Stanley Kurtz puts the pieces together on Obama's socialist identity

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Read the whole piece in the link. It tells you completely who he is.

Obama?s Radical Past - Stanley Kurtz - National Review Online

October 12, 2010 4:00 A.M.

Obama’s Radical Past
And his connection to socialism isn’t all ancient history, either.




On the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to attend a “Socialist Scholars Conference.” There Obama discovered his vocation as a community organizer, as well as a political program to guide him throughout his life.

The conference itself was not a secret, but it held a secret, for it was there that a demoralized and frustrated socialist movement largely set aside strategies of nationalization and turned increasingly to local organizing as a way around the Reagan presidency — and its own spotty reputation. In the early 1980s, America’s socialists discovered what Saul Alinsky had always known: “Community organizing” is a euphemism behind which advocates of a radical vision of America could advance their cause without the bothersome label “socialist” drawing adverse attention to their efforts.