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New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism - Washington Times

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The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.
Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."
"The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online encyclopedia explains.
The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.
The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning.
There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication.
East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC Vorwaerts Frankfort).
Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for "forward") in 1905. Soviet propaganda film-maker Dziga Vertov made a documentary whose title is sometimes translated as "Forward, Soviet" (though also and more literally as "Stride, Soviet").
Conservative critics of the Obama administration have noted numerous ties to radicalism and socialists throughout Mr. Obama's history, from his first political campaign being launched from the living room of two former Weather Underground members, to appointing as green jobs czar Van Jones, a self-described communist.

I wonder how long this Wiki page will be around before it's deleted??

Forward (generic name of socialist publications) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other leftwing newspapers and publications. For example, Vpered (Russian language for 'Forward') was the name of the publication that Lenin started after having resigned from the Iskra editorial board in 1905 after a clash with Georgi Plekhanov and the Mensheviks.[1]
Publications named Forward (in different languages)

Avante!, organ of the Portuguese Communist Party
Avanti!, organ of the Italian Socialist Party
Eteenpäin, Finnish-language newspaper in the United States
Forverts/The Forward, a Yiddish/English newspaper from New York
Új Előre ('New Forward'), a Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States
Voorwaarts!, organ of the Communist Youth Movement (Netherlands)
Vorwärts, organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Vorwärts!, published from Paris in 1844 and associated with the Communist League

Is Obama Jewish too?

The Jewish Daily Forward

Oh, my. Is it subliminally supposed to turn us commie?:eek:

Or...

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for·ward
[fawr-werd]
adverb Also, forwards.
1.
toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
2.
toward the front: Let's move forward so we can hear better.
3.
into view or consideration; out; forth: He brought forward several good suggestions.

Sometimes a word is just a word. Hey. It could happen.

Isn't that MSNBC's tag line?

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Originally Posted by tbomachines (Post 2929733)

Is Obama Jewish too?

The Jewish Daily Forward

How about a white negro?

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 2929741)

Oh, my. Is it subliminally supposed to turn us commie?:eek:

or perhaps, its a word fondly remembered from his youth.

Virgil Exner's "forward look" in car design

that is what I think of when I see that word.

I remember as a boy seeing the "Suddenly, it's 1960!" on the billboards touting the new 1957 Chrysler Corporation's automotive offerings..

Do *YOU* ? :D

Forward Look - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't forget the awful "cab forward" design of Chrysler cars in the 1990s, how's that for memories?

There is no mistaking Virgil's work for anyone else's.

move along, move along, nothing to see behind us...... unless you skip back 4 years anyway

Is it like "let's count all the votes overseas" forward?

Onward Christian Soldiers.