Decoding Obama's Leftist Campaign Codewords

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Propaganda: The Obama campaign's new slogan, "Forward," has long ties to Marxism and communism. Coincidence? Not likely. This president has a habit of speaking in code to fellow travelers.

As the Washington Times notes, "Forward!" captures "the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism."

In 1905, V.I. Lenin founded the communist organ "Vpered," Russian for "forward," and Leon Trotsky wrote for a German socialist paper called "Forward."

Obama's new slogan, released in a campaign video, follows another video reintroducing the president to voters. Its title, "The Road We've Traveled," is almost identical to the title of a book by an American socialist.

Published in 1942 by economist Stuart Chase, "The Road We Are Traveling" extols the virtues of the New Deal, a phrase he's credited with coining.

Chase, who admired the Soviet's planned economy, also is famous for the quote: "Why should Russians have all the fun remaking a world?"

During the 2008 campaign, Obama exhorted the faithful to "continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal society."

The historical significance of the "long march" was not likely lost on Obama, a former professor who's known to choose his words very carefully.

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In 1935, Mao's Red Army broke through enemy lines to narrowly escape annihilation at the hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army in China. The communists' long bloody retreat was later hailed a strategic victory because the nationalists failed to destroy them.