Subject: Carl Davidson and Barack Obama
Retired Geek
Location: VA
Date: Oct 3, 2008
There is an old Spanish saying.
“Tell me who you walk with, and I will tell you WHO YOU ARE!”
"I chose my friends carefully." Barack Obama, Dreams of My Father
Who is Carl Davidson - who helped organize the rally in 2002 where the featured speaker was Barack Obama?
Carl Davidson, who was one of SDS’s three elected national officers in 1968.
1) Marxist anti-war activist.
2) Former member of Students for a Democratic Society.
3) Political supporter of Barack Obama.
Carl Davidson joined Michael Klonsky in rejecting traditional politics for fringe Marxist movements. More recently, he helped organize the 2002 rally in which Obama first spoke out against the Iraq War and now serves as the webmaster of Progressives for Obama.
In 1992 Davidson became a leader of the newly formed Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.
The organization has since changed its name to the 'Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism', where Davidson remains a prominent figure.
Davidson was a major player in the Chicago branch of the 'New Party', a Marxist political coalition.
Most New Party members hailed from the 'Committees of Correspondence', 'the Democratic Socialists of America', and the militant leftist organization ACORN.
Carl Davidson first met Barack Obama through the 'New Party', which endorsed the Barack Obama in his run for the Illinois state senate in 1996. Obama had actively sought this endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers.
Surely every Marxist, Socialist and Radical cannot be wrong about Barack Obama - can they?
