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The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama

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One of the problems with the idea of American exceptionalism is that it exacerbates a kind of complacency common to man. This is the phenomenon whereby people often view themselves as exceptions, saying, after some tragedy, for instance, something such as I never thought it could happen to me.On a national level and this especially plagues great nations this manifests itself in the notion that it could never happen here. Oh, the it could be descent into tyranny, domination by a foreign power or dissolution. Or, maybe, it could be the election of a leader who is a Manchurian candidate, a traitor within, someone bent on destroying the nation that gave him everything. Thatitcouldnt happen here. In fact, the idea is so preposterous to many Americans that, if such a threat loomed, they would never see it coming. And they would call a person who warned of it a nut.img classalignright srchttp4.bp.blogspot.comyY4BXlYMYeATOyGoSo8MFIAAAAAAAAEBUSuSQLoz4dl8s1600NAZI.jpg alt width300 So I want to present you with a hypothetical. Lets say a leader were elected who had, during his childhood, been mentored by an avowed Nazi. Let us further say that his guardians had chosen this mentor for him, indicating that they likely were sympathetic to the mans beliefs. Now, let us say that upon reaching college, this future leader gravitated toward Nazi professors. Moreover, we then find out that a man who knew the leader as an undergraduate and was, at the time, a Nazi himself, said that the leader was in 100 percent, total agreement with his Nazi professors and was a flatout Nazi who believed in oldstyle Brownshirt tactics.Okay, were almost done. After graduating, the leadertobe spends 20 years sitting in a whitepower church, has an alliance with a selfproclaimed Nazi and exterrorist and, apparently, becomes a member of a National Socialist party for a while. And then, upon being elected, he appoints an avowed Nazi to his administration and also a woman who cites Adolf Hitler as one of her two favorite philosophers. Now, heres the milliondepreciateddollar questionWhat would be nuttier, to claim that this man was a Nazi or that such an assertion was a radical statementFurthermore, if people appeared unconcerned about the leaders radical past, what would be the most likely explanationA. Theyre sympathetic to Nazism.B. Theyre ignorant of his personal history.C. Theyre rationalizing away a frightening reality.D. Some combination of the above.Lets now transition to the actual. Here is a fact If you took the above description of my hypothetical leader and replaced Nazi with communist, flatout Nazi with flatout MarxistLeninist, Brownshirt tactics with communist revolution, whitepower with blackpower, National Socialist with socialist and Adolf Hitler with Mao Tsetung, you would have an accurate description of a leader in power today.His name is Barack Obama.Well start from the top. Obamas childhood mentor was chosen by his guardians, his grandparents, and was avowed communist Frank Marshall Davis. Obama did in fact gravitate toward communist professors in college moreover, we now know about excommunist John Drew, a contemporary of Obamas at Occidental College who verifies that Obama was in 100 percent, total agreement with his communist professors and was a flatout MarxistLeninist who believed in oldstyle communist revolution.We also know that upon graduating, Obama spent 20 years in a blackpower church, Trinity United of Reverend Jeremiah Wright fame and had an alliance with selfproclaimed communist and exterrorist Bill Ayers. It also appears and I have yet to see anyone address and disprove this association that Obama was a member of the socialist New Party in Chicago in the 1990s. Then, upon being elected, Obama appointed avowed communist Van Jones to his administration and also Anita Dunn, who cited massmurderer Mao Tsetung as one of her two favorite philosophers. Theres more, too, but greater detail is hardly necessary.It also shouldnt be necessary to ask the question, but I willWhat is nuttier, to claim that this man is a communist or that such an assertion is a radical statementWhat is the obvious conclusionNow, some may say that a person can change markedly over a 30year period. This is true. Yet not only do we have the recent evidence of Obamas radical communist appointments, but theres something else as well. It hit me just the other night.Just as we would demand that our leaders completely reject Nazi ideas, all good Americans should agree that complete rejection of communist ideas is a moral imperative as well. Losing a little youthful zeal or adding a dose of pragmatism just isnt enough. A pragmatic communist, in fact, could be more dangerous than an oldguard type.Yet a transition from flatout MarxistLeninist to someone who rejects the red menace is a pretty big change, dont you think In fact, wouldnt such a personal evolution some might say revolution be a kind of conversion I think so.Now, many people do experience conversions. I think here of erstwhile radicalleftist David Horowitz exliberals Michael Savage and Robin of Berkeley and President George W. Bush, who accepted Christ as an adult. And then theres me I was never a liberal, but I did transition from being a scoffer at religion and an agnostic to a devout Catholic.Theres an interesting thing, however, about conversions.You hear about them.You see, a conversion is a sea change, a rebirth, a turning point in your existence. You may become, as Christians say, a new creation, and youre at least a reformed old one. And you reflect your new state of being and often want to voice it.And those around you will know about it.As for this writer, everyone who knows me would say that my religious conversion was a seminal point in my life. Horowitz has spoken of his rejection of the loony left, Bushs conversion is well known, Savage has talked about his on the radio and Robin of Berkeley cant stop talking about hers. A conversion becomes part of your life narrative.Now consider something. Barack Obama is one of the most famous, most discussed individuals on the planet.But we have not heard about any soulchanging conversion in his life.Not a whisper.Nothing.Nothing that could reconcile the flatout MarxistLeninist he was in his college days with the man he supposedly is today. Theres no one who says, Yeah, man was he was a radical guy in his youth, and I just couldnt believe how he became disenchanted with his old ideas. There are no stories about a great epiphany, an overseas trip that opened his eyes or a personal tragedy that inspired growth. Theres nothing to explain how a radical Marxist became a reasonable politician. And if there is such an explanation, its the most elusive of missing links.So could it happen here And is it really nutty to ask if, just maybe, it already has