Not surprisingly, Gary Crooks, a lapdog for the vile, corrupt and immoral Democratic Party, gushes all over our “Dear comrade leader,” President Barack Obama, in his column (“Avoid political Twinkies” Jan. 1), while ridiculing those who look at Obama objectively.

From his childhood, as a Muslim student in Indonesia, Barack Obama has been associated with extremist organizations and individuals. Obama has had close ties to scores of communists, socialists, Maoists, revolutionaries and Palestinian terrorist supporters, like Rashid Khalidi, black power/black liberation groups and other anti-American radicals.

The truth about Obama, much of it public record, has been ignored by our “watchdog” media.

Crooks disregards Obama’s longtime relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers, a former member of the violent, Marxist Weather Underground organization bombed the Pentagon back in the Vietnam War era.

And, yes, Gary, there’s evidence that Ayers was a “ghost writer” for Obama’s book. Speaking of that book, author Christopher Andersen says, “the book’s language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayer’s own writing.”

Curtis E. Stone

Colville