If you read "Mein Kampf", more power to you. But in the case of Obama it is not one book. It is a lifetime of association. There is evidence that the values of any given person are set by the time they are ten. Of course that is not set in concrete, but in this case the beliefs of the Presidents youth are mirrored by his associations in adulthood.
We are not presented with an aberration in his belief system but a compendium of a large set that all is of a kind.

Government control of everything is not a counterbalance to anything. Least of all Capitalism!

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Are you trying to suggest what he is on the basis of what his parents may or may not have been. That's a dangerous road to go down... sins of the father are vested in the son. We talked about this in another topic.

He met, read, knows, been influenced by socialists and communists. Yes, so what. I read Mein Kampf, does that make me fascist. Are politi'c's like contagious diseases - shake a man's hand and you catch his politics. If the President of the United States of America offered you his hand would you refuse that hand.

Would it not be better to look at what the man himself says rather than looking at what church his mother went to. Seems to me like political profiling or a McCarthy type evidence of a man's political beliefs. I once danced with a woman who danced with a man who danced with a communist.

Personally I hope he has socialists tendencies - if not he is in the wrong job as a left wing President. Dems are left yes. Socialism is the counterbalance to capitalism. What do want a ying without a yang. For me suggesting a left wing democrat is a communist is like suggesting a right wing republican is a fascist. If Obama is Stalin then McCain is Hitler.

The poor in every undeveloped country are socialist. The fact his "father advised government to redistribute income through higher taxes" is in my view a plus point. Most African bureaucrats steal from the poor to feather their own nest and become the rich. Looks like Obama Snr. wanted to steal from the corrupt rich to give to the poor. Good on him.