Socialist newly-minted Liberal Bob Rae, just like President Barack Obama, is a radical in public office.
In taking over leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party last year, Rae, Ontario’s first (and mercifully, last) openly Socialist premier, inherited big time Obama campaign help from former Canadian Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
Up to 2011, Ignatieff was being groomed for Canadian prime ministership by former Obama adviser Larry Summers. Ignatieff has even stronger ties to Samantha Power, wife of Czar Cass Sunstein who had Obama’s ear for taking America to war in Libya. Rebuffed by voters in Canada’s May 2, 2011 election, Ignatieff was the first candidate for prime minister to run with campaign help from members of the Obama campaign.