Well good grief, tacticalogic, if as you say these men are acting in an official capacity to establish public policy, wouldn't you say it's important that we understand what they think and believe — since we are the public the policies are intended to affect?
I think when those associations are made, you have to be able to show what makes those associations relevant.
Why not just try your eyes!
Captain Zero's public policies are all "radical progressive," totalizing ones, of the Marxist, Communist, socialist, some say fascist sort; with shades of Alinsky-style anarchism and Black Liberation tossed in for good measure. It seems clear to me that "Obama's advisors" have been affecting his thinking and for a very long time — back to childhood, e.g., Frank Marshall Davis at least.
I think it's also true that, as David Horowitz recently noted, none of these people have spent 15 minutes in their entire lives thinking about what constitutes the Good Society. What they are up to is all about Power, and only about Power — consolidated in their own hands, of course.
Why not just try your eyes!
You tell me how to "see" (and measure) what it is they think and believe. You submit that it's all subjective, but that my assesment is wrong. By what measure?