Obama's Revealing Memoir: Moderate or Marxist or Somewhere in Between?

Barack Obama's famous memoir "Dreams of My Father" has been widely commended as an inspirational biographical account of Barack Obama's incredible life story. Criticisms of the book have been muted and have usually consisted of grumblings from the right about Obama' s admitted past drug use (though those right wingers ignore Bush's refusals to answer specific questions about his prior drug use). Unfortunately, little attention has been given to some of the other statements made by Obama in his book, which help paint a picture of his worldview. Obama writes that at Occidental College, "I chose my friends carefully... the more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." I only include the entire quote to contextualize the reference to the Marxist professors that he "palled" around with (to use a Sarah Palin term... is palled even english?). Obama's radical associations continued when he transferred to Columbia. He refers to "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union...". Now who is the real Barack Obama? It is hard to say given that the guy has been in the senate for only a few years, has authored no remarkable legislation, and has simply voted with his party (or to the left of his party in a few cases) on almost 100% of the issues. Is he the well spoken moderate we have seen over the past few months or the radical college student who hung around with Marxist professors, attended socialist conferences, and attended for 20 years the church of radical black nationalist, openly racist and anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright while letting slip his plans to "spread around the wealth" as recently as last week? With his lack of a record it is hard to know who the real Barack Obama is. Unfortunately, whoever he is, he will be unchecked in his aspirations, whether they be moderate or Marxist, by the liberal supermarjority in Congress. "Change" isn't looking too pretty for anyone who wants to make a buck in their lives... let's just make everybody poor eh? Then at least our society will be more "equitable" and "fair" and "sensitive" and "tolerant" with greater "social solidarity"... the favorite terms of libs.....