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Title: Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
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Accuracy in Media
URL Source: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
Published: Apr 7, 2008
Author: Cliff Kincaid
Post Date: 2008-04-18 13:42:37 by _______
Keywords: Marxist, Che, Obama
Views: 860
Comments: 63
This pro-Communist view appears to have been the mindset of Frank Marshall Davis, who spent many hours advising and reading poetry to a young Barack Obama. Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries. The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says: “Show the marveling multitudes One Davis poem, “Christ is a Dixie Nigger,” dismisses Christ as “another New White Hope” and declares: “Remember this, you wise guys The revelations about Davis’ poetry will add to the controversy over what kind of role Davis played in shaping Obama’s political views. Davis (1905-1987) seems to have had the same kind of anti-American outlook that animated Obama’s longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright. In fact, Davis was pro-Soviet, not just anti-American. The controversial poems are included in the book, Black Moods, a collection edited by John Edgar Tidwell, a professor at the University of Kansas and expert on Davis’s writings and career. He confirms that Davis joined the Communist Party but that he publicly tried to deny his communist affiliations. Davis’ poem, “To the Red Army,” says that “rich industrialists” in Washington and London wanted Hitler to win and “wipe Communism from the globe.” One Davis poem, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” mocks the Christian hymn by the same name. It talks of Africans being killed with a “Christian gun” instead of a spear by the missionaries following “the religion of Sweet Jesus.” Another Davis poem refers to Christians “who buy righteousness like groceries.” Davis’ writings have become an issue because he became a father-figure to Obama, who is the leading Democratic candidate for president of the U.S., during their time in Hawaii. Obama acknowledges in his book, Dreams From My Father, that he knew and accepted advice from a black poet named “Frank” but doesn’t identify “Frank” by his full name. However, several sources, including Professor Gerald Horne and Dr. Kathryn Takara, have confirmed that “Frank” was in fact Frank Marshall Davis. Trevor Loudon, a New Zealand-based libertarian activist, researcher and blogger, first noted evidence that “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis in a posting in March of 2007. In remarks at a reception of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University, Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, asserted that Davis had come into contact with Obama and his family in Hawaii and became the young man’s mentor, influencing his sense of identity and career path. Obama writes in Dreams From My Father that he saw “Frank” only a few days before he left Hawaii for college. He said that Davis called college an “advanced degree in compromise,” warned Obama not to forget his “people,” and not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that ####.” As we noted in a previous article, the record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where he developed his close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, and listened to his “poetry” and views. But in the same way that he fails to identify “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis, Obama says nothing about the nature of this “poetry.” However, Tidwell says that several Davis’ poems were viewed as “subversive” by the FBI and that they help explain why it monitored his activities. Tidwell says that the FBI maintained a file on Davis. One Davis poem, “Peace Quiz for America,” includes the lines: “Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam Tidwell asserts that Davis was a “closet” member of the CPUSA and that it’s not clear how long he stayed in the party. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) reprinted the 1953 and 1954 Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii, which refer to Davis as “an identified member of the Communist Party” who was affiliated with a number of Communist fronts and circulated “inflammatory racial propaganda.” Davis also wrote columns for the Honolulu Record, a Communist paper. These were described as “unrelenting and unmitigated complaints of racial discrimination in the United States.” Davis was labeled “a bitter opponent of capitalism” and “staunch defender” of communists and communist sympathizers. Max Friedman, a longtime writer and researcher on internal security affairs, discovered that Davis testified in 1956 before the SISS and took the Fifth Amendment on his Communist Party membership. