5 things we know about Obama

“ [...] However, given that the President’s ideology did incline this way back then (even if it doesn’t anymore [yuck-yuck]), then one can see where the Obama campaign might want to avoid further scrutiny of Obama’s time in college, since it would bolster (however hardly unfairly) the narrative that the President is a dyed-in-the-wool Left wing radical. As Newsrealblog puts it:   The conferences in question were presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, self-described as the largest socialist organization in the country. Though there’s no specific mention or evidence of Obama attending any of these conferences, Kurtz has found Obama’s name on the organization’s conference mailing lists from that time frame. Kurtz also draws a conclusion that since the 1983 conference, timed with the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, was practically a who’s-who of the American far Left, Obama would no doubt have been there.   At these conferences, Obama is certain to have had exposure to some scholars and philosophers who would influence his life in extremely consequential ways. The conferences featured speakers like Frances Fox Piven, whose strategy for collapsing capitalism made her a darling of the Left, and James Cone, who devised the notion of Black Liberation Theology.   The conferences also featured workshops like “Poverty In America,” “Social Issues,” “Black Theology and Marxist Thought,” “Race and Class in Marxism,” and “The Case For Transitional Reform.” (Yep, the conferences sure sound like a great way to spend time in New York.) Many of these workshops centered around the concepts of Alinskyite community organizing and working from within the system to push the political direction of the country toward the Left, to socialism. [Full]  A nice For-the-Record article from The Blaze.  It appears then that Wayne Allyn Root and friends never heard of Obama because they didn't spend time closeted in dens of Marxist  theorists  There is still mystery surrounding Obama's Columbia and Harvard years; principally,  who paid his tuition? And why? ”