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Dreams From Frank Marshall Davis

By Paul Kengor from the October 2012 issue

Meet the hard-core Communist who mentored the future 44th President of the United States.

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If that’s not eerie enough, there is another connection between Valerie Jarrett’s and Obama’s political ancestors. His name was Robert R. Taylor, and Davis worked with him at a CPUSA/ Comintern “antiwar” rally in Chicago in November 1940. The group behind the rally was the hideous American Peace Mobilization, later described by Congress as “one of the most seditious organizations which ever operated in the United States.” This “instrument of the Communist Party line” was “one of the most notorious and blatantly Communist fronts ever organized in this country.” The goal of the American Peace Mobilization was to keep the U.S. out of World War II, because, at the time, Hitler was allied with Stalin via the Hitler-Stalin pact. And so, the good comrades at CPUSA saluted the red flag. Davis and Taylor worked together on an event billed as “Negroes and National Defense.”

Robert Taylor was the first African American head of the Chicago Housing Authority. He also appears in the major 1944 congressional report “Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States.”

Taylor was the maternal grandfather of Valerie Jarrett.

The Canter Family—and David Axelrod

COLLABORATING WITH Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is David Axelrod, who, in another bizarre twist of political fate, likewise has roots in this same Chicago crowd and period. (See my profile, “David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack,” TAS, March 2012.)

Architect of Obama’s “hope and change” message and presidential campaigns, Axelrod is a native New Yorker who, like Obama and Frank Marshall Davis, found his political and professional calling in Chicago. In the 1970s, while Obama was being mentored in Hawaii by Davis, Axelrod was being mentored in Chicago by people with connections back to that same Chicago crew.

Axelrod had enrolled at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1972, majoring in political science and writing for the student newspaper. He soon secured a nice job as a very young political columnist for the Hyde Park Herald. Through his work at the Herald, Axelrod met David Canter and Don Rose. Canter and Rose mentored Axelrod and helped set him on a path that led to Barack Obama and the White House.

David Canter was the son of Harry Jacob Canter. Harry had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party. In 1930, he ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Communish Party ticket. Harry was so progressive that in 1932 he received a special invitation to Stalin’s USSR, which he eagerly accepted, bringing along his entire family. Fluet in Russian, he taught printing techniques to the Bolsheviks, translating major volumes of Lenin’s writings.

In 1937, Harry and family suddenly left Moscow and landed in Chicago. Close to Harry not just biologically but ideologically was his son, David Simon Canter, born in Boston in 1923, and nurtured in the USSR under Stalin’s collectivization, mass wealth redistribution, and five-year plans.

Like Axelrod, whom he would mentor, David Canter attended the University of Chicago, writing for the college newspaper and other publications. He eventually edited the Packinghouse Workers Union newsletter.

David’s surviving son, Marc, recalls “all sorts of wild memories of being the son of one of the organizers of the meatpackers union. Don’t get me started!” David Canter’s politics, like his father’s, became especially bold—and pro-Soviet. He was eventually subpoenaed to testify before the Democrat-run House Committee on Un-American Activities, where he refused to answer any questions about past or present membership in the Communist Party.

The committee was especially interested in an operation called Translation World Publishers. The committee had evidence that “the Soviet Government advanced to Translation World Publishers…the sum of $2,400” for a specific set of books to be produced.

The committee concluded that Translation World Publishers was “an outlet for the distribution of Soviet propaganda,” was “subsidized by Soviet funds and was created by known Communists to serve the propaganda interests of the USSR.” Canter, according to the committee, had thereby failed to comply with the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. To clarify: This is the same Canter who directly mentored David Axelrod.

Frank Marshall Davis would have met the Canters in any number of functions. At the Abraham Lincoln School, Harry taught the Monday evening class, 8:45–10:15 p.m., titled “Wartime Trade Union Problems.” Further, the Canter family was very Much acquainted with and appeared in Davis’ Chicago Star.

