gmsisko1
02-20-2008, 08:13 AM
OBAMA'S COMMUNIST MENTOR
If you've been listening to me for a good portion of my 38 years in talk radio, you know that I have never been one to see a Communist under every duvet. I recognized the threat of Communism, and realized that our colleges and universities were just chock full of Marxist professors. After all, where else are you going to go when you can't survive in the private sector?
There are times, though, when the "C" word should be invoked – and not just to describe Jane Fonda. One of those times would be when you have someone running for president of the United States who has shown a somewhat unusual level of interest in Communist philosophy.
Yesterday on the show, I asked the listeners to tell me what Barack Obama has actually accomplished. Not much, it seems. So now let's move on to a different idea ... Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist. You've heard me mention many times that Barack Obama had an affinity to communist professors in his day. Well now it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty details of what exactly that means.
If you read the linked story you'll find that Frank Marshall Davis was a publicly identified member of the Communist Party USA. Davis, a black writer, was accused of being involved in several communist-front organizations by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to Davis repeatedly as just "Frank" ... assumingly because Obama is not a stupid man and did not want to show the world that his mentor is a card-carrying Communist. So what does Obama tell us about Frank? Well Frank was a poet who visited his family in Hawaii. Frank was, according to Obama, "a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago..." Frank was "his old Black Power dashiki self" who gave Obama advice on his career and his college education.
Well someone finally put two and two together ... "Frank" was the same Frank Marshall Davis, black communist writer. In March of 2007 Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, made a speech at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at NYU. His speech was called "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party." Here's what professor Horne (a fellow communist) had to say:
... deploring these convictions in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir 'Dreams of my Father', the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation – though you would never know it from reading so-called left journals of opinion.
So what do we have here? A communist helping the Democrat front runner being "a decisive influence in helping (Barack Obama) find his identity"? Curious, to say the least.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/1/32/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
By: Boortz
If you've been listening to me for a good portion of my 38 years in talk radio, you know that I have never been one to see a Communist under every duvet. I recognized the threat of Communism, and realized that our colleges and universities were just chock full of Marxist professors. After all, where else are you going to go when you can't survive in the private sector?
There are times, though, when the "C" word should be invoked – and not just to describe Jane Fonda. One of those times would be when you have someone running for president of the United States who has shown a somewhat unusual level of interest in Communist philosophy.
Yesterday on the show, I asked the listeners to tell me what Barack Obama has actually accomplished. Not much, it seems. So now let's move on to a different idea ... Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist. You've heard me mention many times that Barack Obama had an affinity to communist professors in his day. Well now it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty details of what exactly that means.
If you read the linked story you'll find that Frank Marshall Davis was a publicly identified member of the Communist Party USA. Davis, a black writer, was accused of being involved in several communist-front organizations by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to Davis repeatedly as just "Frank" ... assumingly because Obama is not a stupid man and did not want to show the world that his mentor is a card-carrying Communist. So what does Obama tell us about Frank? Well Frank was a poet who visited his family in Hawaii. Frank was, according to Obama, "a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago..." Frank was "his old Black Power dashiki self" who gave Obama advice on his career and his college education.
Well someone finally put two and two together ... "Frank" was the same Frank Marshall Davis, black communist writer. In March of 2007 Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, made a speech at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at NYU. His speech was called "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party." Here's what professor Horne (a fellow communist) had to say:
... deploring these convictions in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir 'Dreams of my Father', the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation – though you would never know it from reading so-called left journals of opinion.
So what do we have here? A communist helping the Democrat front runner being "a decisive influence in helping (Barack Obama) find his identity"? Curious, to say the least.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/1/32/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
By: Boortz