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Let There be No Doubt What Obama is

Hanson: [1]

[2]“I don’t know why Obama’s supporters object to the airing of these quotes. His past views, his tax plan, and other spontaneous offerings (‘Spread the wealth around’) are a fair enough representation of a European socialist view of how to take money from higher wage earners and redistribute it to the less well off, apparently on the twin premises that one’s income is really property of the state, and, that the mechanism by which a market compensates people is arbitrary and unfair and in need of ‘redistributive change.’ This view is shared by former associates like Wright and Ayers, Obama’s parents, and almost everyone in his circle in Chicago.

There should be no apologies for such views, since until 2005 (when he was ascended to the Senate and broke off contact with Ayers) they were a proud part of the Obama hope and change agenda.”

Correct. And it all meshes, all too comfortably with all politics of all the people around the man.

Oh… and shall we look at Obama’s book for confirmation? Fine. We turn to page 100 and 101 where we find:

[3]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 the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated.

It’s very clear, he’s never grown out of those realationships [4] or the politics that sprung from them [5].

Billy Beck [6]notes Hanson’s quote and responds, correctly:

Nor should there be any debate over “such views”, either over their value or the fact that these people do hold them.

There will be of course by those seeking to deny such connections for their own reasons. Perhaps hoping to slip this guy in under the radar?