Now About Obama's Teenage Years!

American Thinker ^ | May 15, 2012 | Jack Cashill

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Now that it has been established that a candidate's teenage years help define the man to come, it might be time to take a new look at the adolescent Obama and his then-mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis.

I would guess that not one Obama voter out of one hundred could identify Davis by name, and I doubt if one media person out of a thousand has read his memoir, Livin' the Blues. This is unfortunate on any number of levels. For one, Davis's book captures the ebb and flow of 20th-century black American life as well as any ever written.

For another, no one individual influenced the young Obama more than Davis has. This combination should have made Davis a staple of the multicultural canon and a pin-up in every reporter's cubicle, but it did neither. Like Boo Radley, Davis remains in the shadows for one reason: the media fear what the light would do to him. For all of Davis's gifts, and they are many, his lifelong flirtation with darkness makes him a little too creepy for his own display case in the Barack Obama presidential library.

[ETL]

Let's face it. American Media constitutes an enemy forces fifth column, and we need to figure out a way to take them out. They all need to be unemployed and unemployable.

Why can't some wealthy Republicans get together and start up a few new media outlets? Open up some more 'fair & balanced' universities?

[DiogenesLamp]

Why can't some wealthy Republicans get together and start up a few new media outlets? Open up some more 'fair & balanced' universities?

I think the problem with this is that once people get wealth, they like to start socializing with all the "right" sort of people. It is the "upper crust" that seems to be the root of our idiocy nowadays.

In the Book "Leftism Revisited" the Author asserts that every socialist movement in History was created, nurtured and financed by the wives and children of wealthy men.

Marx and Engles were both born with silver spoons in their mouths.

No, the problem is that extreme wealth and extreme poverty tend towards socialism. We should be thankful for the few exceptions, such as the Koch Brothers et al.

I think the first thing we should do about the media is to constantly denounce them as biased, and try to avoid products that finance them. Beyond that, people are making efforts to boost alternative media. (Glen Reynolds, Glen Beck) If we can expand the source of news material and entertainment, then eventually the competition will bring them down. Alternative Media is already hurting the newspaper industry, perhaps when it eventually kills Newspapers, next in line will be the New York/ Los Angeles networks\entertainment centers.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Part of the problem is that many of the younger generation don’t really know what communism is."

THIS.

And it's completely intentional on the part of the communist subversives who work tirelessly to overthrow our republican form of government.

By hook or by crook.

[Dajjal]

obumpa

[bitt]

ping

[Graewoulf]

Bookmarked. Thanks.

[Jeff Head]

Here he when he was 24 andwent to Pakistan. His relatives hold this up proudly as to who he really is:

[netmilsmom]

Thanks for the ping.

[Marine_Uncle]

Some will stay at home on November 6th. I am compelled to make my way to the voting polls.

[netmilsmom]

>>Why can’t some wealthy Republicans get together and start up a few new media outlets? Open up some more ‘fair & balanced’ universities? <<

Beck, Hillsdale and Eagle Forum.
RightNetwork Online.

The problem is that the cable companies won’t give them a chance. Current, yes. Right Network, no.

As more people drop their cable and move online or to Roku,

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Some will stay at home on November 6th. I am compelled to make my way to the voting polls."

Same here, but with one caveat. If the GOP-e puts up an ineligible candidate (Rubio, Jindal, Haley et al), I will be foreced to vote 3rd Party. Just because the RATS are willing to crap on the Constitution doesn't mean Constitutionalists should be willing to go along with the GOP-e doing the same.

[Marine_Uncle]

I am still wrestling with that problem.

[bitt]

THANKS FOR PUTTING THAT ALL UP AGAIN....

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Forgive my being a bit slow in getting back to you, but your comment made me think of my own doubts vis a vis the Obama clan and their relationship with Teh Won.

"Here he when he was 24 andwent to Pakistan. His relatives hold this up proudly as to who he really is:"

Do they even really know? I can just imagine the family gossip regarding Barak Sr.: "Doesn't look a thing like him. . ." & etc.

This dude's as likely given the dearth of solid, verifiable info on the pResident's origins:

Package delivered with a smile.

zeugma: "This thread is becoming a great resource with lots of good linked information."

I know, right? So often these "Obama" life narrative threads, even the short-to-medium-length ones, have a real treasure trove of linked information resources provided. All thanks of course, to a list of researchers the length of which would put an Oscars shout out to shame.

[Impy]

Think Frank touched him? The guy was creepy.