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The same newspaper also accuses Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of an "imperialist policy toward Africa."

Domestically, the paper Socialist Action is griping that Obama's management of General Motors has resulted in layoffs for workers. The paper accuses Obama of "union-busting."

The truth of the charges is less important than the fact that they are being made by people who regard Obama as a puppet of the capitalist elites. The Party of Socialism and Liberation complains that Obama, even before he became President, had assured the U.S. ruling class of his commitment to "domination" of the Middle East.

Clearly, some of the Marxists in the U.S. haven't gotten the memo that Obama is supposed to be one of them.

It is difficult to get accurate figures on the number of these hard-core Marxist-Leninists. Thanks to liberal politicians, there are no official congressional bodies which monitor and investigate domestic communist and other extremist organizations. Such efforts, which were actually dedicated to uncovering extremists on the right and left, were considered "McCarthyism."

Other communist activists, such as former Weather Underground leader Mark Rudd, think they understand what Obama is doing. He has written that Obama is pursuing a deliberate strategy of appearing to be moderate on some issues so he can move harder to the left on others. Jarvis Tyner of the CPUSA agrees, having written that the left should support and not oppose Obama, even when he appears to be breaking ranks. "No struggle is pure," he has written.

Our media ignore this kind of support for Obama as well as the angry rhetoric about Obama's "imperialist" policies coming from some communist and anti-American groups. Obviously, those under attack in Afghanistan by Obama's "imperialist" policies are taking this personally. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are not only potential but real threats to the President. It is telling that three men from Afghanistan have just been arrested on charges relating to planned acts of terrorism in the U.S.

John F. Kennedy had conservative critics before he was elected President. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba designed to oust Castro from power he reportedly developed second thoughts about his anti-Castro policy. But there can be no question that his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was involved in several Marxist groups, including the "Fair Play for Cuba" committee, (web site) and had actually defected to the Soviet Union.

Earlier this year, on a Sunday interview program, ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson said that he wanted to ask Fidel Castro before he died, "did you do it? Meaning November 22, 1963." It's a fair question, considering that Kennedy was considered early on to be an enemy of the Cuban Communist revolution and that Oswald was a pro-Castro activist.

The only open question is to what extent Soviet and Cuban intelligence agents had a direct role in the Kennedy assassination.

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