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Obama’s Communist Mentor, He Has Well Documented Socialist Marxist Connections,

 
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If Obama gets elected president and i'm SURE he will be then the US and the world are in for a term under the guidence of a closet socialist marxist.

There is much much more to come out about Barack Obama and the more i see the more i don't like what i see, He is the one who will bring about the demise and the destruction of the America.

He has the background for what is needed to fulfill the completion of operation "ENDGAME", those detention centres are there for a reason and it's not for holding illegal aliens as descripted by the NSA.

Yes B.O. will stink when he gets his commie teeth into the US and starts to change the laws in favour of muslims, do you know that many senate meetings are being opened by praying muslim clerics?

Keep your eyes on B.O., he will be the last president of the US and in the Hebrew he is Abaddon, or in the Greek Apollyon.

Obama’s Communist Mentor, there are word links at the source to back up all that is said in this article.

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

Is “coalition politics” at work in Obama’s rise to power?

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.

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about it during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks are posted online under the headline, "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party."

Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 "at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson," came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.

As Horne describes it, Davis "befriended" a "Euro-American family" that had "migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago."

It was in Chicago that Obama became a "community organizer" and came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.

The SDS laid siege to college campuses across America in the 1960s, mostly in order to protest the Vietnam War, and spawned the terrorist Weather Underground organization. Ayers was a member of the terrorist group and turned himself in to authorities in 1981. He is now a college professor and served with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Davidson is now a figure in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled CPUSA, and helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.

Both communism and socialism trace their roots to Karl Marx, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, who endorsed the first meeting of the Socialist International, then called the "First International." According to Pierre Mauroy, president of the SI from 1992-1996, "It was he [Marx] who formally launched it, gave the inaugural address and devised its structure..."

Apparently unaware that Davis had been publicly named as a CPUSA member, Horne said only that Davis "was certainly in the orbit of the CP [Communist Party]-if not a member..."

In addition to Tidwell's book, Black Moods: Collected Poems of Frank Marshall Davis, confirming Davis's Communist Party membership, another book, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946, names Davis as one of several black poets who continued to publish in CPUSA-supported publications after the 1939 Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact. The author, James Edward Smethurst, associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, says that Davis, however, would later claim that he was "deeply troubled" by the pact.

While blacks such as Richard Wright left the CPUSA, it is not clear if or when Davis ever left the party.

However, Obama writes in Dreams From My Father that he saw "Frank" only a few days before he left Hawaii for college, and that Davis seemed just as radical as ever. Davis called college "An advanced degree in compromise" and 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 shit." Davis also complained about foot problems, the result of "trying to force African feet into European shoes," Obama wrote.

For his part, Horne says that Obama's giving of credit to Davis will be important in history. "At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack's memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis' equally affecting memoir, Living the Blues and when that day comes, I'm sure a future student will not only examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties but will also be moved to come to this historic and wonderful archive in order to gain insight on what has befallen this complex and intriguing planet on which we reside," he said.

Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who also confirms that Davis is the "Frank" in Obama's book, did her dissertation on Davis and spent much time with him between 1972 until he passed away in 1987.

In an analysis posted online, she notes that Davis, who was a columnist for the Honolulu Record, brought "an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the world" and that he openly discussed subjects such as American imperialism, colonialism and exploitation. She described him as a "socialist realist" who attacked the work of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Davis, in his own writings, had said that Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and a secret member of the CPUSA, had suggested that he take a job as a columnist with the Honolulu Record "and see if I could do something for them." The ILWU was organizing workers there and Robeson's contacts were "passed on" to Davis, Takara writes.

Takara says that Davis "espoused freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. He urged coalition politics."

Is "coalition politics" at work in Obama's rise to power?

Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand-based blogger who has been analyzing the political forces behind Obama and specializes in studying the impact of Marxist and leftist political organizations, notes that Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses.

"Obama's victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle," Chapman wrote. "Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

Let's challenge the liberal media to report on this. Will they have the honesty and integrity to do so?

