Obama's Communist Cooperation Campaign Proceeds Apace

[Chas.Chan]

America's most prominent, dedicated communists support Barack Obama
and are actively campaigning on his behalf. If that sentence makes
you uncomfortable, then you have two choices: continue reading and
face your fear, or stop reading and get back to whatever activities
you normally use to drown out disturbing thoughts.

In an age of mass media disinformation and distraction, one expects
the politically neutered majority to find the legitimate vocabulary of
open political discussion -- freedom, communism, socialism, oppression
-- uncomfortable and strange. These words disturb their moral
tranquility -- that sense of "no big deal" normalcy that allows them
to carry on with everyday activities, unperturbed by the kinds of
questions that make prime-time entertainment seem...well, like a waste
of time.

Unfortunately, many among the conservative establishment class share
this reticence about using the correct words for things. They are
squeamish about direct talk, but, being "thoughtful" types, they
cannot just turn up the volume on the television and ignore the whole
thing. Instead, they apply their sizeable IQs and plentiful degrees
to inventing clever arguments to persuade themselves and each other
that such talk is antiquated or irrelevant. And then they go on their
merry way, offering expert analysis of the Obama presidency without
ever once using any of those quaint old words from the supposedly
simpler, bygone days.

Fine. If the professional career conservatives want to avoid labeling
Obama himself, or any member of his administration or party, with any
of those allegedly outdated words -- bless Allen West -- might they at
least be willing to allow the true lexicon of "old-fashioned" (i.e.,
real) political discourse to enter the conversation around the
fringes? For example, if a self-defined communist uses a speaking
engagement to urge voters to get out and support Obama because his
agenda is the surest practical path to communism, and if that
communist is glowingly welcomed to this event by a Democratic
congressman, might not a few Republican establishment pundits and
statesmen just ask, politely and with the utmost moderation, "What's
with all these communists stumping for Obama?"

Okay, they will never ask any such question. One can theorize all day
long about why they won't: the educational establishment, the
Frankfurt School, political correctness, cynical careerism, what have
you. But while all such theorizing is important and useful, we must
not forget that none of those reasons actually prevents anyone from
reinserting proper English into the discussion. For those of us
neither working in the establishment nor seeking a career there, and
therefore not afraid of being judged "quaint" and "antiquated," the
question stands: what is with all these communists stumping for Obama?

Let us keep this short, simple, and, in the name of social justice,
gender-equalized.

Angela Davis was the Communist Party USA's vice presidential candidate
in 1980 and 1984 and is a former Black Panther. In 1979, the Soviet
Union awarded her its Lenin Peace Prize. (I kid you not; they also
made her an honorary professor at Moscow State University.)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdavisAN.htm
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303

Davis spoke in Detroit on October 25.
http://peoplesworld.tumblr.com/angela-davis-speaks-to-2-000-at-michigan-rally/

One of the local dignitaries there to prepare the audience for her
remarks was Congressman John Conyers, who noted the timeliness of
Davis' appearance on a "night where we not only remember history but
plan how we're going to make history...Dr. Davis, you're right on
time!"

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1987

CPUSA reporter Mark Walton informs us that the focus of Davis's speech
was the election. Attempting to battle the disappointment some of her
comrades have expressed regarding the rate of progress in implementing
the Obama agenda they voted for in 2008, she urged, "As we go to the
polls, let us recall that no one thought it was possible to elect a
black president."

She then pleaded for patience with Obama's practical implementation of
the program, noting that "we should never expect to elect a president
to lead us to the Promised Land...we have to do it for ourselves."

After thus defending Obama and urging her audience to vote for him, as
well as offering the obligatory condemnation of "Israeli apartheid,"
she concluded by declaring that "we need peace, justice, equality, and
socialism for us all."

"Socialism for us all" -- that's her final, bottom-line argument for
getting out and voting for Barack Obama.

Sam Webb is the current chairman of the CPUSA and has written the
Party's official endorsement of Obama's 2012 re-election bid.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7511
On October 23, he was in Wisconsin for a round of appearances and
radio interviews.

http://peoplesworld.tumblr.com/sam-webb-delivers-message-of-unity-in-wisconsin

In a perfect mirror of Obama's own campaign talking points, Webb
stressed the importance of stopping the Romney/Ryan plan to "undo 60
years of gains" in "women's rights, immigrant justice and movements
for racial and LGBT equality." (Okay, Obama usually says "50 years"
-- trying to appear less extreme than the CPUSA, I guess.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/25/remarks-president-campaign-event-las-vegas-nv

As CPUSA reporter Joseph Zimmerman explains, when asked about the
current state of the Party, Chairman Webb emphasized the importance of
working with "as broad a coalition as possible, similar to the sort of
people's movements of the 1930s and 1960s that lead [sic] to
progressive legislation that families now count on in their daily
lives." In other words, communists must work for their agenda through
Obama and the Democrats, as they did so effectively through the FDR
and LBJ administrations.

In response to a question regarding the state of Wisconsin's "workers"
movement since the failed recall of Governor Walker, Webb maintained
that the setback has strengthened the movement, and declared that in
this presidential election, "the message will be clear. The American
working class is going forward, not back."

Going "forward." How about that?

For the umpteenth time, the question for all those considering voting
for Obama who do not actively support the intentional overthrow of the
American constitutional republic in favor of an openly socialist
authoritarian regime is a simple one: "Why do you think the leadership
of the Communist Party USA is out in the battleground states during
these final days of the campaign, aggressively stumping for Obama?"

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7511

The answer, of course, is self-evident, as well as being explicitly
and repeatedly stated by the communists themselves: they believe that
Obama's agenda is the most practical means to the socialist workers'
state.

A final question for the non-America-hating Obama "moderates": "If the
CPUSA's longstanding party-line judgment on Obama is correct -- that
is, if his agenda really is the surest path to communism -- why are
you still supporting him?"

If you believe that the communists are completely misjudging Obama,
and that his platform is not actually consistent with their goals,
then I challenge you to take a look at their own case for his agenda
and try to disprove their assessment.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/obamas_communist_party_endorsement.html

The same challenge goes out to all those in the Republican
establishment who have spent the last four years inventing a new
euphemistic vocabulary in order to escape the uncomfortable demands of
correct English.

Still "going forward"?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/obamas_communist_cooperation_campaign_proceeds_apace.html

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determined that the power of knowledge should be placed in the hands
of the people.

To insure a healthy and uninhibited flow of information, they included
freedom of the press among the basic human rights protected in the new
nation's Bill of Rights.

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