Obama’s Communist Mentor

AIM ^ | February 18, 2008 | Cliff Kincaid

[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.

[Redleg Duke]

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.

[ovrtaxt]

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

[Matchett-PI]

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.

[Halgr]

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

[PeterFinn]

Third party time.

[G.Mason]

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.

[nicmarlo]

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

[OPS4]

Hillary Marxist Clinton? Thought so.

[ronnie raygun]

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!

[ovrtaxt]

That happens to be a quote from John Adams.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

Very disturbing.

[montag813]

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.

[Tennessee Nana]

Thanks for the PING

[KC Burke]

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

[3D-JOY]

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

[TBP]

Keyes had Obama nailed.

This guy is a real danger.

[PGalt]

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

[george76]

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.

[ladyinred]

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

[george76]

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.”