[LucyT]

Thanks, Islander7.

Ping to photos at #88.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2112695/posts?page=88#88

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html

A bohemian libertine who drank heavily and loved jazz, he became friends with Stanley Dunham, Mr Obama’s maternal grandfather in the 1960s. Mr Davis died in 1987 at the age of 81, five years before Mr Dunham.

~snip

While his mother was in Indonesia during part of his teenage years, Mr Obama lived with his white grandparents. Mrs Weatherly-Williams said that the poet was first introduced to the future Democratic presidential candidate in 1970 at the age of 10.

~snip

On other occasions, Mr Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

You know, I was just this afternoon working up a little post which posited that the "Pop" of Obama's Occidental poem might in fact be Frank Marshall Davis:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-barrieanthony/obamas-poetry_b_44271.html

Weird.