Both Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama were "red diaper babies", not from the stereotypical background of such families, usually based in the New York area and often of Jewish background, but apostate from Judaism. However, there is, or was, an element of native-born Americam radicalism in the Midwest and West, as evidenced by the IWW movement in the early 1900s, a precursor to the Communist Party USA. The Socialist and Progressive Parties received a substantial vote total before the Red Scare of 1919 and crackdowns on native-born radicals. I suspect research of the deep backgrounds of Frank Marshall Davis and the Dunhams would reveal family ties to the radical movements of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. One hint is that Stanley Dunham's father was named Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, after the transcendentalist poet, an odd name for a Kansas Baptist in the immediate post-frontier era.
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In case you missed it, my reference to Whitman and Shakespeare was pure hyperbole.
“If Davis was not the President’s father, the fact is that he was a good friend of Stanley Dunham, Obama’s maternal grandfather and a possible Communist. “
Question for you: If Obozo’s grandmother was a leftist too, then why was she a bank president?
Usually Marxist don’t go into the banking business, so they?