didn't meet in liberal circles in New York City; nor did they meet through the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League. If Schriffen had engaged in the smallest amount of something called "research," she would have discovered they met in a much more nefarious setting: the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Just wait until the right-wing paranoids discover Obama's mom's graduate work in anthropology. I can hear it now: "A graduate student in anthropology, studying rural blacksmiths in Indonesia! This is final, irrefutable proof Obama's mother is a Jew from the Upper West Side and an active member of the Communist Party. Just like her son!"
Posted by: Jā | 20 February 2008 at 12:18
Oops, make that Schiffren.
Posted by: Jā | 20 February 2008 at 12:19
"very culturally specific unions"
wha...???
Posted by: kate | 20 February 2008 at 23:59
Communist Obama and his Pro-Abortion Socialist Gestapo will CHANGE USA into USSA - United Socialist States of America.
Posted by: Cosmotone Records | 30 July 2008 at 02:38
His Mom did go to a self-declared private "socialist" high school in Seattle in the 1950's. This would be like going to a pro-hamas school in the US today.
Posted by: Bri | 25 June 2009 at 18:12