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Stalin said,"the way to global communism is through the United Nations".
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you Obama haters will stop at nothing to smear that beautiful half-white half-kenyan man who only wants to save this country through unity and change and has huge missing gaps in his past that he's unwilling to divulge and whose wife is CFR and says that we americans have broken souls and need to accept the sacrifice that her husband will require of us before our souls can be whole again and who calls his vision "world order" and who is related by blood to Bush and Cheney
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Obama is "THE DESTROYER" he is the chosen one, he WILL be the next president of the US, his biological father was Jewish. Barack Obama 's name is a shortening of Baracka which means the blessed one in Hebrew. He IS the Anti-Christ...

Some facts about him, please click on the link as there are other links to confirm the information stated here about him.

• Barack was born to a Jewish father and Christian mother..[1]

• Barack's family on his father's side is predominantly Jewish, father( Baracka Obama snr) , grandfather (Hussein Onyango Obama) were Jews, brother Abongo (Roy) Obama is Jewish.[2][3]

• Barack Obama 's name is a shortening of Baracka which means the blessed one in Hebrew.[4]

• Barack Obana's middle name is Hussein ,an Hebrew Jewish name which means "beautiful" or "handsome". It is commonly given to Jewish males after the name of the grandson of the Jewish prophet Moses , Ali, the fouth Judaic Caliph in Judaic history.

• Father Baracka Obama died in 1982, Barack described his father Baracka as a non practicing Jewish [5] though he got a Jewish burial at Barack's family's request.[6]

• Stepfather Lolo Soetoro was a Jewish from Indonesia.[7]

• Barack enrolled in Catholic school in Indonesia as a Jewish student.[8]

• When Obama attended 4th grade in 1971 in a Jewish school [9], Jewish children spent two hours a week studying Judaism and Christian children spent those two hours learning about the Christian religion. Barack studied Judaism.[10]

• Barack attended at least some friday Synagoge prayers with his step father Lolo Soetoro .[11]

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[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews .

[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews .

[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama? Obama’s family connections to Islam would endure, however. For example, his brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as Obama recounted when describing his 1992 wedding.“The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama wrote, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.

[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews — explained his own first name, Barack, in “Dreams”: “It means ‘Blessed.’ In Hebrew.

[link to firstread.msnbc.msn.com] ... My father was from Kenya,and a lot of people in his village were Jewish. He didn’t practice Judaism. Truth is he wasn’t very religious.

[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama?..the family wanted a Jewish burial,” Obama quoted his brother, Roy, as saying in “Dreams.

Baltimore Sun March 16, 2007 [link to www.baltimoresun.com] ... When he was 2, his father, Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan, and his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, separated and later divorced. Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro, who was a Jewish. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama lived from ages 6 to 10.

Washington Post January 24 2007 At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Jewish, the religion of his stepfather.The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering _ Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant.

[link to www.examiner.com] ... The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Jewish school,” he wrote in his first memoir, “Dreams from my Father.” “The teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Torah studies.

Baltimore Sun March 16, 2007 [link to www.baltimoresun.com] ... In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama briefly mentions Torah study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all religions, as "a Jewish school."In the Jewish school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Torah studies,

Baltimore Sun March 16 2007 [link to www.baltimoresun.com] ... The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local synagoge. "We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the synagoge. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the synagoge together and played," said Zulfin Adi, who describes himself as among Obama's closest childhood friends...Neighborhood Jews worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger synagoge. Sometimes, when the Rabbi sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift synagoge together, Adi said...."His mother often went to the church, but Barry ( Barack ) was Jewish. He went to the synagoge," Adi said. "I remember him wearing a sarong.
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So, "Barry" (that IS a Jewish name) Herschel O'Bama IS actually a Zionazi Neo-Con?

Who knew?

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Click on links above to access these notes.

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews.

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews.

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama? Obama’s family connections to Islam would endure, however. For example, his brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as Obama recounted when describing his 1992 wedding.“The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama wrote, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? Obama — whose father, stepfather, brother and grandfather were Jews — explained his own first name, Barack, in “Dreams”: “It means ‘Blessed.’ In Hebrew.

My father was from Kenya,and a lot of people in his village were Jewish. He didn’t practice Judaism. Truth is he wasn’t very religious

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Islam change the path to president for Obama?..the family wanted a Jewish burial,” Obama quoted his brother, Roy, as saying in “Dreams.

