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"Progressives for Obama" is quite a collection. (web site) A quick review discloses two names from the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an off-shoot of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA). They include Carl Davidson, formerly of SDS, and Jim Campbell. Two other names come from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose Chicago branch has backed Obama from the start. They are Barbara Ehrenreich and Cornel West. West showed up at Jeremiah Wright's National Press Club speech to cheer and whistle.

Hayden is almost as controversial as Ayers, a self-described communist. A leader of protests against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Hayden wrote a June 4, 1968, "Dear Col. Lao" letter that ended, "Good fortune! Victory!" This was a letter to a North Vietnamese official. So here we have someone who was cheering for the communist enemy killing Americans. They openly displayed flags of the Viet Cong, the organization sponsored by the regime in Hanoi, North Vietnam, also known as the National Liberation Front.

Hayden, in brief, played a pivotal role in America's Vietnam defeat and the deaths of millions.

Hayden's letter to Col. Lao was designed to introduce him to Robert Greenblatt, the coordinator of the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. The MOBE was run by a group that included members of the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers World Party, the SDS, and other such organizations.

Is this the kind of "patriotism" that Obama approves? What does Senator Clinton think of an Obama supporter who worked for an enemy victory in Vietnam?

It is apparently acceptable to somebody because Hayden's website boasts that he has received awards from such groups as the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, the Rainforest Action Network, and Paw-PAC (animal welfare). (web site)

Isn't it interesting how someone who became a cheerleader for the communists now gets awards for protecting trees and animals?

By contrast, the book, A Viet Cong Memoir, includes a note of apology "to my betrayed comrades, who believed they were sacrificing themselves for a humane liberation of their people." One of the authors, Truong Nhu Tang, a founder of the Viet Cong, escaped the communist takeover in a boat. He was one of hundreds of thousands of "boat people."

Hayden's failure to apologize indicates he's a true believer. And he's enthusiastic about Obama.

Spanking Hillary

Hayden currently contributes to the far-left Huffington Post website and The Nation magazine, where he made much of Hillary's work for a communist law firm. (web site) One of his citations is Carl Bernstein's book about Hillary, A Woman in Charge. This is actually an old story. We covered it in an AIM Report back in 2003. (web site) Hayden, of course, doesn't really care whether she associated with communists. He calls her work there "honorable." He just thinks she's a hypocrite for calling attention to Obama's communist ties, such as the "imagined association" between Obama and Ayers. (Their relationship is described by the Obama campaign as "friendly.") Hayden also finds fault with Hillary for making an issue out of Obama's association with his pastor Jeremiah Wright.

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