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Obama's Official Blogger: A Hardcore Marxist

Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:45:59 am PST

Barack Obama’s “official campaign blogger,” Sam Graham-Felsen, is a hardcore Marxist—and even leftists like this are disturbed by his presence on the campaign staff: Sam Graham-Felsen stands for what?

UPDATE at 4/23/08 10:28:55 am:

Here’s an article by Sam Graham-Felsen at the Harvard Crimson, expressing his admiration for anti-American academic Noam Chomsky, and advising him to tone down the extreme rhetoric in order to trick the unwashed masses into following along: Chomsky’s Choice.

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#1 bosforus 4/23/08 8:46:51 am 1

Why can't I just be a Marxist?

#2 Shug 4/23/08 8:47:20 am 11

Quick, somebody get senator Obama a waffle

#3 mike volpe 4/23/08 8:48:36 am 7

Well then, this is more proof that my hypothesis was right. Check out my hypothesis here.

The thing about Marxism is with the right salesperson it sounds fairly attractive if you aren't all that sophisticated on economic matters.

#4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir) 4/23/08 8:49:16 am 2

I wonder how many will leave Obama because of this. They have nothing to loose but their change.

#5 Eagle 4/23/08 8:49:16 am 4

OT but important:

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#6 Sharmuta 4/23/08 8:49:21 am 2
And exactly what is a Democratic candidate doing with a staffer who acts as the campaign's public face when the staffer is featured in a Marxist publications?

Having waffles?

#7 Shug 4/23/08 8:49:23 am 6
"Socialism is the prerequisite for the next stage in human development that will end class oppression and exploitation for all time,"

yes, if the next stage in human development is extinction.

#8 BabbaZee 4/23/08 8:49:24 am 5

Is anyone suprised by this?

/Obammunism IS the Hopium of the Asses!

He makes Hilary that stone cold Marxist look downright conservative...

doesn't he?

Do you start to see it yet?

#9 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 8:49:55 am 2

MCCARTHYISM! (etc.)

#10 zmdavid 4/23/08 8:49:55 am 7

If I were a hardcore Marxist, I'd support Obama too.

#11 Big Steve 4/23/08 8:49:56 am 2

But wasn't Obama's grandmother also afraid of Marxists as well?

#12 yochanan 4/23/08 8:50:36 am 0

off topic

[Link: www1.wsvn.com...]
anti semitic attack in miami

#13 pat 4/23/08 8:51:32 am 2

Obama has attracted a most unattractive following.

#14 Da Coyote 4/23/08 8:51:40 am 0

Fits Obama. No new ideas. The old ones are complete, utter failures. Obama is the Vista of politics.

#15 laZardo 4/23/08 8:51:43 am 0

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I wonder how many will leave Obama because of this. They have nothing to loose but their change.

Screw them!

#16 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 8:51:58 am 7

Well, this will give typical white people yet another excuse to cover up the fact that they're really uncomfortable with Obama because of the color of his skin.

/NYT editors

#17 Ornery Potlicker 4/23/08 8:52:49 am 0

errrr, Obama must go...I'm starting to like Hillary ;p

#18 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 8:52:56 am 8

In Soviet Russia, waffle butters you!

#19 coquimbojoe 4/23/08 8:53:13 am 3

re: #1 bosforus

Why can't I just be a Marxist?

Because you like people and have no wish to see mass murder, fascism, poverty and destruction of civilization.

/Same reasons why you can't be an Islamofascist.

#20 Oh no...Sand People! 4/23/08 8:53:25 am 2

re: #9 Occasional Reader

MCCARTHYISM! (etc.)

Why can't he be here when we need him...

#21 Ward Cleaver 4/23/08 8:53:35 am 4

re: #3 mike volpe

Well then, this is more proof that my hypothesis was right. Check out my hypothesis here.

The thing about Marxism is with the right salesperson it sounds fairly attractive if you aren't all that sophisticated on economic matters.

The pretty much describes the Democrats. Economic ignoramuses.

#22 MandyManners 4/23/08 8:53:50 am 1

re: #1 bosforus

Why can't I just be a Marxist?

