Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (MSM tries to sanitize Obama's commie mentor)

Boston Herald ^ | 8/3/08 | staff

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HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.

Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called hypocrisy "a national trait of American whites." Advocating civil rights amid segregation, Davis wrote in 1949: "I refuse to settle for anything less than all the rights which are due me under the Constitution."

The depth of the influence Davis had on the presumptive Democratic nominee is a question. While Davis’ leftist politics could allow the candidate’s critics to group Davis with Obama friends and acquaintances with allegedly anti-American views, those who knew Davis and his work say his activism was aimed squarely at social injustice.

Obama’s father was a black man from Kenya and his mother a white Kansas woman. They separated when Obama was 2, and he saw his father just once after they divorced two years later. Raised with the help of his white grandparents, Obama attended school in his native Hawaii with few African-American peers. He struggled to find mentors in his search for a black identity.

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I agree. Those who vote for the fool from GA will only help BHMO. Barr graduated from high school in 66, and; he had to have numerous student deferments to never serve in Vietnam.
He called LTC West -”no hero.”

I have a real problem with anyone who puts down a commander, who saved his men’s lives.

[screaminsunshine]

I heard he was a pedophile who specialized in young brown boys.

[television is just wrong]

is his proud mama alive still, ?