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Originally Posted by majoun
If you're referring to Frank Davis, the black Honolulu journalist who was friends with Obama's maternal grandparents, yes, he had been a communist at one time, but by the time the young Obama had met him, he just seemed like another bitter old angry drunken burned out newspaperman rather than a radical hater of America per se. One has to remember that having been a communist was not as unusual for men of that generation as it has been for later generations - it was actually trendy and "rebellious" in the 1930s for many young American men to flirt with communism. Most got out within a year. Davis moved from Chicago to Hawaii not only to avoid racial discrimination and be able to get a reporting job on a mainstream newspaper but also to move to a place where he'd be less likely to be blacklisted due to his past.
Let's not forget it was also not unusual in the '50s for everyday, working people to be accused of being communist by the witch hunting, fear mongering right led by the drunk Senator from Wisconsin.
Sadly, the witch hunting and fear mongering has continued to this day.
So what! A lot of people now wish they had not voted for him! Will be interesting in 2 yrs when he starts campaigning how the tables will turn! After he has thrown America into turmoil.
The following is a speech given by Communist Party National Chair Sam Webb, at the PWW?s Better World Awards banquet in New York City, May 17, 2009.
So both the new president and new congress need our help. Our responsibility is support them as well as prod and constructively take issue with them when we have differing views.
But more importantly ? and this is the nub of the problem ? we have to reach, activate, unite and turn millions of Americans into change agents who can make the political difference in these struggles.
Who cares what Sam Webb thinks?
His view is as important as Uncle Rush or Cousin Rachel. A Big Zero, Zip, Nada, Nothing.
When they get elected (any of them, Sam, Rush or Rachel), let me know.
Then I might care.
Last edited by plannine; 05-25-2009 at 09:32 AM..
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The following is a speech given by Communist Party National Chair Sam Webb, at the PWW?s Better World Awards banquet in New York City, May 17, 2009.
So both the new president and new congress need our help. Our responsibility is support them as well as prod and constructively take issue with them when we have differing views.
But more importantly ? and this is the nub of the problem ? we have to reach, activate, unite and turn millions of Americans into change agents who can make the political difference in these struggles.
The American Communist Party has always been a joke, and that article puts a big picture frame around those problems.
delusianne I wonder how Communist is the US Communist party after reading your post! No calls for media censorship? No Calls for taking away your guns? No calls for nationalizing industries? What kind of Commies are these people!??
To borrow an expression of Jarvis Tyner, the executive vice chair of our party, “What was once impossible during the Bush years has become possible, thanks to the election of Barack Obama.”
In this new political climate, we can foresee winning a public option, like Medicare, in the current legislative fight over health care reform.
We can visualize enacting tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry that brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine bringing the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, while being part of a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In this new political climate, the expansion of union rights in this legislative session is not only sensible, it’s doable.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still rising and likely long term persistence of unemployment with the heaviest burden, as usual, falling on communities of color.
Isn’t it possible in the post-Bush era to launch a vigorous attack on global warming and create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and elsewhere?
Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism and employing punitive treatment as it organizing principle – no longer pie in the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
you know. its no longer my country when comunist are suporting it.
Would you abandon your child if it were sick? I ask this because you're doing essentially the same thing with your country. You accept no responsibility for your claim of the country "becoming communist" and will happily walk away from it without a fight?
Keep driving, my friend. You could be the cause of it all and you wouldn't have a clue.
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Why the fuss?
