SubscribeCPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical
Forget for the moment about Bill Ayers and Obama’s other Communist friends and mentors of the distant past.
Just behold the current ‘Election 2008′ brochure from the Communist Party Of The United States (a pdf file):
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Election 2008
Help Make History
Turn Our Country Around
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility.
Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility. Across the land, people are coming together to reshape our nation’s priorities to make government “of, by and for the people” a reality.
From the Midwest to the South, from coast to coast, in big cities and rural communities voters have turned out in record numbers for change.
A landslide vote on November 4 can open the way to recovery from the very deep wounds of the Bush administration and decades of corporate right-wing control.
There is a crisis in every critical area of national life. Profits at the top are record high, but families can’t make ends meet. Trillions are squandered in Iraq, but 45 million are without health care. Billions are spent on tax breaks to the super rich, but working families are losing their homes and young people can’t afford higher education.
Working people want bold new policies to end war restore democratic traditions and create green living wage jobs, affordable housing, healthcare and quality education for everyone.
Republican John McCain, the candidate of the military industrial complex, will continue the Bush agenda. “100 years” in Iraq, Social Security privatization, and tax cuts for the rich. His Republican partners in Congress have blocked, stalled or gutted every bill that benefits working people since they lost majority control in 2006.
Although the ultra-right is weakened and divided, they continue to push fear, division, racism and anti-immigrant bigotry in this year’s elections, aided and abetted by the corporate media. These multi-pronged poisonous tactics can only be overcome with unbreakable unity.
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
Voters are demanding a new kind of politics to rebuild our country for the common good. A democratic spirit of unity and hope is inspiring millions to get involved.
During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, unemployed workers and their allies marched and organized until public works jobs, Social Security and New Deal programs were won. In the 1960’s the great civil rights movement won the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
In 2008, union members, African Americans, Latinos, youth and women, seniors, environmental and peace voters are forging a powerful new all encompassing movement that makes great changes possible.
Help make history. Talk with co-workers, neighbors, friends and family. Volunteer to knock on doors, make calls, get online to turnout a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4, and keep the movement going.
EMERGENCY PROGRAM TO REPAIR, RENEW AND REBUILD
We offer these proposals as a contribution toward the bold policy changes necessary to meet the immediate needs of working people, eliminate poverty and move our country forward with a new President and Congress. Funding to come from monies now being spent on the Iraq war, military budget and tax breaks to the super rich.
1. Immediate Relief
A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Reset mortgages so payments are affordable. No bail outs for banks.
Extend unemployment compensation, increase payments and eligibility. Increase food stamps, WIC, children’s health insurance, and low income energy assistance.
Assist deficit-ridden state and local governments so they can preserve services and jobs. Fund “ready-to-go” infrastructure projects.
EMERGENCY PROGRAM TO REPAIR, RENEW AND REBUILD
2. A Peacetime, Green Jobs Economy for All
Enact massive public works job creation to make existing buildings energy efficient, construct new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, mass transit and bridges. Priority to areas hurt by loss of manufacturing, loss of family farms and highest unemployment areas including the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast.
Major clean, affordable energy development project for solar, wind and biomass electricity generation. Immediate program to cut greenhouse gas emissions and for environmental cleanup. Restore Federal energy regulation and encourage public ownership of utilities.
Enact the Employee Free Choice Act to enable workers to form unions without intimidation and win higher wages and benefits, dignity and respect.
Enact HR 676 the US National Health Insurance Act to provide universal health insurance with single-payer financing. Fully fund public education from pre-school through higher education and technical training. No privatization of Social Security or Medicare. Expand and improve benefits.
3. Restore Civil Rights, the Bill of Rights and Separation of Powers
Restore Civil Rights Act enforcement, affirmative action in employment, education, and housing. End the “school to prison” pipeline. Outlaw hate crimes. Preserve Roe v. Wade.
Pass immigration reform with legalization, a path to citizenship, due process, no militarization of the borders, and no exploitative guest worker programs. No human being is illegal.
Repeal Patriot Act. Restore Habeas Corpus rights. No more torture. Investigate and prosecute Bush administration violations of the Constitution.
Expand voting rights. Enact publicly financed elections, same day registration, voting rights for ex-felons, verifiable voting equipment, and instant runoff voting. Restore Fairness Doctrine in media.
4. Strength through Peace
Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq with no bases or U.S. corporations left behind. Full care for returning veterans. No war on Iran or expansion of troops in Afghanistan. Assistance to Iraqi people to rebuild their country.
Adopt a new foreign policy of diplomacy and respect for all nations, instead of preemptive war for corporate interests. Renew commitment to UN peace role.
End trade policies that enrich corporations while destroying jobs. Ratify Kyoto Treaty and other climate change agreements.
Enforce nuclear non-proliferation, work to abolish nuclear weapons. Cut Pentagon spending in half, close down US bases around the world.
Vote November 4 as if your life, and your future, depend on it!
