Posted by
Don White on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:11:37 PM
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. Now we
know where his communist ideas and sympathies began.
It's
no secret that when news hit the wires that Russia had invaded Georgia,
Obama’s first remark was, “both sides should show restraint.” He would
go on to regret that tepid statement, but his real sentiments showed
through as he would repeat it again while John McCain immediately,
rightly and strongly, criticized Moscow for invading Georgia, demanding
they leave.
McCain
made a point of this apparent Obama slip or weakness in the first
debate, stating Obama was too naïve, unprepared, and inexperienced about
world affairs to be commander in chief.
Was
he naïve? Obama observers said he merely misspoke. One such faux pass,
yes, but two in the same week on the same subject and in the same
words, no. I believe part of him, nine years to be exact, instructs his
sympathetic behavior toward Russia, its invasion into sovereign
Georgian territory, Vladimir Putin, and even communism.
This
is also the reason he was so quick to tell the world he could
comfortably meet without preconditions with the world’s worst
dictators—they are generally communists and he feels a natural
inclination toward them and would be confident around them because he
shares most of their beliefs. When the American voter awakens to
that fact, Obama's "smokin" polling numbers will quickly fade. But is
there enough time to get the word out?
Obama
knows Russia is not a democracy—he said that in the last debate. He
knows Russia is not the capitalistic country Vladimir Putin inherited
from Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin after perestroika. As Putin
nationalized oil and other industries and ruled with an iron hand,
Russia reverted back to its former self, a repressive communistic
dictatorship.
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. But his
policies and thought patternsbelie that Obama smoke screen.
However,
through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with
someone who was publicly identified as a leader of the Communist Party
USA (CPUSA) in Hawaii. The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from
1971-1979, where 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, in a posting
of March 2007 noted evidence that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis.
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 nominee for
the U.S. presidency. AIM recently disclosed that Obama has well-documented socialist connections, which help explain why he sponsored a "Global Poverty Act"
designed to send hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid to
the rest of the world, in order to meet U.N. demands. The bill has
passed the House and a Senate committee, and awaits full Senate action.
In Obama's own book, Dreams From My Father, he
writes about "a poet named Frank," who visited them in Hawaii, read
poetry, and was full of "hard-earned knowledge" and advice. Who was
Frank? Obama only says that he had "some modest notoriety once," was "a
contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in
Chicago..." but was now "pushing eighty." He writes about "Frank and
his old Black Power dashiki self" giving him advice before he left for
Occidental College in 1979 at age18. Dashiki is a colorful men's garment widely worn in West Africa that covers the top half of the body.
That’s a favorite Biblical statement. It's a truth that fits Barak Obama to a T. Frank
Davis taught him communism as a youth and what do you get more than 20
years later—a candidate for president who sides with the likes of Hugo
Chavez, Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro, Hu Jintao, and Kim Il-sung.
The
Rev. Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ taught him
and Michelle how to hate America and Frank Davis taught him to love
communism. Is it any wonder that Michelle made those gaffes some time
after Obama’s started his presidential campaign. They were about it
being the first time she really appreciated being an American? In
typical fashion, Obama tried to excuse her by saying she meant her
newfound pride was about the political system and was not meant to
disparage her country. Barak, what kind of dried ganga leaf you been
smokin'?
“What
she meant was, this is the first time that she’s been proud of the
politics of America,” he said. But Michelle Obama is an experienced
attorney and an expert public speaker. I doubt anyone believed that
lame excuse. What they believed is that Michelle Obama was
preconditioned to say such garbage because of Reverend Wright.
This
"Frank" is none other than Frank Marshall Davis, the black communist
writer now considered by some to be in the same category of prominence
as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. In the summer/fall 2003 issue of African American Review, James A. Miller of George
Washington
University reviews a book by John Edgar Tidwell, a professor at the
University of Kansas, about Davis's career, and notes, "In Davis's
case, his political commitments led him to join the American Communist
Party during the middle of World War I---even though he never publicly
admitted his Party membership." Tidwell is an expert on the life and
writings of Davis.
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 of New York
University. The remarks are posted online under the headline, "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party."
Cliff
Kincaid writes about a Daily Telegraph article by Toby Harnden on
Communist Frank Marshall Davis, "a strong influence over a young Barack
Obama for nine years of his life, rather than just four, and was a sex
pervert and pothead. "Sexual Perversion and Rape and Davis’s alleged
sexual perversion adds a dramatic and alarming element to the
controversy.
Harnden, the Daily Telegraph's U.S. editor based in Washington D.C reports that Davis’s sexual proclivities were documented in a 1968 pornographic novel, written just two years before Davis became Obama’s mentor, which was titled, Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gourmet Gash).
It
was in Chicago that Obama became a "community organizer" and came into
contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic
Socialists of America (SDS) which maintains close ties to European
socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI),
and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
William Ayers and Carl Davidson.
The
SDS laid siege to college campuses across America in the 1960s, mostly
in order to protest the Vietnam War, and spawned the terrorist Weather
Underground organization.
Ayers
was a member of the terrorist group and turned himself in to
authorities in 1981. He is now a college professor and served with
Obama on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Davidson is now a
figure in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism,
an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled CPUSA, and helped organize the
2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War. Come to think of
it, Putin and Russia were against our war in Iraq, too. Still are.
Coincidence?