Conservative actor and off-and-on Mitt Romney surrogate Jon Voight told Tom Trento of The United West in an interview at the Republican National Convention in Tampa that he believes “the President is of the Marxist, socialist root.” Voight claimed that Obama’s parents, along with Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky inculcated him in Marxism and taught him to view America as an “imperialist state.”
Trento: We have a president who simply has Marxist, socialist views and wants to remake America in his image; and we have a president [sic] that’s a capitalist and an entrepreneur and a fighter, those are the two positions, that’s it.
Voight: That’s right. The President is of the Marxist, socialist root: from his dad, his mother encouraged his following through on his dad’s Marxism and his dad’s view of America which was of an imperialist state. Then he had the influence of Frank Marshall Davis, who was a communist who was a mentor as a young man, then as he got older he fell in with the work of Saul Alinsky and Alinsky became his mentor. That’s who he is, you should know that.