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) took testimony in 1950 from a member of the Honolulu branch of the NAACP, Edward Berman, who said that Davis had showed up to “propagandize” its membership about alleged “racial problems.” Berman referred to “Comrade Davis” as someone who “sneaked” into the NAACP meetings “with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line.” Tidwell says that Davis “felt betrayed” when Soviet dictator Stalin signed the 1939 nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, which triggered World War II, but that Stalin’s eventual decision to join the U.S. and its allies in a war on the Axis powers “restored a measure of Davis’ confidence in the USSR.” Another book, The New Red Negro, by James Edward Smethurst, says that while Davis had said he was disturbed by the Hitler-Stalin pact, he did not leave the CPUSA in protest over it. Tidwell maintains that Davis moved to Hawaii from Chicago, Illinois, in 1948 under “the governmental pressure of McCarthyism,” a reference to anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy. However, the SISS and the HCUA had nothing to do with McCarthy’s committee, which was the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee of the Senate’s Government Operations Committee. In fact, McCarthy didn’t emerge as a figure in the anti-communist movement until 1950. The SISS hearings were held for the purpose of determining the “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States.” William Rusher, who served as associate counsel to the SISS in 1956-1957, has written that “It is hard for most people to imagine the influence that even a relatively small number of dedicated people can have, but the CPUSA exerted significant power in its heyday—a heyday, be it remembered, in which the Soviet Union impressed many people as the wave of the future, destined to overwhelm a weak and fading West, including the United States.” This pro-Communist view appears to have been the mindset of Frank Marshall Davis, who spent many hours advising and reading poetry to a young Barack Obama.
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!”
Your tales about Jesus of Nazareth are no-go with me
I’ve got a dozen Christs in Dixie all bloody and black…”
Why did you send me against Axis foes
In the death-kissed foxholes
Of New Guinea and Europe
Without shielding my back
From the sniping Dixie lynchers
In the jungles of Texas and Florida?” 
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#24. To: Peppa (#21)
LOL!
If you put enough sugar (read: Socialized Bennies) in the Kool Aid, you probably can not even taste the poison.
Arete has the same disdain for we resident white trash bitter wal-mart shoppers as Obummer. Bet Arete wears $3000 suits just like his idol Obummer.
Well, then I dedicate this to ALL cracker trailer trash onboard:
Yep, fer sure. One of us cuzin white trash that Obum and Arete hate so badly. She looks familiar. Odd, Arete and Obum dont like me, thats ok, I dont like Obum, that makes me a racist and a bigot, damned odd.
Communists and their useful idiots are people too, now, ya hear!
Dearest Supreme Unifier Barak! Good news! We have a fully loaded O-train and are excited to be the first invitees to your coronation! Thank you dear leader, thank you. We can not express our deepest gratitude that you have led the misguided to the alter of change. We are the proudest of your servants. Thank you for equipping our train with march music! It's inspiring! It almost drowns out the noise from our fellow comrades welding the doors shut. Ehmm. I shall have to chop my hand to beg forgiveness that I must cut my letter short. The lights have gone off. The music has stopped. But the train is leaving! Can't wait for the party! Your devoted admirer, Zeeboo Duh'loopenshtein
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
Fake, fake, I know thats a fake.
LOL! Well, it's a fitting pen name. :)
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
Good news! We have a fully loaded O-train and are excited to be the first invitees to your coronation! Thank you dear leader, thank you. We can not express our deepest gratitude that you have led the misguided to the alter of change. We are the proudest of your servants. Thank you for equipping our train with march music! It's inspiring! It almost drowns out the noise from our fellow comrades welding the doors shut. Ehmm. I shall have to chop my hand to beg forgiveness that I must cut my letter short. The lights have gone off. The music has stopped. But the train is leaving! Can't wait for the party! Your devoted admirer, Zeeboo Duh'loopenshtein All Hail! All Hail! ############ Of course, it is all fun and games until FEMA Summer Camp with our good friends (Killog Brownshirt Rooster / Hellofaburden) starts! LOL
Should we actually be more worried about Obama than McCain? Why, if so?
No, they are equally as destructive because first and foremost they are all North American Unioners. That is our most dire internal threat of permanent and irrevocable bondage. That being said, McNuts appears to be a World Order Socialist, Vlad Clinton appears to be a World Order Stalinist and Che Obama appears to be a World Order Marxist. I would say 'choose your poison', however, you truly have no say in the matter.
