[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZblNVCUNE[/video]
That's because Obama isn't governing as the hard-core Leftist that Matt Damon expected he would be.
Damon grew up next door to Boston University historian, Howard Zinn, a Communist.
In the late 1940s, Zinn served as vice-chairman for a Brooklyn branch of the American Labor Party (ALP), an organization run and dominated by Communists. As historian Ronald Radosh writes, "The ALP was but the first of many Communist-led groups with which Zinn would lend both his name and his active participation." Among these were the American Veterans Committee, the American Peace Mobilization, and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee.
In 1949, the FBI opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (the 423-page FBI File #100-360217) because of his involvement with Communist front groups like ALP and his status as an active member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). (Zinn's membership in the party lasted from 1948 until at least 1953, and perhaps as late as 1956; he was known to attend party meetings as often as five times per week.) Notably, however, he never acknowledged his Communist Party membership, and whenever he was asked about it, he denied it.
In 1951 Zinn taught a "Basic Marxism" class at the CPUSA's Brooklyn, New York headquarters, where he emphasized that "the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin were sound and should be adhered to by those present."
Zinn was a pro-Castro activist and a supporter of such organizations as the Black Panther Party, the Progressive Labor Party, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Students for a Democratic Society -- the SDS.
Damon was heavily influenced by Zinn.
At the age of 10, when he was in the fifth grade, Damon brought author Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" to school for Columbus Day.
"My mother had read me the passages about Columbus," Damon told the Track, "that two years after Columbus discovered America, more than 100,000 Indians were dead. And I wondered, ‘How is this guy so celebrated that we take a day off from school to bask in his greatness?'
A 2009 televised documentary, "The People Speak," narrated by Zinn and based on his books was co-produced by Matt Damon. The film gives voice to those who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for "social change."
In this video, Damon reads portions Howard Zinn's 1970 speech on civil obedience:
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Damon's partner, Ben Affleck was also an admirer and family friend of Zinn's.
BenAffleck demonstrated Zinn's influence on him recently with this energetic defense of Islam.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGhmLm0ZDk[/video]
You can't blame the boys too much. After all, they grew up in the People's Republic of Cambridge.