Barack Obama and Alger Hiss
Great Op-ed at The American Spectator...
The Alger Hiss Democrats
By Jeffrey LordThe purpose here is not to recount the particulars of the Hiss case. After a series of stunning events, finally including the revelation of stolen State Department documents that conclusively proved Hiss's guilt [as a Soviet spy], Hiss went to prison....
Of all the critical issues hanging fire in this election season -- Iraq, terror, the economy, judges, health care and more -- it is now apparent that the undercurrent to all of these issues will be the odors of snobbish elitism that emanate ever more aromatically from the left. As Obama comes into focus there is less and less question which side of the jagged fissure he would have sought out had he been around in 1948.
It takes no imagination to see Obama laughing and applauding Hiss were he sitting in the spectator section behind the witness, who, like Obama, was a Harvard law graduate. It is easy to see Obama not getting the problem of an association with Hiss just as he right now has no understanding of the problem others see with his association with Weatherman William Ayres. Indeed, based on what has been revealed thus far about Obama allowing Ayres to host a fundraiser for his state senate campaign, then later going on to serve on the board of the Woods Foundation with Ayres one sees a 21st-century version of Chambers description of the liberals who rallied to Hiss and saw no big deal. Both Obama and Ayres, as with Bill Maher, perfectly fit the image of the 1948 liberal intellectual "of almost every feather" who "swooped and hovered in flocks like fluttered sea fowl -- puffins, skimmers, skuas and boobies" as they gave vent to "hoarse cries and defilements."
Read the full piece at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13086.
Posted by Danny Carlton at April 22, 2008 7:13 AM