Because syrup won't stick to you?

#23 Kosh's Shadow 4/23/08 8:54:14 am 4

Well, Obama's a Marxist; he just hides it better.

REVOLUTION! CHANGE!

#24 The Other Les 4/23/08 8:54:16 am 0

These folks refuse to understand that the Stone Age is over.

#25 jcm 4/23/08 8:54:20 am 1

B. Hussein's entire history tells me his a Marxists. This is just further confirmation.

#26 Atweber 4/23/08 8:54:37 am 2

I'm shocked shocked to find out there are commies on Osama bin Borax's staff!

#27 debutaunt 4/23/08 8:54:37 am 0

re: #11 Big Steve

But wasn't Obama's grandmother also afraid of Marxists as well?

TWM.

#28 The Other Les 4/23/08 8:54:38 am 0

re: #18 Occasional Reader

In Soviet Russia, waffle butters you!

Yow!

#29 Ward Cleaver 4/23/08 8:54:46 am 0

Gee, I wondered why The Internationale was the site's background music.

/

#30 Ringo the Gringo 4/23/08 8:55:34 am 7

All leftists are Marxists, it's just that you're not supposed to say it outloud.

#31 Sharmuta 4/23/08 8:55:55 am 0

re: #13 pat

Obama has attracted a most unattractive following.

You attract what you project. He provides easy, feel-good slogans for the simpletons to consume- and they like it!

/must be the syrup.

#32 Ward Cleaver 4/23/08 8:56:01 am 1

Just let me eat my waffle, imperialist lackey!

#33 Shr_Nfr 4/23/08 8:56:03 am 0

re: #14 Da Coyote

Nah, he is way too thin to be Vista. Jimmy Carter's ego, now that is Vista.

#34 Shug 4/23/08 8:56:10 am 0

The Audacity of Karl

#35 Oh no...Sand People! 4/23/08 8:56:36 am 0

"We are building [Marx's] religion,
We are building it bigger,
We are widening the corridors,
We are adding more lanes."
-Cake

#36 Spiny Norman 4/23/08 8:56:47 am 12

I just wanted to say that I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I say, that the Obamessiah would have unapologetic Marxists on his staff.

Actually, the Ché flag in the Texas campaign office was a dead giveaway.

#37 really grumpy big dog Johnson 4/23/08 8:57:26 am 0

re: #11 Big Steve

But wasn't Obama's grandmother also afraid of Marxists as well?

But Barack's always been very kind and gentle in his portrayals of her.

#38 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 8:57:32 am 1

re: #13 pat

Obama has attracted a most unattractive following.

Which, in theory, would make him the preferred candidate from the Republican perspective. Lots of skeletons still to come out of that closet. But I still am too risk-averse to go for that strategy. So... go, Hillary! Until November. Then, sink in defeat. Thanks.

#39 BGB! 4/23/08 8:57:41 am 0

re: #18 Occasional Reader

In Soviet Russia, waffle butters you!


Yikes :o

#40 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir) 4/23/08 8:57:52 am 0

Obama must be the hopiate of the masses.

#41 formercorpsman 4/23/08 8:58:02 am 0

You guys keep making waffle jokes.

Damn I wish I knew how to get this power point made in to a video.

#42 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 8:58:26 am 1

re: #40 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Obama must be the hopiate of the masses.

You owe royalties to BabbaZee, ya know.

#43 laZardo 4/23/08 8:58:29 am 0

re: #18 Occasional Reader

And just when I got over the previous penis thread.

#44 Dad O' Blondes 4/23/08 8:58:31 am 0

This kid sounds like a spoiled brat.

.

#45 bryantms 4/23/08 8:58:45 am 0

re: #2 Shug

Quick, somebody get senator Obama a waffle

That is awesome! I love that...haha...

#46 zmdavid 4/23/08 8:58:47 am 0

Will we soon be living in the People's Republic of America?

