Is this why the Ayers Family became so fond of Barack Obama?
Barack Obama's first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED]. Far Left radical Tom Hayden who met with Marxist officials several times during his antiwar career chaired this fringe group in the late 70's and early '80's. Several of the CED principal activists were also veterans of the Hayden-campaign and of the very radical group, Students for a Democratic Society.
Hayden was an important anti-American figure in the Students for a Democratic-Society a militantly leftist organization. 60's radical Tom Hayden played a pivotal role both as founder and as principal author of this student group's basic manifesto, the "Port Huron Statement." This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills -- including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.
Barack Obama does not include his time at Occidental College on his resume but old friends and former teachers remember his role in protesting college investments in firms doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Tom Hayden wrote this on Barack Obama at the far left Common Dreams website recently:
I didn’t see him coming. When I heard of the young state senator with a background in community organizing who wanted to be president, I was at least sentient enough to be interested. When I read Dreams of My Father, I was taken aback by its depth. This young man apparently gave his first public speech, against South African apartheid, at an Occidental College rally organized by Students for Economic Democracy, the student branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED] which I chaired in 1979-82. The buds of curiosity quickened. Soon I was receiving emails from David Peck, an organizer of the Occidental rally, who now is coordinating Americans in Spain for Barack Obama.In 1969 Hayden's students for democracy group began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The Weatherman declared "war on AmeriKKKa" at its Flint War Council in 1969.
The new entity dissolved Hayden's Students for a Democratic Society and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name Weather Underground.
How odd that way back in the beginning of Barack Obama's speaking career the group he was involved with had links to Marxists, the Weatherman and Bill Ayers.
It was not surprising then that after his first public speech at Occidental College Barack Obama found himself working several years with William Ayers, the founder of the terrorist cult Weather Underground, in Chicago.
PS-- Is it any wonder that Barack Obama wants to re-introduce himself to voters?
Birds of a feather flock together.
ReplyDeleteYep, by now everyone should have figured out Comrade Obama is a Marxist, just like his pappy. Most of his supporters haven't a clue what that is, or the horrors wrought by Communism.
ReplyDeleteWhen he re-introduces himself (no doubt to mush gushing by the MSM), will he throw the old Obama under the bus?
ReplyDeleteWhile the Obama Marxist, ThinkProgressMarxist, MoveonMarxist, DailyKosKomrades march for their false messiah like lemmings into a gulag of repression and oppression for America...
ReplyDeleteThere is another valient group of true freedom fighters marching for our country:
EaglesUp
Victory over the Code Pinko Stinko Commies at Berkeley and a video of New Jersey National Guardsman deployment, including a statement by a wonderful Mom and her three sons.
God Bless and protect them.
FYI, just added this info to my earlier one (April 28, 2008) that has much more of the story. The same group were behind Obama's infamous 2002 "antiwar" speech in Chicago. See Obama's ultra-leftist backers.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but this is not an accurate story. SDS and SED are not the same organization. SDS had many many different political currents within it, including that of Tom Hayden. Hayden himself has vacillated in many directions over the years, first an opponent of authoritarianism then a sympathizer of Cuba.
ReplyDeleteThe CED/SED group that Hayden formed many years later had no organizational or political ties to SDS. I know, because I was an anti-apartheid activist from the day that Steve Biku was murdered in 1976 through the 1980s. And, of course, as you also know, I am very critical of the influence of the role of the authoritarian left on the Obama campaign.
But CED/SED was a new group formed by Hayden and others (including Andy Spahn, now a Hollywood PR guy) as part of the more moderate elements within the anti-apartheid movement at Berkeley and other campuses. I worked closely with them at the time, even though I opposed many of their ideas.
By the time Obama reached Occidental, SDS was long dead - ironically killed off in part by the criminal antics of his later ally in the Chicago school wars, Bill Ayers. A few years ago an attempt to revive SDS was made by college activists, but it has gotten very little traction. By this time, of course, Obama was somewhere else.
Sinclair Presser on Obama at the National Press Club...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lrf8DbrJH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEnmptqYKV8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeyYWr4Jao&feature=related
Watch it and draw your own conclusions.
Interesting to say the least.
Steve Diamond:
ReplyDeleteI was confused by what seemed to be a conflation of SDS and the Students for Economic Democracy, and wondered if perhaps the latter was a successor group of some kind. As someone who was in college back in the late 60's, I can vouch for the fact that it makes a huge difference, given your description of SED, and I hope we'll see a correction/update soon.
Thanks Steve for the information.
ReplyDeleteI will update.