Obama, Socialism, and Deception - The Corner - National Review Online
We’ve recently had exchanges with David Frum, Harold Meyerson, and “Eugene Debs,” a Democratic activist who writes under the name of one of America’s greatest socialists, over the publication of my forthcoming book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. (Here’s the press release for the book.) Frum thinks that Jonah Goldberg and I are mistaken to call Obama a socialist. Debs agreed.
Now “Eugene Debs” is back. On the matter of his anonymity, he says that only his argument should matter, not his identity. I disagree, and I will have more to say next week about the issue of engaging in public debate under an assumed name.
Debs argues that even an irrefutable Obama connection to socialism in the past would mean nothing if it could not be seen in operation in the present. That’s why my book ends with a chapter connecting Obama’s socialist past to the conduct of his presidency. Yet precisely because much contemporary American socialism is self-consciously stealthy, Obama’s socialist past illuminates his presidency in a way that non-historical accounts cannot. I am not going to spell this out until the publication of Radical-in-Chief, precisely because my understanding of Obama’s presidency is bound up with my revelations about his past.
Look, people. Stop hounding me with your idiotic requests for verification of my possession of Unicorns and Leprechauns. If you were not SO blinded by your partisan hackery, you’d have all the gold and pepperoni pizza you wanted, but instead your left to fight among yourselves over which breadcrumbs your pride will require you to refuse.