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Tied to Ayers' group, extremist groups operating on campus
June 11, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. A recently released book uncovers untold aspects
of President Obama's mysterious college years, tying the politician
to associates of Weather Underground founder William Ayers and to
radical groups operating at the time.
The new book, "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's ties to
communists, socialists and other anti-American extremists," charges
Obama has deep ties to an anti-American extremist nexus that has been
instrumental not only in building his political career but in
crafting current White House policy.
The book exposes an extremist coalition of communists, socialists and
other radicals working both inside and outside the administration to
draft and advance current White House policy goals.
With nearly 900 citations, the New York Times best-selling title from
WND senior reporter and WABC Radio host Aaron Klein bills itself as
the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama's
political background and radical ties. Klein's co-author is historian
and researcher Brenda J. Elliott.
In one of the many strange features of Obama's presidential
candidacy, his 2008 campaign went to great lengths to conceal
normally routine information about the candidate's college years.
The information included his first two undergraduate years at
Occidental College in Los Angeles, followed by his final two years
and graduation from Columbia University in New York City.
No official or unofficial records were ever made available. No
college transcripts, published records, or even contemporary
newspaper announcements about his education have been released.
Obama remarkably relates in his autobiography "Dreams from My Father"
that, beginning at Occidental, he surrounded himself with an
assortment of radicals, socialists, Marxist-Leninists, Maoists and communists.
Obama, however, provides neither names nor clues.
"The Manchurian President" uncovers a slew of radicals with whom
Obama associated during his college years.
SDS founder
It was at Occidental that Obama first engaged in community activism,
delivering what has been described as the first political speech of
his career. On Feb. 18, 1981, Obama addressed students gathered
outside Coons Hall administration building, exhorting Occidental's
trustees to divest from South Africa.
Obama writes in "Dreams" about the rally in which he took part,
reportedly led by the Black Student Alliance and Students for
Economic Democracy.
Obama agreed to deliver the opening remarks for the rally, for which,
he writes, "the agenda had been carefully arranged beforehand." In
the middle of his speech "a couple of white students" were to come
onstage, "dressed in their paramilitary uniforms," to drag him away.
"A bit of street theater, a way to dramatize the situation for
activists in South Africa," Obama writes.
Students for Economic Democracy, or SED, was a national student
advocacy group established by soon-to-be California State
Representative Tom Hayden, now a professor at Occidental, and his
former wife, actress Jane Fonda
Hayden authored the 1962 "Port Huron Statement," the first official
political manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS
the radical 1960s protest movement from which Ayers' Weathermen
terrorist organization splintered.
An example of Hayden's brash rhetoric dates to his December 1968
testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the
Chicago "anti-war protests."
At the committee, a portion of Hayden's SDS manifesto was read:
"Disobey your parents: burn your money: you know life is a dream and
all of our institutions are man-made illusions effective because YOU
take the dream for reality. … Break down the family, church, nation,
city, economy; turn life into an art form, a theatre of the soul and
a theatre of the future; the revolutionary is the only artist. …
What's needed is a generation of people who are freaky, crazy,
irrational, sexy, angry, irreligious, childish and mad: people who
burn draft cards, burn high school and college degrees; people who
say: "To hell with your goals!"; people who lure the youth with
music, pot and acid; people who re-define the normal; people who
break with the status-role-title-consumer game; people who have
nothing material to lose but their flesh. …"
When asked if this was "the way to have a better America," Hayden
called them "beautiful sentiments."
The official mission statement for Hayden's SED, for which Obama
delivered a major speech, espouses socialist ideology:
"Economic democracy means that ownership and control will be spread
among a wide variety of public bodies: city, state and Federal
governments, churches, trade unions, cooperatives and community
groups, small business people, workers and consumers."
Hayden later was a founding member of Progressives for Obama, a
matrix of radicals who supported Obama's presidential candidacy.
Meanwhile, "Manchurian" relates Obama's involvement with the
anti-apartheid movement, which sparked a firestorm of activism at Occidental.
Political mentors
The book rejects as unlikely speculation from various media outlets
that two Occidental professors, Roger Boesche and Eric Newhall,
served as Obama's political mentors at the time.
Instead, "Manchurian" finds the most likely candidate to be
Occidental professor Gary Chapman, whose background includes
"military service, academic research and organizational experience."
Chapman's political organization and campaign experience also
includes "peace issues" with the New American Movement, or NAM. The
lineage of NAM is associated with that of the Democratic Socialists
of America. NAM also is identified as a "splinter group" of Hayden's
and Ayers' SDS.
Appeared with Columbia activist, Ayers
Obama has revealed almost nothing about his last two years as an
undergraduate at Columbia University's Columbia College.
