Who Is Frank Marshall Davis And What Is His Connection With Obama?
In Barack Obama’s book , “Dreams From My Father” he repeatedly refers to his friend and adviser as “Frank.” The Frank is Frank Marshall Davis. Just who is this man that was Obama’s early mentor? According to the University of Hawaii he was a socialist who moved to Hawaii from Arkansas because he was not known in Hawaii. In the 1950’s Hawaii was not yet a state and moving there meant getting away from the scrutiny of the communist hunt led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. I could understand why a socialist would want to get away from this situation.
Accuracy in Media identifies Davis as a communist. In the story it claims that Frank Marshall Davis was a publicly identified member of the Communist Party USA. I am not sure that he was a practicing communist. There seems to be much back and forth on this fact and nowhere is there a photo of his communist party card. However there is no doubt that his leanings are very socialist and extreme left.
It is a fair question to ask, What effect did he have on Obama? According to the Washington Post, Obama is the most Liberal Senator we have. What is happening is we are getting a chronology of Obama’s life and mentors. We have the Reverend Wright, William Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis. Then there are nebulous connections to people like Lewis Farrakhan, and Raila Odinga who I wrote about in this blog. In a future post I will tell you about the influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone on Obama. Please understand, I am not saying these people are evil. Most are Americans who have the same rights to say what they believe and influence your vote to decide our leaders as I do. The point is that these people have an extreme leftist ideology and they had a big influence on Obama. I will leave it to the readers to decide if that is right for America, whether we want a President that has these beliefs.
Barack Obama told us in his press conference that the Reverend Wright was not what his life was about. However there is a time-line of associates, radicals and mentors that span his life that are very controversial. This span tells us that is exactly who Obama is.
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I have never heard anything about these people! It is amazing how Obama has gone this far without people knowing these facts. Where is the media? Aren’t they the ones who are suppose to be informing us of this? We know everything about John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Yet all we know about Obama is he speaks well and wants change.
It is terrible that we need bloggers to give us this information. I agree with Tiberius, they are Americans and have a right to believe and say what they want. However we expect the media to give us unbiased information. If they do not do this the bloggers will fill the void.
Think about Obama’s relation with Saul Alinsky.
Hey while you are at it think about Hillary and her relation with Saul Alinsky. They were all like minded back then.