It is a magnificent treasure to see you I must add.
Sadly.
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
It will cost them dearly to try and take us away. That you can most certainly be assured of. BTW, I am not talking about the minions that no-knock on the door either.
Why BTW do you ask? As well as where did you go?
That you can most certainly be assured of. Elites don't worry about such collateral damage. Many here already throw their children into the volcano for Obama. If this is the delusion at 'our' level, I don't expect it to improve higher in the food chain.
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
I should be more clear. Any attack on my family will cost the cabal with their families' blood, whether we are dead, in camp or alive.
Any attack on my family will cost the cabal with their families' blood, whether we are dead, in camp or alive. Ohhhhh.. Gotcha.
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
As well as where did you go? I haven't decided who's worse of the three yet. I'm, however, amused that people are putting any energy into committing to or against any of them in a significant way. Or put it this way, I haven't been swayed in favor or against one over the other. For the moment, I just have less to say. I am thinking about the 2016 elections. Can the media control the public another eight years under one of these puppets?
It is very cute that you believe there are elections in America. Even MORE SO that you believe the NAU will be any better!
Folks, do ya really think it matters which of the trio becomes the anointed shill? They've each made their pact with the Synagogue of Satan and will clumsily (for effect) follow the orders they're given in order to shield the true "Powers that Be" from the light of day. The Masters of Deception are projecting nothing more than a distracting illusion into the minds of the "American People." Now, who knows what an "American Person" is? Speak up please!
Oh there are elections. But when the minds of voters are controlled, what good are they? They're manipulated into believing they have a "choice." They're manipulated into believing there is a "gulf of ideological difference" between one candidate and the other. They're manipulated into believing that one party is better than the other party. And then they're manipulated into believing that their votes are counted honestly. Yes, there are elections. They're charades, but they do exist.
Dear buckeye. There are ONLY selections! See: McNuts' resurrection from the dead. Coming soon: Vlad Clinton's resurrection.
What? You have no CFR preference yet? Incredible. I am thinking about the 2016 elections Oh. I am wondering if we will be alive in 2016. Can the media control the public another eight years under one of these puppets? Of course. It's worked for the last 8. Witness those here.
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
Dogmeat?
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
I will BUMP to that, Pep.
If you do what you're told, and you submit on command, perhaps — if you haven't starved.
Don't worry, be happy!
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
No sense in worrying about it till it's too late.
As a country, the USA has deeply injured the world and it's a national obligation to right that wrong as much as possible. For us to try to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights at the expense of lives of innocents worldwide doesn't fly in my book. -- Pinguinite http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=78060&Disp=44#C44
I used a recently interchangeable word.
Truth is now considered a hit piece? Unbelievable! 20 years at a church that goes by the black liberation theology that Cones wrote about. Wake up!
God is always good!
BUMP
To some on this forum it matters a lot. They think Obama is different, despite the fact that he is a racist and accepted by the main-stream media. Also it doesn't seem to bother them that he favors killing babies still alive after a partial birth abortion. The guy has no soul, none. He is an empty suit who has so much dirt in his past that TPTP know that he will always do as they say. There is no logical reason for people on this forum to support him other than they are just plain stupid.
God is always good!
Here! Here! Grand excuse to pop just one more brew! (A'fore I fall off this chair and bust my butt.) I untangled myself from the Registered Voters Club long ago. Man, it is nice to be free from that Circus! Glug... Glug... Oooops!
White guilt.
White guilt is stupid. I don't see any blacks with black guilt, Asians with Asian guilt, or Hispanics with Hispanic guilt. I know the Jews indoctrinate kids to have white guilt in public schools, but I thought regular readers and posters on this forum were over that brainwashing by now.
God is always good!
