Dreams FROM my Father, says it all. One would think that he would have been turned off by the reality of the man; a drunken, womanizing, wife beater. Not to mention a polygamist. A man who's radical views were even rejected by the socialists of his own country.
After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth -- and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of...
Obama's redistribution philosophy is also informed by racial resentments.
But, yeah, it's hard to think of non-commie motives for learning the language in the '50s.