Our White House Maoist (Bumped)
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When I heard this on the radio this morning, I was stunned:
Jeremiah Wright. William Ayers. Van Jones. Where does the rogues’ gallery of Barack Obama’s radical friends end? These people are not liberals. They are not “progressives.” They are radicals who hate America and in many cases have advocated or even perpetrated violence in an effort to destroy it.
Thanks to Glenn Beck, the American public has now been introduced to yet another radical member of Obama’s inner circle: Anita Dunn, Interim White House Communications Director, former top advisor to Obama’s political campaign, and wife of Obama’s personal lawyer, Robert Bauer.
In a speech before high school students last June, Dunn spoke passionately about her two favorite political philosophers, “the two people I turn to most” for answers to important questions like “how to do things that have never been done before.” Who are these paragons? One was Mother Teresa. Dunn didn’t have much to say about her. Most of her enthusiasm was lavished upon her other favorite fount of political wisdom: Mao Tse-Tung.
I’ve heard the audio (which you can listen to in the link). Its not out of context, its not something which can be explained away – the lady thinks that Mao is an admirable person we can learn from. She made the remarks at a high school graduation – which means she thinks that the kiddies should emulate the Great Helmsman.
As I said, I was stunned – Mao was a psychopath; a murderer; a thug. In plain fact, the man was no different from Stalin, Lening, Pol Pot, Hitler or any one of a score of the 21st century’s bloodthirsty tyrants. His name is an abomination and should be held up as precisely what no person should follow – but here comes Anita Dunn, Obamaniac, lauding him for his persistence. That he was persisting in evil designs doesn’t register.
In my view, the reason Dunn says what she says – and why other liberals have, at times, praised other tyrants – is because they earnestly wish they had that sort of power. There is really no other explanation possible, outside of sheer stupidity, for praising men who were simply vile in their actions. And now, with Dunn, we can see that the infiltration of such junior-league communist apparatchiks in to government is not just some isolated instances – there are too many such cases under Obama. This amounts to a take over of the reigns of power by people who hate democracy…who think it a hindrance in the pursuit of their ideals.
UPDATE: Roger Kimball gives a run-down on damage control:
Damage control time!
–She didn’t mean it.
–She was only quoting a Republican operative.
–Fox News is mean to Democrats.
–Glenn Beck is an extremist.
–The President is trying to clean up a big mess left by George Bush.
–Can’t we just change the subject?When Glenn Beck aired a video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Chairman Mao — one of her “two favorite political philosophers” — in front of an audience of high school students, the conservative blogosphere lit up like a non-denominational sustainably harvested Kwanza tree.
And the left swung in to action – and Kimball seems to not have been hit with the “she was just being ironic” meme some lefty’s have tried here.
She did mean it, she wasn’t quoting a Republican, how Fox News views Democrats is irrelevant, Glenn Beck’s views are also irrelevant, President Bush didn’t bring the Maoists in to the White House and no, we’re not going to change the subject.
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83 Responses to “Our White House Maoist (Bumped)”
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Mark
That you, like kmg, are being contemptible about this is simply astounding.
what would you expect from a little girly man dweeb like casper?
he is a union robot who spews the left’s rot like a good little lemming.
CO
If the outer fringe, armed & dangerous, were to mount an assault on a duly democratically elected President, what do you think the outcome would be?
If the innercity thugs try it they will be crushed.
kmg1 says:October 18th, 2009 at 8:07 am
And I know what I read in this thread, Mark. It doesn’t matter how you try to explain away your statement that Mao is your brother. I know what you really meant, just as you know what Dunn really meant. You are a Maoist.
more circular rot from a useful idion.
“an assault on a duly democratically elected President,”
Thats a lie. Duly democratically elected President requires a qualified candidate.
BHO admitted, on his own web site (fight the smears) that he held British Citizenship at birth, in accordance with the British Nationality Act of 1948, and misinforms people about his Kenyan Citizenship as well, which he still holds.
BHO is “NOT” a natural born citizen, never was, and can NEVER BE. Its time to stop this false allegiance to the man that lied to america and start fighting to uphold our constitution.
Democratically elected Presidents are qualified to hold the office they run for. BHO usurped the office of POTUS by lying. I take no pride in that, its a disgrace to our country, and BHO needs to be removed from office and sent to jail, not to Washington DC.
js,
Did you send Orly Taitz a donation to help with her $20,000 fine?
Mark,
The point I’m trying to make is that you and others are always willing to slap a label on a liberal based on a a single statement. Yet you will defend people on the right that make similar statements. If I say I admire Washington (which I do), that doesn’t mean I support owning slaves (something he did). The fact that you stated that Mao is your brother, doesn’t make you a Maoist any more than Dunn’s statement makes her one. Of course you see it differently, because you have different rules for different people.
If the innercity thugs try it they will be crushed…neocon
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Are you calling jeremiah an innercity thug, neocon?
kmg1 says: “Did you send Orly Taitz a donation to help with her $20,000 fine?”
