NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION
Posted on 07/28/2008 6:21:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis’s commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.
This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama’s official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to Davis and edited his books.
On one side of this debate is somebody claiming to be the son of Davis. On the other side is Alan Maki, a political activist and union organizer with a long history of involvement in left-wing causes. Indeed, Maki confirms that he has been a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a communist decades ago when he was in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Although he doesn’t support Obama because of his ties to Big Business, Maki wrote a blog on the Obama website stating that he was grateful to Obama for bringing Davis to his attention, and that he, Maki, regarded Davis as his mentor, too. Maki announced establishment of a “Frank Marshall Davis Roundtable for Change” and invited Obama supporters to join it.
Maki did his homework, which is more than most of our own media have done, and he obtained Davis’s books. It is absolutely clear, Maki stated, that Davis was a communist.
In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, Obama cites “Frank” as someone who gave him advice on various matters, including race, American values, and college, and read poems to him during his high-school...
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That is great!!
[I see a tax revolt coming if Obama is elected]
And perhaps more than just about taxes too!
Oh please....
The "major media" Democrat newsrooms will continue to protect Obama the way a mother protects a slow child. They are as likely to ask about Obama's communist leanings as they are to ask about his Muslim upbringing or his cozy relationship with domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers.
Testing everything from pot to Marxism to black power while at Occidental College in L.A., Obama was a regular rebel, alienated from the bourgeoisie, black and politically active. Eager to stake a role in the black community, Obama made sure to choose his friends and groups carefully, despite his interest in a wide variety of student organizations: “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” (p. 100, 101)
With two years of college left and plagued with uncertainty about his future, Obama decided to take advantage of the transfer program between Occidental and Columbia University. His decision was influenced by a desire to anchor his African heritage in a place — something he was unable to do growing up in Hawaii: “What I needed was a community, I realized, a community that cut deeper than the common despair that black friends (and muslim friends - traveled to Pakistan in 1981) and I shared when reading the latest crime statistics.” (p. 115)
http://www.time.com/time/2007/candidates_books/obama/1.html
* “I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE”
* “I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
* “That hate hadn't gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming
power over our lives.”
* About student life and race at Occidental College Obama wrote “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
* While in college, Obama wrote(he) disapproved of what he called other “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks.
But then one day he met Regina. She was one of the first to call him Barack instead of Barry.
She told him to push beyond the bitterness: the world is unfair, sure, but people were counting on him to make it better.
Regina (no one knows her real name) was from the South Side of Chicago. She had a rootedness in the black world that Obama could only dream of. Obama was a black American but he had nowhere in black America to call home. He was not from the South Side or Compton or Harlem or West Philly or the South or anywhere like that. But one day he would make the South Side his home and put down roots.
In the second year at Occidental he took part in the divestment campaign: to get Occidental to pull its money out of companies that did business in South Africa. Mandela was still in prison and South Africa was under nakedly white rule.
Good one.
Obama’s campaign would rather Hussein be known as a communist (which doesn't resonate with the undecideds)
VS
A Muslim (which he once was, and Obama might still be a closet muslim)
Obama: “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
While he is a communist, Hussein's campaign is more concerned about the muslim = obama charge.
You are tha best! regards
interesting connection to the 'life of muhammad' discussed earlier bvw; as a boy the 'prophet' was also a victim of sexual abuse.
I'll do some googling.
This is simply too much! Mooslims, Bombers, and Commies oh my!
We’ll see how far this gets into the lamestream media.
LOL at that cartoon.
Thanks, wish I’d dated them. That’s pretty old now.
Great. Thanks.
I KNOW I read this somewhere, but can’t find it for the life of me.
I brought this up on another board, and a member said he read that too, but didn’t remember where. He was going to ask a friend who had heard of it for the address, but he never got back to me.
...while I’m looking here’s a good one to go on with:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
Info as applicable today as then. Thanks for the post.
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