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Obama’s Communist Mentor (Frank Marshall Davis)
National Review Online ^ | 10/5/2010 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 10/05/2010 5:03:44 PM PDT by mojito

When you write a book, particularly one that requires several years of research, you tend to encounter a bunch of unexpected information. Sometimes you find things that, if reported, will undoubtedly prompt partisans to demand you explain yourself. For me, this begins that process of explaining, given that one of the major characters in my new book on American Communists, Dupes, is Frank Marshall Davis.

Allegations regarding Davis’s Communism are sure to infuriate the Left because of the influence Davis once had over our president. He was a drinking buddy of Barack Obama’s maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, and spent time with young Obama. He turns up in the president’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, shrewdly identified only as “Frank”: “I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes.” Recently, a U.S. Communist-party official confirmed the relationship, bragging in a speech of the Communist Davis’s formative influence over Obama. And yet when the allegations surfaced during the 2008 campaign, they went virtually unreported in the mainstream media.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: communism; frankmarshalldavis; marxism; obama; stalinism
New and Improved! With even more Communism!
1 posted on 10/05/2010 5:03:50 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

bttt


2 posted on 10/05/2010 5:05:34 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: mojito

KGB and so are all of Obamas other friends.


3 posted on 10/05/2010 5:06:33 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: mojito

The link doesn’t work for me.


4 posted on 10/05/2010 5:14:39 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mojito

Davis is just one, of a very long list, of Obamie mentors.
I wonder if there is, or was, anyone of his friends that
is not a Marxist?


5 posted on 10/05/2010 5:18:01 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: mojito
Link no worky.
6 posted on 10/05/2010 5:19:24 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The power to manage "The Environment" is the power to control the entire economy.)
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To: mojito

Obama wrote a poem about Frank, called it “Pop”.
It reeks of homo eroticism. That was his mentor.


7 posted on 10/05/2010 5:24:29 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: mojito

Sadly, all of this information was available to anyone who cared to look for it long before the election of this Marxist traitor - and he is nothing less than that - a Marxist who seeks to fundamentally transform “his” country into something it is demonstrably not.

Impeachment should be the first order of business for the new Congress.


8 posted on 10/05/2010 5:38:47 PM PDT by turfmann
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To: mojito

Here is a working link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/248877/obama%E2%80%99s-communist-mentor-paul-kengor


9 posted on 10/05/2010 5:42:01 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: mojito
The shock now would be to find someone, anyone, in Soetoro's past who *isn't* a screaming Marxist.

Alas, I fear it is a shock we will never experience.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

10 posted on 10/05/2010 5:43:02 PM PDT by The Comedian ("Progressive" is a code word for "Pending nitrogen cycle contributor")
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To: turfmann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eumK6YL3jvc&feature=channel


11 posted on 10/05/2010 6:39:58 PM PDT by Misterioso (Burning a Koran is a victimless crime.)
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To: mojito

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.....


12 posted on 10/05/2010 6:46:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: mojito
from the article:

He (Frank Marshall Davis) concluded that in the face of “still rising unemployment and a mounting depression, the time draws nearer when we will have to decide to oust the monopolies and restore a competing system of free enterprise, or let the government own and operate our major industries.

13 posted on 10/05/2010 6:51:13 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: pandoraou812

Pretty good article here.


14 posted on 10/05/2010 9:01:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (Defend liberty. Destroy socialism.)
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To: mojito

‘Old Frank’ was bi and a pedophile.
This was probably the introduction to the gay life for Obama.


15 posted on 10/05/2010 11:11:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: turfmann
Impeachment should be the first order of business for the new Congress.

On what grounds, and where are the two thirds to convict and remove in the Senate? Even in the best predictions, we'll be lucky to have a bare majority in the Senate in January 2011.

Clinton and the rats have killed impeachment unless there's a two thirds supermajority in the Senate.

16 posted on 10/07/2010 7:51:08 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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