NEW YORK – A 1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for “democracy with a small ‘d,’” while pushing a society based on collectivism and “common good.”
In the video unearthed by KleinOnline, Obama hails unions and collective bargaining as encapsulating the societal “common good” of which he speaks.
Obama urges society to collectively move “forward” – a word that would later serve as his 2012 campaign slogan.
Obama was speaking in an Aug. 11, 1995 interview pushing his just published book, “Dreams From My Father.” At the time, Obama was a community organizer planning to launch a political career.
Obama tells the interviewer the “best part” of the dream of his “African father and white American mother,” was the “notion that we collectively can decide on our fate.”
He continued: “That things like technological change, things like mass media, things like the market are all subject to our control. That we can make decisions for better or for worse and continue to move forward and progress.”
Obama was asked whether the collective meant “us” or “those of us who own the major media and other corporate entities.”
He replied, “You know, I think in the end it does have to be a broad us. It has to be democracy with a small ‘d.’”
Obama explained what he meant by democracy, laying out a “common good” that includes unions.
“I think that recapturing the spirit that existed not just in the civil-rights movement but in the union organizing movement, in the populous movement. I think there is a running thread; one of the better angels of our nature in this country which has been the notion that, you know, we can sit around the table and find common ground and make democracy work in the way that it should be working.”
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The guy should just come out and SAY IT…. he’s an ‘effing SOCIALIST!!!! He’s dancing, hemming and hawing around not wanting to really disclose it, but he’s saying that his an ‘effing SOCIALIST!!! He well knows that most people DO NOT like to hear that word, so he’s being devious about it. What an ASS HOLE and a SNAKE he is!
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And yet so many many idiots these days go to great lengths to deny Obama is a Socialist.
“All tenderness leads to the gas chambers” Father Smith in Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome. It is always couched in the sweetest terms.
Some are indeed idiots who deny he is a socialist because they themselves are ignorants who don’t know what socialism is, its history, nor its nature. That said, they are not going to admit being idiots either. Furthermore, they are also not willing to have such a thing get in between their single issue vote (be it race, gay marriage, union jobs, etc).
There is also a reality, there are many others who DO SEE he is a socialist and embrace it. These people have been worked for years, the times are tough (which fosters the conditions), and now they want Obama to pay for their gasoline by taxing Calvin Klein (so they think). They are simply bending over for it no matter what. What we are seeing, and what we will see in November, is very revealing and will reveal the future beyond Obama because Obama will go, Obamas are plenty, and the population stays.