Barack Hussein Obama's ties to Socializm.

My brother sent me this today, not sure where he got it from. I am not stating any opinion and am sick of arguing just wanted to post it on here so i can see what anyone else has to say.

1. Obama himself attended socialist conferences in the 1980's and lectured his family after attending these conferences.

"He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives until they worried he'd become "one of those freaks you see on the streets around here." "

Source: New York Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007...se_stuns_.html

2. Obama attended meetings with the "Chicago Democratic Socialists of America"



From their website: "Our mission is to establish democratic socialism as a political force in the United States and around the world by training and mobilizing socialist activists to participate in a vibrant and diverse socialist organization at both the local and the national level."

In 1996 Barack Obama attended one of their meetings:

"Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled "Employment and Survival in Urban America", the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats. The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago's 4th Ward; Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District; Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago; Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago; and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA's National Political Committee."

"A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the "social wage" approach used by many social democratic labor parties. "

Source: Chicago Democratic Socialists Website:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/index.html
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/...hive/ng45.html

3. Obama Endorses Bernie Sanders, the only openly socialist senator in the US Senate.

Obama endorsing Sanders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIlIpOkRh2A

"Sanders is the first self-described socialist to be elected to the U.S. Senate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

Source: Obama Himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIlIpOkRh2A


4. Obama Speaks at Socialist Leader Saul Mendelson's Funderal

From the Chicago DSA Website: "Saul Mendelson - You joined the Socialist movement at the age of 18. You chaired the Socialist Club at the University of Chicago. You taught and inspired students at DuSable High School. You fought in the civil rights struggles with the NAACP, with CORE, and with the Negro American Labor Council. You have held fast to your belief in democratic socialism."

"At the memorial service held at the 1st Unitarian Church on South Woodlawn, speaker after speaker recounted Saul's contributions. The service was ably MC'd by a retired colleague, Bob Clark. I spoke first and was followed by Saul's friend Deborah Meier, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient who is now starting a new school in Boston. Amy Isaacs, National Director of the ADA, spoke of what Saul had meant on foreign affairs to the ADA. Other speakers included Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, State Senator Barak Obama, Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie and a good friend from New York, Myra Russell. The concluding remarks were made by an old friend, Harriet Lefley, who is now Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami Medical School."

Source: Chicago Democratic Socialists Website:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/...l#anchor868634

5. The Chicago Democratic Socialists Endorsed Obama

Chicago DSA Endorsements in the March 19th Primary Election

Barack Obama

Source: Chicago Democratic Socialists Website:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html

6. Obama Campaign Worker Seen With Communist Cuba Flag Depicting Marxist Che Guevara on it. Other Obama supporters "Che" Sympathizers

For those of you who don't know who Che Guervara is:

"Guevara later served as Minister of Industries, in which post he helped formulate Cuban socialism"
"Guevara played a key role in bringing to Cuba the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. During an interview with the British newspaper Daily Worker some weeks later, he stated that, if the missiles had been under Cuban control, they would have fired them against major U.S. cities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara




Many Obama supporters on his website see "Che" as a hero:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/CjjF
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/CjjF
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGJKjv
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGB5hc
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/CLmp
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGGMQB
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gG5SSr
http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...t/marisela/BV3
http://illinois.barackobama .com/pa...rd/public/CC8v
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gYQqz
http://nevada.barackobama.c om/page.../public/gGVCjm
http://iowa.barackobama.com /page/c...up/IowaHQ/CJQ3
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGNXhB
http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGv3LW

Source: Lone Star Times:
http://lonestartimes.com/2008/02/13/ocf2/

7. Obama Wants to Normalize Relations with Communist/Socialist Cuba

Source: Obama Himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqO37BBhCqY
(This pizzed off a lot of Cuban Americans that fled from Communist Cuba)

8. Obama's mother attended classes in high school where there was a member of the Communist party on the school board. 2 teachers that highly influenced her life taught about Communism and Marxism.

"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.
At Mercer High School, two teachers -- Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman -- generated regular parental thunderstorms"
""I had them read 'The Communist Manifesto,' and the parents went nuts," said Wichterman"
"For Stanley Ann, the teachings of Foubert and Wichterman provided an intellectual stimulant"

"Obama called his mother "the dominant figure in my formative years. . . . The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."

Source: Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/p...9.story?page=1