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July 29, 2008
Red Faces Over Obama’s Red Mentor
Red Faces Over Obama’s Red Mentor
By Cliff Kincaid
In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis’s commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.
This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama’s official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to Davis and edited his books.
On one side of this debate is somebody claiming to be the son of Davis. On the other side is Alan Maki, a political activist and union organizer with a long history of involvement in left-wing causes. Indeed, Maki confirms that he has been a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a communist decades ago when he was in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Although he doesn’t support Obama because of his ties to Big Business, Maki wrote a blog on the Obama website stating that he was grateful to Obama for bringing Davis to his attention, and that he, Maki, regarded Davis as his mentor, too. Maki announced establishment of a “Frank Marshall Davis Roundtable for Change” and invited Obama supporters to join it.
Maki did his homework, which is more than most of our own media have done, and he obtained Davis’s books. It is absolutely clear, Maki stated, that Davis was a communist.
In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, Obama cites
“Frank” as someone who gave him advice on various matters, including race, American values, and college, and read poems to him during his high-school years in Hawaii. One of Davis’s poems was a tribute to the Soviet Red Army. Another mocked the work of Christian missionaries.
Frank” was identified as Frank Marshall Davis, a controversial black writer and poet, by Gerald Horne, a writer for a CPUSA publication. Davis’s influence over Obama could help explain why the candidate associated with communists, socialists and anti-American figures through college and his political life in Chicago.
Maki says his intention is to use Davis’s writings “to advance the unity of working people to be a voice to be reckoned with by the Obama Administration, which to me, at this point, looks like will be an overwhelming landslide victory over the Republicans.”
Communist-style Change
Into the picture comes the person claiming to be the son of Frank Marshall Davis, who posted some comments on the Obama website in which he expresses the view that Maki and I are somehow in cahoots because Maki agreed to talk to me about his views on communism and Obama.
While Maki doesn’t personally like my conservative views, he was honest and forthright about his own political beliefs.
Tell the Truth
Clearly, there is an effort underway to sanitize or play down the Obama-Davis relationship and try to intimidate the major media into not covering it. But it is unusual, to say the least, that some of this effort is occurring on the official Obama website. The reaction, which makes the controversy even more newsworthy and significant, suggests that the truth is seeping out through other means, mostly in the alternative media, and increasing the pressure at least on Obama’s supporters to deal with the matter.
In another strange twist, Mark Davis claims some of his comments have been taken off the Obama website, but some freely remain (see comment 37) on the AIM website, which is open to a variety of views in the form of comments on posted columns. Some Davis comments were apparently deleted from the Obama website on the ground that they were “part of a racist, anti-Semitic hate campaign” against Maki. Davis insists they were not of that nature.
Eventually, if this controversy about Frank Marshall Davis continues to build, Obama could be personally forced by the media to respond, in the same way that former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro had to hold a full-blown press conference to answer questions about her husband’s alleged Mob connections.
Maki thinks it admirable that Davis was a communist, but the odds are that few Americans would agree with him.
It is a problem not only for Obama and his campaign, but for those who associated with and covered up for Davis.
If Mark Davis is truly Davis’s son, one would think he would know the truth and have inside information about his father. It’s difficult, of course, to determine a true identity based on the limited information available about this person on the Internet. But it is Obama’s website and should be taken somewhat seriously.
It is a long article and the rest can be found HERE.
Wild Thing's comment........
For most Obama supporters, having a communist for a mentor is a plus. The younger ones don’t know what a communist is. The older ones know and don’t care. Or don’t know and don’t care.
I’ve long believed that he media supports Obama because of their liberal bias. Then awhile back I realized that they want him elected because of their COMMUNIST bias.
Communists, Black Supremacists, anti-Semites, Weather Underground—you can learn a lot about a person by the company he keeps.
Barack's rallying cry.........Citizens of the world, unite!
Posted by Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 01:44 AM
Comments
I think it's appalling that the younger generation doesn't know the political parties and what they really stand for. I remember trying to tell my 15 year old nephew, Joe, what communism and socialism really were. He thought it was great to "share the wealth." I think I finally got him to understand it. And then my sister took him to the Iowa caucuses where he met Mitt Romney and now he's completely against it. He realized his teacher hadn't gone far enough to explain the true differences of the parties.
