[Vision2020] Obama’s Communist-Pedophile Mentor

[No Weatherman]

Paul:

I don't believe that Obama's biography named any serial murderers in his past.

It's just a matter of time, however, before we see more bogey men pop
out of the wood pile.



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> In the interest of getting these out of the way and saving Mr. Weatherman
> the trouble, are there any known associations between Obama and Manson,
> Dahmer, Bundy, or the Zodiac Killer?  How about Speck or Gacy?  Was he ever
> mentored by any of them?  What about Jack the Ripper?
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> Paul
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> No Weatherman wrote:
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>> Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis
>> By Paul Kengor
>>
>> As more and more audio and video emerge on Barack Obama's desire to
>> redistribute wealth, not to mention his views on the housing crisis
>> that has torpedoed the U.S. economy, I keep returning to two columns
>> I've read by Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist-agitator
>> who mentored Obama in Hawaii. While much attention has been paid to
>> Obama's relationship with communist-terrorist Bill Ayers — and rightly
>> so — much less attention has been devoted to Davis. That's a mistake,
>> since Obama was influenced more by Davis than Ayers.
>>
>> Davis, who is now deceased, was an African American from the Midwest
>> who had worked as a columnist for the Chicago Star, the communist
>> newspaper of Chicago, a city that had one of the largest CPUSA
>> affiliates, and, in fact, hosted the September 1919 convention that
>> launched the American Communist Party. Though Davis always tried to
>> conceal any communist associations — ironically, Obama supporters have
>> picked up that torch — there's no question that Davis was a communist,
>> as is immediately evident upon reading his columns, examining his
>> background, or consulting with people in the party (to this day) who
>> confirm he was a communist. The fact that he was at least a lower case
>> "c" "communist" is obvious. It takes a little more digging to find
>> evidence of his membership in CPUSA — but not much. Among the sources
>> that reveal his membership are Davis himself, notably in a letter he
>> wrote to a friend, published posthumously by his biographer, Professor
>> John Edgar Tidwell. "I have recently joined the Communist party,"
>> wrote Davis.
>>
>> In 1948, Davis just happened to arrive in Hawaii the same time that
>> leaders of the Communist Party in Hawaii — realizing the limits of
>> national party organs like the Daily Worker and People's Daily World —
>> established their own weekly newspaper, the Honolulu Record. In 1949,
>> Davis began writing a regular column for the Record, titled, "Frankly
>> Speaking." This was a key form of agitation work that Davis would do
>> for the party in Hawaii for decades.
>>
>> A young Barack Obama knew Davis in the latter 1970s, introduced by his
>> maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who, in many ways, saw
>> eye-to-eye with Davis, and saw in Davis a potential role model and
>> father-figure to his grandson. Dunham and Davis were close friends.
>>
>> Though proud of Davis, and very affectionate toward him, Obama sought
>> to obfuscate the identity of Davis in his book, Dreams from My Father,
>> where he strangely referred to him only as "Frank," conspicuously
>> avoiding his full name. Politically, Obama needed to make Davis
>> anonymous, whereas, personally, he could not avoid acknowledging in
>> his memoirs a man who meant so much to him.
>>
>> I've connected these dots through my Cold War research, which is
>> grounded in primary sources like the Soviet Comintern Archives on
>> CPUSA, FBI files, recently released CPUSA documents at Tamiment
>> Library, and much more. This has brought me into contact with various
>> communist characters and fellow travelers who have molded or worked
>> with Barack Obama, from Davis to Bill Ayers to Saul Alinsky.
>>
>> So, that's all background on Davis's identity and how Obama knew him.
>>
>> Now, what about those columns I mentioned earlier? Obama's recent
>> remarks on wealth redistribution made me think of two Davis columns in
>> particular, both for the Honolulu Record:
>>
>> The first was Davis's January 26, 1950 piece, "Free Enterprise or
>> Socialism?" Davis hoped that America and its economy were at a turning
>> point, as if a kind of perfect storm was brewing that could at last
>> allow him and his comrades to realize their dreams of a socialist
>> America. They would need to trash the current free-enterprise system
>> and argue for a change to something else. Of course, they could not
>> fully disclose themselves, their beliefs, and their intentions,
>> although any thinking observer could easily read between the lines.
>> The key was to gain the support of the people who didn't know any
>> difference.
>>
>> Davis began his article by asserting, "Before too long, our nation
