Obama Expressed Radical Marxist Views in College – Updated and Bumped
ByThis is interesting.
Newsmax: Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
Drew’s then girlfriend, Caroline Boss — now Grauman-Boss — knew Obama because she shared classes with him at Occidental.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
“Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
“He was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.”
In contrast, “My more pessimistic Marxist perspective indicated this was not a realistic possibility, that we really hadn’t seen a sort of complete revolution take place anywhere in Western Europe, and that this isn’t what had happened in more socialistic Germany or in France,” Drew says. “He was pretty persistent, that I didn’t know what I was talking about.”
Drew’s viewpoint that a revolution was unrealistic “made me very unpopular that evening. It was considered a reactionary and insensitive thing to argue,” says Drew. ….
Had the media done its job maybe we would have heard more of these stories, before the election.
The B-Cast interviewed Dr. Drew – very interesting conversation.
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Joe the Plumber came under more scrutiny than obama ever did.
What office was he running for again?
I’ve been wondering where all of Barry’s classmates have been. So they aren’t tied up in some bunker.
Even if Obama sat down every morning to read Pravda and recite some choice paragraphs from Marx and Engels in the Oval office, the news is on board and sadly would not report it. How many pics of him smoking have you seen? What church does he attend? What’s up with all the controversial Czars and other appointees that have radical leftist pasts? We hear and see none of it from the MSM. The inactions of the American press to fulfill its role as an impartial watchdog; because of their ideology trumping professionalism and personal character is the biggest story and shame in American history. The press is supposed to fill a void with accurate, complete and factual information, not a wedge of spin.
We’ve wondered if he used the name Sotoero while at Occidental. I wonder if he remembers the last name he used?
As C Gen says, where are all the people that must know something about him? Wayne Allyn Root talked about him, but no one else. I believe every word this man wrote because it makes sense.
Great post. Thanks.
Like that baby on t.v. I’ll put on my totally-shocked face over this news. the only news about it is that it is becoming public.
Obama Marxist?
Say it isn’t so.
Come on Sam! Obama is partially the reason I’ll have an adult “beverage center” in my remodeled basement. Sheesh!!!
I hear Vodka and Prozac are a good combination for dealing with stress.
[...] The Lonely Conservative sheds light on Obama and, at least, some of his time at Occidental College. Read a first-hand account from a man who had dinner and conversation with Obama, “back then.” Our president is the radical Marxist elitist we know he is, and always has been. I hope we begin hearing more at the Obama Early Years now that everyone is comfortable with tagging him a failure. [...]