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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (12593)	9/26/2004 12:18:28 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

John Kerry and Socialism Warner Todd Huston I know. You are all groaning. NOT another outdated Pinko, Commie slam on a Democrat candidate. Aren't we PAST that canard, you might moan? Perhaps we might be, if the current candidate for president from the Democrat Party hadn't thrust himself into that very controversy by his own actions. This month, a booklet called "Let America Be America Again" comes to bookstores across the country. This is a rehashed and repackaged edition of poetry by the notorious American socialist, Langston Hughes. If you do not know who Hughes is, rest assured that it is not I who is labeling him a socialist. Hughes was an avowed socialist who was once quoted (accurately, as it turns out) as saying that he wished that our nation had an extra "S" in it's title, making it the United SOVIET States of America.* Hughes was an unapologetic supporter of Stalin, Lenin and the Soviet Union in the 1930's and later. He also supported Hitler until Germany turned to attack the U.S.S.R. quite against the pact Hitler and Stalin had arranged together previously. Hughes is obviously the kind of person that John Kerry accepts as an accomplished literary man, someone he must believe we should all look up to. Attesting to this fact, "Let America Be America Again" is sporting a forward by none other than Kerry himself. Imagine that? A current presidential candidate purposefully lending his name to the forward of a new booklet by an avowed socialist! (I suppose we will have to take it on faith that Kerry actually wrote this opening and that it was not the work of one of his campaign workers or Senate staffers.) Over the last few years members of the old guard Left in America today have tried to distance themselves from their direct or tacit support of the multiple millions murdered by Stalin and later Soviet leaders in the many purges and the gulags which went on for decades. They have been furiously backpeddling, saying that they never supported such things but only liked the "ideas" that socialism and communism offered. They lament that such "ideas" really have never had a "proper" implementation. Of course, one can easily go back and see that their prevarication is an outright lie. The Left in America was often and vociferously in support directly of Stalin, Kruschev and the Soviet Union, without equivocation. But still, today, many of them like to down play past support of the Kremlin. This makes it all the more amazing that their favored presidential candidate brings attention to the support they are trying so hard to obscure by supplying a forward to a booklet of work by one of the most notorious Soviet apologists of our era. It really is quite amazing. There are other examples of Kerry using avowed socialists and communists as fodder for speeches and a mine for finding illustrative quotes throughout his career. But the blatancy of the publication of this booklet, with Kerry's approval, during his run for the presidency of the United States strains credulity. For a man who is claiming he is the quintessential all-American candidate, for a man that claims to believe in American ideas, it is an odd choice, indeed. So, one must ask the question. Does John Kerry feel that socialism is the better model, one America should turn to as Langston Hughes went to his grave believing? It does make one wonder, doesn't it? * From an article published in The Daily Worker, Communist Party Newspaper, April 2nd, 1932.