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Introduction By Cliff Kincaid Of Barack Obama's contacts and associations with anti-American politicalfigures, none is more controversial than Frank Marshall Davis, a writer and poetidentified as a member of the Communist Party USA by several sources, includingsome sources sympathetic to him. Obama and Davis met in Hawaii, at a time when ayoung Obama was in need of a black role model and a mentor.Obama's relationship with Davis, including subsequent associations with radical,communist and socialist figures in Chicago, should be investigated for the benefit ofpromoting the public interest and the public's right to know. Indeed, America's Survival,Inc. believes that any public...

So, asked Washington Post star political reporter Dana Milbank, are you saying Barack Obama “is a communist”? Milbank was – by default – the most charismatic member of the mainstream media in attendance at America’s Survival, Inc.’s provocative press conference on May 22 in Washington, D.C. But he had not come to the basement of Ebenezer Coffee House to report fairly on the right-wing group’s media event. He came to mock it.