To cite a couple of examples, Harry Canter is listed in the April 28, 1947, edition, wishing “May Day Greetings” along with other “Friends” of the Star. The May 15, 1948, “Inside Labor” column spotlighted Canter, who was a candidate for delegate to the International Typographical Union’s 90th convention, as a “leader in the fight against the Taft-Hartley Act” who “calls himself a ‘non-partisan Independent-Progressive.’” That would be a progressive who happened to have run CPUSA in Boston and worked in Moscow as a Soviet translator and editor.

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About the Author

Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.

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Portsmouth Compact| 10.12.12 @ 6:58AM

Once again, Paul Kengor outlines his astonishing, original research outlining the the Davis/ Obama/ Axelrod/ Jarrett connections. Fun fact - in the audio edition of 'Audacity', Obama dropped the 22 Davis references to zero. Paul did a good turn in '2016' and at Heritage last July - http://www.heritage.org/events.....-communist

West_Coast| 10.12.12 @ 6:05PM

I listened to that the other night as I was going to bed. I highly recommend that ALL serious thinkers tune in and listen to it. It's just under an hour long, but you wont be able to look at our so-called president and his agenda the same again.

Time to end the social experiment, America.

Von Mises Jr| 10.12.12 @ 8:21AM

Great article. Paul Kengor is a regular at The American Thinker.

To tie it up with wrapping paper and a neat little bow, this one-minute commercial provides insight into Obama's relationship with Russia to this day, and his plans for a second term:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_p.....Czo5Vf8KZs

Moe Blotz| 10.12.12 @ 8:38AM

That one will not appear on the alphabet networks across the river in Phluffya. Down here south of exit 7 we tend to be a little more conservative than residents living along the I-95 corridor.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 9:41AM

Ummmm...

Anyone else notice the STRIKING resemblance between Frank Marshal Davis and Obama???

And don't just look at the sketch - look at photos of Davis.

Same eyes, same shaped head, same shaped mouth...and same skin tone.

Obama looks NOTHING like the late Kenyan Professor, Barack Obama Sr. Obama Sr. had very dark skin, and very undiluted African features.

I'm not the first person to bring this up...But why aren't enough people discussing it, given the controversy over Obama's birth certificate.

Maybe instead of looking into where Obama was born, someone should have looked instead at who might have been listed as "Father?"

Burlington| 10.12.12 @ 12:09PM

Joel Gilbert has literally proven that Frank Davis is Obama's biological father. He has dug up more nudie photos of Stanley Ann Dunham taken in Davis' apartment with the Davis' sofa as a prop. These photos were taken before Christmas 1960 when she was probably 3-4 weeks pregnant. Davis would have been in his mid-fifties and still randy as hell. The Kenyan was a straw man. There is absolutely no resemblance to him with those small close set ears. A trip to Kenya was financially impossible in 1960 in any case. What doesn't make sense is Stan Dunham's role. It's 1960 and black man older than he was banging his 17 year old daughter. Was Stan blind or oblivious?

Moe Blotz| 10.12.12 @ 12:22PM

More likely Stan was stoned.

AmericanCynic| 10.12.12 @ 1:18PM

Is there no end to your disgusting fantasies?

Pocacahontas | 10.12.12 @ 3:15PM

Those "nudie photos of Stanley Ann Dunham" are clearly not photos of obama's mother -- merely of some woman who bears a passing resemblance to her.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:24PM

...riiiiiiight...

Just another COMPLETE coincidence...

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:25PM

Just like Obama's unbelievable resemblance to Frank Marshal Davis...

...nothing but a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Can we move on?

Jim?

You might want to change to another question, Jim..?

handsoff| 10.26.12 @ 1:15AM

Not blind or oblivious. Complicit.

Gr0w1er601| 10.12.12 @ 10:56AM

For all those bleeding heart moon-beamers consumed with all that white liberal guilt, you got what you voted for in 'hope and change'. Thanks for regressing America two, closer to three generations with Barry's tax & spend policies.

