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May 04, 2008
We must now somehow survive
Curious for an explanation of the terms Weatherman and Weather Underground - it is a Bob Dylan reference, apparently - I came across The Weather Underground (2002). If you can spare the time on a rainy Sunday afternoon, it is an education. Anyone who thinks Obama is easier to beat than Clinton should think twice. You may be right but, take it from a concerned neighbour, the rest of the world cannot afford to take the chance he wins. Google Video hosts The Weather Underground for your consideration.
I think I may have figured out what the Obamas mean by a "community organizer". Check out the segment starting at 17:23 of the documentary. By 1969, Weathermen had decided working class youth outside the colleges would be "more revolutionary" than college students. This is, of course, obviously wrong - working class youth are too busy working to be parlour room revolutionaries - but such was their thinking. So off went Bill Ayers to organize the youth of Detroit. But there is more! At minute 25 we are treated to a walking tour of the Gold Coast riot by a baseball bat toting Ayers. It takes a special kind of posturing, fascist moron to think this makes him look - what - tough? One is struck by the unifying ideas advanced by pantomime Marxists screaming in rage against wealthy, white privilege: crippling self-importance and crippling self-hatred. Only the crippling self-esteem ideology of the 1980s was lacking to create the world of post-civilization we must now somehow survive.
In minute 37 a brief aside is made to Charles Manson and the Manson Family. Neither the film makers, nor the grotesque, tenured revolutionaries this excrescence of a documentary celebrates, seem to understand there is no difference in substance, and precious little difference in overt ideology, between the Weathermen and the Manson Family. Both groups present an unedifying spectacle of self-indulgent revolutionary morons fixated on race. Two minutes later the film features the voice over of a former Weatherman talking about having being possessed by hate, possessed of a conviction there were no innocent Americans - "no white ones", anyway. Over and over again we hear the Weatherman ideological talking point of "bringing the war home". To roost, perhaps.
This is wellspring of Obama's ideology. The very best we can hope for is his associations have been ones of venal expedience. Otherwise, he believes this evil nonsense.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 4, 2008 03:26 AM
Comments
I hope this doesn't cloud your view, but I can't see much difference here, between the Obama view and the Clinton view, as espoused by the Alinsky Model:
http://gopublius.com/hillary-clintons-wellesley-thesis/
Posted by: OregonGuy ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 4, 2008 03:26 PM
Flea, if you want to understand Obama, know that Wright is the elder Sith. The rest is shadow puppet theater.
Posted by: HelenW at May 4, 2008 10:37 PM
I consider it remarkable that you don't know this.
Now is the time at the Flea when we dance. Somewhere between 0:56 and 1:05.
Regards,
Ric
Posted by: Ric Locke at May 5, 2008 04:52 PM
OregonGuy: I have written grad papers that probably read well to the left of the young Clinton. The difference between her and Obama is I am convinced she is a cynic and a pragmatist. As I say, my worry is Obama might mean it.
HelenW: Only if the young Sith is using the Dark Side to get elected Chancellor of the Old Republic rather than using the Old Republic to the ends of the Dark Side.
Ric: Please follow the linked words "Bob Dylan" in the above post.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 5, 2008 08:01 PM
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