Obama/Marx

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
Here is a link to the Obama/Marx story (and it is pretty damning):

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2289

Several points:

(0) Nothing about this is aviation related.

(1) The article was originally published by an organization called AIM:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

(2) The article claims that "The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii
from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close
relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his
"poetry"...." But Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii. He was in fifth
grade in 1971 and graduated high school in 1979. He was living with his
maternal grandparents at the time.

(3) The article says more about things that happened _prior_ to Obama's
birth than about Obama's actual _positions_ (e.g. events in 1939(!),
1951(!), the fifties, etc.) Obama's actual legislative impact as a
senator is openly available and it seems to be only moderately left of
the middle (e.g. Obama supported legislation which would provide
incentives for creation of coal-to-liquid fuel plants to help reduce
dependence on foreign oil[1]; on the other hand has called for universal
health care[2]).

(4) The author of the article, Cliff Kincaid, is alleged to have made
false claims in the past, as claimed he
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512100001

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010901503.html
Obama spokesman: "Illinois basin coal has more untapped
energy potential than the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
combined. Senator Obama believes it is crucial that we invest in
technologies to use these resources to reduce our dependence on foreign
oil."

[2] http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/p...ealthcare.html