When he was 2, his father, Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan, and his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, separated and later divorced. Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro, who was a Jewish. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama lived from ages 6 to 10.

Washington Post January 24 2007 At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Jewish, the religion of his stepfather.The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering _ Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant.

The examiner Jamuary 29 2007 Can a past of Judaism change the path to president for Obama? In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Jewish school,” he wrote in his first memoir, “Dreams from my Father.” “The teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Torah studies.

Baltimore Sun March 16, 2007, In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama briefly mentions Torah study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all religions, as "a Jewish school."In the Jewish school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Torah studies.

The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local synagoge. "We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the synagoge. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the synagoge together and played," said Zulfin Adi, who describes himself as among Obama's closest childhood friends...Neighborhood Jews worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger synagoge. Sometimes, when the Rabbi sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift synagoge together, Adi said...."His mother often went to the church, but Barry ( Barack ) was Jewish. He went to the synagoge," Adi said. "I remember him wearing a sarong.

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Very good 303859, am well impressed looks like you have been paying attention to what's going on...
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So, "Barry" (that IS a Jewish name) Herschel O'Bama IS actually a Zionazi Neo-Con?

Who knew?

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lolrofl

Wonder if he's an "Israel-Firster"-American?
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Marxism is a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society



It looks to me like this describes Bush, except that he wants there to be two classes....Rich and poor. Guess which the majority of people would be...poor!
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BIG BIG BUMP! this should be pinned..
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Wait a minute is he a Muslim or a communist, come on you wingnuts shouldn't change stories in midstream.
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Wait a minute is he a Muslim or a communist, come on you wingnuts shouldn't change stories in midstream.
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That is nothing new. He is always to be classed as "other", whether it be Jewish, Muslim, insider, outsider, you will find accusations that full out contradict each other until he becomes president.
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You want the truth! he's a Jewish communist masquerading as a muslim, Obama will be the last president of the US and he has a biblical role to fill, there are many lies told about him to cover up his past and background but the facts are that his father and his grand father are from Jewish linage. This is important when you realsie what Obama is all about and what he has come to fulfill!!!

Obama is "THE DESTROYER" he is the chosen one, he WILL be the next president of the US, his biological father was Jewish. Barack Obama 's name is a shortening of Baracka which means the blessed one in Hebrew. He IS the Anti-Christ...

Some facts about him, please click on the link as there are other links to confirm the information stated here about him.

• Barack was born to a Jewish father and Christian mother..[1]

• Barack's family on his father's side is predominantly Jewish, father( Baracka Obama snr) , grandfather (Hussein Onyango Obama) were Jews, brother Abongo (Roy) Obama is Jewish.[2][3]

• Barack Obama 's name is a shortening of Baracka which means the blessed one in Hebrew.[4]

• Barack Obana's middle name is Hussein ,an Hebrew Jewish name which means "beautiful" or "handsome". It is commonly given to Jewish males after the name of the grandson of the Jewish prophet Moses , Ali, the fouth Judaic Caliph in Judaic history.

• Father Baracka Obama died in 1982, Barack described his father Baracka as a non practicing Jewish [5] though he got a Jewish burial at Barack's family's request.[6]

• Stepfather Lolo Soetoro was a Jewish from Indonesia.[7]

• Barack enrolled in Catholic school in Indonesia as a Jewish student.[8]

• When Obama attended 4th grade in 1971 in a Jewish school [9], Jewish children spent two hours a week studying Judaism and Christian children spent those two hours learning about the Christian religion. Barack studied Judaism.[10]

• Barack attended at least some friday Synagoge prayers with his step father Lolo Soetoro .[11]

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Socialism is an economic, social and political doctrine which expresses the struggle for the equal distribution of wealth by eliminating private property and the exploitative ruling class. In practice, such a distribution of wealth is achieved by a collective ownership of the means of production, exchange and diffusion. Such a system yields substantial benefits for the overall general population, however there is a significant loss in revenue on account of lessened production. Regardless, personal benefits to non-elite individuals remain unmistakable, and in a wide variety of ways at that.

