Obama is a psychopathic Marxist ideologue with tinges of Islam mixed in.
Chambers came from a different era in which Marxism/communism had not yet been exposed for the genocidal tyranny that it is (The Moscow Trials were only in 1938 and many American leftists and Marxists called them fair. Only later, I believe it was the Dewey Commission, was the real truth revealed).
There was no excuse for Obama to be a Marxist other than he was inculcated with it from the day he was born (by his admiring his abandoning father, Obama Sr (a Luo-related Kenyan), his leftist mother, and hardcore left grandfather.
Chambers came up through the Depression where Marxism was still viewed (and Russia as its leader), as the answers to the problems of the Depression and capitalism in general.
Yet Chambers finally saw through the smoke and mirrors of Communist propaganda, deception, and espionage, so he turned away and found a new faith in Catholicism.
He was altruistic, as were hundreds of thousands of American liberals who became temporary Marxists/leftists during the 30’s when a claimed Communist Party USA membership ran as high as 300-500,000 persons. After the Moscow Trials, the Hiss/Rosenberg cases, the Hungarian Revolution, and the final straw for hardcore CPers with a little conscience, the Soviet invasion of Czechslovakia in 1968 (i.e. Dorothy Healey), the Party’s numbers were less than 5,000, but with tens of thousands of supporters and sympathizers of varying degrees.
However, many leftists got into academia and poisoned it with Marxist propaganda, doctrine, and texts (Chomsky, Zinn, Aptheker, Foner, etc. This is the environment that Obama was raised in though most other students, including liberals, never really bought into the Marxist crap out there. However, enough did to the point that we are reaping the successes of their propaganda today, esp. in our schools and even in politics (i.e. progressives).
Once Chambers left the Party, he never returned to its influence. Others who left the Party found out that the Party never really left them (i.e. Howard Fast, Scott Nearing, Joseph Papp, etc.).
Some reds, like most of the Hollywood 10 stayed with the Stalinist CPUSA until the day they died (Trumbo, Cole, Lawson; Hollywood actors/actresses John Randolph and wife, Will Geer, “Professor” Irwin Corey, Eli Wallach, etc).
True liberals with altruistic goals, like Hubert Humphrey, Whitney Young (Urban League), Sen. Pat Moynihan and even the leftist Justice Earl Warren, never joined the Communists. In fact Humphrey was a very strong anti-communist in his day.
I’ve met altruistic people, many of whom were actually rational and sane, while others were leftist wackjobs who had no idea of what reality was, but they weren’t traitors, just fools.
For your information, I was one of the first journalists to openly proclaim that Obama was both raised and influenced by the Marxist environment in which he was raised, May 22, 2008, Wash. Post. page 2. A few other journalists and internal security scholars agreed with me at that press conference (we had about 170+ years of experience in internal security affairs amongst us).
We all had met both Marxist fanatics and altruistic people over the courses of our careers, and pretty much knew how to tell them apart. Chambers was altruistic but he also had an inquisitive mind, which is why he saw through the ideological falsehoods and fallacies of Marxism.
Obama has no such mind and he never allowed himself to develop it, esp. given his Marxist handlers and mentors who kept him in check throughout his life. Obama might have been altruistic for a minute but he made choices for careers in Chicago that took him to the communist Left, not Social Democrats or Henry Jackson liberals.
Obama is “irrational” only because his view is so skewed that sane people view it as “irrational”. In his mind, he is doing just what a good Marxist should do, and he is succeeding due to the stupidity and cupidity of the mass media, our educational system, and the general low political IQ of the American people, esp. of the liberals who are often just one can short of a Marxist six-pack of ideological affinity/allegiance.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” He thought it was just. He couldn’t see that it wouldn’t work. Reality poked him in the eye, though. He turned to the other altruist philosophy, Christianity, and devoted his life to saving souls, so to speak. No personal integrity there.