>> will have to decide whether we shall have free enterprise or
>> socialism." He pointed to actions in Congress, where he quoted the
>> then-chairman of the Congressional committee on small business, who,
>> according to Davis, warned that "at the present rate, either the giant
>> corporations will control all our markets, the greatest share of our
>> wealth, and eventually, our government, or the government will be
>> forced to intervene with some form of direct regulation of business."
>>
>> Davis did not like "big business" and the rapacious, "tentacled" rich
>> men who ran it. "For instance," wrote Davis, "Alfred Sloan of General
>> Motors announced that his gigantic company made a profit last year of
>> $600,000,000, more than any other corporation in history. Over the
>> years, General Motors has swallowed up or knocked out car manufacturer
>> after car manufacturer so that today less than a handful of
>> competitors remain. Free enterprise, eh?"
>>
>> "Monopolies" like GM had to be controlled by the government, said
>> Davis. If not, the likes of GM would control the government.
>> "Obviously, a business that can show a profit . . . of $600,000,000 is
>> in a position to control government," wrote Davis. "When we remember
>> that the directors and major stockholders of one industry also shape
>> the policies of banks and other huge corporations, it is easy to see
>> that the tentacles of Big Business control just about everything they
>> think they need to insure continued profits." Davis claimed that, "The
>> control of our wealth and government by the giant corporations . . .
>> [was] accomplished fact."
>>
>> Davis believed that it was such free enterprise run amok, allegedly
>> un-regulated and un-checked by the federal government, that had caused
>> the Great Depression: "For many years now we have been living under
>> the virtual dictatorship of Big Business which all but drove us to
>> ruin in 1929."
>>
>> Davis was grateful for the grand intervention of Franklin Delano
>> Roosevelt, who he believed had saved the day: "By curbing the excesses
>> of the giant corporations that had led to the economic crisis,
>> Roosevelt was able to save the system from complete collapse."
>>
>> Even then, FDR, in Davis's eyes, had not done enough: "And yet the
>> moneyed men who were bailed out by the New Deal program were our late
>> president's [FDR's] biggest enemies. They have refused to see that in
>> order to preserve their hides, they had to hand out a few drops of
>> gravy to the common man."
>>
>> Toeing the Stalinist line, as he always did without deviation, Davis
>> then blamed American capitalism for starting World War II. That had
>> been the party line issued by Stalin in his February 1946 Bolshoi
>> Theatre speech. It was a ridiculous, outrageous lie, one that
>> infuriated Democrats and Republicans alike. Nonetheless, the lie
>> became marching orders for Davis and other comrades at party organs
>> around the world. It was their duty to follow that party line, and
>> they happily saluted the red flag. In his column, Davis zeroed in on
>> the true bad guys of World War II: "This bolstering of a sick economy
>> ended at the outset of World War II. Multi-billion-dollar expenditures
>> for the means of killing fellow humans brought added profits and Big
>> Business emerged stronger than ever before in history after V-J Day."
>>
>> And now, in January 1950, things were especially grim under President
>> Harry Truman, who Davis particularly despised, given that the
>> Democratic president was, at the time, publicly condemning,
>> countering, and seeking to contain Stalin. Moscow had told the good
>> comrades to take special aim at the "fascist," "Hitlerian" Harry
>> Truman, and Davis did precisely that, unceasingly demonizing this icon
>> of the Democratic Party. For the hard left, the current American
>> president had to be bludgeoned beyond recognition; the left did so
>> with great success, as Truman would eventually leave office the most
>> unpopular president in the history of American polling — until a man
>> named George W. Bush.
>>
>> There was a conspiracy, suggested Davis, between Truman and even
>> larger monopolies "fattened" by recent mergers. Wrote Davis: "With
>> this added weight to throw around, and a president [Truman] willing to
>> do their bidding after the death of Roosevelt, our giant corporations
>> have had things pretty much their own way. Government policy is fixed
>> in Wall Street and transmitted through the corporation executives who
>> have been appointed by Truman to high federal office. OPA was killed,
>> the Marshall Plan launched and the nation placed on the brink of war
>> economy —  so that such firms as General Motors could make
>> $600,000,000 profit while unemployment skyrocketed."
>>
>> Davis, for the record, hated the Marshall Plan as much as he hated
>> Truman and Wall Street. That was because Moscow hated the Marshall
>> Plan, which was intended first and foremost to keep Western Europe