Pocacahontas | 10.12.12 @ 10:59AM

Doctor Right, if your speculation that Frank Marshall Davis is correct -- that he's obama's biological father -- would that remove all doubt that obama is an American citizen?

Or, suppose Davis is obama's biological father and obama Sr. is obama's legal father -- and that obama was born in Kenya. In that case would obama be an American citizen due to his biological father's citizenship or a Kenyan (only) due to his legal father's citizenship?

Inquiring minds want to know.

John Navratil| 10.12.12 @ 1:18PM

Pocahontas,

Who gives a tinkers dam about his citizenship. That issue is moot. The damage he has done is the issue.

Pocacahontas | 10.12.12 @ 3:26PM

There's a real, legal question there, John Boy, devoid of any reference to obama: Who is it that would have passed along his citizenship to a child born in 1961, one whose mother couldn't pass her citizenship along -- the child's biological father (the one from whom the child gets her DNA) or the man married to the woman and named on the birth certificate?

If Frank Marshall Davis was obama's biological father, is obama illegitimate -- legally a bastard? Would he have been entitled to a share of Frank Marshall Davis's estate if Davis was his biological father and died intestate? (I'd say no, but I'm not a lawyer.) Has that changed now that DNA tests can determine who a child's biological father is?

The issue of obama's citizenship is not moot. Joseph Farah and a whole lot of of others care a great deal about it -- and don't for a picosecond consider the issue to be moot, not in the sense you used the word. By the way, the first meaning given for "moot" is usually "subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty."

You've raised other questions. Are you being coy, or are you a bad or careless speller, or have you fallen for the Victorian nonsense that the expression is "tinker's dam" rather than "tinker's damn" -- ignoring "the reputation tinkers had for habitual use of profanity"? (You've shown how careless you can be by misspelling my monicker.)

Again, inquiring minds want to know.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:27PM

Are Communists allowed to have "estates"?

Shouldn't all of their property be returned to the proletariats when they die?

And why would they even have any property at all???

John Navratil| 10.13.12 @ 1:43PM

PoCACAhantas,

Read the rules of citizenship; as documented, he is a citizen. If Davis is the father, he would be a citizen regardless of where he was born. He would be a bastard. Since the rules of bastard inheritance were relaxed years ago, he would most certainly be an heir to Davis's estate if he could successfully claim paternity.

Begging the privilege of being understood, I used the second definition of 'moot':of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic. It may be of interest to some, but of none to me. If he is not a citizen, just what would change? Nothing! So tilt at those windmills as you wish. I look forward to reports of any successful result you may obtain.

A "tinkers dam" is masticated bread or wet paper spread around to hole in a pot being repaired to contain the molten tin. Once used it is worthless, just as I consider the arguments of Obama's citizenship to be. I spelled it as I intended.

However, I do most sincerely apologize for overlooking the "caca" in your moniker - in reviewing your arguments, it should have been obvious. It won't happen again. However, if your mind was really enquiring, it would look for the meaning in the message and not for transcription errors. Review Shannon's work in communication theory if the topic is unfamiliar to you.

However, if carelessness is important, you might have capitalized Obama's name. You seem to capitalize all other proper nouns. Or is this some other subtle message I've missed?

Robert| 10.13.12 @ 9:46PM

Using lower case to spell obama's name is the lexicographic equivalent of a Biden snicker. Its sole purpose is to reduce to its proper size the stature of our impostor president.

John Navratil| 10.14.12 @ 8:49AM

So, intnetinoal erors to mkae a ponit are OK! Carelessness is the sin!