In other words, you and everyone else who is employed by whatever business you work for are each part owners. The revenue generated is shared equally between all individuals. That is, the hourly rate of the blue-collar laborer will be no less than the hourly rate of the white-collar executive as both individuals serve a function of equal value. This is equality at its finest, where as opposed to a corporation receiving a profit three-times in value to your earnings, you and all those who work beside you will earn enough to live comfortable lives of meaning instead of spending the vast majority of your waking hours working for the profit of another so that you might afford the bills you pay to keep the little that you have.

If you feel that Rockefeller and his comrades are more deserving of their vast riches than the general public is deserving of a comfortable lifestyle then I suggest you re-evaluate your priorities in life. After all, absolute Socialism means less work, more time to pursue personal interests, and greater generation of wealth for the lower and middle classes, along with a true democratic form in which decisions are made by consensus not by whomever has enough money and power to take the highest seats of the land.

The choice is literally one between freedom and slavery and that's not particularly debatable either. But no, I don't think there is enough information available to conclude Obama has Socialist intentions. After all, Capitalists have fooled nations in the past with claims of bringing freedom to the people through Socialism or Communism - consider what China and the Soviet Union said, and then what they did. Then again, the same can be said for purely Capitalist nations, they certainly do seem to have successfully mislead the majority of their slaves.

I feel it's more likely that Obama is one of those types - saying one thing, but intending another. That being said, I don't support him, but I will always support Socialism - as that is the most ethical and free form of government and economy. As in, I will support it regardless of who pretends to be one of us or how many are propagandized into looking upon a freedom-seeking people as demons.
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Sen. Obama's autobiography is filled with "composite" characters, rearranged timelines, and fantasy events that never occurred. I read that twice in the Washington Post - read Richard Cohen's columns of Jan. 1, 2008, and March 27, 2007, for yourself. click on link to access this info...

There are more articles than that, by more authors than just Mr. Cohen, but I wanted to get started by saying that what follows isn't just something I'm pulling out of thin air. What follows is serious, documented, and not at all what those who want to write history about the election of the first so-called "African-American" president, want in the least to admit is true - and why its truth matters more than their desire to ignore the truth for the sake of their desire to write history.

While his shrill wife objects, the truth is that Sen. Obama's life, as he wrote about himself in his autobiography, is, in fact, nothing but a fairy tale. Again, don't take my word for it - read Mr. Cohen's, and others, articles about it.

If what Mr. Cohen writes are truths, then what Mr. Obama wrote are lies. It's just as simple as that.

Yet there is not one word from the "Last Bastions of Accuracy" that comprise our first-tier information enterprises about the complete lack of integrity Sen. Obama shows with his fictional life history. He lies, but his lies are swept under the rug by a groupthink mentality that is so desperate to regain leadership positions - as opposed to actual leadership programs to earn those leadership positions - that it ignores the truth that Sen. Obama lies - about himself, about his life, about his actions - and even about his racial composition.

I researched what follows for a NY daily of international reputation. It wasn't what I thought I'd find. I documented it, presented it to the Washington Bureau Chief, but was hardly surprised that it never saw ink. As you'll see for yourself, this is the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb.

I must pause very briefly to note usage of the word Negro in what follows: In all academic studies of race, the proper scientific word for the ethnic composition I discuss is Negro. For any who scream racist at its mention, I say take it up with the scientific community. It's not my word, it's theirs. I am using it in its proper scientific context.

Why is the fact that Mr. Obama is only 6.25% African Negro not reported?

Because to acknowledge it is to report this devastating truth about him: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president.

Federal law requires that to claim a minority status, you must be at least 1/8 of the descriptor, but for the sake of this article, I've converted it to a decimal fraction for easier comprehension. You must be at least 12.5% of the racial component you claim for minority status. Mr. Obama, claiming to be African-American, is half the legal threshold.

Again, to let it sink in: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president.

Yet claiming to be African-American is the soul and substance of his claim to fame. It is what he has used throughout his adult life to distinguish himself from other competitors. It is the ethnic identity he proclaims, and it is the ethnic identity he craves. Without it, he is just another mixed race Caucasian Arab with an African influence playing on his skin’s pigmentation.