#47 lawhawk 4/23/08 8:58:59 am 4

re: #2 Shug

Quick, somebody get senator Obama a waffle

Hey Comrade. Get us all a waffle. You may, however, allow Senator Obama's waffle to be more of a waffle than the rest of ours. /

#48 chinesearithmetic 4/23/08 8:59:00 am 13

Not to worry, he's just the advisor on sickle-down economics.

#49 Spiny Norman 4/23/08 8:59:00 am 6

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

All leftists are Marxists, it's just that you're not supposed to say it outloud.

"Progressives" = Bolsheviks with the serial numbers filed off.

That little phrase fits so many situations, it's amazing.

#50 laZardo 4/23/08 8:59:21 am 1

re: #42 Occasional Reader

Speaking-a-which...and this is related to the thread...

COMMISLAMIST GRAMSCIAN WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

#51 Kreuzueber Halbmond 4/23/08 8:59:21 am 1
Sam Graham-Felsen was a student at Harvard.

There is a problem in American academia. They are turning out dumbed-down failures.

#52 itellu3times 4/23/08 8:59:34 am 0

Fogit waffle-boi and his blogster, Rush is going to just burn up the airwaves in a few minutes regarding the outrageous success of Operation Chaos yesterday.

#53 JustMyView 4/23/08 8:59:35 am -11

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

#54 Izzy Dunne 4/23/08 8:59:50 am 0

re: #32 Ward Cleaver

Just let me eat my waffle, imperialist lackey!

Whatever happened to "imperialist running dog"?


Or is that only Korean / Chinese?

/can't keep up.

#55 bosforus 4/23/08 8:59:59 am 0

re: #19 coquimbojoe

Because you like people and have no wish to see mass murder, fascism, poverty and destruction of civilization.

/Same reasons why you can't be an Islamofascist.

We'll see about that.

re: #22 MandyManners

Because syrup won't stick to you?

We'll see about that one too...

#56 Oh no...Sand People! 4/23/08 9:00:08 am 1

re: #46 zmdavid

Will we soon be living in the People's Republic of America?


If Obama wins ---"People's Republic of America".
If Hillary or McCain win---"New Europe".

#57 Shug 4/23/08 9:00:29 am 0

re: #47 lawhawk

Hey Comrade. Get us all a waffle. You may, however, allow Senator Obama's waffle to be more of a waffle than the rest of ours. /

In animal farm, some waffles are more equal than others

#58 really grumpy big dog Johnson 4/23/08 9:00:49 am 0

re: #48 chinesearithmetic

Not to worry, he's just the advisor on sickle-down economics.

Go ahead, beat around the Bush.

#59 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 9:00:57 am 5

re: #53 JustMyView

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

Sure, this is all pure coincidence. I mean, we ALL have paid "spiritual advisors" who believe that 9/11 was a just punishment on a fundamentally evil AmeriKKKa, right? It could happen to anyone.

#60 BabbaZee 4/23/08 9:01:17 am 3

Let's beat him with his own hammer and sickle

#61 coquimbojoe 4/23/08 9:01:22 am 6

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

All leftists are Marxists, it's just that you're not supposed to say it outloud.

"Progressives" = Bolsheviks with the serial numbers filed off.

That little phrase fits so many situations, it's amazing.

Read the second link to see how true that statement is. Sam tel Moam Chompsky to tone it down to basically trick people..... He is a vile child.

#62 jaunte 4/23/08 9:01:32 am 0

"If you're fed up with the old politics and ready for something new, please make a donation."

Same old gimme.

#63 Occasional Reader 4/23/08 9:02:03 am 1

re: #61 coquimbojoe

"Progressives" = Bolsheviks with the serial numbers filed off.


I am SO stealing that.

Brilliant.

#64 bryantms 4/23/08 9:02:07 am 4

re: #53 JustMyView

It's one thing to know of these people, it's another to have them work for you or with you and to give them money and be working towards the same cause when they take such radical stances.

#65 VegasRick 4/23/08 9:02:22 am 1

re: #53 JustMyView

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

You are okay with the people that he has surrounded himself with?

