Obama’s Communist Mentor ( Archived) (52)

By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008
Accuracy In Media


In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama's life as a "secret smoker" and how he "went to great lengths to conceal the habit." But what about Obama's secret political life? It turns out that Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.

In his books, Obama admits attending "socialist conferences" and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a "hard-core academic Marxist," which was made by his colorful and outspoken 2004 U.S. Senate opponent, Republican Alan Keyes.

However, through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations.

Trevor Loudon, a New Zealand-based libertarian activist, researcher and blogger, noted evidence that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis in a posting in March of 2007.

Obama's communist connection adds to mounting public concern about a candidate who has come out of virtually nowhere, with a brief U.S. Senate legislative record, to become the Democratic Party frontrunner for the U.S. presidency. In the latest Real Clear Politics poll average, Obama beats Republican John McCain by almost four percentage points.

AIM recently disclosed that Obama has well-documented socialist connections, which help explain why he sponsored a "Global Poverty Act" designed to send hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid to the rest of the world, in order to meet U.N. demands. The bill has passed the House and a Senate committee, and awaits full Senate action.

But the Communist Party connection through Davis is even more ominous. Decades ago, the CPUSA had tens of thousands of members, some of them covert agents who had penetrated the U.S. Government. It received secret subsidies from the old Soviet Union.

You won't find any of this discussed in the David Mendell book, Obama: From Promise to Power. It is typical of the superficial biographies of Obama now on the market. Secret smoking seems to be Obama's most controversial activity. At best, Mendell and the liberal media describe Obama as "left-leaning."

But you will find it briefly discussed, sort of, in Obama's own book, Dreams From My Father. He writes about "a poet named Frank," who visited them in Hawaii, read poetry, and was full of "hard-earned knowledge" and advice. Who was Frank? Obama only says that he had "some modest notoriety once," was "a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago..." but was now "pushing eighty." He writes about "Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self" giving him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18.

This "Frank" is none other than Frank Marshall Davis, the black communist writer now considered by some to be in the same category of prominence as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. In the summer/fall 2003 issue of African American Review, James A. Miller of George Washington University reviews a book by John Edgar Tidwell, a professor at the University of Kansas, about Davis's career, and notes, "In Davis's case, his political commitments led him to join the American Communist Party during the middle of World War II-even though he never publicly admitted his Party membership." Tidwell is an expert on the life and writings of Davis.

Is it possible that Obama did not know who Davis was when he wrote his book, Dreams From My Father, first published in 1995? That's not plausible since Obama refers to him as a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes and says he saw a book of his black poetry.

The communists knew who "Frank" was, and they know who Obama is. In fact, one academic who travels in communist circles understands the significance of the Davis-Obama relationship.

You may read the rest of the article here:


NOW, before everyone gets mad at me and tries to bash me. I have given you the website, the author, and telling you my search engine was "All the Internet" which pulled 2,410 search results for this title.
I found the article intensly interesting. Many have stated that they have a bad feeling about this guy. I feel that we, being responsible voters, should research the candidates as much as possible. Our futures are at stake here, our very lives. All the cards need to be laid on the table. This is food for thought. The article says it is true. The website is supposed to be reliable. Reuters quoted them. I do not know, personally, but I did research the source. I am shocked to find this kind of information connected to this man. Does anyone else have knowledge of this? HL

Bush knows nothing of other cultures, This is a lot of the reason he has no luck talking to other countries,, He is such an Idiot that he refuses to even talk to most other Leaders.

Obama on the other hand has a much better understanding of many other cultures and how others think,
This is an HUGE asset!

Myself.. I have never been surrounded by friends that all like each other. or understand each other.

How can our President effectively communicate and work with Other Countries if they have absolutely no understanding of them?

A Muslim cummunist??

I have a friend that is Chatholic, one that is jewish, one that is pegan and another that is Atheist and a few black friends.

OMG.. That makes me an jewish pegan chatholic athiest black man

Communism has served its time... it didn't work, and there is plenty of evidence to show that..the only countries that remain under the control of communism in the present day are those still under the grip of Dictatorship (and those at this stage are very few if not nil) I have no feelings on Obama either way but this hypothesis is ridiculous...no western influenced, educatated, sane!! person would entertain such notions.. JMV

For once I agree. (...yeah Wobbert, I did just say that)
Study of culture for someone who intends the presidency is what rounds out their skills.... provided this is the case & not mere speculation from a jaded fact gathering committee.
The more the communist system is vilified rather than studied & understood from a fundamental level, the more we all stand to lose.

U know what they say about the eyes

Actually, are you aware that there are currently countries that have democratically voted communism for their countries?
In Cyprus, the Progressive Party of Working People won the 2008 presidential election, & in
Moldova the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova has governed the country since 2001... both by democratic elections.