whatever happened to "uncle frank" ??

Accuracy in Media ^ | 10-19-2008 | AIM

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... Did Obama's boyhood mentor, life long communist Frank Marshall Davis influence that choice?

Obama admits he was inspired to first move to Chicago in 1983 by the election of the city's first black mayor Harold washington. Obama even unsuccessfully wrote away for a job in Washington's administration.

Frank Marshall Davis had lived in Chicago for many years until moving to Hawaii in 1948. He had been active in Chicago's post War Communist Party while Harold Washington was a left leaning young law student. Had the two ever met?

Possibly not, but there was only one degree of seperation.

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." The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union.

In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations...

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did Hannity, Levin, and Limbaugh fall asleep on this one??

[unspun]

Hannity covered it in his 2nd weekend program about Obama’s radical connections (or, theirs to him) which aired last night.

The major media may be buying up copies of his sex autobiography, for their own pleasure.

[hosepipe]

The Marxist tendancies of the democrat socialist caucus in Congress is an espionage story worthy of a movie -AND- a documentary.. before or after the required hangings...

[ETL]

Ayers might have had something to do with it, also...

"Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review."
http://obama.senate.gov/about/
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Bill Ayers' education:
1987 - Ed.D, Columbia University, Curriculum & Instruction
1987 - M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University, Early Childhood Education
1984 - M.Ed, Bank Street College, Early Childhood Education
1968 - B.A., University of Michigan, American Studies
http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
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Bank Street College
Where We Are and How to Get Here:

Bank Street College is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 610 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.

Bank Street College is located in a bustling family and university neighborhood four blocks from Columbia University
http://www.bankstreet.edu/aboutbsc/visiting.html
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago..."

[Jet Jaguar]

BUMP

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

If Karl Marx himself were running for President of the United States, our media would scoff and guffaw at claims that he was a “Marxist” and accuse all of his opponents of “McCarthyism.”

[ETL]

he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry"

From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

[ETL]

LOL! Good one! And probably true.

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this is now making things clear for me why Obama is so popular with the “Euro-citizen” and why he is so popular with the “uneasy” and “beatnik” - Bob Dylan types of the sixites ...

[little jeremiah]

Bob Dylan probably hates him.

[thinden]

whaz up?

[Wallaby]

thanks for the ping. Just checking out the threads.

[Wallaby]

What’s the scoop on Bubba and the start of ACORN in Arkansas?

[thinden]

didn’t know tht bubba birthed that baby in arkansas, but this doesn’t surprise me.