But no matter what he craves, no matter what he has used to propel himself through life, no matter the racist presumption of seeing his skin and without question calling him black, the hard, cold, genetically inarguable reality remains: he is not an African-American.

Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming "America's first African-American president" ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro - a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama's great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator's ethnic composition.).

That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.

Put another way, his father could honestly claim African-American ethnic classification. He was the last generation able to do so.

Sen. Obama could honestly say, "My father was African-American." Racist presumptions led an Ivy League admissions committee, and lazy "newspapers of record" factcheckers, to presume that if his father is African-American, then Sen. Obama must be African-American also.

But it doesn't work that way. Racist presumptions coupled with sloppy vetting don't turn a lie into the truth.

Sen. Obama is one generation too far removed from the ethnic African Negro input to make the same claim as his father, Harvard's Admission's stamp of approval notwithstanding.

As you can see for yourself, Sen. Obama's African-American ethnic claim, when properly researched and documented, is a lie.

The question no one wants to answer - particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, "Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father's side have an Arabic name?"

The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father's side of the family tree is Arabic.

Need proof? Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as "Arab African" by the Kenyan government.

But in America's current political climate, that truth is heresy; that truth is "an inconvenient truth." It is the political equivalent in our time to what Galileo's scientific pronouncements were in his time: it is true, but nobody wants to know the truth because the lie is so much more comforting.

That is why detractors of this truth will do everything to denounce it, except submit to the discipline of actually researching it.

There's a reason for that: it proves he is not sufficiently Negro to earn classification under American law as an African-American.

For Sen. Obama, telling the truth means he will give up all the accolades about being the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, an accolade that relies on a sleight-of-hand in job titling that changed the name of the top job from Editor to President.

If stated in its absolute truth, Mr. Obama was the second person of color to run the Review. He was beat to the Review's top spot by a true African-American about 60 years before Mr. Obama showed up for classes.

Again, a very inconvenient truth.

That is devastating in itself. The further effect is that Mr. Obama would have to convince Americans still reeling from 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, that now is the time for America's first Arab-American president.

We all know what chance that has of succeeding.

Of course, that would only happen if Mr. Obama told the truth about his racial composition. To tell the truth means Mr. Obama will have to admit that which he has never been forced to admit before, even in the face of the massive lies of his autobiography: Mr. Obama's entire projection of who he is, and what he is, is a lie.

Mr. Obama would have to say to the world: "I am not what I've told you I am. I lied to you in my autobiography when I told you I am black. I lied to the Admission Committee at Harvard so I could get in. I lied to my constituents in Chicago so I could get elected to the State Senate. I lied to my constituents in Illinois so I could get elected to the US Senate. I lied to my supporters across America so I could be President.

"I have lied all during my life to play the race card, and use it, cynically, to advance myself by playing upon the racist presumption of Americans to accept, without question, that anyone of color is African-American. I lied to you, and you blindly accepted it, because of your own racist presumptions about color, and ethnic identity. I looked African-American, and your racist presumptions told you to believe it."

Even as you read this, the overwhelming majority of you will continue to believe it. Even as you know the truth, you will block the truth out of your mind, because you are bred to accept the racist presumption of color, and ethnic identity.

And so many of you reading this will create incredible mental gymnastics, telling yourself why the truth doesn't matter. You will lie to yourself because you want to believe the lie, and then curse the American body politic for being built on lies.

You will do this all while failing to tell yourself the truth that it is your lies, as much as any other lies, that are killing the body. You will commit the very action that you curse as the cause of America's demise, because you are jaded beyond recognizing in yourself the very same disease you so freely condemn in others.

Here is the truth about Mr. Obama's name, and his father's ancestors:

True Negro tribal members of western Kenya where his father was born have Christian names, not Arabic. His father's decision to name him with an Arabic name is a matter of his father establishing his ethnic identity in Africa - it is done deliberately to separate him from the African tribes. He may live among them, but he is not one of them. His father's message is that he is Arabic, not Negro.

Many will find these truths unsettling. I'm often asked, "But I thought his father was Kenyan. How could Mr. Obama not be African-American, how could his ethnic composition be so Arabic?"

