The Obama File 27 Reds, Radicals, Terrorists and Traitors-Progressives For Obama by Trevor Loudon, posted September 11, 2008, on his blog, The New Zeal, is cross-posted at RBO with the author’s permission. Loudon’s first Obama File was posted January 12, 2008.
Note: Also see RBO’s Obama’s ultra-leftist backers.
Barack Obama did not rise to prominence solely on his own merits
His career has been supported for many years by a socialist network, based in Chicago, but now reaching into every state of the US.
The network is an activist matrix led by former members of the ’60s radical organisation Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and supporters of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).
The network has links to hundreds of leftist organisations including the Black Radical Congress, Progressive Democrats of America, United For Peace & Justice, USAction, ACORN and several major trade unions.
The network has been co-operating since at least the early 1980s. Parts of it came together behind Jesse Jackson’s failed 1988 US presidential bid and again in the late ’90s New Party which helped launch Barack Obama’s successful bid for the Illinois State Senate.
Now the network has come together to put Barack Obama in the White House.
Their ambition doesn’t end there however. The network wants to build a movement that will be able to pressure an Obama presidency into legislating for massive social change. They want to relive the 1930s and 1960s with a new “New Deal” and a new civil rights movement.
They want a socialist America.
One prominent tip of the socialist iceberg is a comparitively new organisation–Progressives for Obama (PFO).
According to the PFO website
We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for President in 2008, and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his campaign.
It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war, promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and economic well-being. More important, independent organization at the base is needed for compelling social change no matter who is in the White House.
We have understood, from the beginning, that Senator Obama is not a consistent progressive, and often speaks to and from the center of our country’s political spectrum–sometimes well, sometimes not. All the more reason, we think, to organize a strong progressive pole, independent of his campaign, to counter rightward drift and push him to do better on issues that will win him more solid and wider support.
We don’t attempt to define ‘progressive’ here. We’re open to all trends, from the socialist left to moderate liberals, who want not only to defeat McCain, but also build the grassroots organizations and networks for wider and deeper change over the longer term.
Writing in The Nation, March 24, 2008, PGO founder Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover and Barbara Ehrenreich explained
During past progressive peaks in our political history — the late Thirties, the early Sixties — social movements have provided the relentless pressure and innovative ideas that allowed centrist leaders to embrace visionary solutions. We find ourselves in just such a situation today.
We intend to join and engage with our brothers and sisters in the vast rainbow of social movements to come together in support of Obama’s unprecedented campaign and candidacy. Even though it is candidate-centered, there is no doubt that the campaign is a social movement, one greater than the candidate himself ever imagined.
The four founders of PFO are:
TOM HAYDEN — Author of Ending the War in Iraq, a five-time Democratic convention delegate, former state senator, and board member of the Progressive Democrats of America. Hayden was also a founder in 1964 of SDS. According to Discover the Networks
During the Vietnam War, Hayden traveled many times to North Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, and Paris to strategize with Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong leaders on how to defeat America’s anti-Communist efforts. He came back from Hanoi proclaiming he had seen “rice roots democracy at work.” According to people who were present at the time…Hayden offered advice on conducting psychological warfare against the U.S.
BILL FLETCHER — Originator of the call for founding “Progressives for Obama”, is the executive editor of Black Commentator, and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal.
Fletcher is a former Maoist and is currently a leader of DSA. In 1998 he was also a founding member of the CPUSA/CCDS/DSA dominated Black Radical Congress.
BARBARA EHRENREICH — With Hayden, Ehrenreich is a member of The Nation’s editorial board. She is an honorary chairman of DSA and was formerly active in the New American Movement-led largely by former SDS and CPUSA activists. According to Discover the Networks
When the Communist Manifesto was re-released on its 150th anniversary in 1998, Ehrenreich celebrated the event. She noted that in producing the Manifesto as a commercial product, capitalists were — as Lenin had once predicted — providing the rope that eventually would hang them.
DANNY GLOVER — An actor, activist, and chairman of the board of TransAfrica — where he works with two former Communist Party front activists Harry Belafonte and Johnetta Cole. Glover is also close to former Berkely mayor Gus Newport, once linked to CPUSA and now active in both DSA and CCDS. He has also been involved with the Black Radical Congress. Glover has close ties to Cuba and according to Discover the Networks
On several occasions, Glover has visited Venezuela and made guest appearances on President Hugo Chavez’s television and radio talk show, Hello, President. Glover is a Board member of Venezuela’s “TeleSUR” news network, which Chavez created in 2005.
Go to the next page for a list of Obama endorsers found on the Progressives for Obama website.
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Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.--Thomas Jefferson.
