smokingfrog: a link from your link.
Though nominally a Democrat he [Obama] has long been supported by Chicago members of the Communist Party, its offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and the equally extreme Democratic Socialists of America.
Two of Obama's Chicago comrades have supported him for many years. Both are octagenarian icons of the Chicago far left. They move in the same circles and have crossed paths in many campaigns.
One has backed off in disappointment at Obama's movement to the "right". The other still stands behind his man.
Dr Quentin Young is a leading national campaigner for "single payer"- socialised medicine.
Young has been active in Chicago socialist circles since the 1930s. In the 1960s he was Martin Luther King's personal physician.
In the early 1980s Young was a leading member of Harold Washington's inner circle and was rewarded with the post of President of the Chicago Board of Health.
In an interview with Healthcare Now Quentin Young explains his changed relationship with Barack Obama: "I knew him before he was political,” Young says of Obama.
New Zeal: Socialist Octagenarians for Barack
"I knew him before he was political,” Young says of Obama.
Literally? or Figuratively?
If there was any period in Obama's black hole of a life I would want to know the most about, it would be the 80's.