Barack Obama has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim?

In this series, we examine Senator Obama's past, his voting record and the people who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years. We'll show how the facts of Obama's actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.

Part Twenty-One

Defining Problems With Socialism For The Post-Cold War Generation

John McCain has finally called Barack Obama's agenda by its proper name. But if he assumes voters understand what he means when he uses the word "socialism," he assumes too much.

Part Twenty

Ayers Has Not Left Radicalism Behind

Bill Ayers isn't out bombing anymore, but he's never stopped being a radical. His ties to hostile Marxist regimes remain, raising more questions about Barack Obama's refusal to fully repudiate him.

Part Nineteen

If Bailout Plan Is Too Socialistic, Just Wait For Obama Leviathan

Have Americans been so lulled by Barack Obama's smooth talk that they don't realize his plans would expand government into a massive socialist behemoth? His is a soft-spoken, hard-left agenda.

Part  Eighteen

Obama's McKnight In Shining Armor

Obama needed help getting into Harvard Law School. He got it from a disciple of Saul Alinsky who shared the socialist agitator's belief in the radical change the young community organizer could embrace.

Part Seventeen

Chicago Commune

Barack Obama summed up well the perversity of Democratic Party thinking when he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that it is "neighborliness" for Washington to hike taxes on those who are "sitting pretty."

Part Sixteen

How Obama Applies Alinsky's Rules

Barack Obama's mocking of John McCain, while urging his followers to "get in their face," are tactics right out of his radical hero Saul Alinsky's playbook: ridicule and agitation.
 

Part Fifteen

Community Organizer In Chief

Barack Obama claims he worked for a "small group of churches" as a community organizer. In fact, he was hired by a radical Alinskyite group, and Saul Alinsky's own son has outed him.

Part Fourteen
 

Sojourning Socialists

Barack Obama has joined forces with a white socialist he calls a "good friend" — the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of "Sojourners." He too believes in "liberation theology," sans the black nationalism. In fact, Wallis is the white version of Jeremiah Wright, sans the black rage.
 

Part Thirteen
 

Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals

Democrats' reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies.
 

Part Twelve

Alice In Obamaland

One of the "lies" Barack Obama says are being told about him is quite true. It involves a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union and its communist society who helped launch Obama's political career.

Part Eleven

Finding Friends On Far, Far Left

The saying that a man is known by the company he keeps is true of political relationships. In Barack Obama's case, some of the groups that support him are an indictment of his political orientation.

Part Ten

Like Father, Like Son

Barack Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as "investments."

Part Nine

Obama's Radical Roots And Rules
Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama's poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He's a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.

Part Eight

Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse

While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.

Part Seven

Reparations By Another Name

Barack Obama says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also "deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don't be.

Part Six

Obama Finds An ACORN

The man who includes being a community organizer on his short resume has a long association with a far-left group that would organize our communities into socialist gulags.

Part Five

Young Obama's Red Mentor

The mainstream media have finally gotten around to revealing Barack Obama's early mentor. But they've downplayed the mystery man's communist background.

Part Four

Obamanomics Flunks The Test

Barack Obama the lawyer-organizer could use a crash course in economics. His economic plan's assumptions, based on long-discredited Marxist theories, are wildly wrongheaded.

Part Three

Obama Wants You

Barack Obama calls it "Universal Voluntary Public Service." We call it a plan for national involuntary servitude. Kennedy asked us what we could do for our country. Obama has ways to make us volunteer.

Part Two

Obama's Global Tax

A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Part One

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.

The Man Who Never Was
by Tony Blankley

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign.

While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.)

And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs -- the press. The image of Obama that the press has presented to the public is not a fair approximation of the real man. They consciously have ignored whole years of his life and have shown a lack of curiosity about such gaps, which bespeaks a lack of journalistic instinct.

Thus, the public image of Obama is of a "man who never was."
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The Right To Remain Silent

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Free Speech: Republicans are now officially the loyal opposition. But under President Obama and a revived Fairness Doctrine, they may soon need permission to voice that opposition.

It gives one pause when a leading Democrat compares talk radio to pornography. But that's what Sen. Charles Schumer of New York did on Fox News a week ago while advocating a return to the Fairness Doctrine requiring holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues in a balanced way.

Obama's Plumbers

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:30 PM PT

Ohio Democrats refused to act on ACORN's massive vote fraud. Yet they have time to scour the private records of Joe the Plumber. No wonder Barack Obama finds the Constitution an inconvenience.

Joe Wurzelbacher (also known as Joe the Plumber) has learned there's a price to pay for being the one to get Obama to admit that he has a socialist dream to "spread the wealth." Not only are you thrust into the public eye, you get the privilege of having government officials who support Obama rifle through private files looking for dirt on you.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and a maxed-out contributor to the Obama campaign, has confirmed that she approved the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher after the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

No Friend Of Israel

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Barack Obama tells Israel's supporters he's on their side. But he's using the playbook of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian terrorist who said one thing to the West and another to the radicals who supported him.

Obama And Frank: A Farewell To Arms

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Defense: How will Barack Obama and friends fund their plan to spread Joe the Plumber's wealth? They intend to beat our swords into welfare checks, leaving America exposed to its mortal enemies.

The Real Obama

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Barack Obama's 'spread the wealth' remark to Ohio's Joe the Plumber was a rare peek at the radical behind the guarded rhetoric. A newly-unearthed 2001 radio interview provides full view.

Capital Punishment

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Tax Policy: Democratic nominee Barack Obama touts his tax plan as just a way to 'spread the wealth.' But to us it looks like something quite different: a declaration of war on capital.

Constitutional Crisis

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Supreme Court: John McCain wants justices who'll interpret the Founders' intent. Barack Obama wants justices who'll feel your pain and render social justice. Imagine two or three more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs.

Marxism's Rebirth?

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:20 PM PT

America's Communist Party is giddy over current political events, saying its movement has reached a "turning point." There's no mystery why. Their candidate is the White House front-runner.

Obama Puts His 77 Cents In

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Pay Equity: Barack Obama has criticized John McCain's actions in the case of Lilly Ledbetter, who sued for alleged pay discrimination. But if Obama supports equal pay for equal work, why doesn't he do it in his office?

An Obama 'Rescue' Plan That Doesn't

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:20 PM PT

On the eve of a final debate, Barack Obama unveiled an emergency "rescue" of the middle class from capitalism. The details show it to be all hype and no help.

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