Obamamania On The Right
By Cliff Kincaid
December 3, 2008
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Think about it from Obama's perspective. He tried desperately to conceal his Marxist background, especially his connection to Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, and his socialist leanings. He even talked about tax cuts for most people.
But the façade started to unravel near the end of the campaign when Joe the Plumber got him to admit to a philosophy of spreading the wealth around. The McCain campaign quickly seized upon this. But the financial crisis, which just happened to emerge, courtesy of Treasury Secretary Paulson, just six weeks before the election, convinced many people that Obama's Marxism was less of a concern than the collapse of America's capitalist system, which they blamed on the Republicans.
Now, as President-elect, Obama must be thinking how incredible it is that he can pursue a socialist course as president by relying on Wall Street and Big Business figures, rather than having to appoint left-wing "progressives" from his far-left base who might engender opposition from the Republican Party and be potentially controversial or difficult to get confirmed. Indeed, Obama is forever in debt to the forces on Wall Street which collapsed the economy at the best time possible to benefit him politically. He is in debt more ways than one, by virtue of the fact that he took so much of their money to get elected.
In terms of foreign policy, the same sleight-of-hand can be seen, and once again some conservatives are falling for it. "The losers in the Obama administration, as of now, are Joe Biden and Susan Rice, favorites of the left," writes Fred Barnes on the website of The Weekly Standard. "Biden's role in foreign policy is likely to be minimal with Clinton at the State Department. She'll squash him if he sticks his head up. Rice, an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and an Obama campaign adviser, may wind up as United Nations ambassador, a highly visible but inconsequential post. She'll have little influence." In fact, Rice did get that post.
How on earth can Barnes claim that Rice will have "little influence?" That's wishful thinking on his part and not good reporting. She is, in fact, one of Obama's closest advisers, and along with Anthony Lake ran his foreign policy operation during the campaign. She is a true window into Obama's real thinking on foreign policy issues because she has been so close to him for so long. If you read her many articles and speeches on the subject of "global poverty," you understand why Obama sponsored the Global Poverty Act in the Senate and talked about the subject during his Clinton Global Initiative speech in September. Like Obama, she is a big booster of the U.N. and its causes. And he has made her position into one of cabinet rank. This was a big reward for her dedicated work on his behalf.
The Barnes claim that Biden will suffer because of Hillary doesn't hold up and doesn't even make any sense. They share the same globalist philosophy. Both, for example, were co-sponsors of Obama's Global Poverty Act. And both believe in Senate ratification of various U.N. treaties, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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