October 18th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Its pretty obvious that you are plugged into the ignorant banter that the MSM enjoys eh? I mean, if you had any intelligence at all, you would seek to find the real facts that drive honest people to say what I said, instead of acting like a bump on a log of ignorance.
You really need to move on moron, you dont have the intelligence to keep up with whats going on in the real world.
It’s funny to be lectured on intelligence by a Birther.
Back on topic, Sarah Palin gave a speech before the Alaskan Independence Party’s convention. Therefore, Palin is a secessionist.
kmg1,
Back on topic, Sarah Palin gave a speech before the Alaskan Independence Party’s convention. Therefore, Palin is a secessionist.
Negative. Palin gave a speech before the Alaskan Independence Party’s convention. Therefore, she gave a speech before the Alaskan Independence Party’s convention.
Reading about Mao doesn’t make one a Maoist. Talking to a Maoist or Maoist group doesn’t make one a Maoist supporter. Quoting Mao doesn’t make one a Maoist. What makes one a Maoist is when one believes and follows the doctrines which Mao followed and generally sympathize with what he did. Calling him a favorite political philosopher, while not definite proof, to be sure, is a far better indicator of if she sympathizes with or wishes to follow Mao’s doctrines than any of the other above examples.
Dunn called Mao one of her favorite political philosophers. Therefore, he is either one of her favorite political philosophers, or she is a liar. Even if she was lying and making a point, she was being sincere in that point of challenging convention. In other words, it’s like praising Stalin for his strong will or Hitler for being vegetarian. You may not be praising everything the person did, but you are still praising an individual widely considered evil. Unless you want to argue that quoting/reading about those people is a form of praise as well.
RE: The thing is, jeremiah, that the majority of Americans are relatively sane and view comments such as yours as mutterings of a lunatic.
Yes, most people are sane, Canadian Observer, they have brains enough to figure out what a handout from the government means, at least for themselves, but they don’t know what it means on a national scale. And that’s sad, because they were raised from childhood to their presently depraved state.
RE: If the outer fringe, armed & dangerous, were to mount an assault on a duly democratically elected President, what do you think the outcome would be?
I’d be afraid to guess. I just know that times are different from what they were when JFK was around. With nearly or slightly over half the people dependent on the government, I don’t see that happening. My worst fear I do belief are becoming a reality…that with the majority of the populace complacent about the condition of the current and future state of America if they don’t do something to stop it, our government will be like a runaway train with nothing to stop it.
observer20,
So does that mean if I state that I admire Washington and Jefferson (both slave owners) that I am proslavery?
casper,
Only if you believe that society view’s Washington’s most important trait as being a slave owner. What were Mao’s most important traits?
That is to say, there is a large difference between those two people. One being that it is commonly believed for Washington that he had flaws despite his numerous good deeds. It is commonly believed, at least in America, that Mao’s bad deeds outweighed whatever good he did.
Or, let me redirect your question back towards you: Are you implying it is morally and socially acceptable to admire and praise wicked men for only the things they did that weren’t wicked? In that case, you must surely believe it is acceptable to praise all tyrants, dictators, warlords, and if you are a Christian, then perhaps Satan himself. They all are not evil all of the time.
kmg1 says: It’s funny to be lectured on intelligence by a Birther
October 18th, 2009 at 11:38 am
its really funny to be mistaken for a birther….by an ignorant libtard…gee…all for believing in the constutution too…its just as funny as it is electing a british citizen into the office of President of the United States…
you might have gotten a laugh at your own ignorance…but ill tell ya, your ignorance is what Im going to be laughing at every time you post…
js,
The country of Taitzistan has declared Palin a citizen. Oh no! She can never run for President now!
“Are you implying it is morally and socially acceptable to admire and praise wicked men for only the things they did that weren’t wicked?”
What I believe is that you can admire some of the deeds of someone, even if you don’t admire everything about the person himself. I also don’t believe in slapping a label on someone based on one or two things that person has said or done.
observer20,
AS a Christian, I can’t think of anything Satan has done that is in the least bit praiseworthy. Can you?
in reality, BHO actual birth certificate is a relevant thing, but not because it shows where he was born…but instead…because its needed as proof that his father was not a US Citizen…and it should tell the birth place of his father, kenya, which will lead to proof positive in court that BHO held british citizenship, and was a dual citizen when he was born…meaning that there is no possible way that he could ever be considered a natural born citizen…and never should have been nominated for POTUS…
in fact, BHO, being a constitutional attorney himself…by the bare minimum standards of professional conduct…would know he is not and never was a natural born citizen of the United States….we can assertain his expected level of competence by his own representations…that he claimed he was a professor at a leading educational institution…so the reality is that its not a coincidence that BHO’s birth records are fiercely guarded by a DOH official in the state of Hawaii…its thier job…but thats not all its about…its about all the documentation that is missing about BHO…not a birth certificate…but everything else, as well…
the right to privacy in this is a lost cause….the man in question holds a public office….and made representations to the public about his history, qualifications, and accomplishments….then he turns around and spends millions of dollars….from the funds donated to elect him to office…to hide all the proof…all the evidence…all the history…of his life…
so all we got is his word…and threats from his lawyers…
but wait a minute…he waive that right to privacy when he became POTUS…he waive his right to privacy when he used representations of his education and history are tools to win votes…so he could become POTUS…he lost the right to privacy when he lifted his hand and became the President of the United States, because now…his name is etched in history…as the 44th President of the United States…his records are US History…there is no privacy rights where he is…not when he used those records to get elected…we, the people, have a right to know that he is telling the truth….he cant use those qualifications…and refuse to allow them to be documented….when there are serious questions as to the viability of thier accuracy…spending millions of dollars to hide them after he used them to be elected…is a slap in the face of every american alive…an insult to anyone who values the truth anywhere in this nation…and a massive attempt to cover up who he realy is…
Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released — Lawyers fees — greater than $1,000,000 — birth certificate — $15.
