One thing that is undeniable about Barack Obama is that he has had a lot of controversial friends. Many people say that the views of Obama's friends are not necessarily his views. That could be true I suppose, but would be unusual. He claims that he is a uniter and a main stream guy, but his record does not support that assertion. His associates and advisers are not mainstream, so how are we then to know what Obama really believes? Here is an article about his mentor in Hawaii, Frank Marshall Davis, who was a dedicated communist and Soviet Union supporter.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-candidates-communist-connections/

The Communist University of Houston History Professor mentioned in the article is no surprise. There were a lot of socialists and communists there when I attended the school in the 50's. I was studying in engineering, so was not much exposed to the liberals. I remember a paper I wrote in a government class in which I predicted the demise of the American auto industry because of their management practices, particularly poor engineering and the benefits packages for workers that would eventually bankrupt them. Of course, at that time there were few foreign cars sold in the US, so there was little competition for the US companies. The Socialist Professor disagreed with my position and gave me a grade of D minus. I wonder what he thinks now.