Obama’s Communist Mentor

Accuracy in Media ^ | February 18, 2008 | By Cliff Kincaid

[Born In America]

In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama's life as a "secret smoker" and how he "went to great lengths to conceal the habit." But what about Obama's secret political life? It turns out that Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.

In his books, Obama admits attending "socialist conferences" and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a "hard-core academic Marxist," which was made by his colorful and outspoken 2004 U.S. Senate opponent, Republican Alan Keyes.

However, through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."

[Born In America]

I heard this discussed this am on "Americas Moring Show", Quinn & Rose. I recall hearing of this at the time the article was written. Now that BHO looks to be the dem nominee, it is important the "all things be considered". I carefully perused the article and did not find anything that would constitute racism, smearing or distractions thus making the content fair game.

[Eye On The Left]

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

Bill Ayers, TODAY, April 6, 2008, from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution! Yet Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh and nearly every other conservative commentator FAILS to mention that these people were and still are revolutionary communists. Instead, they describe them as simply "domestic terrorists". Seems nearly everyone these days is afraid to use the 'C' word! Even in this extremely rare case where one of them actually admits it.

Bill Ayers, April 6, 2008:
"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

Note: Ayers is very likely quoting Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, with the phrase 'both possible and necessary' in regards to a communist overthrow of the US government. See these Yahoo search results for "bob avakian" + "possible and necessary"--Eye On The Left

"In July 1969, Bernardine Dohrn [Ayers' co-terrorist wife], Eleanor Raskin, Dianne Donghi, Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton, all representing 'Weatherman', as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

July 27, 1970: The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. [NYTimes, 7/27/70] :
Chronology of Weather Underground attacks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events

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"[Bernardine] Dohrn plea-bargained to charges of inciting to mob action and resisting police officers. She was sentenced to three years' probation and a $1,500 fine. Ayers was not charged. Even then he showed a way with words:

'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)

[popdonnelly]

Obama is the farthest to the Left of anyone who’s ever run for President, including McGovern and Clinton. Anyone who can’t figure out Obama’s politics is an idiot who isn’t paying attention.

[libs_kma]

"Obama is the farthest to the Left of anyone who’s ever run for President, including McGovern and Clinton. Anyone who can’t figure out Obama’s politics is an idiot who isn’t paying attention."

Thats why its so easy to see the clear and total Bravo Sierra when any "lifelong Republicans" come out and say they're voting Obama. Like that completely fake Air Force SSG on the hotair video.

It's like "Did you have any frickin idea what "Republican" meant when you decides you were a lifelong one? Apparently not!

Or the only other option is that they just liked the name "Republican" but didn't give one single crap about any single issue.

And I'm only talking about "Republican". In some cases (Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, George Voinovich to name a few) thats not even close to "Conservative"

[freespirited]

Barack Obama: Communist?

[FrdmLvr]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7176683.st

Read more about Obama's communist connection in this BBC article about Raiele Odinga, Obama's cousin who ran for president of Kenya. Odinga, connected to Soviet communists and a Muslim himself, vowed to bring shira law to Kenya, an overwhelmingly Christian country.

It took the BBC to uncover this months ago. I've yet to find anything from a mainstream American news source. When will Charles Gibson make Odinga ABC's "Person of the Week" on the nightly news?

[Born In America]

I believe Obama actually on a visit to Kenya campaigned for the Odinga. It may have been at that time that the infamous picture of him wearing the onion hat may have been taken.

I fear that if the complete background of BHO is not throughly vetted, he make make it into the White House through the back door....

[Eva]

I read a thread on DU that claimed that 29% of the Democrats thought that Hillary should run as a third party candidate. I’m guessing that they figure she would take those voters who would otherwise switch to McCain, and Obama would win.

[Condor51]

Communism...

In the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels argued that human history was best understood as a continuing struggle between a small exploiting class (the owners) and a larger exploited class (laborers).