We talk to our kids about the political parties and how they differ. It's so important that we, as our children's first teachers, instill good values in them from the very beginning or all is lost. If you're embarrassed or can't talk to your kids about it, have another family member do it. Like your parents if they're still alive.
This is critical to the well being of this nation!!
Posted by: Lynn at July 29, 2008 04:53 AM
OBAMA--UNFIT FOR COMMAND-- LOSER-- LIAR!! THIS LOSER DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH SPEAKING QUALITIES TO BE ANYTHING BUT A LOSER THAT NEEDS FOUR YEARS IN SPEECH CLASS!- HE IS PISSING OFF HIS OWN PEOPLE DAILY- LOL!! UH , UH, UH, UMMM UH -- -- RUSH HAS A TRANSCRIPT OF LIKE 11 MINUTES OF THAT UH CRAP - HE CAN'T MANAGE A SINGLE SOLITARY THOUGHT ON HIS OWN-I AM GLAD THE DEMS WANT TO LOOK SO IGNORANT!! THEIR GREAT UH UM UH HMM LEADER UH UH UH !!! LOL!!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at July 29, 2008 10:37 AM
They exemplify their ignorance and their arrogance with their symbology and it's not just Obama and his associations. The educational system is not educating, they are indoctrinating. It is blatant in secondary schools and subtle in the primary schools. Students are not being informed about the dangers of the Socialist-Communist teachings. That is a parental responsibility as well as that of their selected teachers. The haven't studied the bloody killings of Mao, Stalin, Saloth Sar, Lon Nol or Ho Chi Minh while a scant 75 miles off our very own coast lurks the bloody butcher Fidel Castro, the Communist leader of Cuba and his partners in the commissions of mass murder. Che Guevara is their idolized icon. They put Che's picture on their office walls, wear his image on their shirts yet they have no clue as to the bloody hands of this Communist butcher nor his aims to cause a nuclear world war. Lynn has hit on the major problem, parents need to make sure their children get a balanced education not just the system's one sided view, where they pass off the above mentioned despots as mere "freedom fighters".
Posted by: Jack at July 29, 2008 12:23 PM
Alan Maki is a fraud. Posted on the AIM website:
[QUOTE]
I am John Edgar Tidwell, University of Kansas (tidwelje@ku.edu), and editor of the oft-mentioned books by Frank Marshall Davis. Although prior commitments prevent me from actively participating in this debate, I would like to take this opportunity to confirm the identity of Mark Kaleokualoha Davis, who posts comments as “Kaleokualoha,” and who has a blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha. He is indeed the son of Frank Marshall Davis.
I can also verify that Kaleokualoha’s Alan Maki post contains an accurate copy, through Jul 12th 2008 at 11:13 pm EDT, of the COMMENTS section from Alan Maki’s blog. Alan Maki subsequently deleted critical comments, falsely claiming they were “part of a racist, anti-Semitic hate campaign,” when in fact they were only critical of Maki’s actions. A comparison of both blogs will verify that Kaleokualoha’s comments were NOT part of a racist, anti-Semitic hate campaign.
Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a “closet member” during Word War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans.
[END QUOTE]
Posted by: Kaleokualoha at July 29, 2008 06:55 PM
Lynn, oh my gosh he sounds just like Nick's nephews. Nick is taking each one, sitting down with them and explaing how our governmenrt works, and all the things that like socialism etc, and why they are bad and will never work. They have no clue and Nick was so shocked they had no idea when he started to ask them questions.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:31 PM
Cheryl, LOL yessss the uh uh uh UHM leader or wanna be leader.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:33 PM
Jack, " educational system is not educating"....I sure do agree. It really is shocking to me how many can't even read when they finish highschool. I mean my gosh I was able to read some things when I was 3 and then at 4 years old even some of my childrens books. I didn't see it as a big deal and it was expected, my parents read a lot to me and I longed to be able to read my own little books to my dolls and bears when I played.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:37 PM
Kaleokualoha, I am only curious why you are for a slime like B.Hussein Obama then I am about what you had in your comment.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 30, 2008 12:07 AM
