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As a college student, Barack Obama expressed Marxist views, including the need for a new socialist U.S. government, according to a student who says he shared the future president's opinion at the time.
Such views by a college student may not be surprising. And like most students who hold radical views, Obama's positions, at least publicly, have evolved substantially.
However, this new window on Obama's youth and early political thinking demonstrates how little is known about the background of America's 44th president.
Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
Drew's then girlfriend, Caroline Boss -- now Grauman-Boss -- knew Obama because she shared classes with him at Occidental.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss' home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
"Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together," Drew says. "We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics."
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
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