Obama has said he was involved with the Black Students Organization,
which emerged in the 1960s in response to a growing black student
population at Columbia. Undergraduates formed the Student
Afro-American Society, "which was concerned with the affairs of black
students and issues of the greater black community."
The Coalition for a Free South Africa, or CFSA, began as a Black
Students' Organization committee to promote Columbia University's
divestment in stock in companies doing business in South Africa.
CFSA, which split from the Black Students' Organization in 1981, was
a loosely structured group with a predominantly black steering
committee of about a dozen individuals who made decisions by
consensus, and a less active circle of about fifty students who
attended meetings and the group's protests and educational events."
Early CFSA leaders were Danny Armstrong, a Columbia College student
who played forward for Columbia's basketball team, and Barbara
Ransby, a student from the School of General Studies
As CFSA spokeswoman, Ransby famously convinced Columbia's student
senate "to support full divestment."
Ransby, now an associate professor of African-American studies and
history at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the executive
director of Public Square, was in the class of 1984 at Columbia, only
one year behind Obama, who would later publicly appear with both
Ransby and Ayers.
In April 2002, Ransby appeared at a University of Illinois-Chicago
forum and sat on the same panel "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis:
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent
situations" with both Obama and Ayers.
Obama knew FCC chief from Columbia activism?
Another name that emerges from Obama's involvement with the Black
Students' Organization and Coalition for a Free South Africa is that
of Julius Genachowski.
In October 2008, Genachowski, co-founder of the venture capital firm
LaunchBox Digital, was described as "an adviser to Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama."
Obama and Genakowski were later Harvard Law School classmates.
In August 2008 it was reported in the New York Times that
Genachowski, who led the Obama campaign's technology working group,
was also a big fundraiser. Genachowski raised at least $500,000 as an
Obama "bundler."
In March 2009, Obama nominated Genachowski to chair the Federal
Communications Commission, and he was sworn in June 29, 2009.
Book uncovers radical nexus
Along with a chapter on Ayers, "The Manchurian President" includes an
extensive investigation into Obama's own background. The work
uncovers, among many other things, Obama's early years, including his
previously overlooked early childhood ties to a radical, far-left
church connected to Ayers' ideology.
Obama's associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation
Theology and black political extremists are also revealed, with
extensive new information on the subjects.
Also detailed are Obama's deep ties to ACORN, which are much more
extensive than previously documented elsewhere. The book crucially
describes how a socialist-led, ACORN-affiliated union helped
facilitate Obama's political career and now exerts major influence in
the White House.
"The Manchurian President" contains potentially explosive information
not only about President Obama but also concerning other officials in
the White House, including top czars and senior advisers Valerie
Jarrett and David Axelrod.
"The Manchurian President" also exposes how Obama's health-care
policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and
partially crafted by extremists, some of whom reveal in their own
words that their principal aim is to achieve corporate socialist
goals and a vast increase in government powers.
"I believe this work is crucial to Americans from across the
political spectrum," says Klein, "including mainstream Democrats who
should be alarmed that their party has been hijacked by an
extreme-left fringe bent on permanently changing the party to fit its
radical agenda.
"Indeed, this book will document, with new information, Obama's own
involvement with a socialist party whose explicit goal was to
infiltrate and eventually take over the Democratic Party and mold it
into a socialist organization," Klein claims.
Klein began investigating Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign
and broke major national stories. He first exposed the politician's
association with Ayers in a widely circulated WND article.
The story prompted the Nation magazine to lament, via the CBS News
website, that "mainstream reporters now call the Obama campaign to
ask about Klein's articles."
It was in a WABC Radio interview with Klein that Ahmed Yousef, chief
political adviser to Hamas, "endorsed" Obama for president,
generating world headlines and sparking controversy. Republican
presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and Obama repeatedly traded
public barbs over Hamas' positive comments.
Klein was among the first reporters to expose that Obama's "green
jobs" czar, Van Jones, founded a communist organization and called
for "resistance" against the U.S. government. The theme was picked up
and expanded upon by the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck, leading to
Jones' resignation last September.
Co-author Brenda J. Elliott is a historian, author and investigative
researcher known for her blogging during the 2008 presidential
election about Ayers, Tony Rezko and other controversial figures
linked to Obama. Since 1988, Elliott has been responsible for a
number of historical projects, has won an award by Project Censored
for her work and has been named "One of the Intriguing People" by
Central Florida magazine.
The introduction to "The Manchurian President" relates: "Barack Obama
is backed by and deeply tied to an anti-American fringe nexus that,
as this book will show, was instrumental not only in mentoring Obama
and helping him to build his political career, but essentially in
overthrowing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and in
securing and powerfully influencing Obama's presidency.
"As will be seen, these radical associates not only continue to
influence Obama and White House strategy, but some are directly
involved in creating the very policies intended to undermine or
radically transform the United States of America."
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