Interesting that Obama, while constantly comparing himself to Kennedy, Roosevelt and Lincoln, doesn’t mention Wallace. Wallace would seem to be his true political ancestor. With the Progressive Citizens of America the predecessors of the current Progressive Wing of the Dem party; Kos and company, Ayers, Wright….

Imagine if FDR had kept Wallace as his Vice President for his second term. Instead of President Truman, we’d have had President Wallace. According to Wikipedia:

“Wallace had said that if he became President, he would appoint Laurence Duggan as Secretary of State and Harry Dexter White as Secretary of Treasury. Both Duggan and White were Communist sympathizers who are now known to have been Soviet spies.”

But the Progressives didn’t originate with Stalin. During the Civil War this faction was called the Copperheads. From Wikipedia:

“During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Some Copperheads tried to persuade Union soldiers to desert. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible.”

Sound familiar? The more things change…..

So Obama is firmly in the tradition of the left wing of the Democrat Party. The faction that Hubert Humphrey and the Americans for Democratic Action forced out of the Democrat Party in 1947 for their communist connections. Sadly, over time, these Progressives have wormed their way back into the Democrat Party, and now constitute it’s radical base. If only Humphrey were still around to purge them from the Party again…..