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Communists for Obama (on Pajamas Media)

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Pajamas Media's policy for exclusive content required me to wait two days before posting it here (and it's still on their top 5 list of most popular articles).

Barack Obama's massive pre-primary rally in Portland, OR, was aided in no small part by the appearance of an uber-hip band. Their gimmick? They start each performance with the Soviet national anthem.

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It appears that many of the 75,000 "Obama worshipers" in Portland last weekend really turned up to see a free concert by an uber-hip Portland band, the Decemberists (see photo). Of course, the MSM didn't report this fact because it might dampen the story of the new and wonderful miracle of the Obamessiah.

Most media reports were reminiscent of the style the Soviet poets used to glorify public appearances of the great Stalin. For example, Obama's home paper, the Chicago Tribune, reported it this way:

They waited for hours under a warm sun, the line snaking for blocks and blocks through downtown. They packed onto the park lawn, from the makeshift stage to the waterfront and up to the street. They watched from a bridge overhead and from pleasure boats on the river, bikini-clad. They brought their parents and their infants. Some skipped work. Some wilted in the heat. A few jammed the streets afterward, hoping for a final motorcade glimpse. Fire department officials counted 75,000 in all, a record for the main attraction, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

Not a word about the popular Obama-supporting band — which is a shame, because it's the most interesting development in this whole episode.

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Not only do the band members love Obama's message, but they also write lyrics that sound as if Michelle Obama wrote them — except, of course, for the lyrics of the most musically competent piece in the entire set, the Soviet anthem. Those lyrics were written by Sergei Mikhalkov, Stalin's most trusted poet.

That's right: incredible as it sounds, the band blasts the Russian-language national anthem of the USSR at the beginning of every concert. And not the sanitized Putin version either — the old-guard Communist version that glorifies the Party of Lenin. Do I remember those lyrics well! As a former Soviet citizen, I have quite an emotional connection to this music: the Soviet-era one-channel radios used to play it at six every morning as a nationwide wakeup call, causing me hours of lost sleep. I tried to escape this dark memory by coming to America, but the American "progressives" just won't let me forget.

What puzzles me is this: what connection can the Soviet national anthem possibly have with today's young Americans who get so ecstatic every time they hear Obama's promise of "change"? And what exactly is meant by "change"? Perhaps the words of the anthem will hold the answer:

In the victory of Communism's deathless ideal,
We see the future of our dear land.
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
Selflessly true we always shall stand!

I would love to see a video of Obama as he listened to this. Did he stand at attention? Did he put his hand on his heart? Or did the band can the anthem for the time being, just like Obama canned his longtime "mentor and spiritual advisor" for political expediency? "Yes we can," people.

Few things are more absurd than a "rebellious" American rock band playing the anthem of a political power that outlawed rock music and persecuted the musicians who were the true romantic rebels.

Image Kondraty Ryleyev (1795-1826)
Prominent Russian poet, soldier, and nobleman (executed as a leader of the Decembrist uprising)

The band's name apparently comes from the Decembrists, a group Russian aristocrats who staged an unsuccessful uprising in 1825 to dispose of the czar and establish a constitutional democracy. Some of them were executed; others were jailed or exiled to Siberia.

Now the Oregonian "Decemberists" are insulting the noble memory of these brave heroes by confounding them with the semi-literate vandals of the 1917 Communist Revolution. The real Decembrists were as unrelated to the ideas of a Communist revolution as today's Democratic leaders are unrelated to the ideas of the American Revolution.

Had their uprising been successful, Russia might have taken the same route towards freedom as America. With no ground to stand on, Communists would have been just another marginal group — an object of ridicule, similar to the Daily Kos moonbats of today. Lenin would have used his law degree to become a pesky ACLU-type trial lawyer. Stalin would probably have gone on robbing banks up until the day he'd gotten shot in a botched stickup, after which Hollywood would have bought rights to his life story. Or he might just have become a college professor, like Bill Ayers — Leftist radicals are all idealistic sweethearts as long as they don't have power over other people's lives.

Speaking of Bill Ayers, this friend of Obama and former terrorist is now making a good living as a soft-spoken professor of education, writing books advising teachers on how to indoctrinate kids in the Marxist view of reality and instill the spirit of class struggle in the American classroom. I wonder what his rank would be in the American Politburo if his group had overthrown our elected government.

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Ayers and Stalin have at least this much in common — they both started their careers by setting off bombs in public squares. In 1907, Stalin organized an armed robbery of a coach full of money in the main square of Tiflis. Forty people were killed and a further 50 wounded during the ambush, which netted about US$3.4 million for the Bolsheviks. The money was sent to Lenin in Finland, and then moved to Geneva, to finance propaganda and other subversive activities. Impressed by the result, Lenin was reported to have said that Stalin was "exactly the sort of person I need."

