Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, on an Indonesian passport- it was illegal for Americans to travel to Pakistan at that time.... Indonesia and the US did not allow dual citizenship back then. Obama never mentioned this trip in either of his autobiographies (He brought this matter up during the primary campaign, to bolster his foreign policy cred)...


McCains argued that Obama was a socialist, or even a Marxist. This, when Bush was busy nationalizing parts of the economy, and McCain was voting for bailouts. Obama really has socialist sentiments and friends, but they are tempered or co-opted by global corporatism, which in itself has a curious relationship with "socialism."