The definitive clue to that answer is to look at his name, his father's name, and the names of all his ancestors on his father's side. They are all Arabic.

Researching his roots reveal that on his father's side, he is descended from Arab slave traders. They operated under an extended grant from Queen Victoria, who gave them the right to continue the slave trade in exchange for helping the British defeat the Madhi Army in southern Sudan and the Upper Nile region. Funny how circular is history; now the British again face the Madhi Army, albeit this time Shiite, not Sunni, as in nineteenth century Sudan.

But telling America's black community that while their ancestors were breaking the shackles of slavery, Mr. Obama's ancestors were placing those shackles upon their wrists would hardly play as an Oprah Winfrey best-seller.

Being the son of a poor Kenyan goat-herder plays much better than being the son of a highly placed Arab-African who operated at the top of the Kenyan government following his education at Columbia. You see, even the way he portrays his father is a lie.

We need to linger for a moment on Ms. Winfrey, and her support for Mr. Obama. A very serious problem arises with Ms. Winfrey because of her double-standards: Does everyone remember how she went ballistic when a person whose book she endorsed turned out to be dishonest about what he said about his life in his book?

Of course you do. She pulled the plug on him and forced him into a highly publicized "Mea Culpa" of near groveling for her forgiveness. She publicly humiliated him, and would actually twist-up into contorted faces, visibly hot with anger.

Why then does Ms. Winfrey operate with a double standard for Mr. Obama? She knows his so-called autobiography is replete with "composites" - an Orwellian word for fictional characters that never existed but in Mr. Obama's imagination, even though he addresses them in his autobiography as if they are real people. They aren't; they are lies.

So are his timelines, chopped up and rearranged for Mr. Obama's aggrandizement. And there are the complete lies about events he said specifically impacted his life - events that never occurred despite his writing that they did. They too are lies.

As I said, don’t take my word for it; read Mr. Cohen’s columns in the Washington Post for the details.

Why then does she not hold him to the same standards she held another author?

She doesn't say, but the possibility that the reason is race-based is fair to ask. What Mr. Obama did is far beyond what the other author did. Why then, public humiliation for one, but campaign whistle-stops for the other?

Ms. Winfrey needs to tell us why. Her integrity is on the line.

Mr. Obama has struggled all his life trying to prove that he is black enough to be called black.

The truth is that if Mr. Obama is elected, his primary ethnic composition is Caucasian, but of course, that carries no cachet.

So if we look at his next predominant ethnic component, Mr. Obama would be America's first Arab-American president. The truth is that his name says it all.

What amazes me more than anything else about Mr. Obama's heritage is the unwillingness of anyone in the journalism profession to want to know the truth. While all this is easily documentable, it is so radioactive that no one wants to be on the receiving end of the racist charges that will bombard whoever broaches the truth.

It is another example of how America's political system is further degenerating into fairy tales and lies. Torpedo boat attacks in Viet Nam, WMD's in Iraq, Sen. Obama is African-American; we shamelessly lie to ourselves to rationalize whatever we want to believe.

But I wrote this tonight because I'm tired of reading about "integrity" written by those who have none themselves. They know Mr. Obama's autobiography is filled with lies from start to finish, they know he lies about what his operatives do (the Apple advertisement knock-off against Hills immediately comes to mind), and for those who circulated my research, they know he is not legally black.

But for those longing for Camelot, for those who feel a good story trumps the truth, for those who are so jaded about others that they now live as those they profess to hate, for those who are terrorized by the racist attacks these truths bring, the integrity of Sen. Obama doesn't matter.

Because their own integrity doesn't matter to them either.

Why am I writing this? Maybe I just want a clear conscience, clear that the research I did didn’t get buried because the people who received it are afraid to tell the truth in the face of Sen. Obama’s frenzied celebrity status. I’ve been in the business since 1972 - 35 years - writing and researching for people like the NY Times, the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, The Jewish Information Network, so I know what it’s like on the newsroom floor right now. Nobody can dare speak against Sen. Obama without generating at least a flickering flame of doubt about his or her own sanity – not to mention the knee-jerk reaction that questioning him is indicative of some deep, dark, racist agenda spurring those questions on.