Let's listen to more of the song played by the band that gathered 75,000 for Obama in Portland:

Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,
Inspired them to labor and valorous deed.

"Valorous," indeed. In the secondhand worldview of the confused Oregonian revolutionaries, facts get replaced by grotesque, radical myths. Like many American students reading Orwell's 1984, they probably imagined that this book was written in support of a radical leftist ideology (the result of Bill Ayers-style education). I have met young people who believed that Big Brother was some evil conservative and a capitalist oppressor — not the spitting image of Joseph Stalin, whom I recognized as soon as I started reading it (of course, the first Russian translation of the book wasn't made until the 1990s, after the fall of Communism).

On their pretentious website, the Decemberists point to Vladimir Nabokov as one among the "people and things we enjoy." I'm sure Nabokov would be horrified. He spent his life in exile, running away from Communist fanatics who were destroying the classical Russian culture he represented.

While the Soviet anthem is indeed a powerful piece of music, it is but a small fragment of the once-powerful musical culture of Russia — a culture that languished under the heavy boot of Communism, along with all other forms of art. The few survivors lived not because of the regime's "assistance," but, rather, in spite of it.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and one learns nothing if history has been tampered with. And "nothing" is exactly the amount of knowledge this young generation of Americans has about the history of Socialist movements. As a result, thousands gather to cheer a Leftist candidate for the American Presidency, lured by a band of semi-literate dunces who start every performance by reiterating that the Party of Lenin is taking them to the triumph of Communism.

No wonder Obama's voters aren't disappointed by the reports of his radical connections. Bill Ayers blew up federal buildings? That is so cool! Jeremiah Wright hates America? That's definitely a plus! You can now add the Decemberists to the list. They, like, play the Soviet anthem, man!

As I look at the picture of the Obama-supporting band amidst a wild mix of Communist clichés, I can't help but remember our tongue-in-cheek Communists For Kerry during the legendary 2004 election:

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Will there be Communists for Obama in 2008? It seems that there already are 75,000 in Oregon. Oh well. There will always be thePeople's Cube.

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Wow. That's sad. This country's screwed....

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Dahlink, our socialist/liberal/democrat/progressive ... whatever the alias de jour is ... friends must be peeing their pants with excitement! The hope and change the children of Amerika have been indoctrined with (instead of actual history lessons) for so many years has finally paid off. All the money the teachers' union donated to liberal candidates and causes has finally reached fruitition. Dahlinks, the cat is out of the bag, we finally know that REAL hope and change are coming!
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Brilliant piece Red.

I had heard of these "Decemberists" and either it's total kitsch and a put on or Obamunists and their ilk are totally stupid:

Now the Oregonian "Decemberists" are insulting the noble memory of these brave heroes by confounding them with the semi-literate vandals of the 1917 Communist Revolution. The real Decembrists were as unrelated to the ideas of a Communist revolution as today's Democratic leaders are unrelated to the ideas of the American Revolution.

Therein lies the crux of irony

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Press release from The Obama Campaign:

It has come to our attention that certain parties are associating the rock band the Decemberist with the Obama campaign. Any one with half a brain knows that Obama can summon a crowd of any size at any time with his skillful use of the word "change". No one has any idea what that means, but damn if it isn't working out rather well for us.

As for the band and their use of the Soviet National Anthem, as is common with our supreme Leader Obama, you are taking their words out of context, unless of course you agree with it, then in that case, they meant it and we agree.

Thank you for your attention. Now please put down the cheeseburger and step away from the SUV.

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Buffoon wrote:his skillful use of the word "change". No one has any idea what that means,
Greetings, Comrade Buffoon,
It means change the name of Washington, DC, to [HIGHLIGHT=#ffff00]Alinskygrad.[/HIGHLIGHT]
It means change the flag to the HAMMER AND SICKLE!
Comrade Hillary promised me this.
Comrade Hillary will make it happpen, right Hillary?

Heh! heh! heh!
The assassination remark

Beware, Obama!!!


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well done Red...great insight...loved the rebuttles to the wannabes of the huddled masses...the dopes are everywhere...SALUTE!

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Natasha sans Boris wrote:Dahlink, our socialist/liberal/democrat/progressive ... whatever the alias de jour is ... friends must be peeing their pants with excitement! [...]

Natasha! It is deja vu all over again. Good to see you.[/size][/color]

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It's interesting to note how the people who romanticize communist tyranny almost never actually had to live in it. I wish there was a way to give Obamunist the society they wanted without destroying the society we have. I'd give 'em less than six months before they'd be screaming to be part of "God-damned America" again.

Oh yeah, I'm back from another glorious winter at the eco-friendly uranium mines, by the way!

