Duped in North Korea: From Obama's Mentor to Jimmy Carter

American Thinker ^ | November 26, 2010 | Paul Kengor

[SunkenCiv]

As I've written here and elsewhere, Frank Marshall Davis was a mentor to Barack Obama and an actual CPUSA member. The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Davis about that association in 1956, under oath, where Davis pleaded the Fifth Amendment... an FBI document that features Davis's Communist Party number: 47544. As to the point of Korea, I found all the columns Davis wrote for the Honolulu Record, the CPUSA organ in Hawaii, in 1950. That was the period when Korea erupted into a hot war that killed tens of thousands of American boys, with the peninsula divided into a communist north and non-communist south. Many American liberals/progressives were unsure where to stand on U.S. involvement, even as President Harry Truman, a Democrat, sent troops. For communists, however, this was a no-brainer: They wanted no U.S. involvement because they wanted all of Korea to be communist, following Red China's recent path. This was the Stalinist line, the Maoist line, and the worldwide communist line. Thus, American communists ridiculed the very idea of U.S. engagement as a McCarthyite manifestation of paranoid anti-communism, as an "inordinate fear" of communism, as U.S. imperialism, as Uncle Sam sticking his nose where it didn't belong, as...well, whatever worked.

Thanks neverdem.

• Why Are We Still in Korea? -- Pat Buchanan

[Hush44]

thanks for the ping..

[okie01]

This guy is all BS. North Korea did not have nuclear weapons in the early 1990's which means nothing was dealt with.

Did he say the Norks had nuclear weapons in the early nineties? No, he said nothing of the sort.

Try reading it again. There's nothing wrong with this report.

[okie01]

Only spite could drive a man to say & do the despicable things he has said & done.

And, as we all should know by now, Jimmy Carter is a spiteful little man. Emphasis on the word "little"...

The only reason he got involved in the White House tennis court scheduling is because that was all he was competent to do.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for your hard work, Lucy.

[LucyT]

You’re welcome, Arthur.