#66 jaunte 4/23/08 9:02:41 am 4

re: #61 coquimbojoe

I had to laugh at the idea of someone telling Noam Chomsky to lie.

#67 Sharmuta 4/23/08 9:03:03 am 2

re: #53 JustMyView

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

Haha. But not really- I'm just trying to amuse you.

In all seriousness- obama's main influences in life are all hardcore America haters. His wife, his minister, and his political advisers. You don't see a trend here, or have a problem with that?

#68 Ojoe 4/23/08 9:03:10 am 0

Man this fawing after Obama and the hope that Government can fix everything begins to look like it is against the 1st commandment, the more I look.

#69 Ringo the Gringo 4/23/08 9:03:14 am 3

If you hold a "materialist conception of history" then you have a Marxist view of the the world, regardless of whether or not you've ever read Das Kapital.

Obama and Hillary are both Marxists.

#70 Charles 4/23/08 9:03:22 am 10

re: #53 JustMyView

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

Careful - you're going to hurt yourself shilling so hard.

#71 Ward Cleaver 4/23/08 9:03:23 am 0

re: #54 Izzy Dunne

Whatever happened to "imperialist running dog"?


Or is that only Korean / Chinese?

/can't keep up.

That's the one I was trying to think of.

#72 BabbaZee 4/23/08 9:03:32 am 2

Oh please with the Just My View crap.

#73 formercorpsman 4/23/08 9:03:40 am 2

re: #53 JustMyView

Busted JMV.

Take a lesson.

When there was even a hint of Charles, and other bloggers who might have minor proximity in anti-terror circles, to folks with supremacist ties, it was full disclosure, and massive retort.

Your all wet.

#74 Ward Cleaver 4/23/08 9:03:47 am 0

re: #65 VegasRick

You are okay with the people that he has surrounded himself with?

Why of course he is!

#75 Bob in Breckenridge 4/23/08 9:03:57 am 1

re: #40 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Obama must be the hopiate of the dumbmasses.

Fixed.

#76 Ornery Potlicker 4/23/08 9:04:01 am 9

The Obama Waffle:

1 cup hopium flour
1/2 cup water changed to whine
1 T snake oil
1 t bitter

mix well until clingy

#77 The Other Les 4/23/08 9:04:09 am 4

re: #29 Ward Cleaver

Gee, I wondered why The Internationale was the site's background music.

/

Arise, ye children of the trust fund!
Arise, ye parasites!
Go forth and plunder the productive
And slaughter the innocent!

#78 Kreuzueber Halbmond 4/23/08 9:04:30 am 4

re: #68 Ojoe

Man this fawing after Obama and the hope that Government can fix everything begins to look like it is against the 1st commandment, the more I look.

#1 Thou shalt not call yourself an American and profess Marxism.

#79 BabbaZee 4/23/08 9:04:41 am 2

re: #76 Ornery Potlicker

The Obama Waffle:

1 cup hopium flour
1/2 cup water changed to whine
1 T snake oil
1 t bitter

mix well until clingy

#80 VegasRick 4/23/08 9:05:01 am 0

re: #74 Ward Cleaver

Why of course he is!

Why does it not defend it's position.

#81 MandyManners 4/23/08 9:05:04 am 0

re: #53 JustMyView

It gets worse. His mail carrier is a communist, his dry cleaner is opposed to water fluordation, and his auto mechanic was once stopped for running a red light. Where will this stop?!?

WAB, is that you?

#82 Maximu§ 4/23/08 9:05:19 am 0

re: #44 Dad O' Blondes

This kid sounds like a spoiled brat.

.

Thats exactly what I was thinking.....most Marxists come from well-to-do families that would march us Lizards into the "showers" if they had 1/2 a chance.

#83 coquimbojoe 4/23/08 9:05:44 am 0

re: #66 jaunte

I had to laugh at the idea of someone telling Noam Chomsky to lie.

Chompsky doesn't lie. Is that what you were implying? Making things up to fit your world view is completely different!

/

#84 Cartman 4/23/08 9:06:08 am 0
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

- Karl Marx

#85 coquimbojoe 4/23/08 9:06:36 am