Why Does Obama Get A Pass On Appearing With Supporters Of A Totalitarian Dictatorship?
Shouldn’t a person running for the position of leader of the free world be an advocate for… freedom?
Recently Barack Obama created a media sensation when he seemed to attract a crowd of 75,000 people in Portland. Later, however, it turned out that the crowd in question was mostly already in the Portland park (it was a beautiful day) and there was a free rock concert. Meaning that Obama went to the crowd more than the crowd went to Obama.
But perhaps more important than the size of Obama’s crowd is who he chose to appear with that day. The rock band that played at his event was called The Decemberists, named after the Russian Decembrist Revolt. That in and of itself isn’t that bad (the Decembrist Revolt was more a rejection of Russia’s monarchy than an embrace of socialism, though according to Wikipedia the band’s frontman thinks it was a communist revolt), but what is bad is that the Decemberists routinely play the Soviet Union’s national anthem at the beginning of shows.
The Soviet Union. The evil empire. The country that, for decades, had hundreds of nuclear weapons pointed at our country. The country responsible for the oppression in East Berlin. The country with leaders like Stalin and Lenin who responsible for genocide and the outright murder of tens of millions of innocent citizens. And this band, one that Barack Obama either chose himself or at least agreed to appear with, is celebrating the regime.
I, personally, don’t see all that much to distinguish the totalitarianism of the Soviets from the totalitarianism of the Nazis. Certainly the Soviet body count was higher, and Barack Obama is using people who openly glorify the Soviets to campaign for President.
That’s not just inappropriate and disgusting, it’s also yet another link between Obama and anti-American, pro-socialist radicalism. Jeremiah Wright. William Ayers. Bernadette Dhorn. The Decemberists.
This is a problem for Obama, and anyone thinking it isn’t going to be a campaign-sinking issue in the general election is fooling themselves.
