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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: MJ who wrote (131854)5/6/2012 12:30:04 PM
From: lorne2 Recommendations   of 224748
 
MJ When you have the time here's a bit of info on abam's Mother and communist's. To long to post all.

What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party
July 8, 2008
By Andrew Walden
americanthinker.com

Excerpts from article.....

One year earlier, Mercer Island schools had distinguished themselves in a way which might have caused others to avoid them. The Chicago Tribune explains,



...."In 1955, the chairman of the Mercer Island school board, John Stenhouse, testified before the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party."....


Barack Obama describes his mother:

..."The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."....

As described in Dreams from my Father, for Obama, his parents and grandparents' political views define family ties and human characteristics. But wisdom is gathered from the type of political activists Obama looks up to. Likewise, the wrong way to go about politics is defined by a certain type he looks down on. Trying to deal with reactions to his "mixed" racial background, Obama writes:

....""I suspect that I sound incredibly naïve, wedded to lost hopes, like those Communists who peddle their newspapers on the fringes of various college towns." (Dreams pg xv)"...
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