Beware The Man Behind Obama

 by Bernie Reeves  

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Bill Ayers, former leader of the Weather Underground and domestic terrorist, still hates America, calling it “evil and racist,” and has no remorse for his views while all around him everything he believes in has collapsed in the light of reality.

Ayers enlisted Barack Obama in his intrigues to use foundation grants to set up school programs to propagandize kids and social outreach schemes to influence neighborhood political campaigns. Thus, while Obama is an attractive candidate on the surface, underneath he is a creation of the discredited radical Left, the stealth weapon launched to resurrect the doctrines of a system that disparages the individual and, in its extreme manifestations as communism, murdered 100 million people in 75 years. 

Paul Theroux is an excellent travel writer. But he is also an example of the calcification of Old Left doctrine that never seems to break finally and disappear in the euphemistic dustbin of history. In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, his latest adventure, Theroux revisits his 1973 journey from London to the Far East and back through Russia. And everywhere he travels, he oozes the same anti-American vitriol that welled up within his soul on his first trip during the heady days of the Student Movement and the Vietnam War. Unsuspecting victims from Budapest to Uzbekistan to India to Cambodia are regaled with the devastation of the Bush administration and America in general.

In Vietnam Theroux hits his stride: “It was possible to see in the photographs that one of the aims of the American generals was to flatten Vietnam, to burn it to the ground in order to flush out the Viet Cong – the fury, the revenge, the despair, the irrationality, the nihilism that possesses the demoralized warrior when he sees there is no way out. And we failed.” I’d say Theroux failed too. It’s all evil if it’s American, but the underlying point is that nothing changes for people like Theroux – and abusing the facts of history is okay if the cause is righteous.

He reaches his apogee of anti-American angst in Russia. In response to a sadly typical recounting of torture, slave labor and murder under the Soviets by an elderly Russian, Theroux offers: “The paradox is that at exactly the same time – the 1950s – we had McCarthy in the US persecuting people for sympathizing with the Soviet Union.” America with McCarthy in full throat hardly compares to the 20 million murders under the Soviet Union, except to people like Theroux.

And there are plenty of people like Theroux still around, mainly on campus and in the arts and media – and certainly he and his ilk are welcome to their views. The problem is their mind-set never alters, no matter the course of human events. Vietnam is finally under the microscope of history and the American side is receiving the credence it deserves, for example the excellent book Triumph Forsaken by Mark Moyar that draws on newly declassified documents to present a full account of American motives and strategy.

And the collapse of the Soviet Union and the documents now available certainly put the lie to the idealism of the Left. And as for McCarthy, it turns out not only was he correct that the US government was riddled with Soviet spies in the 30s, 40s and 50s, the Senator from Wisconsin actually undershot the number by the hundreds. And now Morton Sobell – arrested with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and sentenced to 19 years in prison – confessed only last month that they were all indeed guilty of stealing atomic secrets for the Soviets. As the innocence of the Rosenbergs is a cardinal truth to the Left, you’d think one of them would own up and throw in the towel. 

Alas, they won’t and like Theroux are disingenuously unrepentant as their worldview crumbles and their heroes collapse under scrutiny. That’s why the Left has no credibility. They do have tenacity, but of the obsessive-compulsive variety – a political insanity that no amount of treatment can alter. And like their heroes of the old Communist regimes, those who don’t agree with their rigid views – and refuse “re-education” – are banished from their lives.

That’s why Barack Obama worries me. He is a homunculus patched together by the self-same Left, using damaged and discredited political parts strewn along the pathways of recent history. And who is the Frankenstein lurking behind Obama and his strident wife Michele? The despicable and dangerous Bill Ayers, the leader of the Weather Underground domestic terror gang of the late 60s and early 70s.

Ayers got off for his various crimes – the kind we now use water-boarding to extract confessions about – yet he still hates America, calling it “evil and racist.” And he has, of course, no remorse for his views while all around him everything he believes in has collapsed in the light of reality. Like many of his fellow travelers from the earliest days of the Comintern, he has left the company of informed people who can challenge his views and infiltrated the educational system in order to manipulate the behavior of children to create the socialist mind-sets of tomorrow. He and his outrageous wife and fellow radical Bernadine Dohrn both enjoy sinecures – he at the University of Illinois–Chicago and she at the Northwestern School of Law – where they continue their crimes against the country that nurtures them.

Ayers enlisted Barack Obama in his intrigues to use foundation grants to set up school programs to propagandize kids and social outreach schemes to influence neighborhood political campaigns. Thus, while Obama is an attractive candidate on the surface, underneath he is a creation of the discredited radical Left, the stealth weapon launched to resurrect the doctrines of a system that disparages the individual and, in its extreme manifestations as communism, murdered 100 million people in 75 years.

I realize things are tough in the capitalist world today, but the answer isn’t Barack Obama, the spokesman for the discredited manifesto of the Left.

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