Certification of Live Birth — Released – Counterfeit — Case and Affidavits
Admitted British citizenship at birth — Confirmed via FactCheck.org/FightTheSmears.com
Birth Announcement — Alleged to be a forgery
Hospital of birth — Kapi’olani Medical Center won’t confirm Obama’s birth assertion; sister claims a different hospital
Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Obama/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
Kindergarten records – Records lost (this is a big one — see here — read two frames)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application — Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School records — Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
Selective Service Registration — Released – Counterfeit — Document Locator Number update — another FOIA request
Occidental College records — Not released
Passport — Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama’s terrorism and intelligence adviser
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” – Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None
Illinois Bar Records — Not released.
Baptism certificate — None
Medical records — Not released
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
kmg1 says: (more lip service to his false god)
strange how you always wander off into stupidity when reality raises its head…you must like orly eh? lusting after that old lady huh? its about the only speed you got…nobody is dis’in ya for it…we just laugh….
casper,
I generally don’t support labeling others either. But then let me ask you: When do you find yourself labeling others? When does “one or two things” become a pattern? Furthermore, to me, Dunn saying Mao is a “favorite political philosopher” implies she admires him in general, not just because he did something different.
Recognizing this is all trying to justify ad hominem strategy and assaulting the reasons behind something rather than the actual thing, the point of this discussion is the merit of the label some have put on her.
And re to Satan: He has separated the “worthy” souls from those that are easily tempted, which is in and of itself a service to the believers, isn’t it? If people weren’t tempted away they wouldn’t feel as vindicated. Do you praise Satan’s service? (You don’t have to answer that, I know it’s like asking you if you still beat your wife.)
observer20,
“When does “one or two things” become a pattern?”
When a person repeats the same things over a period of time and in different circumstances. For instance, I have no problem labeling js02 a birther, since he repeats the brither nonsense every day and has for over a year. However, I wouldn’t label Rush as a military hater because of the “phony soldiers” comment he made a couple of years ago.
“Dunn saying Mao is a “favorite political philosopher” implies she admires him in general, not just because he did something different.”
The key word is “implies”. She also included Mother Teresa as a favorite political philosopher. Does that imply that she wants to become a nun? If so, why aren’t people putting as much weight on that part of her statement as the other? I think people are reading into her statement what they want to read into it.
No, js, I think you have a thing for Orly. The argument you presented just cost her $20,000.
casper,
Then you must understand that, from a conservative/libertarian perspective, whereas Dunn, as a representative of the current administration supports and defends the large-government goals of Obama and as well as praises people such as Mao, that it seems to be a forming pattern.
And because of that, your nun analogy makes no sense to those people. Has Dunn visibly supported any nun-like systems? Not that I’m aware of.
And, indeed, people are reading into statements, but that is a natural human action and can shape political futures. This isn’t an exact science.
observer20,
“Then you must understand that, from a conservative/libertarian perspective, whereas Dunn, as a representative of the current administration supports and defends the large-government goals of Obama and as well as praises people such as Mao, that it seems to be a forming pattern.”
I think people see what they want to see, whether it’s the truth or not. A lot of people on both sides are more interested in playing “gotcha” than in debating the issues that face this country..
casper,
I understand your point, but I also want to emphasize that seeing what they want to see also includes not seeing things that they don’t want to see. So while it is entirely plausible that people are simply highlighting this quote because they want to harass the administration, it’s equally plausible that others will completely ignore its potential significance because they don’t want to recognize any criticism.
observer20,
I understand your point, but wouldn’t it make more sense to point out things that Dunn has done as part of her job that one disagrees with than to make a huge deal about a single statement she made. I am much more concerned about how someone does their job than a political philosophy they might are might not adhere to. That’s why I vote for people rather than parties.
Casper,
How you think also determines how you will do your job. Mrs. Dunn will probably never do anything hands, that’s a given … because she is naturally in a position to give orders, just like Mao was, and like Hitler was, and like Stalin was, and like Lenin was, and so on.
hand on.. I mean.
jeremiah06,
“she is naturally in a position to give orders, just like Mao was, and like Hitler was, and like Stalin was, and like Lenin was, and so on.”
And like Reagan, both Bushes, Obama, Clinton, and Palin were. And your point is?
RE: And your point is?
Take out Obama because he’s in a position to give orders at the present,and plus he is unlike the other four. And you have a clear picture.