Obama sought out Marxist professors in college - Dreams of My Father pg 101

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structured feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpets or set our stereos so loud the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent, or careless, or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

Barrack Obama - Dreams of My Father, page 101


I have personally read this passage in Obama's book and included the two paragraphs above word for word. If you doubt this, stop at your local library and read page 101 of Dreams of My Father for yourself. This passage has also been verified by snopes.com.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

Listen to Obama himself describing his Marxist redistribution of wealth philosophy in this 2001 radio interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck