Obama Channels Marx on Masses' Reverence for Religion

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Obama Channels Marx on Masses' Reverence for Religion
 
It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to . . . religion . . . as a way to explain their frustrations. --  Barack Obama, 2008
Has anyone else pointed out the striking similarity between  Barack Obama's recent statement about tough economic times driving people to religion and that of another person who preached change: Karl Marx?

 Obama added guns and xenophobia to his list of proletarian elixirs for bitterness. But the fundamental point remains:  Barack apparently doesn't take religion, his own or anyone else's, too seriously. It's not a search for truth or an attempt to live in accordance with God's word. It's just a way to get by, a stupefacient that helps  proles endure the pain of living in an economy unfairly dominated by the "haves." Karl would concur.

This morning's Today did take up the controversy that Obama's remark has kicked up.View video here.

Of course there was no suggestion at Today that Obama might have been channeling Marx. But is the notion outlandish? Consider what Ace of Spades has uncovered about Frank Marshall Davis, the mentor Obama almost surely describes in his book Dreams from My Father:

Barack Obama is very vague about his actual politics and few have bothered asking. Now comes a well-nigh conclusive case that the "Frank" referred to in Dreams From My Father is in fact Frank Marshall Davis, a noted member of the Communist Party USA.

Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 "at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson," came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.
As Horne describes it, Davis "befriended" a "Euro-American family" that had "migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago."
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Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who also confirms that Davis is the "Frank" in Obama's book, did her dissertation on Davis and spent much time with him between 1972 until he passed away in 1987.

If it's relevant that some Republicans have belonged to the Federalist Society -- or even done as little as show up for the debates they host -- how can it not be relevant that Barack Obama's political education, paternal, "spiritual," and now academic as well, is all straight out of Karl Marx? (the Elitist have their Manchurian Candidate.)

Will the MSM get around to exploring Obama's radical roots and abiding ideology? A few more candid statements from the candidate along the lines of his "clinging to religion" remark, might just force the media's hand.