Roots of Obama's Marxism

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Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.

Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem.

"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of …Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist."

Also present at that meeting was Ayers' wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and "Marxism-Leninism."

Obama has been widely criticized for choosing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American firebrand, as his pastor. Wright is a purveyor of black liberation theology, which analysts say is based in part on Marxist ideas.

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Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism....

Ironically, Warren Buffet, arguably the most successful capitalist in American history, not only endorses the alleged Marxist Barack Obama, he specifically endorses Obama’s most Marxist philosophies (see the thread Warren Buffet the Marxist).

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Gotta love foxnews.com. We report - you decide. ha.

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Ironically, Warren Buffet, arguably the most successful capitalist in American history, not only endorses the alleged Marxist Barack Obama, he specifically endorses Obama’s most Marxist philosophies

Quite ironic. How come he does not donate all his wealth to the poor? I think he's using Marxism to eliminate the competition.....

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Ironically, Warren Buffet, arguably the most successful capitalist in American history, not only endorses the alleged Marxist Barack Obama, he specifically endorses Obama’s most Marxist philosophies

Quite ironic. How come he does not donate all his wealth to the poor?

Uh, actually, he has given (and/or is in the process of giving) quite a significant portion of his wealth to charity.

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Ironically, Warren Buffet, arguably the most successful capitalist in American history, not only endorses the alleged Marxist Barack Obama, he specifically endorses Obama’s most Marxist philosophies (see the thread Warren Buffet the Marxist).

So you concede the point that Obama is a Marxist?

It is a strange argument to say this point is somehow mitigated because someone else agrees with him. So Buffet is a Marxist too, so what? Buffet isn't going to be our next President.

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Quite ironic. How come he does not donate all his wealth to the poor?

Uh, actually, he has given (and/or is in the process of giving) quite a significant portion of his wealth to charity.

Then how come he is still obscenely rich (62.3 billion net worth)? He hasn't really sacrificed anything at all. I sense yet another left-wing double-standard.

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I remember when Ted Turner donated a something like a billion dollars to the United Nations back in the 90s. Everyone thought it was a selfless act that proved compassion, charity, etc.

And then some tax attorneys were interviewed on the news and they said that by donating that amount of money, Turner might actually make money because of the tax deduction.

LOL.

I don't know what Buffet's finances are but I know he is a good guy. One of my students in Brasil heard that he was giving away half of his fortune so she wrote him a letter asking for an electric wheel chair for her ailing father who lost his legs to some kind of disease. Not sure if she ever heard back from him or not.

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I'll bet most LDS paying fast offerings have sacrificed more than Buffet.

I don't know what Buffet's finances are but I know he is a good guy. One of my students in Brasil heard that he was giving away half of his fortune so she wrote him a letter asking for an electric wheel chair for her ailing father who lost his legs to some kind of disease. Not sure if she ever heard back from him or not.

That settles it. He MUST be a good guy.

lol

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Then how come he is still obscenely rich (62.3 billion net worth)? He hasn't really sacrificed anything at all. I sense yet another left-wing double-standard.

lol. it must really chap your hide that the largest charitable donations have come from agnostics/atheists, while the LDS church can't even cross the $1billion mark.

sleep well, douchebag.