And truth? I ask as Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Who cares about truth? This is history; this is the first time ever in America – why let truth get in the way of chronicling history? (. . . I wrote facetiously.)

Maybe I just want to know that if he gets the presidency, he will get it honestly – if this is general knowledge, and he overcomes it. Maybe I’m just tired of presidents who lie to us; and in this case, I already know Mr. Obama will lie to us, just as he lied in his autobiography, and on so many other occasions documented by Mr. Cohen, by Michael Dobbs, the Washington Post’s factchecker, and so many others.

And maybe I’m tired of us lying to ourselves. Mr. Obama is what we’ve lied ourselves into believing he is.

Maybe by saying that I know he lied, and saying that we lied to ourselves, I will say after he is elected that nobody has any right to complain about him lying after he takes the oath of office, when everybody knew he lied about so many other things – when we lied to ourselves about so many other things, so very long before that.

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Excellent post OP, some important info there, TY
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Some people have no shame.

I wonder if Hillary paid for this hit piece, or if McCain paid for it.
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No doubts about it there is something strange about this man, i have an un-nervy feeling that what we see on the outside isn't what is really on the inside. I don't trust him!!!
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I have it on good authority that Obama studied Marxism under Marx and Lenin and was an associate of Trotsky.

Further, having survived the purge, he fled Russia and went to Germany where he studied fascism and was an associate of Horst Wessel.
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What a sorry state the US is in when all they have to offer for a future president is a bunch of frauds every single one of those who ran for it are nothing short of a disgrace to their country. Yeah God help America if all it can offer it's people are Neo-con apologists...
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Told ya...
"Pray for solace..Pray for resolve..Pray for a savior..Pray for deliverance..Some kind of purpose..A glimpse of a LIGHT in this VOID OF EXISTENCE..Now witness the END of an age..Hope dies in hands of believers..Who seek the truth in the LIAR'S EYE"

"The greatest TRICK the Devil ever pulled was not convincing the world he doesn't exist..But convincing it that he is GOD"

"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: It is a gift of GOD. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: He knows how it drives the EVIL spirit OUT of US."
- Martin Luther


"What have I done?..Where have I come from?..When I burnt the backs with the SUN through a GLASS..Did I SEAL the loss that's become me?.. Feeling undone..What have I become? ..When I turned my back on you..I turned my back on MYSELF and became this MACHINE"

"What you IGNORE now..Will come OUT of YOU later"

"Stones to throw at my Creator..
MASOCHISTS to which I cater..You don't need to bother..I don't need to be..I'll keep slipping farther..
But once I hold on..I won't let go 'til it BLEEDS"
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He's definitely a dark horse, given the current rumble about his pastor i think he is cut from the same cloth, both men have identical views.
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Investigative reports above of Obama's Marxist and communist connections.

If it walks like a duck.......

More here

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Pass it along to media, blog it, etc.! This is serious stuff!
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Investigative reports above of Obama's Marxist and communist connections.

If it walks like a duck.......

More here

[link to www.usasurvival.org]

Pass it along to media, blog it, etc.! This is serious stuff!
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Investigative reports above of Obama's Marxist and communist connections.

If it walks like a duck.......

More here

[link to www.usasurvival.org]

Pass it along to media, blog it, etc.! This is serious stuff!
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So is communism a muslim thing now?

That's odd, because it didn't start out that way.

Jewish Communists: The Documentary Record
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Hmmm. Looks like embarassing history is being purged from the net.

I wnoder how long it will be before the google cache of this article disappears.
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you Obama haters will stop at nothing to smear that beautiful half-white half-kenyan man who only wants to save this country through unity and change and has huge missing gaps in his past that he's unwilling to divulge and whose wife is CFR and says that we americans have broken souls and need to accept the sacrifice that her husband will require of us before our souls can be whole again and who calls his vision "world order" and who is related by blood to Bush and Cheney
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wake the heck up
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Brings to mind the fact that Prescott Bush served on the board of Hitler's bank in New York, and participated in a fascist coup attempt against the United States government.

