Confused? Sure, absolutely. To get a normal person out of HIS family history would be a miracle.
He was chosen for development as an asset by a somewhat small and really not covert group of white communists. Everybody knows Ayers, but there are others in there, too - I haven't heard of some of these people since 1969.
You'd have to know more - a LOT more - than most people do about SDS, RYM, RYM II, and the Weathermen (oops, excuse me - I mean the Weather Underground, can't be sexist!) to understand the forces that invented Obama.
They were born out of the entirely typical communist infighting that led to the disintegration of SDS in 1968-69. There was a "political" faction and a "revolutionary" faction (as always), and each faction spawned dozens of subgroups. Of the principals who survived, lots of them became "community organizers" by 1977-8, many of them well-funded by the Carter Administration.
The inner circle of the Obama movement looks like the 40th reunion of the RYM-I faction. They took a gifted by very mixed up young man and set his feet on the path that leads to today.
I think you’re right. BO had a radical guru even as a child. [The name slips my mind.] That man directed him to key high rollers in college.
I little update for this thread:
LA Times took Obama to task over this.
And this:
Obama Flipped off Hillary in Public at least Three Times?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2078872/posts?page=19#19
Post 19 shows three youtube links of him flipping Hillary off [although I could not confirm/landline here].
The thread of that same link is the LA Times turning on BO.
The gaffe is already backfiring. And if he did, in fact, flip off Hillary repeatedly, that not only explains a lot about him but also his supporters.
We're angling in the same direction, but I like your theory better than mine.
There is some evidence for the theory that Obama was groomed and shepherded by the deep, hard-core left throughout his young adulthood, then promoted along a trajectory which landed him within inches of the presidency.
And, let us not forget the emerging connections to the Saudi royal adviser we've been reading about lately.