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Comrade Saul,

Oh, thank you for the clarification, from now one when we use the word it will be in caps and bold, just don't tell the masses or it may scare them back to reality...

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Commissar M wrote:It's interesting to note how the people who romanticize communist tyranny almost never actually had to live in it. .....

Well said!
There are two types of people.
Those that get up and get another beer from the fridge for themselves. Freedom loving capitalists.
....and those that have the wife or the dog do it for them. The People's Citizen.

I maintain the romanticism of communism is appealing to the second type, those only motivated by what others can do for them...like refreshing their beer.

Here is a video of beer drinking folk seeking assistance and direction in their life:

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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".

Corporal Hicks, Aliens

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From one of the linked videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIF6hOy5LNg

Does any of this look familiar, say to Oregon? Be aware, I am not committing a thought crime by stating that Obama is a Fascist, merely observing what seems to me a striking repetitiveness in the human condition.

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Having just seen Commissar Wahoo's avatar, I won't worry about my own thought crimes. That's like cruising down a Georgia interstate at 85 mph and having a Mercedes with Ohio plates blaze by you at 110...just as you pass a parked state trooper.

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Resident Evil 5 disenfranchises African Zombie Peoples.

"Picking on African Americans is bad enough," says Jesse Jackson, "but the fact they're undead makes them even more of a minority."

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Ivan Betinov wrote:Having just seen Commissar Wahoo's avatar, I won't worry about my own thought crimes. That's like cruising down a Georgia interstate at 85 mph and having a Mercedes with Ohio plates blaze by you at 110...just as you pass a parked state trooper.

How!

Me shoem mighty totem of my people, powerful medicine, especially after All-Star Game! Me no show, people chase me with sharp knives and tongues.

Me lookem for warm hat with proper insignia, no wear feather, too dam cold. Will look around in People's Issue but could use some help.

If you make-um war pony run faster than Damn Yankee tourist, shoot arrow in tire on way by, Georgia Trooper no catch-em you either. Best to be smarter than what you work-em on...

Ugh!

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Commissar Wahoo wrote:
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".

Corporal Hicks, Aliens

As my dad always said; "There isn't a single problem in the world that can't be solved with the proper use of high explosives."

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All Comrades... Stand at attention as the Soviet National Anthem is played!!! (At a Decemberists concert)

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The stupid conservatives say Obama's hope and change mantra is childish nonsense. They always try to ruin everthing anyways. Democracy would be so much better if there were only one party and everyone else had to shut up. Do you think he could pick Santa as his running mate? That would be sooo kuel.

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UPDATE:

In his Memorial Day speech yesterday, Obama said "....fought Fascism, and ..... in Korea and Vietnam"

OBAMA DID NOT IDENTIFY WHAT "WE" FOUGHT IN KOREA & VIET NAM - COMMUNISM!

How could he? That would be an insult to the memory of all his favorite heroes, and a betrayal of his and their ideals. In his circles, communism is a good thing.

But most importantly, that would disappoint his most trusted base - the radical left.
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Red, it may be that he is simply as stupid as the Pseudo-Revolutionary Decembrists; he may actually think that the enemy in Korea and Vietnam WERE the Fascists.

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Self-parody.
Anyone who says this is untrue is obviously trying to rob Obama of his uncle and the glorious Red Army of their victory in Poland. hateful, divisive, etc. And what a delivery, like a 3rd grader BS-ing his way through show-and-tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1sxq8mqvA

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Wow. American troops liberated Auschwitz. Here I sit with a freakin' Ph.D. in European Military History, and I didn't know that. This man is a true prodigy of an intellect.

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As a former Soviet citizen, I have quite an emotional connection to this music: the Soviet-era one-channel radios used to play it at six every morning as a nationwide wakeup call, causing me hours of lost sleep.


For some reason (possibly the Russian music), this reminds me of when I was a newlywed. At the time, my male oppressor had little to his name except an elaborate stereo system with all the fancy extras, and lots of CD's to include classical music. (Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still had only LP records.) He wired up the stereo so at 6 am every workday morning, it would start blasting Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23. Those majestic opening notes shocked us awake every time.

Glorious Leader, I'm enjoying your rebuttals to the handful of idiots under the PJM comments, who keep coming back for more. May their wangs rot.

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Da! You bet I have surfaced! Iz greatest opportunity to have fun since great purges or heroic special aktion Ukrainian 5 Year Diet Plan!

Already Dems so hungry they eating each other! That Hills is spezial dish for sure! Maybe a leetle overdone? Clinton charbonne? HaHa! Never mind -Obama may be all wet -Bisque de Barack! HaHa!

Time for show trial! Also -must have CHEKA check a certain McCain. Big Kanadian kapitalist klan named McCain in Novy Brunswick. Probably 5th kolumn links to FTA (Free Trade Army). Very suspiscious!