handsoff| 10.26.12 @ 1:12AM

You don't know US citizenship law. BO's mother is/was a US citizen at the time of his birth and met the residency requirements, so BO is a citizen. The alleged father's, Barak (his spelling) citizenship does not bear on BO. Adoption does not change BO's citizenship. It is unfortunate, but true. Upbringing, his communist training/ties should make all question his ability and competence to be President, given his profession of Marxism. Concerning the legitimacy of his birth, if Barak was married to Stanley Ann at the time of his birth, a legal marriage makes BO's birth "legitimate" by operation of law. If suit were filed by BO to claim an estate, presentation of DNA proving lineage would probably entitle him to a share of any estate.
While you are correct about the 1st meaning of "moot", in law moot means, no longer in question, irrelevant.
If you truly were an inquiring mind, you would have researched US law regarding citizenship. I knew it in 1960 and the law has changed to be more inclusive since. Unless the law had been applied retroactively, McCain could not have been eligible to run for President, because even 2 american citizens could not confer natural born citizenship on their child born on american military bases at the time of his birth. The current law gives citizenship (presumably natural born status) to a child born of one US citizen who was born here and raised her between the ages of 14 and 19. BO signed a resolution making the current law apply to McCain.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 1:56PM

Let's play a game; I'll ask a question, and you answer, OK?

Now suppose you're a smart-ass, underachieving punk with delusions of grandeur and left-wing political proclivities...

Are you with me? Ok...

Now...suppose that you want a career in politics, but there's something in your past that concerns you.

In a way, it's not your fault...after all, we can't pick our parents...but you need to find a way to "fix" the problem.

And the problem is that your "father" is likely 1 of 2 different people:

1. A notable and notorious Communist agitator and sympathizer with an FBI file as thick as his fat skull, or...

2. An unknown doofus from Kenya who cavorted with your skanky Mom at around the same time she was playing "Hide the Salami" with the Commie douche-bag

Which is worse?

Which is MORE difficult to explain?

Which would keep you OUT of national politics?

The commie? Or, the Kenyan?

And there ya' go...

MacWell™| 10.12.12 @ 7:25PM

Dr.?
You are making the same mistake that we all make, using common sense with a liberal. It's a contradiction in terms, liberals don't think, they feel, they emote, thinking is to much of a drag man.

handsoff| 10.26.12 @ 1:38AM

His legal father was a British citizen but per US law, BO is a US citizen because his mother was a US citizen. It only takes one US citizen parent and she was born in the US and lived here until at least the age 0f 19, which met all tests per US law. And, BO is certified by the state of Hawaii as having been born in the US which is the ONLY requirement of US citizenship, unless the birth occurred on foreign soil, in which case, only one parent is needed to confer citizenship and Stanley Ann met all legal requirements to confer citizenship. Barak, a British citizen on a British passport and later a Kenyan when Kenya became independent, does not trump US citizenship.
Jus soli is the law of the US, not Jus sanguinis

Cobalt| 10.12.12 @ 11:22AM

Excellent article.

Thank you.

More information on Frank Marshall Davis:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.....indid=2323

Cobalt| 10.12.12 @ 4:15PM

"The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection"

Paul Kengor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ure=relmfu

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 11:24AM

At a time when Mitt Romney is desperately trying to focus the public's attention on the economy, which he believes is the winning issue for the GOP, Professor Kengor and the TAS crowd keeps reminding us of why this continues to be a close election when the GOP has all the cards to play a winning hand. He'd rather sell silly books than win. We Democrats thank you for your focus on the issues that really matter ... to no one.

Tom Kyba| 10.12.12 @ 12:17PM

Dream on McDuff. You sound more desperate comment by comment.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 1:59PM

Romney leads in Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina.

In fact, a major polling agency has pulled out of these states because "Romney has already won them."

National polls now show Romney with +3, and growing.

Desperate??? LOL!

Here's two words you need to get used to:

President Romney.

Actually, make that five words:

FORMER President Obama

Reality sucks, doesn't it?

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 4:04PM

First, of all, the electoral edge is still well in Obama's favor. Second, as I've said before, I have no great fears about Romney as President. He was a decent governor in Massachusetts, he's a non-ideological moderate by instinct, and he's already walking back half the positions he had to take during the primary amongst wing nuts like Santorum and Bachmann (who's having a battle for relection in her own district - gap narrowed to 2 in last poll). Our resilient Republic will be just fine, thank you, regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans take the White House. (Increasingly looking like Democrats will hold the Senate, too, and maybe pick up a seat or two.)

