I agree with Dick Morris’ assessment of Obonga: He will move to the center in the general election, but upon assuming office in January he will govern from the Left. John Bolton and Dick Morris have this guy spot on: his true positions and thinking are his earlier expressions of ideas and policy. His voting record marks where he is. Let me list the Marxist/Communist influences in his life. These are the people who have had a profound effect on how he thinks, and in his books he credits their views and approves of them.

1. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The Marxist anthropologist who dug Third World Communists.

2. His biological father, the sperm donor, Barack Obama, Sr., who was a member of Kenya’s Communist Party and whose position paper for how the leader of Kenya, his patron, ought to organize its economy. Right out of Marxist-Leninist theory. Barack Jr. one day would write approvingly of his biological father’s program for Kenya.

3. His step-father, Sotero, was an Indonesian Communist before that party in Indonesia was overthrown in 1965. In order to survive, he ditched his Communism and got with the Muslim program. Tellingly, Stanley Ann strongly disapproved of his going to work for oil companies.

4. THE BIG ONE: Communist Party USA member, and poet, Frank Marshall Davis, Barack’s “mentor” during his adolescent years when Barack was attending the Punahou Prep School in Honolulu.

5. A coterie of Marxist/socialist professors he gravitated towards at Occidental College and Columbia University. He admits this in his autobiography.

6. American Communists/terrorists, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

7. Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Fleger. Both Marxist clerics espousing Liberation Theology.