Anyvay -count convicts -count votes -iz all same. HaHa!

"Too busy to write about" - my babushka!

Bullshevik!

You write or else try hoeing pineapples in arctic.

Do sveedahnia tovarischie!

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Da, iz me again.

I notice right hand kolumn! Rightist deviationism! Dizinformatzia! Uncle Joe must be in left-hand kolumn! So "don't have time to write about"... Maybe you prefer herding skunkz in Siberia to writing about?

Do svedahnia tovarischie!

Ivan Betinov wrote:Wow. American troops liberated Auschwitz. Here I sit with a freakin' Ph.D. in European Military History, and I didn't know that. This man is a true prodigy of an intellect.
Image Vait -hold horsesradishes! I am Uncle poor Barack refers to. I did indeed liberate Auschwitz! Iz bad scene -stupid Nazis did not get enough work out of convicts -vee industrialise half a continent with our heroic labour kamps. Poor Barack has alvays been lost in fantasies. I lived upstairs in Kremlin -not his attic. Have KGB vatch stairs more better that way. Important delegations use front stairs, ballerinas from Bolshoi come in go out by back stairs. Peoples I don't like use back stairs -but only on vay out.

You vote for Barack or else.

Professors do not like hard labour in summer -never mind vinter! But -you learn to work hard and fast -keep warmer that vay.

Do sveedahnia tovarischie!

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Uncle Joe, you need to head on down to the Stalin Storehouse over on the "Crazy Uncle Surfaces" thread...

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Uncle Joe is back in action!!! And you know what? I think he is EXACTLY what the DNC needs right now as it's leader. Howard Dean has done a horrific job as chairman of the DNC!!! Look at this delegate mess between Hillary and Obama!!! If it is not straightened out immediately the upcoming convention is going to be like the one in Chicago in 1968!!! Do you think Howard Dean has the spine to do what is going to be necessary to prevent another 1968? NO!!!!

Only Uncle Joe can do it!!! He has the experience! He has the spine to stand up to these two egomaniacal candidates! And he doesn't mind getting his hands bloody dirty!

My Fellow Comrades in our glorious struggle for a Soviet Amerika and members of the Inner Circle™,

I hereby make a motion to nominate Uncle Joe as the[HIGHLIGHT=#d8d8d8]shadow[/HIGHLIGHT]Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in order to take control of Howard Dean and fix this bloody mess before the DNC convention.

Is there a second?

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The discussion of this article on PJM still continues, and one of my opponents posted this video - apparently as an affront, trying to hurt my feelings. But I found it hilarious.

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Here's part of my response to it on PJM:

The American anthem sung to the tune of the Soviet anthem over a slide show of patriotic images was most likely meant as an insult to America, but the silly dupes unwittingly created an excellent metaphor for historical revisionism that is rampant among the leftist ideologues in the academia, the Democratic Party, etc. I wish I had thought of it. It deserves to be on the People's Cube.

When leftists say they want to “take our country back,” what do they mean? When did it ever belong to them? Here's the answer. It belonged to them in the alternative revisionist version of history that exists in the minds of the brainwashed, and this video is a humorous epitome of such a vision.

And finally, it is only logical that foreigners who favor capitalism and opportunity immigrate to America and would like to preserve this country's political and economic system. I'm one of them. But why do people who dislike America, have no respect and don't care for it, come here and try to change its system to make it more socialistic?

I know why. They come and stay here for materialistic purposes. The wealth and the opportunity created by capitalism and free markets does trickle down, and these people have taken comfortable seats at the bottom of it and keep their mouths open, trying to catch as many drops as they can. And when they get their fill, they have the nerve to denounce materialism and the people whose wealth they had just feasted on. They pretentiously call themselves idealistic dreamers. What is their dream? To undermine the system that feeds them.

Thus the biggest materialists of all are preaching idealism to others without even bothering to let go of the tit they are sucking on. If that is not the most ridiculous hypocrisy, I don't know what is.


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Now that really is a bad dream, Comrade Red Square!

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Great Stalin!! I had an Obamagasm while watching that,Comrade Square.
Thank you for showing us the glorious world of Obamatomorrow.

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Obama's Communist "Poet" Friend
For months the group's president, Cliff Kincaid, has been writing about the close relationship the teenage Obama had in the 1970s with an elderly black man Obama refers to in his 1995 biography “Dreams From My Father” only as “a poet named Frank.”
“Frank,” as Kincaid reports at usasurvival.org, was actually Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), an important black poet, journalist and left-wing political and labor movement activist who was investigated in the early 1950s for his membership in the Communist Party USA.
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GAZA FOR OBAMA
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I saw this web banner today and it looked familiar....

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Finally! somone else sees that the Glorious Soviet anthem is great for dancing!


 
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