Posted by
Darrick Johnson on Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:16:57 PM
More from Barack Obama's ill advised "rebuttal" to the Jerome Corsi book...
LIE:
“This reference establishes that Obama Senior was considered at the time to be ‘a radical economist’ and leaves no doubt that Obama Senior had gravitated from his longtime family supporter Tom Mboya to the more extreme communist position openly advocated by and identified with Odinga Odinga.” [pp 110-111]
REALITY: NO ONE WITH “A SHRED OF INTEGRITY” OR INTELLIGENCE WOULD CALL OBAMA SR A COMMUNIST BASED ON HIS ACADEMIC WORK
Kenya Expert, Economist And UCLA Visiting Professor Dr. Omwami Said That Obama Sr.’s Projections And Critiques Are So Spot On That He Plans On Assigning The Paper In His Future Classes.
"But Kenya expert Dr. Raymond Omwami, an economist and UCLA visiting professor from the University of Helsinki who has also worked at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said Obama Sr. could not be considered a socialist himself based solely on the material in his bylined piece. Omwami points out Obama Sr.’s paper was primarily a harsh critique of the controversial 1965 government document known as the “Sessional Paper No. 10.” Sessional Paper No. 10 rejected classic Karl Marx philosophies then embraced by the Soviet Union and some European countries, calling instead for a new type of socialism to be used specifically in Africa… Obama Sr.’s projections and critiques are so spot on, says Omwami, that he plans on assigning the
paper to his classes in the future.” [
Politico, 4/15/08]
To paraphrase. "My dad wasn't a communist. He was a an innovative socialist. See, even this visiting UCLA professor and economist, a right wing credential if ever there was one, thinks he was a moderate."
In one fell swoop, Obama's team declares that Obama's dad was a far left guy (not such a big deal, but not something you want voters thinking about), and more damaging, reveals that Obama and his staff, as many conservatives have observed, are so far left and out of touch that they find a UCLA economist an objective expert, and that socialism (like communism, but without the mass-killing) is not a problem.