Joe Lhota Says Bill de Blasio Is Reading "Directly Out Of The Marxist Playbook"
Source: NY Daily News
Lhota hit de Blasios work in Nicaragua in the 1980s, where he did humanitarian work as an ally of the lefist Sandinista regime, which was fighting the U.S.-backed Contras.
Bill de Blasio needs to explain himself -- and explain himself now -- to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who escaped Marxist tyranny in Asia, Central America, and from behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, Lhota said, amping up his criticism a day after he hit de Blasio for reportedly describing himself as a backer of democratic socialism in 1990.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/09/joe-lhota-says-bill-de-blasio-is-reading-directly-out-of-the-marxist-playbook
I know its tough being down by 40 points. but really: Marxism? Sandinistas? That's the campaign argument you're going to give people in 2013?
KansDem
(28,498 posts)But here's proof!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)Check it out, the next time they do the "here's the starting line-up" photos. It's clearly a tribute to Uncle Karl.
red dog 1
(27,913 posts)hatrack
(59,602 posts)red dog 1
(27,913 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)For the first time in my life I actually think I wet myself a little from laughing so hard!! I SOOOO needed this laugh today! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)allow me
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Das machte mich gern...
Vielen Dank!
Renew Deal
(81,897 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)SunSeeker
(51,796 posts)That line might get him elected mayor in Tulsa, but New York ain't Tulsa.
markpkessinger
(8,409 posts). . . says this New Yorker!
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Okay I'm in the burbs but its kinda like the moon orbiting around Earth...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Not happening.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)keep up this line of BS. It might help de-toxify the "far left"--after all, if de Blasio is a commie, maybe commies aren't so bad....
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)FairWinds
(1,717 posts)against the democratically elected govt. of Nicaragua without the
financial backing of the Saudi royal family. Isn't that special?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)TBF
(32,139 posts)sadly there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest. People are still trying to save this dead cow called Capitalism ...
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Because I suspect that blue isn't your color.
And I believe that history has already pretty much made up its mind on the Marxism vs Capitalism question.
TBF
(32,139 posts)I wouldn't be so smug if I were you. Eventually folks will wake up and figure out that the fruits of their labor have been stolen from them.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)"Eventually" we'll all be dead.
And I wouldn't call it 'smug' to acknowledge that Marxism has been thoroughly discredited everywhere it's been tried, while capitalism (for all its faults) provides the greatest good to the greatest number.
NeoConsSuck
(2,544 posts)Explain how that works.
Capitalism is like a shark. Always has to keep moving ahead to breathe, to stay alive. If it stands still, it eventually suffocates.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Rebirth and replacment of obsoleted methods of doing things provides 'endless' opportunity.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)but can't find a copy of the Marxist Playbook anywhere. How can that be when Democrats take their strategies from it? Where is it?
red dog 1
(27,913 posts)Mr.Turnip
(645 posts)Though In this case I guess I understand why Lhota would be desperate, He has a better chance of discovering himself to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ than he does of becoming Mayor of New York City.
And reading that piece from the NYT that Lhota is refering from just makes me more enthusiastic to campaign and vote for De Blasio, I highly respect a man who not only opposed our governments disgusting meddling in Nicaragua but also actually went down there himself to try and help people.
sinkingfeeling
(51,493 posts)somebody loan me theirs?
frylock
(34,825 posts)he has some explaining to do!
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)A totally non-shocking look at mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio's activist past makes him... more sympathetic
BY ALEX PAREENE
The New York Times dropped a bombshell last night: As a young man, Democratic nominee for mayor of New York Bill de Blasio was pretty left-wing. And he supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. And he once was in favor of democratic socialism. The Times presents this information as something they uncovered, as if de Blasio had somehow hidden it:
As he seeks to become the next mayor of New York City, Mr. de Blasio, the citys public advocate, has spoken only occasionally about his time as a fresh-faced idealist who opposed foreign wars, missile defense systems and apartheid in the late 1980s and early 1990s. References to his early activism have been omitted from his campaign Web site.
In fact, de Blasio has spoken publicly about his time in Nicaragua as recently as last December. But the story of de Blasios youthful activism is interesting and not that widely known I didnt know about it, and I have actually been paying a decent amount of attention to this race making it great material for a brief biographical sketch of the candidate as an idealistic young man.
This brief biographical sketch, though, sounds a bit like opposition research, or at least like an attempt to shake up the race and force the candidate to answer questions about his Commie past. Its got hints of that very sober but slightly inflammatory tone that the Times puts on when its causing trouble. De Blasio, were told, went to Nicaragua to help distribute food and medicine in the middle of a war between left and right. But he returned with something else entirely: a vision of the possibilities of an unfettered leftist government. Unfettered! I dont like the sound of that.
The Times says [de Blasio's] time as a young activist was more influential in shaping his ideology than previously known (this is the declaration that the information in this article is relevant news and not just old stories) and far more political than typical humanitarian work. Yes, because it was activism? I mean what is typical humanitarian work here, exactly? De Blasio was working with the Quixote Center, a Catholic social justice group that fights poverty and economic inequality and that is inspired by liberation theology. This is actually very typical humanitarian work, and Catholic groups in particular have been doing it for years.
more...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/23/de_blasios_sandinista_non_shocker/
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The current Pope would probably approve of him.
Humanitarian work. Hmmmph! Can't have that.
I have a lot of Catholic friends who are involved in humanitarian work. All great people. Idealistic with hearts of gold. That makes me more of a DeBlasio fan. I didn't know much about him really.
Mr.Turnip
(645 posts)And its sad that it was almost certainly written as something of a hit piece. The sort of Activism that De Blasio dedicated those years of his life toward are something that should be admired and held up, not put down.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)They certainly did a couple of hit jobs on Christine Quinn.
cali
(114,904 posts)jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)...which has a different composition and mission than the metropolitan section, where they have been stomping on Democrats.
The Times also endorsed Lhota.
brooklynite
(94,950 posts)They're going to endorse someone in the republican Primary, and Lhota was far better than Catsimatides.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)He'd been elected to the town government once, and when the re-election season came, he was in a tight primary -- so he send out a fundraising letter accusing one of his opponents of being a "communist"
Well, that got him a lot of attention and publicity, but not the way he hoped: this has been a progressive blue town for a long time, and a lotta folk around here prefer people that actually that do stuff, rather than yapping and snapping
It ended his political career
alp227
(32,075 posts)elleng
(131,370 posts)jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)He may be the type of manager preferred by some New Yorkers, but this name-calling is going to remind everybody of Rudy. He doesn't have a prayer unless he rides in on the coattails of a catastrophe.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I'll bet they are incredible at teamwork.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)how 50's retro though the slurs
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)the Koch brothers' donations to the Lhota campaign in the here-and-now.