Defeating the right wing is the first step in the struggle to end exploitation, poverty, racism and war inherent in capitalism.
The Communist Party USA and Young Communist League participate in today’s movements confident that they set the stage for more fundamental change tomorrow.
Throughout our 88-year history we have defended the interests of the working class, fighting for unity and democratic rights. Today we are guided by our motto, “People and Nature Before Profits.”
Our vision is a socialist USA, that opens the way for equality, world peace, real democracy, a society in which people control their own destinies in a sustainable world.
For our full program visit http://www.cpusa.org
We invite you to join us. Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA
For comments or more information call: 212-989-4994 or e-mail: politicalaction@cpusa.org
Young Communist League http://www.yclusa.org
Peoples Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo http://www.pww.org
Political Affairs http://www.politicalaffairs.net
In case anyone is confused about the ultimate goals of the CPUSA, they have been kind enough to post online their “Program Of The Communist Party USA.”
Maybe we should offer a prize to anyone who can find one scintilla of divergence between what the CPUSA want and what Obama and the rest of the Democrats want.
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August 8th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
-’People before Profits’ - what a @(#$*&$ bunch of crappola - businesses provide services and products - that the ‘people’ benefit from (not to mention jobs and the indirect jobs [trucking, transportation, ad, stores etc] that also benefit the people. Government does nothing but suck increasing amounts of money from the people to accomplish nothing but taking away their rights, freedoms and opportunities.
Ratify Kyoto (UN conflageration that it is) hey, news flash it was under the Goracle’s tenure as VP that the US did not ratify it - the Goracle with his sidekick Liberman symbolically signed it but admitted they would not submit it for a vote.
Fairness Doctrine, Public Works jobs, Green jobs, Extend and expand Unemployment, Immigration Reform, Employee Free Choice Act, Felon vote, same day voter registration - man talk about corruption, destruction and chaos being the norm in America. I am so sick and tired of everyone wanting everything (college, housing, healthcare) to be ‘provided’ by the government - the government doesn’t provide a damn thing - it forces the employed and taxpaying citizens to provide the funds that are misued, defrauded and pocketed again and again.
Healthcare not Warfare - Well sugar - Warfare (actually Defense of the Nation) is in the Constitution and Healthcare isn’t. And if a Nation is under attack - well healthcare isn’t going to be a huge priority.
I wonder how many Americans buy into this crappola - Go find a wonderful, functional communist utopia to reside in - Leave Free and Opportunities abounding America alone!
August 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
That Obama is a socialist or communist should not be surprising to any of us. All or most of his mentors fall into the category of socialist or communist as well. But then, all or most of Hillary’s beliefs fall into these categories. The Democrat Party of 2008 is of the Left. It is Progressive in the sense of utopian socialism. If everyone is equal, why is it that the leadership of the socialists or Progressives always have more money, better homes, medical care, retirement, education, vacations, cars, and food than everyone else? Oh, and why is it that all of us get to pay these leaders to live that way? It’s a lot like a dictatorship, but it can’t be called that. When they leave their gated, guarded compounds in their chauffeur driven limos every morning, they are on their way to do the People’s work. We should be so happy!
I just reviewed what I’ve written. It sounds too much like our Congress.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Here’s a well known communist dictator let’s see how he made out:
“NEW YORK (Reuters) — Cuban President Fidel Castro was furious when Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $550 million last year. This year, the magazine upped its estimate of the communist leader’s wealth to a cool $900 million.”
http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....stro_x.htm
August 8th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
SG, seems that the only difference with the CPUSA and the B. Hussein Obama campaign would be that he doesen’t actually know it by heart, he has some kind of idea but it all comes from the teleprompter each day, so is waffled out to his braindead believers of change. The CPUSA actually defines everything the dems want to do, and it’s probably easier to just refer to this piece of crap to see where the dems want the US to end up. How lovely.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Obama once again proves that there’s nothing original about his talking points. Not only is he a lying Bastard, he’s a plaguarizing lying Bastard. Has the choice ever been more clear in American politics?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
You all are right - so much of what Obamanation spews sounds just like he was reading it out of this pdf file - and then this -’Throughout our 88-year history’- so what is New or Change about this - if they have been at it for 88 years 1) doesn’t that mean it’s a failure as they not only haven’t accomplished their goal, according to them the past 8 years have set them back a century or two and 2) why do they keep attempting to foist this crappola upon America - San Francisco does not count anymore - as it appears to not have taken hold. You know McCarthy and all those from the 50s just might have had it right - they are attempting to take over the World and should be stopped . .
So now here is the question - Are the CPUSA the Democrats or is Obama a Communist?
Inquiring minds want to know. . .And oh by the way - what is the definition of affordable housing??? - I just can’t put my finger on exactly what that phrase is slamming - home ownership, financing, pricing, the suburbs? Or simply the fact that the dropouts and welfare crowd can’t buy a home - that fiberals is another DUH, big time.