Obama and Ho Chi Minh: Embracing Evil Defending Communist terror and demeaning American sacrifices. May 27, 2016 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. On his visit to meet with Communist leaders in Vietnam, Obama criticized the United States for having, too much money in our politics, and rising economic inequality, racial bias in our criminal justice system. He praised Ho Chi Minhs evocation of the American Declaration of Independence and claimed that we had shared ideals with the murderous Communist dictator.