Is Obama a "Marxist leftist?" (DeLay charges he is)

[rebel with a cause]

Is Obama a "Marxist leftist"?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's office is responding to charges from former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay that the Illinois Democrat is attempting to conceal his liberal views and that his record in the Senate is comparable to that of a "Marxist Leftist."

DeLay is also urging conservative bloggers to begin digging into Obama's past.

A spokesperson for the senator says voters want to "move beyond" Delay's "name-calling."

"Former Congressman DeLay's rhetoric is exactly the sort that the American people rejected so resoundingly in November," Obama spokeswoman Roberta Gibbs said in a statement. "They want us to move beyond the name-calling and slash-and-burn politics that have served this country so poorly and deal with the real challenges we face."

DeLay made the comments to a group of conservative bloggers at a weekly lunch hosted by Human Events and the Heritage Foundation, according to Robert Bluey of HumanEvents.com, who attended the meeting.

Following this week's launch of TomDeLay.com, the Texas Republican is stepping up his efforts to reach out to bloggers and grassroots activists.

DeLay also warned conservatives at the meeting that "Hillary will be the next president of the United States because have built a coalition."

A spokesperson for Sen. Clinton, D-New York, declined to comment.


-- From CNN's Peter Hamby
Posted 12/13/2006 04:05:00 PM http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/

[Lerkfish]

1. excuse my french, but screw Delay

and the cockroach he rode in on.

[Tight_rope]

2. My sentiments exactly!

[rodeodance]

23. hard

[OKthatsIT]

58. Was that a Gingrich cockroach? We need a spraying program...

These filthy buggers are creeping around corners, like they own the place again!

[Lurking Dem]

3. That's laughable.

Of course, I think it's funny when people here proclaim Howard Dean is a leftist so my viewpoint may be skewed.

[Judi Lynn]

11. I'll bet they are visitors from Free Republic. It would be a very ignorant,

and mentally unskilled person to come up with that one. They're really too slow to be posting around adults.

You will start to see they all sound alike, and they all sound different from actual Democrats.

[Imagevision]

29. Duh-Lay can use his blog to complain how unfair his 2007 trial is going...

[TygrBright]

4. Is DeLay a pudding-lipped frootloop?

Why yes, he IS!

So who gives a flying whatchamacallit what he says, other than the shrink and nurses, etc., paid to deal with his bizarre ravings?

Too much toxin accumulation from all those years killin' bugs.

dismissively,
Bright

[rebel with a cause]

9. I agree, but

It just shows how scared they are of him.

[mike_c]

5. I wish he was-- that would SERIOUSLY raise his creds in my eyes....

:rofl:

[redqueen]

33. Same here!

hah... a marxist-leftist voting for the onan trade deal. AS IF!

[rebel with a cause]

6. I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!

I volunteered for Mr. Obama in 2004, and met him many times. Liked him, voted for him and would do so again, but he was not left enough for me. :shrug: ;-)

[HereSince1628]

7. Now THAT is funny!

At some point you just have to laugh in their face.

[leftofthedial]

8. these RW wack jobs wouldn't know a Marxist

if one led them to the guillotine

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. If you can't argue rationally, throw poop

Delay kind of reminds me of an angry monkey.

[sallyseven]

12. Why the hell isn't this guy in jail?

25 years wouldn't be enough. Get the hook!!!!

[Megahurtz]

13. Oh I'll say it....Fuck Tom DeLay!

That thieving Capitalist criminal piece of shit!:grr:

It figures a piece of Bullshit like this would come out of this guys face.

Does he really think that after what he did that anyone will put any credibility
into what he says??? :puke:

Go back to your Mansion and STFU Assface!

:rant:

[Judi Lynn]

14. Tom Delay wouldn't know a "Marxist Leftist" (much different from a Marxist right-winger)

if a "Marxist Leftist" stomped up and kicked him right in the middle of his shell!

[The Count]

15. Delay's successful foray into blogging surely paid off!

Now that he learned how to delete comments, his self confidence is back!

[bowens43]

16. I hope they keep up the attacks on Obama.

Obama has a message of hope and healing. Their childish attacks make them look petty and frightened.

Obama is right, Americans are tired of the swift boating.

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. I don't think I trust Obama. He has hints of aggression and manipulation.

At least from some of the times I've seen him on tele. He may have that "how far can we go" in him.

But for DeLay to say anything about him is nearly beyond words. Not that DeLay's words are worth much.

[rebel with a cause]

22. I don't want to say you are wrong but.......

I think you are. Barrack is very cautious in his approach to things. He is a thinker. He thinks before he speaks, he thinks before he acts. He is intelligent, and although I saw him get really tired at the end of the 2004 campaign, I never saw anything aggressive in him. As far as him being manipulative, I don't think anyone can be in politics without being a little bit manipulative. It's part of the game, but here again I did not see that much of that in him either.

