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I went out today to run a few errands and I forgot to grab my XM radio from the computer room. This meant I had to listen to old fashioned terrestrial radio. One of the shows I listened to today was the king of AM talk radio, Rush Limbaugh.
As luck would have it, Rush was railing again liberals, communists, socialists, progressives, and President Barack Obama. While talking to a caller, the subject turned to an organization called the SDS. I had never heard of the organization before. Rush said that it stood for the “Students for a Democrat Society”. He said it was an anti-war organization. He said that Abbie Hoffman, the Chicago Seven, Tom Hayden, and Barack Obama were all former members.
Barack Obama?
When I got home, I looked up SDS on Wikipedia. It stands for “Students for a Democratic Society”, not “Democrat” as Rush said. Also, I highly doubt Barack Obama was ever a member. Wikipedia states that the SDS broke up in 1969. In 1969, Barack Obama was 8-years old and lived in Indonesia with his mother and her husband.
How does an 8-year old boy living on the other side of the world participate in an anti-war organization for college students? Remember, this was long before Al Gore ever invented the World Wide Internet Web.
I wish Rush Limbaugh was right. I wish Barack Obama was involved in the anti-war movement in the 1960’s. If he was, maybe he wouldn’t be going on national TV tonight announcing that he was sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. As if that is going to fix anything.
He could send six million more troops to Afghanistan and it wouldn’t fix anything. At the end of the day, it’s still going to be Afghanistan.
