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| Barack Obama Lauded by Marxists |
| 2008-03-16 |
| The Soviet Union collapsed, but Marxists did not disappear. For example, the Castro brothers still run Cuba, Daniel Ortega is back in charge of Nicaragua and African Marxists are vying for power in their homelands. Unsurprisingly, Marxists from Africa to the Americas are lauding young Barack Obama as their "agent of change." In Kenya, Raila Odinga, Barack's cousin, just secured the prime ministership after violent protests of the re-election of his rival, President Kibaki, in a disputed race with Odinga that suggest that Virginia Governor and current Richmond, Virginia Mayor Doug Wilder's warning of rioting if Democrat superdelegates don't rubberstamp Barack should be taken seriously. The New York Times: "Rono Kibet, an [Odinga] supporter who less than two months ago was burning down the houses of members of Mr. KibakiÂ’s ethnic group, said: 'We will now stop the fighting. The agreement is very good.'" "Good" from the perspective of that reported arsonist! A source familiar with Kenyan politics warns Americans to look into Barack's Kenyan connections before they leap: "--Raila Odinga is of the Luo tribe to which Obama's late African-Arab Muslim father belonged. Obama's older brother still lives there; Abongo 'Roy' Obama is a Luo activist and militant Muslim who argues that the black man must liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture. He urges his younger brother, Barack, to embrace his African heritage. Barack Obama has a Kenyan grandmother [my note: according to Kenyan usage, not a biological grandmother] and several African brothers and sisters as well. "--Raila Odinga is Barack Obama's cousin.... Listen to Odinga interview with BBC reporter. "--Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaigning to speak by phone with Odinga, and he did not speak with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. Would Obama put African tribal or family interests ahead of U.S. interests? (Investors Business Daily). "--Odinga explained to another reporter that Obama would call him up to three times a day to check on the election in Kenya. It was controversial, you see. Raila Odinga is a Marxist, and he wants to make a majority Christian Kenya embrace Islamic customs: he wants Sharia law, and he made a pact with an Islamic hard-line group (their terrorist group name is on the Internet) to enforce this law as they see fit. Odinga wants to establish Sharia courts throughout the country; vows to ban booze, pork, and impose Muslim dress codes on women--moves highly favored by Barack Obama's older brother, Abongo 'Roy.' "--Odinga claimed the election was rigged when he lost, then there were riots and a sort of civil war, but it was the Christians who were getting killed by the Muslims. Christians were burned alive in churches and they were macheted in the streets. It is reported that 1,000 people were killed when all was said and done. Right now, Odinga is claiming the presidency and fighting to be sole president, and in a diplomatic effort, the powers that be allowed him to be co-president until the election is figured out. "--Odinga also had an interesting political strategist help with his campaign, an American, who used to be a campaign employee of Bill Clinton's. It is the first time that an American poitical strategist has worked on any Kenyan campaign. Recommended by Barack Obama? [Note: That strategist is Dick Morris. Ask him!] "--Raila Odinga's official presidential website is similar to Barack Obama's, and Odinga's main campaign message and slogan is: CHANGE. Vote for Change. Agent of Change. Look at his website. "Furthermore, Raila Odinga has close ties to an oil big shot: Sheik Abdullahi Abdi (oil $) chairs NAMLEF (National Muslim Leaders Forum) which Odinga signed a then secret pact with. (The document is actually available online.) This man has connections to Libyan socialist leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, who financially backed and supported Raila Odinga's campaign. "--Also, Raila Odinga was educated in communist E. Germany, and his father Oginga Odinga led the communist opposition during the Cold War. "--With al-Qaida strengthening its beachheads in Africa--from Algeria to Sudan to Somalia--the last thing the West needs is for pro-Western Kenya to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists." The Castro brothers aren't the only Marxists in the Americas rooting for Barack. This year International Herald Tribune celebrated Valentine's Day by published an AP article reporting the delight of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega with the Obama campaign. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 There is that, NS. There is that. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-16 20:25 |
| #5 I don't know whether Barack has no convictions or just conceals them well. He did have the most liberal voting record in the Senate. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-16 20:07 |
| #4 I agree, Redneck Jim. It's an unwarranted stretch. Michelle Obama is probably farther left and harder Africanist than Barack. It's his lack of clear convictions that worries me about him more than any secret communist ties. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-16 20:02 |
| #3 "--Raila Odinga is Barack Obama's cousin.... I am NOT responsible for whatever my cousins think or do, and in turn they're NOT responsible for me, this is trying to slam Obama by association, and it's just plain false. I'd look very hard at the accuser here. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-16 19:58 |
| #2 Barack is a liberal Democrat -- that alone is Marxist enough for me to make a decision. I hope he and Hillary sling mud at each other right up until their convention. And I hope as much of it as possible sticks through election day. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-03-16 16:47 |
| #1 There, fixed it for ya. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-03-16 13:10 |