Obama's Marxist Mentors

Campus Report ^ | May 29, 2008 | Ben Giles

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Obama’s Marxist Mentors

by: Ben Giles, May 28, 2008

As Barack Obama declares victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, some researchers have begun a search into Obama’s past.

Cliff Kincaid, founder and president of America’s Survival, Inc., and Herbert Romerstein, author and former investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), held a press conference at Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse in Washington D.C. on May 22 releasing two new reports.

“We’re raising questions,” said Kincaid. “We don’t have all the answers.”

“Perhaps Barack Obama has some of the answers.”

Romerstein argued that Obama’s rhetoric lacks substance concerning the source of his political ideology.

“Obama is a self-candidate,” said Romerstein. “We know nothing about him other than the few bits and pieces he’s given us.”

“And when questions are raised about his current connections, he is very thin-skinned.”

The America’s Survival reports focus on Obama’s early years in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was born and raised for a majority of his youth, and in his time in Chicago, Illinois.

The Hawaii report highlights Frank Marshall Davis as the “Frank” repeatedly referred to in Obama’s memoir, Dreams of My Father. According to Kincaid, Davis was “a key member of a Soviet-controlled network that was sponsored by Moscow and active in Hawaii.”

In his book, Obama referred to Frank—no last name was ever included—as a poet who visited his family in Hawaii. Frank is described by Obama as a man of “modest notoriety once” and who had “hard-earned knowledge.”

Davis was indeed a poet, authoring numerous verses with socialist sympathies which Kincaid and Romerstein ran lengthy excerpts from in their reports...

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