As Ralph Peters pointed out in the New York Post, he is basically a radical Leftist circa 1979, when Third World Radicalism was the big thing.
I found this interesting, because it is one of the things that has always puzzled me about Zero's attitudes. Simply, they reflect the attitudes of radical leftists about a generation older than he is. I always assumed that this was because he was formed by (and his books were written by) Bill Ayers, who is about a generation older than Obama and came out of the time when the radical left was very Third World oriented (Franz Fanon, etc.). It is possible, though, that the fact that he lived in the Third World during most of his childhood, with a radical leftist parent and her radical leftist associates, contributed to this.
Certainly, when this well-off white boy decided to self-identify as an oppressed black, he had this Third World background to give him some bona fides and no doubt it was much easier for Bill Ayers to train him in the nonsensical, self-indulgent Third World radical line.
Before he ever met Bill Ayers he was on a straight path to leftist radicalism. One of his grandfather’s good friends was a (black) Marxist from Chicago, who had been “banished” to Hawaii because of hot water in Chicago. Frank Marshall Davis was a Communist, 1930s style.
Not withstanding that Obama, sr was able to receive education at the U of Hawaii and Harvard, Obama, jr grew up resenting the colonial rule of Kenya by Great Britain. [control over the black man]
Whoever guided him to [pacifist] Occidental College in California had to have had strong leftist leanings.
Etc etc.
The people teaching Obama were the contemporaries of Bill Ayers, the SDS, the Weather Underground.
Obama is the prime example of how well the teaching/indoctrination has worked.