Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie, Kansas?

[SrWoodchuck]

DougRoss@Journal: Why did Obama choose, of all places, Osawatomie?

 

The reactions to Barack Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas this week were, if nothing else, consistent:

 

• It "sounded like what you'd expect to hear in Caracas or Buenos Aires."

• "Those who pride themselves on belonging to the party of smart people should be embarrassed."

• The speech "was deceitful, inaccurate, revisionist, and demagogic... a recreation, a fabrication if you will, of history, economics, and philosophy into a Pandoran construct of collectivist statism whereby society can demand the individual’s obedience and obeisance."

• The speech was "a thick coat of whitewash layered all over it, and the failure of the last three years lies underneath."

• The "elected president of the United States said in Osawatomie, Kansas, trying to be Teddy Roosevelt, that the United States of America has never worked. That is a quote, 'has never worked.'"

• A "Marxist attack on America."

 

Why did Obama choose, of all places, Osawatomie? One of the new media's living legends, Trevor Loudon, explains:

 

Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie, Kansas? Hang on? Where have I heard that name before? Osawatomie? ...back in the ’70s? Weather Underground terrorists… Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Didn’t Obama used to hang out with those guys?

 

 

I remember! Osawatomie was the publication of the Weather Underground!

 

Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper

 

The Weather Underground Organization logo in 1975; the Obama for President campaign logo in 2008.

[Valin]

 

• The speech "was deceitful, inaccurate, revisionist, and demagogic... a recreation, a fabrication if you will, of history, economics, and philosophy into a Pandoran construct of collectivist statism whereby society can demand the individual’s obedience and obeisance."

• The speech was "a thick coat of whitewash layered all over it, and the failure of the last three years lies underneath."

 

So in other words it was a preview of the 2012 Obama campaign.

[Pepper]

Valin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The speech "was deceitful, inaccurate, revisionist, and demagogic... a recreation, a fabrication if you will, of history, economics, and philosophy into a Pandoran construct of collectivist statism whereby society can demand the individual’s obedience and obeisance."

• The speech was "a thick coat of whitewash layered all over it, and the failure of the last three years lies underneath."

 

So in other words it was a preview of the 2012 Obama campaign.