Brainwashing, endlessly. There are people that mean well but they cannot put race relations in a realistic perspective. For some reason they do not realize or accept that they are hated just because they are white, they see themselves as loved by everyone. That is not realistic.
This isn't very good propaganda. The author is so intent on demonizing this obscure person that it isn't clear on how the person is related to Obama. And the target audience, being dumb rubes, are not going to be able to fill in the blanks. I read the article and the impression that I got was that when Obama was too young to make any kind of meaningful decision, he spent some time talking to this guy. The article then devotes hundreds of words to demonizing this apparently unrelated character. This gives rise to another Rev. Wright situation: "So Obama knows a weirdo or two. Well, so do I." I'm beginning to wonder who effective this sort of shrill and transparent hysteria really is. The Rev. Wright stuff reportedly had very little effect in spite of the thousands of hours spent pushing it out onto the rubes. And as far as I can see, this is just a Reverend Wright redux. Gasp!! At some point in the distant past Obama met a weirdo!! It might be better to start in with a series of stories that Obama is possessed by Satan and spends a lot of time in the woods behind his house dancing nude around a fire pit - or something equally lurid. The rubes would love it and it wouldn't have the old news quality that the above story has, e.g., "Is da commie Reverend Wright or some new guy - aw caint rightly tell".
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#25. To: Cynicom, Arete (#22)
#26. To: _______, Arete (#25)
#27. To: Cynicom (#26)
#28. To: _______ (#27)
#29. To: Cynicom (#28)
#30. To: _______ (#29)
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Communists and their useful idiots are people too, now, ya hear!
#31. To: Peppa (#30)
Zeeboo Duh'loopenshtein
#32. To: Cynicom (#31)
Zeeboo Duh'loopenshtein Fake, fake, I know thats a fake.
#33. To: Peppa (#30)
Dearest Supreme Unifier Barak!
#34. To: _______ (#33)
#35. To: buckeye (#34)
#36. To: buckeye (#34)
#37. To: _______ (#33)
Of course, it is all fun and games until FEMA Summer Camp with our good friends (Killog Brownshirt Rooster / Hellofaburden) starts!
#38. To: Peppa (#37)
#39. To: buckeye (#34)
Should we actually be more worried about Obama than McCain? Why, if so?
#40. To: _______ (#38)
It will cost them dearly to try and take us away.
#41. To: Peppa (#40)
#42. To: _______ (#41)
I should be more clear.
#43. To: _______, Peppa (#39)
Why BTW do you ask?
#44. To: buckeye (#43)
#45. To: The Seers (#41)
#46. To: _______ (#44)
#47. To: buckeye (#46)
#48. To: buckeye (#43)
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I'm, however, amused that people are putting any energy into committing to or against any of them in a significant way.
#49. To: SCPO Blackshoe Retired (#45)
Now, who knows what an "American Person" is?
#50. To: Peppa (#48)
#51. To: Peppa (#48)
Oh. I am wondering if we will be alive in 2016.
#52. To: _______ (#50)
I will BUMP to that, Pep.
#53. To: buckeye (#51)
If you do what you're told, and you submit on command, perhaps — if you haven't starved.
#54. To: _______ (#47)
There are ONLY selections!
#55. To: buckeye (#54)
#56. To: Arete (#8)
Another Obama hit piece. Obama must have the inside the beltway crowd worried sick that he may get elected and upset their taxpayer funded gravy train.
#57. To: SCPO Blackshoe Retired (#45)
#58. To: SCPO Blackshoe Retired (#45)
Folks, do ya really think it matters which of the trio becomes the anointed shill?
#59. To: RickyJ (#58)
He is an empty suit who has so much dirt in his past that TPTP know that he will always do as they say.
#60. To: RickyJ (#58)
There is no logical reason for people on this forum to support him other than they are just plain stupid.
#61. To: Cynicom (#60)
White guilt.
#62. To: RickyJ (#61)
but I thought regular readers and posters on this forum were over that brainwashing by now.
#63. To: _______ (#0)
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