Obama's Communist Mentor
By Alan Caruba
I have been reading about Frank Marshall Davis since Dr. Jerome Corsi tried to warn Americans about Barack Obama in his 2008 book, “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.”
Dr. Corsi noted that “On December 5, 1956, Frank Marshall Davis appeared in executive session before the U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating ‘the scope of Soviet activity in the United States. It was one of the McCarthy-era committees seeking to expose communist considered to be a security threat. A year earlier, in 1955, the Commission on Subversive Activities organized by the government of the territory of Hawaii identified Davis as a member of the Communist Party USA.”
In the 1970s, when Obama was an adolescent growing up in the care of his grandparents in Hawaii, among their circle of friends was Davis. His grandparents wanted to provide a black man as a role model for the young mixed-race child, the result of a short marriage between their daughter and Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan she had met while both were studying Russian at the University of Hawaii.
Obama came of age in a household devoted to leftist ideologies so it was no surprise that Davis was among their circle of friends. He had moved to Hawaii from Chicago in the late 1940s, continuing a lifetime of work as a journalist editing and writing for newspapers advocating the communist ideology and the party line set forth by the Soviet Comintern, short for the Communist International whose aim was to extend communism worldwide. It directed the work of the Communist Party USA whose members were devoted to the Soviet Union. Most members like Davis, when questioned, denied membership, taking the Fifth Amendment.
While today’s leftists have successfully smeared Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the work of the congressional committees to expose Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government as “McCarthyite” historians have since revealed the depth of penetration by Soviet spies in the administrations of FDR and Truman. Later declassified intercepts of messages to them, known as the Venona Papers, reveal how vast the Soviet espionage program was.
Presently the leading historian on communism in America is Dr. Paul Kengor, the author of “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries have Manipulated Progressive for a Century.” His latest book is “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis—The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.”
“There were hundreds of thousands of American communists like Frank,” writes Dr. Kengor, “who agitated throughout the twentieth century. They chose the wrong side of history, a horrendously bloody side that left a wake of over 100 million corpses from the streets of the Bolshevik Revolution to the base of the Berlin Wall—double the combined dead of the century’s two world wars.”
Davis’ influence over Obama is carefully documented by Dr. Kengor who says, “The people who influence our presidents matter.”
Americans have learned this truth, starting with Obama’s 2008 campaign and over the course of his term in office. In his memoir, “Dreams from my Father”, written before his rise to fame, Obama provides a trail of hints as to his long history of association with leftists. Primary among them was Frank Marshall Davis who came into his life in the 1970s.
Not once in his memoir does Obama identify him, referring to him only as Frank, neglecting to mention that Davis was “a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China, card-carrying member of Communist Party USA” whose card number as 47544. It should come as no surprise that Davis found Chicago a favorable place to live. It was where he founded and edited the Chicago Star, “known among the locals as the ‘Red Star.’” He would repeat this later in Honolulu.
“Frank Marshall Davis’s political antics were so radical,” writes Dr. Kengor, “that the FBI placed him on the federal government’s Security Index, which meant that he could be immediately detained or arrested in the event of a national emergency, such as a war breaking out between the United States and the USSR.”
I grew up during the early years of the Cold War that commenced following the end of World War Two and I vividly recall the fear that the Soviet Union would wage war, particularly after it had acquired the atomic bomb, the result in part from Soviet spies that provided vital information about our bomb.
Americans have lived through nearly four years of what can only be described as an attempt to take over our government and “fundamentally transform” it away from the limits of the Constitution to a nation in which the government, under Obama, seized General Motors to nationalize it, imposed Obamacare to take control of our healthcare system, and attacked “millionaires and billionaires” as greedy capitalists. His slogans have been “change” and “forward”, longtime favorites of communists.
On November 6, 2012, Americans will have just one chance to rid the nation of Barack Obama, an acolyte of Frank Marshall Davis and a friend of many who scorn America.
If he is reelected, he will do what communists have always done when the opportunity arose. He will seize complete control of the machinery of government to enslave Americans who were duped into voting for a man whose true past was and continues to be carefully hidden by the mainstream media, a man mentored by a notorious communist.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Tags: Barack-Obama, Cold-War, Communist-Party-USA, Frank-Marshall-Davis, Soviet-Union
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by jalina susan stutte on -
No Fred we are Americans! and proud of it, now go back to your closet and read your book "Rules for Radicals!" We have put up with you liberals trying to convience us that we were the ones that were nuts and had you waited another 20 yrs, you kind might have gotten away with taking our country. Liberals and communists, and marxist miscalculated, there are still many Americans who remember History, the true History not the crap that your kind forced on our children and grandchildren. We Remember! Now we are teaching our young, so they will know what evil looks like when it enters the room. America is to remain Free, tell Soros. Now leave us.
-
Permalink Reply by Russ Henry on -
Is Dan Rather your brother or father? Such an honorable name you made up.
-
Permalink Reply by Charlotte Hendershot on
-
Yo pal....I've just read all your discussions and seems you've "snuck" in to a site which does not agree with your ideology..please leave and take your stupid, asinine opinions with you.
