So a young Obama wanted something that paid better and otherwise gave more material rewards. Doing good should not guarantee
deprivation, so there was nothing wrong with his desires.

However, what is this crap that political clout, transfers of income and the like is what ends poverty and discrimination?
With those assumptions in mind, he was off to the devil. To hades in a handbasket.

And the pity is, he does not look like he has ever stopped to examine his premises.

Reminds me of a great line from Thomas Sowell:
“We know from reading the Bible that Lot’s Wife was not a liberal. They never look back.”