Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of
following Marxist theory
Andy Williams, the veteran pop singer, has accused Barack Obama of “following Marxist theory” and “wanting the country to fail”.
Williams, a lifelong Republican whose hits include Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, told the Radio Times he thought Mr Obama wanted to turn the US into a “socialist country”.
The 81-year-old was a friend of the Kennedy family during the 1960s and was present at the Los Angeles rally where Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
“He knew about me being a Republican, but just laughed and said, ‘Sign yourself in as a Democrat and then change back afterwards’. Sadly, I never got to do that.
“I was very close to Teddy Kennedy, too, and his death recently brought it all back. What a tragedy. Had he lived, I think Bobby would have been a great president.”
But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.
“Don’t like him at all,” he said, “I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.
“Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.”
Politicians, media personalities and conservative activists have accused the US president of espousing socialist ideas.
Earlier this month, Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida, said he was “absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology”, after the US leader appeared in a televised address to be shown in classrooms around the country.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:38 am
Wow, this from the mouth of a white, senile, bigoted, washed up singer (Andy Williams). Due to their lack of leadership, ideas and vision of where our country needs to go the Republican Party is show casing the only thing they have to offer, the scraping of the bottom of their intellectual barrel.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:02 am
Paul, Are you out of your LITHIUM again?
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:18 am
I know boo hoo, your party lost and you cannot reconcile that an educated, articulate man is now in the White House, poor little you. You would rather the previous ex-drunk dullard be in-charge, we all can readily see how his foreign and domestic policies have left our country in financial shambles. I know Andy Williams is old and senile, what is your problem?
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Paul, You are really a foolish person. The, “an educated, articulate man is now in the White House,” in his own words is a person that hates whites and the U.S. Government. Your deriding of President Bush only serves to show your own level of person.
Under President Bush America was not laughed at and under President Bush we enjoyed years of economic boom until the Carter/Clinton/Dodd/Frank furthering of the phony home lending scheme backfired on them and their cohorts in ACORN!
Now you laud Obama as he continues to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, and drive the grandchildren of America further in debt. Saudis laugh at this clown, French joke about him, German politicians openly laugh at his, Italians think he is a riot, Russia thinks he is a small minded jerk and you are thrilled by this guy.
Just what brand of soap did they use to brainwash you?