David Frum Doesn’t Get It
But Bill Ayers? Does anybody really seriously believe that Barack Obama is a secret left-wing radical?
O.K., fine, I don’t think Obama is a secret left-wing radical. I think he is an out-in-the-open left-wing radical.
Where I come from heading up an effort to excise the 2nd Amendment from the Constitution by judicial fiat is radical. Where I come from advocating “education reform” that has more in common with Stalin than Jefferson and Hamilton is radical.
As Sol Stern notes:
President Hugo Chávez at his side, Ayers proclaimed his support for “the profound educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chávez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.” Ayers concluded his speech by declaring that “Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education—a humanizing and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation,” and then, as in days of old, raised his fist and chanted: “Viva Presidente Chávez! Viva la Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta la Victoria Siempre!”
Obama worked specifically to implement Ayers’ vision of education in Chicago, despite its manifest stupidity. The object of such reforms is not to educate children at all. The object is to produce little Chavenistas, or Ayerians, who are to be taught to attack everything this country stands for.
Frum doesn’t think that’s radical.
Frum needs to get out more.
Updated to add missing link to Stern piece.
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By Ropelight, October 7, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Frum isn’t going to look at the evidence. He knows the facts wouldn’t support his obviously false but firmly held convictions. Everyone in the news business already knows Obama is a left-wing radical. All they have to do is look at his voting record, he’s the most reliable liberal vote in any legislative body he’s ever participated in. Or, look at his friends and associates: You will know Obama by knowing the company he keeps. Dead-Bang-Simple.
Frum and MSM knows exactly who Barrak Obama is. and they’re doing everything in their power to keep American voters for finding out what they already know. That’s called “Journalism” today.
By syn, October 8, 2008 @ 5:33 am
What is going on with the upper eschelons ie Frum, Parker, Buckley Junior, Mz Prissy what-her-name, do they fear losing their place in the social register and won’t be invited to all the fabulous cocktail parties?
By Rich Horton, October 8, 2008 @ 6:42 am
Well, that and the fact that McCain was never “their guy.” Petty but true.