At any point in time, the exploiting class controlled the means of production and profited by employing the labor of the masses. In the capitalism that developed alongside democracy, Marx and Engels saw a progressive concentration of the powers of production placed in the hands of a privileged few. Although society was producing more goods and services, the general welfare of the middle class, they believed, was declining.

According to Marx and Engels, this disparity or internal contradiction in capitalistic societies predicted capitalism's doom. Over time, as the anticipated numbers of the middle class, or "bourgeoisie," began to decrease, the conflicts between laborers and capitalists would sharpen, and social revolution was inevitable.

At the end of The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote that the transfer of power from the few to the many could only take place by force. Marx later retreated from this position and wrote that it was possible for this radical change to take place peacefully.

Obamanism...

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." -- Michelle Obama

"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff." -- Barack Obama

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." -- Michelle Obama

"You got into these small towns ... small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through ... each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- Barack Obama

"America is just downright mean." -- Michelle Obama

"...Obama revealed himself to be the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. He is not thrilled with building a border fence. He wants to meet with Raul Castro. He will raise taxes and spend a boatload of money on new programs. He will exit Iraq pronto and spend that money on domestic programs. He opposes any restriction on partial birth abortion and thinks the District of Columbia's total handgun ban is a "common sense" regulation." -- Jennifer Rubin

"So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for." -- Susan Sarandon

"I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." -- Paul Krugman

"(Obama's) big themes are Change Hope and Unity...I suspect that after he's elected, we'll hear much less about Change and Unity and a lot more about Hope. As in, "I Hope this doesn't end in a huge disaster. I Hope he doesn't wreck the economy. I Hope he's not too overwhelmed by the complexity and horror of the world. I Hope I survive this administration." - (Anon)

[george76]

Barack Obama’s Marxist Mentor

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2007/03/barack-obamas-marxist-mentor.html

[george76]

Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson.

Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago.

[george76]

“Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle,” Chapman wrote.

“Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.”

[Fred Nerks]

"So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for." -- Susan Sarandon

she should have that statement engraved on her forehead - it's the best definition of STUPID I've ever seen.

[Marine_Uncle]

Jihads the game, Obama is my name.
Mahmoud Ahmadinajah, Bashar al-Assad, HU Jintao, Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN, must just love this guy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks geo.

Recalling Obama’s Younger Days
cbs | May 15, 2008
Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 12:24:50 AM by Red Steel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016703/posts

Obama loses his bearings
The Virginian/Powerline | 5/15/2008 | Moneyrunner
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:18:15 PM by moneyrunner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016656/posts

Maybe We Can’t
The Virginian | 5/15/2008 | Moneyrunner
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:43:05 PM by moneyrunner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016667/posts

[snip] The New Republic has just published one of the most devastating critiques of Obama I have read, and it’s by a Liberal Black man. Subtitled The black case for Obama-skepticism it asks the question why 90% of black people support Obama and why 10% do not. [end]

Christopher Hitchens on John Edwards’
endorsement of Barack Obama
The Mirror | May 15, 2008 | Christopher Hitchens
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:32:33 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016660/posts

The Perpetual Motion BS Generator
[WARNING: CONTAINS VULGARITY]
americandigest.org | 2008.05.14 | James Vanderleun
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:16:32 PM by B-Chan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016655/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2015748/posts?page=15#15

Why Isn’t Obama Bothered By Terrorist Support?
Pajamas Media | May 15, 2008 | Steve Gill
Posted on 05/15/2008 8:39:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016690/posts

[cricket]

There is fire here and plenty of smoke. Question is, why is it so slow to rise? Waiting. ..watching; hoping the 'smoke alarms' will work; before we are all consumed. Interesting side note on 'communism'/CPUSA (communist party usa)and it's affinity for the Democrat Party. Misguided fellow; has it right on CPUSA; but wrong in his asumptions it is 'they' who are straying from what he imagines is the right path of communism. (no doubt, an Obama voter - or Hillary - nonetheless.)

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[kellynla]

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