Obama remarkably relates in "Dreams from My Father" that, beginning at Occidental, he surrounded himself with an assortment of radicals, socialists, Marxist-Leninists, Maoists and communists. He writes about the rally in which he took part, delivering his first community organizing address, led by the Black Student Alliance and Students for Economic Democracy (SED). SED was a national student advocacy group established by soon-to-be California State Representative Tom Hayden, now a professor at Occidental, and his wife, actress Jane Fonda. Hayden authored the first official political manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS – the radical 1960s protest...