This association is just one of a number of corroborated associations of Obama which implicate him as a hard core socialist and as a borderline Marxist who's agenda includes the redistribution of wealth to the extent that socialist regimes have gone in the past, a policy which reduced the nations to what we have witnessed in the days of the USSR.
So the argument is that since Obama has been associated with socialists, then Obama himself must be one?
What a strange conclusion to make!
Socialism is not a disease (and neither is marxism).
If you want to accuse Obama of being bordeline marxist, and of a desire to redistribute wealth more aggressively, then pointing to his aquintences is not enough. Please specify where, when and how Obama himself has acted in a way wich indicates such wishes. Quilt by association is just a silly game.
Finally, what is it with the US and the blind fear of anything from the left spectrum of the political divide? My guess is that if you go through Obamas background you'll find more democrats and republicans amongst his associations, but somehow conservatism is not a communicable disease but socialism is!
You have yet to come up with a single argument as to why this book is not just as much of a hack job as the earlier book the author was ossociated with (the swift boat debacle)
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