I could be wrong and you could be right, but I still have high regards for the man even after I was disappointed in him a few times.

[Fire Walk With Me]

46. Reply to both responses.

Exactly, he's a thinker, hence the ability to manipulate. I didn't imply evil or extreme negativity, just what I said, I sense some desire to see how far he can go, and as such am in some small doubt regarding the optimum of service within him, a selfless desire to serve others in need. Which doesn't often occur in humanity, much less in politics.

This is subtle, and is nothing in comparison to BushCo, but I to some degree see him as a creator of causes and conditions. I'm just so sick of that type that I said something, anything. I call that aggression, but it's not of the stonewalling "fuck you" BushCo variety.

I just see the optimum in humanity, and hope and wish for it to evolve soon. If I'm bitter and upset, it's from seeing how much waste there is in our personalities versus the potential to get along and be productive. Selfishness and conniving piss me off as it lowers things for everyone, and that's all such behaviours want.

Again, nowhere in the league of BushCo, but I'd prefer the Honorable Conyers to run, from what I've seen of him. I can't say that I support any other potential candidate. I want too much change to occur, and none of them seem to be interested in detaching the milindus complex from the Treasury to any extent.

[fujiyama]

35. Hints of aggression and manipulation?

WTF do you base that off of?

[David__77]

18. I wish.

I rather like Marx. But I know a social democrat is the best this country can do.

[HuffleClaw]

19. isn't delay the guy who is under indictment and got drummed out of office?

why would they WANT such a guy to have any sort of public profile now?

[Lipton64]

66. Yes, same guy....

Looks like "The Hammer" is getting rather dull nowadays....

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Of course Tom DeLay could say that

Tom DeLay doesn't know the difference between a liberal and a Marxist.

[AtomicKitten]

21. Tom who?

[rodeodance]

24. BUGMAN RETURNS-------get the RAID!

[AtomicKitten]

26. what a wanker

[MSchreader]

25. No, No, No, Stupid! Obama's NOT a "Marxist Leftist"....

I am a "Marxist Leftist" and he's never come to any of our meetings. :evilgrin:

Martin

[last1standing]

27. There's so much hatred built up in that guy.

You honestly have to wonder what caused it? Who or what could have created so much resentment and such a love of cruelty? Regardless, it's a situation much like that of a rabid dog, now. Yeah, it may be unfair that he has rabies, but there's no choice but to put the poor thing down.

It's time to lock delay up for the sake of society.

[Imagevision]

28. Don't know what's worse, hearing about David Duke or Duh-lay??!!

Delay; "attack & Deny" - I hope Obama/Edwards etc. don't even bother to respond to any of their bullsh*t, Limbaugh, hannity, Beck, all of them!!

[deadparrot]

30. Yeah, they're definitely terrified of him.

:rofl:

[SemperEadem]

31. Isn't Delay in prison?

seems to me that with all the offal he's pulled down upon himself recently that he would be more concerned with his upcoming trials and convictions than worrying about how someone else thinks about issues that matter the the electorate.

Obama must be doing something right to garner this much fear-based attention from Delay.

[depakid]

42. Not yet, but soon.

Delay's a racist- among other things. A petty, corrupt and vile individual, without a shred of honesty, integrity or decency. A person truly deserving of Texas "justice."

I'm not a Barack Obama fan- not yet at least, although when someone the likes of Tom DeLay feels the need to go out of his way to disrespect him- it makes me wonder.

[aggiesal]

32. This is the RW's concerted effort to try and tear down Obama ...

Yesterday CNN had Obama side by side with Osama.
Sent out a reporter to ask people if they thought
Obama was a threat to our way of life. Obviously
implying Osama, but because the average citizen
has no clue, they responded with the usual answer
to the Osama implication.

Then, because Obama's middle name is Hussein, CNN
had Obama side by side with Saddam Hussein.

They must be really nervous about Obama's chances of
winning in '08.

[aquart]

38. Really? It's getting me interested.

And I seriously wasn't.

[Taverner]

34. I wonder if DeLay is gonna play Wallace this election?

[truthisfreedom]

36. And chimpanzees fling poo when they're trapped in cages too.

Delay already has cage complex, and he hasn't even been convicted yet.

[goforit]

37. No... but he may be a Republican plant.

[Mz Pip]

39. Must be true if DeLay says so

We all know how credible he is. :eyes:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Joe Chi Minh]

40. The most persuasive, nay, binding, advocacy of Marxism I've heard yet. De Lay's

denunciation of it!

