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

Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama

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“He knew Stan real well,” said Dawna Weatherly-Williams, a close friend of Mr Davis “They’d play Scrabble and drink and crack jokes and crack jokes and argue. Frank always won and he was always very braggadocio about it too. It was all jocular. They didn’t get polluted drunk. And Frank never really did drugs, though he and Stan would smoke pot together.”

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.

“Stan had been promising to bring Barry by because we all had that in common - Frank’s kids were half-white, Stan’s grandson was half-black and my son was half-black. We all had that in common and we all really enjoyed it. We got a real kick out of reality.”


26 posted on 06/14/2009 9:46:47 AM PDT by maggief (I)
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To: maggief

” And Frank never really did drugs, though he and Stan would smoke pot together.”

Could it have been his grandfather who first introduced Obama to drugs ??

My grandfather used to take us fishing , sometimes we’d get an ice cream cone afterwards...


34 posted on 06/14/2009 10:17:56 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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So... They didn’t get POLLUTED drunk with 10-year-old Barry there. Just REGULAR drunk, with of course the addition of weed, which Barry accompanied Frank to sell, sometimes. And of course the hooker bars they dragged him to... So they weren’t REALLY bad role models. Just pretty lousy role models. I see.


62 posted on 04/04/2010 1:42:59 AM PDT by Yaelle
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