Romney was tied in Rasmussen yesterday, down two from the day before, and up one today. In the National popular vote, it looks pretty much like a dead heat. In electoral votes, still not so.

We'll see how Tuesday goes.

Reality looks pretty good to me, actually, Dr. R.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:28PM

"First, of all, the electoral edge is still well in Obama's favor..."

Really? Do tell!

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 6:07PM

Yes, Dr. R, really. Here's the current electoral vote breakdown by the two most respected trackers:

Real Clear Politics:
Obama 294
Romney 244

FiveThirtyEight.com (Nate Silver):
Obama 290
Romney 248

In-Trade Odds: Obama 61% Romney 39%

That's reality, Dr. R.

Cobalt| 10.12.12 @ 10:44PM

UnskewedPolls.com

http://unskewedpolls.com/

John Navratil| 10.13.12 @ 1:48PM

RCV,

Perhaps things have changed overnight..

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....e_map.html

Obama:201 Romney:181 with 156 tossups.

RCV| 10.13.12 @ 5:35PM

No question that it's how those swing states go. But their current state is as set forth above.

JmsA| 10.12.12 @ 12:05PM

The mere fact that you're trying to dismiss the book and issues therein proves to everyone it is damaging to Obama. Mr. Kengor is doing a great service by addressing the radical's past.

By the way, did you happen to catch the two democrat morons, Berman and Sherman, vying for my district's house seat?

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 12:44PM

It's delightful to have a choice between two good Congressmen instead of having a GOP clown in the mix.

JmsA| 10.12.12 @ 3:52PM

Nice try, but there were only two clowns on stage, and they were both democrats. Speaking of clowns and democrats, there were also two of them during the debate last night, and one pretended to be an impartial moderator.

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 4:06PM

It's always nice to have "THE MEDIA" to blame GOP failures on, isn't it?

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:29PM

Even with whats-her-name, Ryan was clearly the smartest man on the stage.

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 6:11PM

I used to think he was. I've seen no evidence of it since his nomination. In fairness to him, he's running on a ticket with a guy who believes almost nothing he does, and he's been forced to keep his mouth shut on his real views on everything from abortion to tax policy. In that situation, it's hard to appear intelligent. He's left to spouting platitudes, and refusing to answer specifics on even simple things like which tax deductions will you eliminate to pay for your tax rate cut?

The adolescent we saw last night was the kind of guy who thinks "Atlas Shrugged" is a profound and great work of literature.

JmsA| 10.12.12 @ 4:34PM

I know what I saw and heard, and I'm not complaining. Ryan debated two people and more than held his own. He's showed he's about the future, and Biden showed what he showed, which at best is getting mixed reviews. As to polling, ultimately there's only one poll that matters. That said, I like the ongoing trend, and I'm looking forward to the next debate.

AmericanCynic| 10.12.12 @ 1:15PM

Okay, so you Righty-Too-Tighties are no longer PUSHING the theory that Davis was Obama's "real" father and that his mother was a "porn star" (despicable and disgusting lie). Instead, now you've pivoted to:

"This man, and his relationship with the most powerful man in the world—our current president— at least merits our attention."

Seriously, have you no decency?

John Navratil| 10.12.12 @ 1:35PM

AmericanCynic,

What does decency have to do with asking about our President's influences and motivations? Why have a campaign? Why ask whose vision is better for America?

Seriously, have you no sense?

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 2:05PM

No, she wasn't a porn star; that would imply notoriety, at the least.

Rather, she was just another guilty white liberal...the kind who proves her progressive creds by spreading her legs for 3rd-world "studs"...and made some x-rated film loops in the early 60's.

Additionally, what are you denying?

That Marshal was a friend of Obama's grandfather? SORRY - that's a fact.

That Marshal knew Obama's mother very well? SORRY - that's a fact.

