Is Barack Obama Henry Wallace Reincarnate?
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The Democrat presidential nomination dog and cat fight between Clinton and Obama continues to be a fur ball this week with charges and counter charges flying over Obama’s creepy extraction from Karl Marx’s 1867 communist manifesto Das Kapital [das kapi’ta’l] about religion and the proletariat.
Never before, not even by the so-called American Progressive Party (the political party of Communist Party USA) candidates, has anyone used such an alarming and perhaps elitist equivalence.
Perhaps the last time any major candidate espoused such an ideological notion was the 1948 election when Henry Wallace, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture and Vice-President under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wallace opposed the Cold War, the Marshall Plan and Big Business. H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Thompson, accused the Progressives of being covertly controlled by Communists. Several leading figures of the Progressive Party (such as socialist leader Norman Thomas) quit the party in protest over what they perceived as the undue influence Communists exerted over Wallace.
It is an eerie coincidence that Wallace, like Obama, fell under the influence of a religious radical. Wallace, who was raised Presbyterian, left the church and became closely associated with the Russian theosophist Nicholas Roerich. According to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “Wallace’s search for inner light took him to strange prophets.”
Legend is that J. Edgar Hoover confronted FDR over his Vice President’s pro-communist sympathies, and ideas not in America’s best interest and threatened to expose Wallace and FDRs own dalliances and forced him to pick another Vice President in 1943. Of course FDR did pick Harry Truman and America barely escaped a Wallace presidency when FDR died April 12, 1945.
Comment by FEDUP on 14 April 2008:
Barack Obama’s radical religion, social and economic views are far more dangerous that alley-cat morality of Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy and William J. Clinton. It would almost be refreshing to such simple-mindedness of those three rather than this Manchurian candidate.
Comment by Mcsnark on 14 April 2008:
American politics is and has been afflicted with a MESSIAH MENTALITY until recently shared with MEDICINE until doctor greed discredited that. FDR bamboozled the nation with fireside chats buying him a decade to conduct ineffective programs until WWII bailed him out.
Obama is like the new girl in school who didn’t wear panties and everyboy craned their necks to be sure. His simplistic change ethos belies that change only means different seldom better. Marx and Hitler as well as countless others have employed it with the Barack same proletariat pabulum that has so many clinging to the teat of their crack addicted Federal nanny.
Americans bleat about individualism as they cuddle in innumerable
bureacractic laps snuggling the latest new smell regardless of its hygiene. That then is the grave danger of an Obama who so easily embraces the radical, and the liberal as commandment-like. To me his shallowness is born of his sense of entitlement and deservedness nurtured at the knee of an immoral mother; profligate biological father, a guilt ridden grandmother, the surrogacy of a distressingly radical pastor- father and brewed in unfounded and unproved political celebrity.