Marathon Pundit: Obama: "I chose my (extremist) friends carefully"

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Obama: "I chose my (extremist) friends carefully"

Hey, the below quote comes from Barack Obama himself. It comes from his first book, Dreams From My Father.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.

What's a structural feminist?

Here it in Obama's own voice:

Contrarians will reply "Aren't all professors Marxist?" Today, many are, but hard-left extremists hadn't yet taken over college campuses when Obama was a college student. Perhaps the universities he attended had subverted, but I doubt it. I was an undergrad the same time Obama was, and at college I graduated from, the University of Illinois, there were plenty of New Deal liberals still teaching class. Tenure of course means lifetime employment.

So young Obama probably had to work a bit to find Commie profs.

More from Fox News' Bill Sammon:

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem.

"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist."

Also present at that meeting was Ayers' wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and "Marxism-Leninism."

That's the Ayers/Dohrn cell on the right.

Although not a Marxist, for twenty years Obama attended the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church. Many of Wright's sermons can easily be classified as "anti-American."