That Marshal was a profound influence on l'il Barry's adolescence? SORRY - that's a fact. Just check Obama's book...he talks about "Uncle Frank" quite a bit.

See what happens when you lock horn with people who are informed? You look stupid (liberal).

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 3:07PM

It really seems to bother you guys a lot that Obama's mother had sex with non-whites.

But Bristol Palin spreading her legs for idiot white boys up in Alaska is just fine with you.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 3:34PM

Doesn't bother me at all. But facts are facts.

And l'il Stanley Anne herself once famously remarked (of white people): "Those aren't MY people."

Like I said...she was the type of liberal chick who proved her progressive creds by shacking-up with 3rd-world studs...but she wasn't the only one.

And look how that turned out! He leaves her with a kid, and disappears back to Africa to marry 3 other women. In the depths of her despair, she quickly finds another Othello - this time from Indonesia - to "fill" her broken heart...

Nice try.

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 3:58PM

Yes, look how that turned out. Her son became President of the United States.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:30PM

Yes.

The WORST President in the history of the Republic, propelled to high office by a combination of white guilt and affirmative action.

And that story ain't over yet, either...

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 7:30PM

No, it's got four more years to run...

handsoff| 10.26.12 @ 1:26AM

The reference to "Those are not my people" was about capitalists. Soetero was a big disappoint to her. He was less socialist than she thought; in fact, he became a successful capitalist businessman, hence the divorce and revoking the adoption. He became a "bad influence"by not being communistic.

JmsA| 10.12.12 @ 4:05PM

Why the anger, RCV? And why the hate against Bristol?

Don't you think it reasonable to wonder about a president of the United States who spent some time during his formative years in the company of, and in some way or another, under the tutelage of a known communist, etc.?

I know communists. I know how they roll, as they say; and the mere mention of this particular individual previously associating with the current president gives me cause for concern.

Others may care, but I don't insofar who the president's mother had relations with; that's her business, and may she rest in peace.

JmsA| 10.12.12 @ 4:07PM

meant to write: ...insofar as who the...

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 4:08PM

I have no beef at all about Bristol Palin. She and her mother are of no concern whatsoever to me. I'm just amused at the constant concern at TAS over the President's mother's marriages to non-whites ("third world studs") and the double standard of morality.

Doctor Right| 10.12.12 @ 4:33PM

Nice straw-man.

The "non-white" in question in this article happened to be a known and highly notable Communist who sympathized with America's enemies and even worked on their behalf against our country.

In order to prevent people from looking too hard in that direction, the Left uses "RACISM!" and screams it loudly and often.

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 6:14PM

Dr. R, you are the one who added to this discussion the remark about "shacking-up with 3rd-world studs". If it's a straw-man, don't set it up, friend.

John Navratil| 10.13.12 @ 1:46PM

RCV,

I'll take your "you guys" to include me. I have never criticized Obama or his family, or Davis for that matter, for their race. It is their politics I find so atrocious.

RCV| 10.13.12 @ 5:36PM

You have always focused on substance.

Alej| 10.13.12 @ 7:04PM

Not much more than the thought of her having sex with a Labrador Retriever. Well, quite a bit more, actually. I do hope you're tolerant of my particular viewpoint !

"Mommy, why am I black and you're white ?"

"I told you not to go there, Barack... from what I remember of that party, just be glad you don't bark !"

Alej| 10.13.12 @ 9:09PM

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 3:07PM
"It really seems to bother you guys a lot that Obama's mother had sex with non-whites."

***********

Don't know why my response got sent way down here, but yeah, creep, it disgusts me. What part of California are you from, boy ?

RCV| 10.14.12 @ 12:03PM

You're one low excuse for a human, Alej.

chasrome| 10.12.12 @ 3:45PM

What happened here?

"Davis was also intimately familiar with the Citizens’ Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers. A surviving April 12, a member and among the small group of journalistically inclined individuals who comprised the group’s publicity committee. Joining him in both capacities was Vernon Jarrett."

Anybody awake in the proofreading department?