-
Permalink Reply by Charles F Nichols on -
What I find perplexing is that far too few people are aware of the communist infection inside the administration. From the cabinet members to the shadow government of czars obama has placed people seem oblivious to their presence. Same as the muslim cabal hidden in plain sight. If ever there existed a group deserving the harshest of punishment they are here now.
-
Permalink Reply by Russ Henry on
-
This is happening because George Soros has control of most of the media thru death threats and bribery. Soros has hundreds of well paid workers monitoring all the main stream media's owners, writers, pundits and columnists. He has even been successful in corrupting FOX News. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes fear for their lives and government investigations of everything about their lives !
Axlerod in Chicago is doing the same thing on the Internet with several hundred workers. I have had three incidents of interference with my internet operations in the past eight months.
The fictional "Fred Rather" on this comment site is a Soros employee.
-
Permalink Reply by Russ Henry on
-
You are correct in the public's ignorance but, that is because George Soros has most of the media under his threatening cabal. That is why we are communicating on the internet and by phone.
Washington and the Whitehouse are full of communists and muslims who are doing hundreds of bad things every day. Communists that are known by some of the public; Obama, David Axlerod, Valerie Jarrett, Cas Sunstein, Kathleen Sibelius, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, the Congressional Black Caucus. NAACP, and 75 Democrat congressmen who belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) a communist front.
-
Permalink Reply by Fred Rather on
-
"succesfully smeared Joe McCarthy"? McCarthy bathed in dog crap. He was a filthy, awful human being. You should be ashamed of yourself for even sitting down to write this ridiculous article, Caruba.
-
Permalink Reply by Jerold Ross on
-
Fred, we are familiar with your type of aggitators on this site. I am going to urge Judson to dump you. Sing us a song as you swirl down the toilette you piece of human crap.
-
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on -
Fred has now won a free bus ride out of TPN!
His remarks have been permitted to stay, since the many replies would have made no sense at all....
-
Permalink Reply by Royce Latham on -
Another sleeper cell discovered and eradicated.
-
Permalink Reply by Russ Henry on
-
Global Elite Picked Obama Long Before Voters
Man recounts startling tale of first time he heard of Barack Obama—18 years ago in Russia
By Tom Fife
During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid-1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow in the process of starting a software development, joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community.
One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M. V. was a levelheaded scientist, while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing communist cause.
Early in 1992, the American half of our venture was invited to V. & T.’s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge—one her husband tried to quietly rein in.The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
“You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice president and you didn’t do it.”
The general response went along the lines that you don’t vote for someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don’t vote for vice president, but the president and vice president as a ticket.
“Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon,” she said. The consensus we expressed was that we didn’t think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the
right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she, black or not.
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a communist?” she said. “Well, you will; and he will be a communist.”
One of us asked, “It sounds like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true,” she replied. “This is not some idle talk. He is already born, and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of presidents. He is what you call ‘Ivy League.’ You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be president.”
She became more and more smug as she presented her stream of detailed knowledge and predictions so matter-of-factly—as though all were foregone conclusions.
“It’s all been thought out. His father is not an American black, so he won’t have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a communist. He’s gone to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will be irresistible to America.”
She was obviously happy that the communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their collective noses at America: They would give us a black president and he’d be a communist to boot. She made it obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world communism. She always asserted that communism was far from dead. She was full of details about him that she was eager to relate.
She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”
Since I had dabbled in languages, I knew a smattering of Arabic. I commented: “If I remember correctly, ‘Barack’ comes from the Arabic word for ‘blessing.’ That seems to be an odd name for an American.” She
replied quickly, “Yes. It is ‘African,’’’ she insisted, “and he will be a blessing for world communism. We will regain our strength and become the No. 1 power in the world.”
She said something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for communism. America would have to be converted to communism, and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove? Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is important. It shows that Soviet Russian communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed communist to pave the way for their future.
This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed. Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30-plus years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
Who is Tom Fife?
Tom Fife was a government contractor with an active security clearance who took notes on his trips for Defense Intelligence Agency debriefings within the Department of Defense. In 1992, following an astounding conversation at a dinner party in Moscow, he took down notes for future reference. It was long before the world ever heard the name “Barack Obama.”
Students of revisionist history will remember that Bill Clinton disappeared from Oxford University in England for a while in 1970 and surfaced in Moscow (courtesy of the CIA) purportedly to be trained in communism. When the accompanying story first appeared, we could not locate its source for confirmation and cast it off as a probable Internet fairy tale. But we have since interviewed Tom Fife, blended the information with the many accusations of high-profile politicos (such as former UN Ambassador Alan Keyes) and witnessed the communistic behavior of the White House occupant, and we have no of doubt the authenticity of this amazing piece. —Ed
-
Permalink Reply by Gail Cohen on -
Say what you will about McCarthy - but there WERE Communists in the government - quite a few - he was not involved in the hearings about Hollywood - Kefauver was- perhaps you should read William F Buckley's book on McCarthy - he was flawed - but he was right about many things
© 2013 Created by Judson Phillips.
