The Bible states that a man may be known by his fruits.   While Barack Obama campaigned as a racial healing moderate with mild liberal tendencies, the fruits of his first 10 months in office reveal something quite different about the man.

First, consider with whom the president has surrounded himself as advisers.   As policy coordinators, nicknamed "czars," the president has appointed the most radical collection of left wingers imaginable.  Exhibit A, Van Jones, proved such an embarrassment and distraction that he was forced out, but others continue in office under the radar of the public, all of the while making decisions and regulations which in ways big and small diminish freedom and enlarge the power of the central government.   The ability of the faceless bureaucrat to cause damage is comparable to that of the tiny termite tolling away to destroy the walls of your home.  The end result is wreck and ruin.

Second, consider the president's legislative proposals.   Socialized health candidate will expand the reach of the central government into every nook and cranny of the individual's life.   It's hard to think of any choice a person makes which cannot be tied to one's health, and under the guise of administrating health care the government will be able to seize the power to micromanage the smallest detail of the individual's life.  

So called "Cap and Trade" legislation, already passed by the House, serves to insert the central government into the management of business and industry.   If the gases emitted from cows and the exhales of human beings is considered a pollutant, what imaginable activity of life cannot fall within the purview of environmental regulation, to be limited, taxed, and penalized?   The very act of living itself becomes in law a crime against nature, requiring the government control.  

The administration moved quickly after assuming office to gain control of the financial industry through fear of economic collapse.  Through  its partner in the United Auto Workers, the federal government controls two of three domestic auto companies.   Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both bankrupt, hold well over half of home mortgages, and are wards of the Treasury Department.   Recently, Congress elected to pitch private financial institutions out of the student loan business.   Now,  the citizen must go hat-in-hand to the Federal government for a student loan.    In a few short months, the federal government under Obama has secured the ability to control the most important private levers of financial power in the country.

Third,  Mr. Obama's expressed views on social issues marks him as the most radical leftist ever to become president.  Obama support abortion without limits, including the ability to murder a child born alive during the abortion procedure.   Obama has stated that he does not support "gay marriage," yet his every public utterance regarding homosexuals contains a condemnation of laws protecting traditional marriage or excluding from the armed forces open homosexuals.    Obama has stated his desire that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress be repealed.  In light of his statements does anyone believe his protestations that he does not support "gay" marriage?

Fourth, consider how Mr. Obama has conducted foreign policy.    Gone is criticism of totalitarian regimes who hold power by violence and oppression.  Gone is support for the peoples who struggle for liberty in the nations held hostage by tyrants.   Gone is the support for dissidents in Red China, Iran, Venezuela, and Sudan.   The new policy is appeasement, talking softly and dropping any stick.   Traditional allies in Great Britain and Israel are insulted.  New allies such as Poland and the Czech Republic are sold out.   Every Obama trip abroad is an apology tour for supposed past misdeeds of the United States.

Fifth, consider Mr. Obama's defense policy.   The development of new or existing weapon systems is cut or eliminated entirely.  Overall funding for national defense is reduced while the federal government borrows and spends more money on other programs in its history.  The request for troops from the commanding general in Afghanistan is studied, and studied, and studied.  Meanwhile, troops die in Afghanistan that might be alive if the extra troops were in place.

Sixth, consider Mr. Obama's attitude toward constitutional government.  From the administration's war with Fox News, to its concentrating power in czars not subject to Senate approval, to the appointment of an unqualified and constitutional illiterate (but good liberal jurist) to the Supreme Court, to the proposal of legislation which if enacted would usher in vast intrusions on state authority and individual autonomy, Obama demonstrates a contempt for the limitations the constitution places on the federal government.

You shall know him by his fruits and it is clear that Barack Obama is the first Marxist president of the United States.