Originally Posted by
Buttons.
Please tell me you are joking.
Marxist, no he is not. Not that original untainted Marxist philosophy was terrible anyway, but that's beside the point.
Anti-American. What is 'anti-American'? Sending Americans to die for an illegal war perhaps? Repressing gay American people's right to marriage? But someone trying to ensure that everyone has healthcare in a land that declares 'all men are created equal', God forbid?
No Obama is not a classical Marxist. That actually went out of style a long time ago. Marxism was "re-theorized" by Antonio Gramsci (Italian communist who died in the 1930's) and the Frankfurt School (began in Germany but moved to Columbia university in NY when Nazis took over). Neo-Marxism seeks to create a new proletariat using fringe groups within a society to militate against the core of society and its values. Black liberation neo-Marxists such as Obama's minister like Mao over Marx because they find Marx to white and European and prefer developing world, non-European Marxists.
"Anti-American" in Obama's case means subverting the economy on purpose - and collapsing defenses on purpose . In a terrible recession (created by the left giving out mortgages to people who couldn't afford them ) Obama declared war on business and the private sector. He defamed bankers, insurance companies, manufacturers etc. and sent a chill through markets. He robbed creditors of their legal due in car maker bankruptcies and gave the money to the unions that are his voting block.
He also wrecked peoples health-care (the reason independents and other Democrats abandoned him). Obama ran as a moderate who wouldn't raise taxes and he became the exact opposite. He also threw Israel down the well despite the support he promised during campaign. He also unilaterally disarmed the US with treaties were only the US makes concessions and he refunded missile defense shields at home and in Eastern Europe. He has ignored Iran and its pursuit of the bomb and their promise to use it. We are on track for a major war in Mid East and Obama will have helped that along quite substantially. He's been quite a disaster all around.
Not sure what gay marriage has to do with America specifically since most countries don't have that either - and some execute homosexuals.
Obama also continued the war in Afghanistan when people really don't want it anymore and that includes many conservatives. The people aren't into the "nation building thing" that the wars deviated into. Afghanistan was a smart war as it began but it should have ended a long time ago outside of occasional "policing" Al Qaeda camps etc. Obama doesn't even care about the wars and didn't even meet with the generals in his first six months in office. Obama's war (for him) is on America itself and its capitalist foundations.