Fascist or Communist, it's anti-american in either case.
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If Obama gets elected president and i'm SURE he will be then the US and the world are in for a term under the guidence of a closet socialist marxist.

There is much much more to come out about Barack Obama and the more i see the more i don't like what i see, He is the one who will bring about the demise and the destruction of the America.

He has the background for what is needed to fulfill the completion of operation "ENDGAME", those detention centres are there for a reason and it's not for holding illegal aliens as descripted by the NSA.

Yes B.O. will stink when he gets his commie teeth into the US and starts to change the laws in favour of muslims, do you know that many senate meetings are being opened by praying muslim clerics?

Keep your eyes on B.O., he will be the last president of the US and in the Hebrew he is Abaddon, or in the Greek Apollyon.

Obama’s Communist Mentor, there are word links at the source to back up all that is said in this article.

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

Is “coalition politics” at work in Obama’s rise to power?

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.

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about it during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks are posted online under the headline, "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party."

Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 "at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson," came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.

As Horne describes it, Davis "befriended" a "Euro-American family" that had "migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago."

It was in Chicago that Obama became a "community organizer" and came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.

The SDS laid siege to college campuses across America in the 1960s, mostly in order to protest the Vietnam War, and spawned the terrorist Weather Underground organization. Ayers was a member of the terrorist group and turned himself in to authorities in 1981. He is now a college professor and served with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Davidson is now a figure in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled CPUSA, and helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.

Both communism and socialism trace their roots to Karl Marx, co-author of the Communist Manifesto, who endorsed the first meeting of the Socialist International, then called the "First International." According to Pierre Mauroy, president of the SI from 1992-1996, "It was he [Marx] who formally launched it, gave the inaugural address and devised its structure..."

Apparently unaware that Davis had been publicly named as a CPUSA member, Horne said only that Davis "was certainly in the orbit of the CP [Communist Party]-if not a member..."

In addition to Tidwell's book, Black Moods: Collected Poems of Frank Marshall Davis, confirming Davis's Communist Party membership, another book, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946, names Davis as one of several black poets who continued to publish in CPUSA-supported publications after the 1939 Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact. The author, James Edward Smethurst, associate professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, says that Davis, however, would later claim that he was "deeply troubled" by the pact.

While blacks such as Richard Wright left the CPUSA, it is not clear if or when Davis ever left the party.

However, Obama writes in Dreams From My Father that he saw "Frank" only a few days before he left Hawaii for college, and that Davis seemed just as radical as ever. Davis called college "An advanced degree in compromise" and 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 shit." Davis also complained about foot problems, the result of "trying to force African feet into European shoes," Obama wrote.

For his part, Horne says that Obama's giving of credit to Davis will be important in history. "At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack's memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis' equally affecting memoir, Living the Blues and when that day comes, I'm sure a future student will not only examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties but will also be moved to come to this historic and wonderful archive in order to gain insight on what has befallen this complex and intriguing planet on which we reside," he said.

Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who also confirms that Davis is the "Frank" in Obama's book, did her dissertation on Davis and spent much time with him between 1972 until he passed away in 1987.

In an analysis posted online, she notes that Davis, who was a columnist for the Honolulu Record, brought "an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the world" and that he openly discussed subjects such as American imperialism, colonialism and exploitation. She described him as a "socialist realist" who attacked the work of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Davis, in his own writings, had said that Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and a secret member of the CPUSA, had suggested that he take a job as a columnist with the Honolulu Record "and see if I could do something for them." The ILWU was organizing workers there and Robeson's contacts were "passed on" to Davis, Takara writes.

Takara says that Davis "espoused freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. He urged coalition politics."

Is "coalition politics" at work in Obama's rise to power?

Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand-based blogger who has been analyzing the political forces behind Obama and specializes in studying the impact of Marxist and leftist political organizations, notes that Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses.

"Obama's victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle," Chapman wrote. "Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

Let's challenge the liberal media to report on this. Will they have the honesty and integrity to do so?

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DITO
I new from the start a few years back when he was on Ophra that something wasn't right with him. I also have had a bad feeling about him before all this info has come out.
I'm also sure he will get elected and everyone will think he is the greatest for a short time.





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