A leopard does not change it’s spots…
Lachlan Markay at Heritage reports:
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union.
Full list: Honorary Chairs: Bogdan Denitch, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dolores Huerta, Eliseo Medina, Eugene "Gus" Newport, Frances Fox Piven, Gloria Steinem, Cornel West.
Huerta has claimed, “Republicans hate Latinos,” and has spoken fondly of Hugo Chavez’s despotic regime in Venezuela. Some of her more radical comments were captured in this audio clip:
More at The Blaze.
Can we call Obama a socialist now?
Update:
Barack Obama spoke at a Democratic Socialists of America organized forum at the University of Chicago in early 1996.[4]
- Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled “Employment and Survival in Urban America”, the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats.
The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago’s 4th Ward, Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District, Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago, Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA’s National Political Committee[5].
- Barack Obama observed that Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in the 1960s wasn’t simply about civil rights but “demanded jobs as well”.
- One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left.”
- Obama felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
- The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that “money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution… A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties.”
- The state government “can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.”
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Finally, Illinois “needs an industrial strategy. How do we create more jobs for everyone? Illinois has no strategy for encouraging high wage, high productivity jobs”.
That’s a rhetorical question, folks.
Edit: Meanwhile according to Obama Lech Walesa was to “political” to accept the Medal of Freedom on behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II. Walesa was banned by the O admin. from accepting the medal, even though Polish officials had requested that he do so.
Obama gives the Medal of Freedom to a Marxist- How Orwellian is that?
As you know, how many times have I said “you are who you surround yourself with”! Obama is a scumbag Radical Marxist Socialist! All he is doing here is paying respect to his handlers!