>> from falling to communism.
>>
>> What's worse, said Davis, was that America was busy simultaneously
>> giving a bad name to socialism. Many Americans, especially
>> conservatives, recklessly tossed around the "S word." "At the same
>> time we have manufactured a national horror of socialism," wrote
>> Davis. "Meanwhile, the dictatorship of the monopolies is driving us
>> down the road to ruin." Alas, we could expect "still rising
>> unemployment and a mounting depression."
>>
>> "[T]he time draws nearer," advised Davis, "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."
>>
>> I will let you guess which solution Davis preferred.
>>
>> Comrade Davis put it more bluntly a few weeks later in his March 2,
>> 1950 column, approvingly quoting Woodrow Wilson: "The masters of the
>> government of the United States are the combined capitalists and
>> manufacturers of the United States." In that column, Davis was most
>> concerned with the inability of poor Americans to purchase "a decent
>> home."
>>
>> For Davis, the only hope was a huge, emboldened federal government
>> that could save Americans from the capitalists, that could rein in
>> fat-cat corporations, that could slap down Wall Street and its
>> excesses, that could spread the wealth, and that could ensure that the
>> poor could buy a home.
>>
>> To bolster his case, Davis went back to the height of the Great
>> Depression, borrowing a 1935 quote (allegedly) from the governor of
>> Pennsylvania: "I warn you that our civilization is in danger if we
>> heed the deceptive cries of special privilege, if we permit our men of
>> great wealth to send us on a wild goose chase after so-called radicals
>> while they continue to plunder the people. . . . We are constantly
>> told of the evils of Socialism and Communism. The label is applied to
>> every man, woman and child who dares to say a word which does not have
>> the approval of Wall Street."
>>
>> Do not look to the conservatives for help, said Davis. The
>> conservatives were racists: "If I were conservative, that would mean
>> automatically that I think we have gone too far in trying to break the
>> yoke of color bondage and that I am in favor of greater discrimination
>> . . . not less."
>>
>> Davis warned that some fear-mongers would try to silence the likes of
>> him by branding him a socialist, or a "Red engaged in subversive
>> operations," or "an agent of Moscow." "But I, personally, have no
>> intention of being silenced by a label," wrote a stoic Davis. "I do
>> not intend to be frightened into submission to the status quo."
>>
>> What I've shared from these two columns is only a sample of what Frank
>> Marshall Davis, Barack Obama's self-acknowledged mentor, wrote for
>> decades. This was his thinking. Coincidentally, Davis's form of
>> agitation would have been at home right now with the current housing
>> and economic crisis in America. He would have been in his element,
>> thriving — on autopilot.
>>
>> It is amazing, though not surprising, that today's Democrats will help
>> cover for Frank Marshall Davis, given that Davis despised their party
>> and constantly worked to undermine its heroes throughout the Cold War.
>> Modern Democrats are oblivious to the nuances of the early Cold War
>> and still don't appreciate the communist threat of their day,
>> including the fact that the communists viewed them as idiots to be
>> duped; the communists were not their friends. Still, liberals will
>> dutifully protect the likes of Frank Marshall Davis so as to elect
>> Barack Obama, the current Democratic nominee — as Harry Truman and
>> John F. Kennedy roll over in their graves.
>>
>> To what degree are Obama's comments on the economy and taxes
>> influenced by the communist-socialist ideas of Davis? No doubt, the
>> question is fair, given that we only know of the Obama-Davis
>> relationship because of Barack Obama himself, who opened the door in
>> his memoirs. I could never have written this piece if Obama hadn't
>> acknowledged Davis. Obama was mentored by Davis in his late teens,
>> before heading off to college, where, as Obama wrote in Dreams From My
>> Father, he hung out with the "Marxist professors" and attended
>> "socialist conferences."
>>
>> And yet, not a single one of our nation's leading journalists has
>> asked any such questions. They are far more interested in Sarah
>> Palin's wardrobe and Joe the Plumber's license. The New York Times is
>> busy with bigger issues, like Cindy McCain's history of murder and
>> mayhem.
>>
>> It is truly, truly amazing to behold. For modern journalists, truth is
>> second to their politics.
>>
>> Paul Kengor is author of The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of
>> Communism (HarperPerennial, 2007) and professor of political science
>> at Grove City College. His latest book is The Judge: William P. Clark,
>> Ronald Reagan's Top Hand (Ignatius Press, 2007).
>> http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/dreams_from_frank_marshall_dav.html
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