Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory
telegraph. co.uk
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.
“I was very close to Bobby and he asked me to be a delegate for him when he ran for president,” he said.
“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.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
Good for Andy Williams! God bless you!!!
There are others in Hollywood that think this too, and also have voted Republican. We just don’t hear about many of them.
Andy Williams has the Moon River Grill and Theatre in Branson, MO. that is very nice and not expensive.
And he’s right. People just don’t want to hear that America is heading down the river to someplace we don’t need to be. Most know they made a mistake in voting for Obama by now (since he isn’t paying their mortgages and filling their gas tanks or getting them jobs), but they’re afraid to admit it. I’ve actually heard a rumor that the dums are going to run Jim Webb instead in 2012 if Obama doesn’t get his rear in gear and do what he said he would. Even his own party is turning against him. He’s destroying this nation. Please, join your local 912 or teaparty. The more we have, the better it looks for us. The more impact we make on them. Remember, we surround them, not the other way around.
Very close to Teddy eh ? I knew there was more than one reason not to like him. I always thought he was a Sinatra Wannabe. What did he think Teddy Kennedy was ? A Conservative ? Kennedy endorsed obama for godsakes.
Now he’s 81 and he couldn’t see through obama’s charade. Enough of it to came out that everyone knew what they were getting. His associates are pure leftists. He told Joe the Plumber, he wanted to redistribute the wealth. What does Andy think that meant.
Amazing how these rinos and pseudo democrats can change like the weather. Listen to obama and think or reinterpret or misinterpret what was said.