With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Biographical material that may help to define our new President - emphasis on "may" Actually, it is not the names but the philosophies of these people that are acceptable to Obama
1. Saul Alinsky- author of Rules for Radicals and mentor to Barack Obama in Chicago. View the printed material from his book http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm . It is not apparent that Alinsky has been close to Obama over the past 3 years or more. How much of his political influence is reflected in Obama's thinking? That is the question.
2. Father Fpleger -- radical Catholic priest who frequents Trinity Church in Chicago. View the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMunBYVKSo . While Fpleger does not appear to have any close ties to Obama, he was a friend of the Trinity Church and he was such because his theology [obviously] mirrored the theological/politicial concerns of Jeremiah Wright's. After 20 years. how much of this rhetorical influence became a part of our new President remains to be seen.
3. Bernadine Dohrn - wife of Bill Ayers. Convicted anarchist. Committed anti capitalist. Associate of Obama in times past [see comments on #4 Bill Ayers]. View the video (the intro is not long - the video is 7:56 ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2yYXVmrj5A&feature=related
4. Bill Ayers - praise for communist leadership; a Marxist radical and mentor for Obama View his view - long introduction, move the video cursor to left of center (5.44)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP15wJl9YPo&feature=related and (3.09) the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcS6QFtn_g&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcS6QFtn_g&feature=related (some cussing) . Contrary to conservative popular belief, there is no reason to believe that Ayers and Obama have been close friends over the past 3 years. Again, it is Ayer's political influence and philosphy that is the point of this entry. While Obama may have left close ties with Ayers and Dorhn behind, the impact of their political views remain to some degree.
5. Charles Hamilton - author of Black Power (1967 - still in print) An intellectual Black activist . President of the National Urban League and important source for Michelle Obama's Princeton paper.
6. Louis Farrakhan - leader of the Nation of Islam. Lived in Obama's Illinois Senate district. Was given an award by Obama's church. Obama attended his Million Man March. See Farrakhan endorse Obama the Messiah at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha5HEc-vOJs
7. Jeremiah Wright, author of these words: "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
8. Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther and extreme Black anarchist. Stokely left the Black Panthers because they took in white radical anarchist - the Panthers were not "black enough" for Carmichael. His philosophy is used by Michelle Obama and, hence by association, Barack. Carmichael is co-author of Black Power.
9. Karl Marx - a material dialectic and founder of Communism along with Friedrich Engels. Marx is included on this list because of his influence in the life of Obama. Read these words of Obama: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." Obama has never changed his political posture as expressed in these words. We hasten to add that none of this means Obama is a or will be a "Communist." We include this paragraph because a) it is true and b) because it adds to our perspective as regards Obama's bias.
10. Jerrold Nadler - an Obama supporter speaking on Trinity Church and Jeremiah Wright: "There's a guy who is half white, half black, he goes to a Ivy League school, comes to Chicago to have a political career, start a political career. Doesn't know anybody. Gets involved with community organizing. Why? 'Cause that's how you form a base. Now you wait a couple years and -- he's -- the guy's a nut, the guy's a lunatic. But You don't walk out of a church with 8,000 members in your district, you hear what I'm saying? He didn't have the political courage to want to make the statement of walking out."
11. Chicago Annenberg Challenge: A radical funding group designed to funnel monies and grants to radicalized educational programs and systems. Obama chaired for nearly 6 years and administered a $100 million in distributed funds, yet he never mentions this administrative experience in any of his bio material. Not even a hint. Why?
12. Woods Funds: Obama was paid as Chairman of this group (3 years as Chairman) A group with pronounced Palestinian ties. Go to and read: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=57231
13. Rashid Khalidi: A Palestinian radical Muslim, professor at Columbia and associate of Barack Obama. Read something of a bia at : http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347
14. Jennifer Mason - Director of Constituent Services in Obama's U.S. Senate office and is also in charge of selecting Obama's Senate interns. She is a member of the Nation of Islam (Farrakhan).
15. Ali Abunimah - Palistian activist and Islamist; a close friend of Obama. Although this friendship continues, Obama (if we are to believe his on the record rhetoric) has part company with Abunimah with regard to Israel. Prior to this election cycle, it was not clear as to Obama's views on Israel. But he proclaims a commitment to Israel. Abunimah, himself, outlines Obama's move toward Israel in this written piece at : http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml After reading this article, there is little reason to believe in Obama's commitment to Israel as being typical compared to the last 30 plus years of Presidential policy [but campaign rhetoric and pre-Presidental positioning may be the bigger story, here -- time will tell.] Especially if you are aware of the Black election policy expressed by many on this particular list and known to many as "deracialization." Read a summary of this election strategy at http://www.radessays.com/viewpaper/74896/Deracialization_in_Black_Politics.html (very brief article) and know, as you read, that Charles Hamilton (on this list) and all of the quoted authorities in Michelle Obama's Princeton paper espouse this policy. 16. Deracialzation and Obama's campaign rhetoric - you read, you decided:
"Deracialization in Black Politics --- There is currently a debate going on regarding the significance of deracialization as an ongoing development in American politics. The term "deracialization," when applied to American electoral politics, refers to the conduction of a political campaign by a black candidate in which racial issues and themes are minimized, if not avoided completely (Perry 1). This is done to increase white electoral support, and the candidate is usually running for a position in a district that has a white majority. Although deracialization has existed in the black political scene for a longer time, this concept was particularly important to the 1989 elections in which nine African-American candidates were elected or reelected to public office (Perry 1). This election was not only important before of the number of African-Americans who were elected, but also because many of these positions represented the first time that an African-American had been elected to that particular position. Four of these nine successful candidates conducted deracialized campaigns. Barone also points out that 1994 was an excellent election year for black candidates. "
Again, the strategy presented above is one fully acceptable to Michelle Obama and sources who espouse this political doctrine were used exclusively in Michelle Obama's Princeton paper. Suffice it to say that the old Negro Political Stetagy has been replaced with the New Social Order of Barack Obama. We did not get into the likes Edward Said, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
