On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:46 PM, shag wrote:
> If I've understood you correctly, I do have to wonder why Obama
> should be
> aware of what a leftist/leftish critique of his activities is. I
> could see
> him being aware of what various democrats and liberals think, but I
> can't
> see him being particularly aware of how Marxists think and, if he
> is, my
> guess is that he'd get it quite wrong. I don't know, I just think that
> it's fairly easy to be a very smart person and go through life being
> completely in the dark about leftist/leftish critique of politics in
> the
> u.s -- or elsewhere for that matter.
I ain't read it, but in one of his "books," Obama reports on having gone to a Socialist Scholars Conference in New York while he was at Columbia.