I believe Howard Dean tipped his hand in Obama’s political rise when he accepted the spot as key note speaker at the meeting of the PES (Party of European Socialist) in Europe 2006.
[...] blows on Obama, because they were jabbing away at his exterior. Sarah got him right in the gut. Reds, Radicals, Terrorists and Traitors — Progressives For Obama – The New Zeal: Barack Obama did not rise to prominence solely on his own merits.. His career has [...]
Obama and the people who propped up and propelled him to where he is are nothing but crooks, thugs and terrorists. There is nothing progressive and/or liberal about them or him. He’s a corporate supported charlatan posing as a liberal/progressive, and 1/2 of them have bought it. The rest of us haven’t and will do everything we can to make sure the truth of his past comes out before it’s too late.
btw, why the he** are the press and the Repubs not blasting this information to the public? One could almost think they *want* him to win.
Very good job, I haven’t read it all yet. I know this sounds weird, but I watched Oprah regularly before she endorsed Obama and she is close to Danny Glover. Harry Belefonte has been on her show, and I am not sure if they are close.
Oprah also talked with Obama on her show, and they discussed how they shared the same pastor, and Oprah would talk about Trinity on her show. It’s hard to believe that so many people got duped into thinking that she hasn’t been a member since the 1980’s. She may not have gone to services, and only watched the sermons on their delivered DVDs, but I am just saying that Oprah has more connections than we think as far as Chicago and this apparent…leftist revolution.
Goodness, my little ’socialist network’ seems to have the power of Kryptonite in bringing down capitalists supermen.
What a joke, showing you know nothing of Chicago politics.
Obama rose not only because he was smart and a very good organizer with Project Vote, but first of all, his base in Chicago’s Black community, which has its own organized political clout, as in the Jackson Democrats, and then an alliance with the ‘Lakefront liberals,’ the crew of reformers independent of the Daley machine and its gadfly for years. My little ’socialist network,’ half of whom won’t support ANY Democrat and hate elections, had very minor influence indeed. Our claim to fame is inviting him to an antiwar rally, where he expressed his only views in a way a little different than any of us would have.
In the statehouse, Obama was smart enough the bring downstate farmers, businessmen, veterans and some unions into his coalition. He played a positive role, did good work, and many of the white farmers liked him.
It’s no mystery, and your looking for ‘red plots’ is all rather silly.
It is not silly at all. It is the modus operanda of Socialists worldwide – highjack and take over any political movement even remotely orbiting around the Communist Party agenda. Get them elected and worry about the neccessary lose of personal Freedoms after the establishment of a Liberal Fascist Dictatorship.
We have all been here before – in Socialist Nazi Germany and some are still suffering in Communist China. But of course in this era, in “good” American society, it is required that it be a Happy, Friendly form of Socialism. That is until it is too late to reverse course.
I was lucky to have lived through it all during Mao Tse Dung’s “Cultural Revolution”. Unfortunately, 6 million “rightists” did not make it and lost their lives.
When John McCain said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” he meant it, literally.
Déjà Vu
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33304.html
these “60’s” people forgot that there is the INTERNET! not just NBC, CBS, ABC. I have learned more in an hour than I could have in the 60’s in a month. WE are in the time of CHANGE!! Barry and freinds, you are so last century.
Didn’t Hitler come to power by seizing control of a little known political party that had a handful of followers, called the National Socialist German Workers Party? Democrats have been initiating the same tactics since the early 60’s. The seizure is complete. Barack is the product.
Sell that story to someone that is buying, Mr. Davidson. Obama has surrounded himself with anti-American and/or anti-capitalism mentors, friends, and advisors. With his ever-escalating move to the right during the General Election, one can only look at his past positions, actions, supporters and associates to attempt to determine where he stands ideologically. It does not present an attractive package for us typical, white, bitter, clingy folks.
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One only has to read “Blackmailed By History” by M. Stanton Evans to understand this movement and that it has been going on since the early thirties. The organizations and people are all that have changed. Quite frankly we need another Joe McCarthy to root these shaemeless individuals out and then they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law as traitors. If you think that strong language, just read Tom Heydon’s biliography again.
Jack, that’s “Blacklisted by History” (not “Blackmailed”), and it’s an irrefutable book, as you might surmise from the MSM maintaining radio silence about it. Yes, Obama’s acknowledged and unacknowledged political debts raise legitimate questions. But unless he can recover from his post-Palin-pick plummet in the polls, those questions will be moot.
Mark,
Thanks for the correction. It is an important distinction. The question may be moot relative to Obama and this election but the named organizations and players will never go away I fear. The organizations and players will continually be replaced by others.
Jack