West_Coast| 10.12.12 @ 5:55PM

Paul Kengor hits the dupes on the Left right between the eyes. They HATE the remote idea that the juggernaut called 'Obama' could be defeated, and this book is the 'stone' (and other facts) that could do it.

They immediately dismiss the influence of F.M.D., but if you really study his communist dogma, Obama has followed it to a 'T' in his presidency. Obama IS a Red Diaper Baby, either by F.M.D. DNA, or his influence. Either way, it's truly disturbing how so many people didn't care to hear it, or were so enamored by Obama being clean and articulate, didn't care.

RCV| 10.12.12 @ 6:15PM

You've got that right - people DON'T care.

West_Coast| 10.12.12 @ 6:35PM

They don't care...at all. Those of us who've been screaming at the top of our lungs about the 'lie' that is Obama, won't stop until enough people wake up and vote him and his ilk out of office.

TinaB| 10.13.12 @ 11:45AM

Correct, West, we won't stop until it's over.

Indy| 10.13.12 @ 8:57PM

Paul Kengor, I've read your book, thank you for writing it and doing the research the media refused to do...of course, they will defend Obama to the end. They have simply invested too much in him.

Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 10:35AM

McCain was missing in action during the 2008 campaign.

Kwan| 10.14.12 @ 8:06AM

Another Ghetto Leninist who believes that the government should confiscate what people have earned and redistribute it to "Da Peoples". Under Davis's protege Obama the government has become the enemy of the people. Trillions of dollars have been poured into the "War on Poverty" since the sixties, yet now the underclass is declaring it's not enough the country must be turned into Venezuela so more Gub-a-mint cheese can be handed out. Obama's leftist policies have the country on a bullet-train express to becoming a replica of Zimbabwe. FORWARD? What a joke.

benny havens| 10.14.12 @ 9:21AM

When one is raised by ducks, is taught by ducks, is guided by ducks, learns to speak like the ducks and then acts like the ducks, he is pretty much a duck.

Now you may not believe, through his affiliations, that he is who he is. However actions speak louder than words, look at his record. He is a Marxist at heart. Where he wants to take this Nation is where the Soviet Union has been. And that experiment led to their collapse.

The dangerous thing is that 49% of the electorate either don’t believe or don’t know he really is a duck.

Rhoetus| 10.14.12 @ 10:34AM

1. George Marshall worked as the US Envoy to China to disarm the Nationalist Chinese Army.
2. Truman retreated in Korea allowing the Reds to hold N Korea to this day.
Davis got half a loaf- how he's got our President.

bluecollarbytes| 10.14.12 @ 9:11PM

Davis' devotion would be to his communist state while Christians would be devoted to God. Although devotion to God has been attacked even in the free U.S.A.

Will| 10.14.12 @ 11:35PM

It is hardly unknown for people to be on the far-left when young and moderate their views as they get older. Indeed its pretty common. I'm British, and many members of Tony Blair's cabinet had MI5 files dating to their time as student Trots/Communists. But that was 30 years previously, and people change.
If Obama was a Communist, would he have saved capitalist car companies and then privatised them? The communist response would be to keep them in public ownership. Why introduce Mitt Romney's healthcare plan to the entire country instead of creating a universal provider paid for by taxes, a la Europe? Why pledge to keep tax cuts for all but the top 1%? Why kill Bin Laden, overthrow the Marxist government of Libya and massively increase drone strikes? Associating with a communist when young does not make you a communist, any more than having republican friends would make him a Republican.

benny havens| 10.15.12 @ 8:12AM

Tony Blair's cabinet and Tony Blair were not free market capitalists. Their vision for Great Britain was, and is, socialism, just another name for government control over the people.

Obama is not a free market capitalist either. Capitalism allows for bankruptcy where the company is afforded the opportunity to realign its finances to put it back on track to profit and productivity. That is what the free market Romney wanted to do. Obama wanted control of GM to push his green agenda and to maintain a large voting block for his upcoming election. GM is still in financial trouble and their government green car is a flop.