[Jackpine Radical]

41. What kinda Marxist is Obama?

A Harpoite? A Zepponist? A Grouch?

[Jack Rabbit]

43. What kind of Marxist? Obama a Marxist?

Why, that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard!

[Hekate]

44. Let the Swiftboating begin. Same old Repub tactics: keep an opponent too busy swatting bees...

... to ever get anything else done. DU and the Dem party should be sure to have Obama's back, same as for any other Democrat who comes under fire.

Isn't DeLay supposed to be in prison about now?

Hekate

[Zero Division]

45. Most liberal democracies are Stalinist by Delay's standard...

Canada....Stalinist
U.K.....Stalinist
France...do we even have to ask what they think?
Germany....perhaps they consider it Stalinist-lite under Merkel
This begs the question: What then does that make the actual USSR under Stalin?
Oh, the mysteries of the freeper-verse, as I like to call this alternate reality in which their opinions are formed.

[Trajan]

47. Is Delay permanently hallucinating from lifelong absorption of rat poison ?

Isnt that asshole in a fucking HOKEY yet ? .....

Outta be ....

[Contrite]

48. I also heard some of these RW thugs are saying he was Muslim.

Because of his middle name, saying he converted to Christianity and his goal is to "infiltrate" the government on behalf of Muslims.

These people are beyond even Katherine Harris crazy.

[rman]

49. And we pay attention to what Delay says, why?

[Patiod]

50. No - he's a MOSLEM plant so they can take over the world!!!

It's true! Why do you think his middle name is Hussein!!! And his first name sounds like "Osama"?????????!!!!!!!!!

(I can't remember if I heard that one relayed by Thom Hartmann or Sam Seder.....)

[rebel with a cause]

51. Correction

His LAST name rhymes with "Osama", his first name rhymes with "the rock".

[rebel with a cause]

52. You know,

I took this as a joke, but then I went to BuzzFlash and found this article. "Frameshop: GOP "Smear Gangs" Target Obama"
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2006/12/frameshop_gop_l.html

There the same allegations, and more, are repeated as ways the repugs are attacking Obama.

[Patiod]

55. How scary is that?

Look, the nuts who mention McCain and Manchurian candidate in the same paragraph are properly spanked and shunned.

But the nutjobs are actually trying to put it in people's minds that Obama might possibly be a "secret" Moslem, who is faking being a Christian and is really intent on taking over the US for Islam.

They don't need "faks" - all they need to do is plant the thought, induce that frisson of discomfort that some people have around Hillary Clinton (travelgate? Whitewater? lesbianism?), Al Gore (invented the internet? discovered Love Canal?), and John Kerry (see Swiftboat Liars et al...). They don't have to raise an actual issue, they just have to start making people a smidge uncomfortable when they hear his name, and they've succeeded.

[CGrantt57]

53. I swear...

The only thing the repukes hate more than a "pushy broad," is an "uppity n*gger."

Assholes, each and every one of them who dares to attack this man by making comparisons to Lenin, Mark, Ahmanidejad, or Saddam.

I hope his detractors rot in hell.

[rebel with a cause]

54. Amen,

Amen, and Amen!!!!!!

I am sick of politics, especially dirty slimy politics and those who engage in it.

I want to go back to the idealistic age of my youth. :hippie:

[rocktivity]

56. Is Delay a reality-challenged dead pundit walking? Rocknation charges that he is.

rocknation

[rebel with a cause]

57. Like your banner

Even though I am not sure yet who I would support in the 2008 election.

[Bushies gotta go]

59. Delay on MSNBC

I don't know how this happened but I found myself watching Delay on MSNBC (Matthews? or was it Scarborough?)) the other night regarding his new blog... He was asked something about Obama and this disgusting smile came over his face and he said "Oh, you haven't even begun to hear about Obama's background" (or something to that effect).

When that smile was made and those words were said, it was very clear to me that Delay was already working on the smear of Barack. That didn't take long.

[warrens]

60. please keep talking, Roachboy

Every idiocy like this shears off a few thousand more Repuke voters.

[CanonRay]

61. The Repugs are scared shitless of him...;.this is just the first salvo

[Telly Savalas]

62. Obama doesn't have enough experience to be an effective Marxist leftist.

Maybe in 2024 he should make the leap, but for now he should remain in the Senate as a Trotskyite.

[jonnyblitz]

63. I don't know many marxists who claim Lieberman as their mentor.

[rebel with a cause]

64. Ughhhhhhhh,

Don't remind me. I sent him a message about it, saying it would be hard to forgive him for that. He probably never got it, but I sent it.
:nuke:

[maxsolomon]

65. Delay knows zip about Marx

Marx wasn't a Marxist.