Williams: 'Marxist Obama wants US to fail'

Rex Features

Andy Williams has accused President Barack Obama of being a Marxist with communist associates.

The 81-year-old 'Moon River' singer told the Radio Times that he was very close to Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968.

Williams said: "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."

However, he added of Obama: "Don't like him at all. 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."