Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis
Earlier this week I posted my choice for Post of the Week and bet myself that nobody would beat it. I lost that bet because here’s the best and it should be required reading. Here’s a snippet:
Doug Ross @ Journal | 30 Jul 2008
Barack Obama likes to talk about something he calls “economic justice.”
And “restoring fairness to the economy.”*
Why would Obama promote divisiveness and class envy?
In his book “Dreams From My Father”, Obama reveals his childhood mentor was a man he cryptically refers to only as “Frank.”
“Frank” was infamous communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress began investigating him.
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Follow the link. You’ll enjoy the presentation.
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Also on July 30th Canada Free Press ran a comprehensive article on Frank Marshall Davis. It’s clear the man fits right in with Obama’s circle of friends — Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and others in Chicago.
And, on June 9th, Bill Steigerwald ran a piece in Townhall with an interview with Cliff Kincaid about Frank Marshall Davis.
Here’s the intro:
“Will Big Media Look at Obama and His Leftwing Influences?”
Two weeks ago Cliff Kincaid, president of the conservative group America’s Survival Inc., called a press conference in Washington to challenge the mainstream media to look into the hard-core left-wingers who are known to have influenced Barack Obama — first as a teenager in Hawaii and later in Chicago. Specifically, Kincaid’s group wants a major news organization to follow up on the investigative work it has done that documents that an elderly black man who mentored Sen. Obama in Hawaii was a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA. Kincaid also would like to see a serious journalistic vetting of Sen. Obama’s relationship with the left-wing radicals in Chicago — Bill Ayers and others — who helped Obama launch his political career. I called Kincaid — whose challenge to the media has yet to be accepted — on Wednesday, June 4, at his home in southern Maryland.
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"Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis"
August 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
As the son of Frank Marshall Davis, I am fighting the right-wing disinformation campaign that exaggerates my father’s radical influence over Barack Obama in Hawaii. Please read my blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
We appreciate your service Mark, but that’s not the issue.
Your father, Frank Marshall Davis, is a Marxist. That’s a fact, and he had enough of an influence on Barack Hussein Obama that BHO wrote about him in his book, Dreams From My Father. Now we come to the pure simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist as well. What are we to think? That BHO became a Marxist but your Marxist father’s influence had nothing to do with it? That’s a bit of a stretch.
BTW: I see you are flying Obama’s logo on your site. If I put a hammer and sickle on my site it would be reasonable for visitors to peg me as a communist. I would expect that. What I find troubling is people like Obama and your father who are Marxist but try to deny it.
The unverified cv on your site is impressive but I have to question what you have posted because it does not square one whit with the honor you bestow on your father and your association now with Obama.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
If by “Marxist” you mean that he advocates replacing capitalism with communism, then you are dead wrong.
The focus of my site is not the actual qualifications of Barack Obama to become POTUS. It is the disinformation campaign that exaggerates my father’s radical influence on him. I have challenged Cliff Kincaid (and everyone else) to refute the “specific misrepresentations” I have identified on my blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gGxdvX.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Let’s forget your red herrings about the purpose of your site and Cliff Kincaid. The subject is the ideology of Frank Marshall Davis and whether he had an influence on the formation of Barack Obama’s ideology.
I have never “joined” a capitalist organization per se yet everybody that knows me is aware that I’m a capitalist.
I have never joined a right-of-center political organization but everybody that has engaged me in political conversation and / or read my political writings know I am more conservative than liberal.
Your father was a communist. I don’t give a rat’s ass whether he ever joined the Communist Party or ever wrote one word about “overthrowing” the U.S. government or not, he spent his adult life writing and working to undermine capitalism and federalism and those are bedrock principles of American democracy. Ergo, he was for everything I despise which is the same system I see in Russia, Cuba, China and now Venezuela. It’s called Marxism or communism, pick one.
That brings us to the point that Obama is a communist as well. He has exposed his ideology and in his book he spells out how he got to where is is today, ideologically.
He’s been on the campaign trail for over a year and I have heard his speeches and read his writings. He’s communist to the core. What the hell do you think he means by “economic justice?” He favors a group of elitist running the country and distributing the wealth based on need; so did Stalin; so did your father.
As to whether your father influenced Obama or not: Obama brought it up. I think I’ll take his word over your hysterical, agenda-driven denials.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Mark – are you Barack Obama’s half brother?
October 27th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Franklin Marshall Davis was once a member of the CPUSA and friends with Paul Robeson as was my father who also served as a secretary to the IWO (International Workers Order) and who along with others like Robeson and Davis debated issues for the Civil Rights Congress in the 1940′s. My father left the party in the late 1940′s and the state of New Jersey in fear of his life to hide out in the hills of Western Pennsylvania. He did say a lot of people of color joined the Communist Party in the early 1930′s because there was no other group doing anything to help their cause.
Viewing the tight organization of the Obama campaign reminded me of tales my father told me about his time as a communist organizer for the CIO. The Communist Party trained them well in media manipulation, grass roots organizing, and delivering clever and inspiring speeches. The Obama retoric at the Berlin Wall and about spreading the wealth strongly resembled the content in some of my fathers old speeches.
When the iron curtain appeared to melt in the early 1990′s my father didn’t believe it.
“It’s a ruse,” he said. “They’re sneaky devils and will go underground until they can slowly conquer us from within. McCarthy and Truman knew, and so did I.”
October 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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