Posted on 02/23/2015 7:23:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Yesterdays news became big news on the Fox News Channel last week when former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought up the name of President Barack Obamas childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was almost seven years to the day when we published our seminal piece about Davis, Obamas Communist Mentor.
Davis was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet espionage agent. He was included in the FBIs security index, meaning that Davis could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency. The FBI file on Davis documents his anti-white and pro-Soviet views, infiltration of the Hawaii Democratic Party, and other activities.
Davis also wrote an autobiographical and pornographic sex novel, Sex Rebel, disclosing that he had sex with a young girl and engaged in shocking and bizarre sexual activities.
Giulianis public identification of Davis and discussion of his role in grooming a young Barack Obama marks the first time, in my memory, that a top Republican has ever mentioned the Davis-Obama relationship. It was done in the context of Fox News Megyn Kelly of questioning how Giuliani could dare ask whether Obama loves America.
If the Republicans had brought this up during the 2008 campaign, Obama might have been defeated and the country could have been spared the last six years of progressive hope and change. The Davis-Obama relationship is something so damaging and corrupt that its public airing would have raised questions about the Democratic Partys vetting of Obama and the direction of the Democratic Party itself.
However, Republican operative Karl Rove was warning Republicans not to accuse Obama of being a socialist. He said such a charge would generate a negative backlash. The result in 2012 was another Obama victory.
Now that it has become apparent to more and more people that Obama is not a traditional liberal Democrat and is, in fact, a Marxist with Muslim sympathies, a figure such as Giuliani feels compelled to speak out. So lets take a look at what Giuliani said.
I dont feel it. I dont feel this love of America, Giuliani said, talking about Obama. Im talking about a man who grew up under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis who was a member of the Communist Party, who he refers to over and over in his book, who was a tremendous critic of the United States.
Kelly countered that Obama was raised in part by his grandparents. His grandfather served in World War II, his grandmother worked in a munitions plant to help the nation during World War II. I mean, to suggest he was raised by people who dont love America or didnt help him learn to love America.
Giuliani argued that his grandfather introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, who was a communist. He added, You can fight in World War II, and then you introduce someone to a Communist and the young boy gets
After Kelly interjected that its a political world view. Its not a hatred for the country, Giuliani responded, Communism wasnt hatred for America?
Giuliani is correct about the Davis influence over Obama and the role that the grandfather played in picking Davis as a mentor.
But when Giuliani notes that Obama refers to Davis over and over in his book, Dreams from My Father, its important to point out that Davis was not identified as Frank Marshall Davis in that book. Instead, Obama identified him merely as Frank. The rest of the story was put together by anti-communist researcher Trevor Loudon, and we confirmed the identification with another source in Hawaii who was a close friend of Davis.
Even more of the story was put together by Paul Kengor in his authoritative book on Davis, The Communist. It appears that Davis was an influence over Obama for about nine full years, until Obama was 18 and went off to college. Obama went off to college and, by his own admission, would attend socialist conferences and pick Marxist professors as his friends.
This relationship alone would have disqualified Obama from getting low-level federal employment. The loophole in our system is that background checks are not required for federal elected officials. Our founders counted on a free press to review the fitness of those running for office.
When former Obama adviser David Axelrod talks about Obama being free from major scandals, he is ignoring the biggest scandal of allhow Obama concealed his Marxist upbringing and relationship with Davis. Axelrod of course was part of the cover-up. When Frank was identified as Davis, the Obama campaign insisted he was just a civil rights activist.
As we reported at the time, news organizations such as the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Newsweek and even Fox News ignored or downplayed Daviss communist sympathies.
As Giuliani indicated, there are other influences on Obama that help explain his anti-Americanism. These include the community organizing philosophy of Saul Alinsky, his pastor Jeremiah Wright and the communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Giuliani clearly feels, at this stage in Obamas presidency, that some things have to be said openly for the sake of the country. A former crime-busting U.S. Attorney who was mayor of New York City at the time of 9/11, Giuliani fears for the future of our country. But its not just the fate of America that is at stake. It is clear that Obama has no love for Americas traditional allies, such as Israel. Hence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to America to plead his case personally. He is afraid that Obama wants to make a deal that will allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
Now that Giuliani has publicly raised some inconvenient truths about Obama, the progressives and their media allies will naturally scream and cry McCarthyism. Strangely taking this tack, Fox News Kelly wondered if Giulianis comments about Obama had damaged the Republican brand. The Republican brand will only be damaged by an inability to face facts and confront and expose anti-Americanism at the highest levels of the United States government. It is shocking that it has taken this long for the evidence to emerge publicly on a national basis on Fox News and other channels.
This controversy will help determine what direction the Republicans will take. The Washington Posts Dana Milbank, who has made it his job to protect Obama from the fallout from major scandals, was quick to label Giulianis remarks about Obama as stupid. He also attacked Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker as spineless for saying Giuliani can speak for himself, and not directly challenging what the former mayor had said
What Scott Walker did ought to disqualify him as a serious presidential contender, wrote Milbank.
This is a signal from one of Obamas best friends in the media that the information unearthed by Giuliani is of the blockbuster variety. Giuliani went for the jugular and hit a gusher.
The first thing Republicans can do is simply challenge the media to report on the Davis FBI file. They have been avoiding it for over six years.
Congress could also investigate Obamas communist connections, which stretch from Hawaii to Chicago, and question the FBI about what they knew, if anything, about the Obama-Davis relationship. The reestablishment of House and Senate internal security committees, including a loyalty program for U.S. officials to eliminate security risks, should be considered.
Republicans could remind people that it was anti-communist Democratic President Harry Truman who started the first loyalty program. He issued executive order 9835 establishing the program in 1947.
The executive order said that each employee of the Government of the United States is endowed with a measure of trusteeship over the democratic processes which are at the heart and sinew of the United States, and declared that the presence within the Government service of any disloyal or subversive person constitutes a threat to our democratic processes
It is time for a background check on the President of the United States. Does he pass the loyalty test?
Did he REALLY do that? I ask, because this is the first I’ve heard of it.
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