Obama knows the European single payer plan would not be acceptable to the American public. So what Obama has done is to create a scheme that will force the general public into Obamacare without them even realizing it. He will allow private companies to drop their health coverage as long as they pay the $3000.00 tax requirement. He knows that this will force the employee into his Obamacare. You see, a universal healthcare system, paid for by taxes, is exactly what Obamacare will become.

As far as his tax pledge is concerned, the Obama care legislation is loaded with taxes directed at the middle class. So his claim of only taxing the 1% is totally bogus.

benny havens| 10.15.12 @ 8:13AM

The United States CIA has been hunting for Bin Laden for over 20 years. They finally caught up with him in 2011. Barrack Obama just happened to be the President at the time. There is no way he could have ignored pulling the trigger on this target. If he chose not to, it would have been all over the news. Remember his main goal is reelection.

First of all Libya was not overthrown by Barrack Obama. Remember his statement “leading from behind”.

I would respectfully suggest that you go back and read the article. The issue is not just an association with Marxists; the issue is they raised him, from his parents, his grandparents and individuals he chose to align himself with. There is a big difference.

Will| 10.16.12 @ 6:13AM

Tony Blair a socialist? The man who went into Iraq, never raised taxes and arguably saved the monarchy after Diana's death? Are we talking about the same Tony Blair?

GM has regained its position as the worlds largest car company and managed a $7.5 bn profit last year. It has restructured using Chapter 11 by cutting jobs, plants and dealerships and reducing brands. I don't deny that there was a political calculation involved, but that's hardly new. Do Republicans cut taxes (and bail out Wall Street) simply because they believe in it, or don't they think about the possible political gain as well? That's what politicians do.

Burlington| 10.15.12 @ 10:07AM

John Drew and David Horowitz both ex-Communists, state that there comes a time when that belief system is renounced. Drew argued communist theory with Obama when he was at Occidental. Obama has not renounced Communism.
Obama screwed the bond holders and gave a major share of the stock to the UAW.

John Navratil| 10.15.12 @ 7:30AM

Will,

When the government owns the shares of GM and refuses to privatize as requested by the GM board, that's hardly capitalism. It's another example of "elevator socialism" when we are capitalists on the way up and socialists on the way down. By doing this, the government can maintain that any failure of GM is due to market forces - those forces which were not and are not allowed to play out.

The healthcare plan is an example of incrementalism. This country still finds Obamacare unpalatable. When the market has been regulated out of Obamacare, a single payer will be the only option (see Cloward-Piven).

The pledge to keep taxes cuts is populism, pure and simple. Only in this political discourse is allowing tax cuts (in place for ten years) to expire NOT considered a tax increase. If your taxes go up, it is an increase. This is "soak the rich" rhetoric pitched, as always, as fairness a la Mussolini, Peron, Chavez.

What President wouldn't have killed Bin Laden? Obama! Jarrett put the kabosh on the mission several times before our reluctant commander turned the mission and the responsibility over to a professional. We can call this "elevator Presidency."

Calling Khadaffi's regime Marxist is a new one on me. Obama's policy of leading from behind was pointless. American firepower was the hammer. Strategy was, in light of recent events, obviously left on the boat.

Will| 10.16.12 @ 12:28AM

You all give me reasons why Obama has pursued moderate policies, yet is still a Marxist. Marxists believe in revolution, violent if necessary, on behalf of the proletariat. Moderate, gradualist socialism is called social democracy. If you want to know what that looks like, study Teddy Roosevelt (arguably), FDR & LBJ (definitely), and the main leftwing parties in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Canada, NZ- basically, everywhere else in the developed world. That ain't Marxism- take it from me, I've lived in 3 of those countries I just listed. Obama is more left-wing than the average President, even the average democrat, but that cannot simply be explained by a Marxist who happened to have a minor role in his upbringing.

And Gaddafi was a Marxist, or at least he owed agreat deal to Marx- just read the Green Book.

climbtosafety| 10.24.12 @ 7:46PM

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