Ethics

OMG! Obama is a Communist, Part 2!

By Ed Brayton

This really is becoming rather amusing to watch as the right wing smear machine searches frantically for ways to make Obama out to be either a communist or a fascist. You want proof? Baby, they got proof. Cliff Kincaid has all the evidence you need. Get this: when Obama lived in Hawaii during his preteen and teen years he recalls being visited by a man named Frank, a black poet who had once hung out with Langston Hughes in Chicago. And they think that man was Frank Marshall Davis, who was outed as a commie by Joseph McCarthy in the 50s.

What? You need more evidence that Obama is a commie? Damn, you people are skeptical. Well take this, you pagan secular humanist Jew-loving socialists: Lisa Schiffren knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama is a commie because she knows lots of mixed race couples and mixed race couples are always communists:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).