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Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM ^ | February 18, 2008 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 02/19/2008 4:21:00 AM PST by IrishMike

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."

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.

Trevor Loudon, a New Zealand-based libertarian activist, researcher and blogger, noted evidence that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis in a posting in March of 2007.

Obama's communist connection adds to mounting public concern about a candidate who has come out of virtually nowhere, with a brief U.S. Senate legislative record, to become the Democratic Party frontrunner for the U.S. presidency.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; america; barakhusseinobama; communism; cpusa; democratparty; democrats; elections; frankmarshalldavis; influence; nobama; obama; talkradio; treason; wot
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To: ovrtaxt
Well, friend, my Dad stood last roll call 18 years ago next week and my 84-year old Mother has her own computer. So, neither of them really care if I am using a computer, supervised or otherwise.

And after looking and the meanderings of your page, you are hardly in a position to be criticizing anyone for using a computer.

Now, run along little boy and go play in the traffic.

21 posted on 02/19/2008 10:09:24 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Redleg Duke

Apparently you care more about this conversation than I do. Have a nice day, I have things to do.


22 posted on 02/19/2008 10:11:12 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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To: ovrtaxt; Redleg Duke
ovrtaxt: "Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

I suspect that the only brush fire smoke you're smelling is coming from the other end and is a result of you walking too fast in an irate circle.

23 posted on 02/19/2008 10:13:33 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Racists, criminals, and all the dregs only have a voice in one Party - all vote 'RAT)
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To: nicmarlo

They are gonna get us from the right or the left.


24 posted on 02/19/2008 10:52:53 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: G.Mason

Third party time.


25 posted on 02/19/2008 11:04:28 AM PST by PeterFinn (A muslim in the White House would be an Obamination.)
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To: PeterFinn
Third Party?


No ... not this election.


With the upcoming destruction of the Republican aka RHINO Party, a third Party may well become a viable alternative ...after ten or twelve years of hard work, and the destructive policies that will be implimented.



26 posted on 02/19/2008 11:30:47 AM PST by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
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To: Halgr
Obama's communist connection adds to mounting public concern about a candidate who has come out of virtually nowhere, with a brief U.S. Senate legislative record, to become the Democratic Party frontrunner for the U.S. presidency.

Great! /s

27 posted on 02/19/2008 11:54:40 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: G.Mason

Hillary Marxist Clinton? Thought so.


28 posted on 02/19/2008 1:08:50 PM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: IrishMike

We, the politically educated American people have seen the enemy and it is them! The cancer has spread, and it is at the terminal stage!


29 posted on 02/19/2008 1:16:49 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: Matchett-PI

That happens to be a quote from John Adams.


30 posted on 02/19/2008 1:47:45 PM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!

Very disturbing.


31 posted on 02/19/2008 3:26:33 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cloverfield 2008! Why vote for a lesser monster?)
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To: ovrtaxt
And people wonder why I’m voting third party?

How you can put a patriot and 3rd generation Navy man in the same league with two America-hating Marxists is beyond me.

32 posted on 02/19/2008 3:36:07 PM PST by montag813
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the PING


33 posted on 02/19/2008 3:43:49 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: IrishMike

Hillary sitting at the feet Saul and Obama learning from aged Frank. The Communist Party, the poison that never dies.


34 posted on 02/19/2008 3:49:28 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping! Some new facts to me in this.


35 posted on 02/19/2008 4:30:47 PM PST by 3D-JOY
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To: IrishMike

Keyes had Obama nailed.

This guy is a real danger.


36 posted on 02/19/2008 5:16:14 PM PST by TBP
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To: IrishMike

Thanks very much for posting this article by Cliff Kincaid. Extremely interesting.


37 posted on 02/20/2008 6:13:17 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Fred Nerks; Beckwith; forkinsocket; jan in Colorado; Marine_Uncle; LucyT

Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand-based blogger who has been analyzing the political forces behind Obama and specializes in studying the impact of Marxist and leftist political organizations, notes that Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator’s victory in the Iowa caucuses.


38 posted on 02/20/2008 9:33:57 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: IrishMike

Oh gasp! :-) Hillary’s early mentors were communists as well. Is there a pattern here? /sarcasm


39 posted on 02/20/2008 9:35:51 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Chgogal

Is it possible that Obama did not know who Davis was when he wrote his book, Dreams From My Father, first published in 1995? That’s not plausible since Obama refers to him as a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes and says he saw a book of his black poetry.

The communists knew who “Frank” was, and they know who Obama is. In fact, one academic who travels in communist circles understands the significance of the Davis-Obama relationship.

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about it during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks are posted online under the headline, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party.”


40 posted on 02/20/2008 9:47:27 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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