Infinite MonkeysPower Line had an interesting post yesterday noting how the Obama campaign allowed "anti-Semitic propaganda" on its official website. Little Green Footballs first pointed it out Sunday, which prompted the Obama campaign to quickly take it down. Power Line has kept some copies of the images and posts so you can judge for yourself how hateful it was. Titles like "How The Jewish Lobby Works," and photo montages that declare "These Jews Are Corrupting U.S. Politics!" and "Real Jew News" are over the line, in my view -- and now, apparently, in Obama's view.
But the Jew-baiting stuff isn't the only thing the Obama campaign has taken down from its "community blogs" site. Another page thrown down the memory hole is titled "Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama." Power Line had a live link to it yesterday -- but now it's gone. A Google-cached version of the page was available yesterday, but now it's gone, too.
But I saved it for posterity, and here is what was written as the group's profile (with bad spelling and/or typos included):
This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx's writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat. Though the Democratic Socialists of America or the Communist Patty of America may have more Socialististic values, it is pointless to vote for these candidates due to the fact that there is virutally no chance they will be elected on a National level. The members of this group are not Leninists, Stalinists, etc. and do not support or condone the actions of North Korea, China, Cuba or any other self-procalimed "Marxist States." They do not in anyway represent the Marxist philosophy nor do they represent Socialism/ Communsim. We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!
("Communist Patty"? I shudder to think what that tastes like.) I love how Radical Reds try to distance themselves from the world's Marxist/Commie regimes by accusing them of not being true to the cause. That political philosophy keeps getting tried the wrong way by the wrong people. How inconvenient.
Anyway, Joel cries foul on his own site about "people who attempt to paint Obama as a secret Soviet." I don't think Obama is a "Soviet" -- though he has shown a Soviet-style aptitude to erase inconvenient history and pretend it never happened, starting with his own website.
But voters looking for some substance beyond Obama's rhetoric have a few places to look to judge his political soul. One is to look at Obama's voting record, which is the most liberal in Congress. Another way is to look at the people upon which Obama built his political career. It is full of what we might call neo-coms, or simply aging Marxists: Rev. Wright, Fr. Pfleger, Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Saul Alinsky, etc. And now we have "Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama," which was on his official campaign website for at least three months before Obama's campaign tried to hide it from the public.
A largely unknown man does not get to choose the colors the public may use to paint his political portrait. And it looks like there's quite a bit of red on the palate.
Posted by Dr. Zaius at June 10, 2008 08:23 AM | TrackBack