[Wallace T.]

Obama’s maternal grandparents were from Kansas, both from evangelical Protestant backgrounds: the grandfather Baptist; the grandmother Methodist. (In the 1920s, Methodists were still largely conservative.) They were also rebels from that background, eventually migrating to liberal Seattle and attending a Unitarian church. If not Communists as such, they were clearly not hostile to them, as evidenced by the grandfather's friendship with Frank Marshall Davis and their support of the leftism at the Mercer Island High School. Barack Obama is essentially a third generation leftist on his mother's side.

[Cincinna]

“Obama is essentially a third generation leftist on his mother’s side”

And his father from Kenya was a Communist as well.