[TennesseeGirl]

Nope. Name was no mistake, "The education of Obama the would-be politician didn't begin, of course, until after his birth in 1961, in Honolulu. But the parental traits that would mold him -- a contrarian worldview, an initial rejection of organized religion, a questioning nature -- were already taking shape years earlier in the nomadic and sometimes tempestuous Dunham family, where the only child was a curious and precocious daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley -- after himself." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0703270151mar27-archive,0,2623808.story?page=1

[griswold3]

i never got the impression that obama had a ‘questioning nature’. he seems not the least bit curious.
As Reagan said once, ‘A Communist is someone who reads marx. An Anti Communist is someone who understands marx.’

With all the imperical evidence that collectivism fails, is it his arrogance that causes him to believe he could make it work or deep down he knows the ‘tragedy of the commons’ is the desired end?