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Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 2 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionJeremiah Wright. William Ayers. Van Jones. Where does the rogues’ gallery of Barack Obama’s radical friends end? These people are not liberals. They are not “progressives.” They are radicals who hate America and in many cases have advocated or even perpetrated violence in an effort to destroy it.
Thanks to Glenn Beck, the American public has now been introduced to yet another radical member of Obama’s inner circle: Anita Dunn, Interim White House Communications Director, former top advisor to Obama’s political campaign, and wife of Obama’s personal lawyer, Robert Bauer.
In a speech before high school students last June, Dunn spoke passionately about her two favorite political philosophers, “the two people I turn to most” for answers to important questions like “how to do things that have never been done before.” Who are these paragons? One was Mother Teresa. Dunn didn’t have much to say about her. Most of her enthusiasm was lavished upon her other favorite fount of political wisdom: Mao Tse-Tung.
Mao Tse-Tung. That would be the deviant monster who, quite apart from his disgusting personal life, engineered the mass murder of anywhere from 50 to over 100 million people. Estimates vary so widely because murder on that wholesale scale is difficult to tabulate, especially in a country as backwards as China was under Mao’s long reign. But there is little doubt that Mao has the grisly distinction of being the greatest mass murderer in history.
Yet this is the man that one of Obama’s closest advisors commends to an audience with warmth and enthusiasm.
Anita Dunn is not just an Obama hanger-on. She is part of his inner circle, one of his top aides, along with David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, and Robert Gibbs. What does it mean that someone in that position proffers one of the greatest monsters the world has ever seen for emulation?
Anita Dunn calls Mao a “political philosopher.” In fact, as a real philosopher, the late, great Leszek Kolakowski, understood, Mao’s real achievement was as “one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, manipulator of large masses of human beings in the twentieth century.” His violent peasant revolution mouthed Marxist slogans, but at its core was less Marxist than a particularly rebarbative form of anarchic and anti-intellectual tyranny. “The obfuscation of Western admirers of Chinese Communism,” Kolakowski observes toward the end of his magnum opus, Main Currents of Marxism, “is scarcely believable.” I wish he were still here for Anita Dunn.
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RTHTGakaRoland2 months, 1 week ago
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The same author devastates any defense of or by Dunn in another article:
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Damage control time!
–She didn’t mean it.
–She was only quoting a Republican operative.
–Fox News is mean to Democrats.
–Glenn Beck is an extremist.
–The President is trying to clean up a big mess left by George Bush.
–Can’t we just change the subject?
When Glenn Beck aired a video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Chairman Mao — one of her “two favorite political philosophers” — in front of an audience of high school students, the conservative blogosphere lit up like a non-denominational sustainably harvested Kwanza tree. I wrote about it here. Andrew McCarthy added some historical background here. Peter Wehner had this to say. Et, I need hardly say, cetera.
There’s one part of the left-wing reaction to the obloquy heaped upon Anita Dunn that should not be allowed to go unchallenged. It might go like this: “George Bush quoted Mao [or Stalin, or Hitler, or some other bad guy]: does that make him a Maoist [or Stalinist, a Nazi, or whatever]?”
As Fausta Wertz points out, Anita Dunn offered a variant of this exculpatory strategy when she claimed, in reaction to the tsunami of criticism her remarks occasioned, that she was only quoting Lee Atwater.
Let’s say that Mr. Atwater had quoted the bit from Mao that Anita Dunn quoted — you fight your war and I’ll fight mine, etc., etc. So what? Lee Atwater did not identify Mao as one of his two favorite political philosophers. He did not stand before a room full of high school students and praise the revolutionary tactics of the greatest mass murderer in history.
Bottom line: it is one thing to quote a tyrant. It is another to endorse his view of the world.
What the left-wing excuse factory wants is for the American people to overlook the radicalism of the people populating Obama’s inner circle, of which Anita Dunn is a prominent member. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, let me once again remind readers of what Obama promised in his campaign. I don’t mean the long string of broken promises about helping the middle class, pulling out troops from Iraq, prosecuting the war in Afghanistan with vigor, etc. Those were just campaign promises, i.e., vote-getting expedients that events have led Obama to renege on.
No, I mean the one big promise that he has every intention of fulfilling: the promise to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” That is what Obama and his lieutenants are about. They are egalitarians — not, perhaps, quite so radical as Chairman Mao, but (as the case of Anita Dunn shows) they have plenty of admiration for Mao’s goals. Obama himself has criticized the U.S. Constitution for being merely a “charter of negative liberties” that fails to promote “redistributive change.”
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RTHTGakaRoland2 months, 1 week ago
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I have to thank Dunn for the potential clarity that her slip of the tongue makes available to Americans.
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Anita Dunn's choices of Mother Theresa and Mao as her favourite philosophers reveals two key components of the ideology of the Democrats and all other elements of the American Left. They embrace only Mother Theresa's empathy, rejecting all else for which she stood. Mao and Maoism they embrace nearly in full, marginalizing if not truly rejecting only his worst atrocities. They believe that Mao and Maoism's principle, perhaps only, flaw was inadequate empathy.
Hope & Change = Social & Economic Justice = Empathy & Maoism
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Wolfie20072 months, 1 week ago
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Right jake you're one of the only people around who understands Mao. My question is why would you want to? Btw, it's not difficult to understand that someone who was responsible for the death 70 million people is a mass murdering tyrant. What else would we need to understand. You're ridiculous.
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The Chinese are noticing the same connections between Obama and Mao, and "Oba Mao" is making a pop-culture splash:
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Introducing “Oba Mao!”
By Michelle Malkin • October 19, 2009 01:47 PM
The latest in Commie Chic: “Oba Mao” t-shirts!
Nope, not manufactured by RAAAACIST Tea Party protesters. Manufactured in China and sold by the Chinese for the rest of the Citizens of the World.
Mao-cheerleading White House communication director Anita Dunn has already put in a special order
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/19/introducing-o...
I suspect that you Prop lefties knew of and hid this for some time, since the original reporting (linked from Malikin's site) was in the "People's Daily".
I still prefer my "Mickey Maoist" 0 nickname, but more than a billion Chinese (many who lived through Mao) see the connections and have choosen "Oba Mao". LOL-
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RTHTGakaRoland2 months, 1 week ago
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The obama White House's Mickey Maoist Club grows, or at least one more of the mice in this nest of rodents has gone public:
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/10/20/obama-ma...
"Obama Manufacturing Czar Agrees With Mao Too, Says Free Market Is ‘Nonsense’"
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