Image from Wikipedia.
A Daily Caller article explains that Biden’s senior advisor Anita Dunn said the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong was one of her “favorite political philosophers” in a speech at a high school graduation in 2009.
In her speech, she said the following to the audience:
“In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over … the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army, they had the air force, they had everything on their side. And people said how could you win? How could you do this?”
“And Mao Zedong said, ‘You fight your war and I’ll fight mine.’ Think about that for a second. You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths. You fight your own war, you lay out your own path.”
Dunn was serving as Obama’s White House Communications Director when she made the statements, and she resigned a month after Glenn Beck first reported what she said.
Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” policy led to the murder of an estimated 45 million Chinese people from 1958 to 1962, making him one of the biggest mass murderers in human history.
Dunn later attempted to claim that her making the statement was intended to be “ironic.”
Despite Dunn’s statements, Joe Biden’s campaign has said in a campaign email, “She will be working closely with us on campaign strategy and overall coordination on budget and personnel as we build a bigger campaign for the next phase,” as reported by the New York Times.