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 From: will@msnbc.com 
  
 I graduated from high school in 1968, the best known year of the 
 fabled €60s decade.  My generation was known as the €hippy 
 generation,€ a generation characterized by drugs, anti-war 
 demonstrations, and long greasy hair.  Suffice it to say that a 
 person can be IN a generation without being OF that generation. 
 That was me.  While my peers were growing their hair and dodging 
 the draft, I had a crewcut and served in the Marine Corps.  As 
 for drugs, they weren€t even on my radar screen. 
  
 I once naively believed that with the election of Ronald Reagan 
 America had experienced a rebirth of patriotism, respect for the 
 military, and a return to the traditional values that made 
 America great.  I thought we had finally put the last vestiges 
 of the €60s behind us.  Boy was I mistaken.  With President 
 Obama in office, the €60s radicals who had not been heard from 
 in a while crawled out of the woodwork with a vengeance.  By 
 supporting, advising, and guiding Barack Obama, former members 
 of various organizations such as the misnamed Students for a 
 Democratic Society (SDS) and the even more radical Weathermen 
 are once again influencing America€s future. 
  
 Writing for Townhall magazine, Kathy Jessup had this to say 
 about the reemerging influence of 60€s radicals on American 
 politics and culture: €€unlike tie-dye shirts and platform 
 shoes, the Marxist or Maoist or socialist SDS politics never 
 went dormant.  Former leaders of the original SDS and also its 
 splinter Weatherman group€labeled €a domestic terrorist group€ 
 by the FBI€are installed in academia, organized labor, advocacy 
 organizations and in the highest levels of the Obama 
 administration€In fact, the €60s college-campus political 
 phenomenon seeded today€s new left.€ 
  
 It turns out that in the intervening years, €60s radicals have 
 not just been biding their time.  Rather, they have spent their 
 adult years climbing the career ladder in higher education, 
 organized labor, and various advocacy groups and using their 
 positions to prepare for a reemergence once America elected a 
 president more open to their Marxist views.  The grown up 
 radicals got just what they wanted with the election of Barack 
 Obama.  Those who lived through the €60s will recognize the 
 names of William Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Tom Hayden, and Mark 
 Rudd€big names among the most radical of €60s radicals, and all 
 sharing various ties to President Obama. If you are too young to 
 remember these names, search for them on the Internet.  Doing so 
 will be a real eye opener. 
  
 There is an old saying that you can tell a lot about a person by 
 who his friends are.  President Obama€s friends are some the 
 most vociferous anti-American radicals in our nation€s history. 
 They are Marxists, Maoists, socialists, and communists who hate 
 America and everything it stands for, and they are helping 
 establish Obama€s agenda.   Next time you find yourself 
 wondering why President Obama is so anti-military, anti- 
 Christian, and anti-business, just consider where he gets his 
 advice.  The €60s were about more than just burning bras and 
 draft cards.  They were also about burning down the values that 
 made America great and replacing them with the socialist values 
 of €60s radicals. 
  
 http://patriotupdate.com/revenge-of-the-60s-radicals/ 
     € 
  
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