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The Obama Watch
Our First ‘Red Diaper Baby’ President?
All the pieces fit, so why do historians and biographers ignore the question.
As president, Barack Obama is many things — many unprecedented things. There’s the commendable: the truly historic achievement (with apologies to Bill Clinton) of being the first black president. There’s the dubious: the lamentable distinction (christened by Newt Gingrich) of being the first “food stamp president.”
But here’s an intriguing, provocative thought: Is Barack Obama our first “Red Diaper Baby” president? Gee, that would be unprecedented.
Now, before deeming the question over-the-top, out-of-bounds, and unnecessarily incendiary, hear me out:
I come at this question as a Cold War historian and as the guy who wrote the book on Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a hardcore communist. And the thought is not my own. It was posed to me last week by an emailer, and I’m surprised the thought never once crossed my Cold Warrior mind, particularly given the daily questions that I field about Obama’s past, the communists in Obama’s past, and even whether Obama himself is a communist. I’ve heard them all. I’ve considered those questions from every angle, and yet, this one never occurred to me.
Moreover, a critical clarification: If Barack Obama is a Red Diaper Baby, it doesn’t mean he’s a communist. I’ve met many conservative anti-communists who were born and raised Red Diaper Babies, only to flee their parents’ politics like the plague. They contact me, “Hi, professor Kengor, my name is [fill in the blank] and I’m the classic Red Diaper Baby. Let me tell you my story….”
There have been studies and books (some by university presses) on Red Diaper Babies. One of them, Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left, an edited volume by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, includes chapter contributions from the likes of Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter of Watergate fame. Bernstein is not a communist.
So, the question of Obama’s red diapers was just posed to me. I discussed it with Ron Radosh, a fellow historian of the Cold War and communism. Radosh himself, in his youth, was a communist. He wrote a terrific memoir called Commies. Radosh knew Red Diaper Babies by the nursery-load, and he understands the phenomenon not only personally but historically and as a scholar.
“I and everyone else who uses the term ‘Red Diaper Baby,’” says Radosh, defining his terms, “do so to define anyone whose parents were either CPUSA members or fellow-travelers, and who therefore grew up in the milieu of the Party and its front groups.” Radosh, a professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York, adds: “Obama fits that definition.”
Indeed, Obama seems to fit that definition. Consider:
Barack Obama’s mother and father met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in the fall of 1960. Their choice of study was a reflection of political interests. As one sympathetic biographer, Sally Jacobs, said of Barack senior, “Obama had an abiding interest in the Soviet Union.”
Jacobs has published the preeminent biographical work on the senior Obama. Among those she quotes is Naranhkiri Tith, a prominent Cambodian who became professor of international economics at the prestigious Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Tith was a classmate of Barack senior at the University of Hawaii. The two had frequent, spirited debates over subjects like communism, an ideology that would ravage Tith’s native Cambodia, where Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge slaughtered 1-2 million out of population of 5-7 million in just four years.
“Obama and I were on opposite poles,” says Tith. “I did not believe communism could save the world. It was too good to be true and I gave examples of what I had seen. Obama senior was the opposite. He was always glorying about how communism had liberated Africa and Cuba. He had no idea what communism was all about. For him, communism was going to save the world. Capitalism was going to collapse.”
The senior Obama found a more receptive audience in Ann Dunham. A radical leftist, Dunham questioned the American way. As Sally Jacobs put it, Dunham was given to questions like: “What was so good about democracy? What’s so bad about communism? And why was capitalism so great?”
It appears that Obama’s mother was, at the least, a fellow traveler.
Of course, young Obama spent much time with his mother but virtually no time with Barack senior, which brings me to another source: Frank Marshall Davis.
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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Darin| 10.22.12 @ 6:34AM
The fact that we know so very little about Obama, even after 4 years as President, is a scathing rebuke on the media. They have done virtually nothing to find out about Obama's past. This is the same media that manufactured (literally) the Bush National Guard documents, and when discovered, Dan Rather had the nerve to say that while the documents may be fake, the facts are true. Willful blindness and willful ignorace cannot be helped. We're finding out now that Obama is exactly what we thought him to be 4 years ago. An honest assessment can make no other determination. The question is if those who voted for Obama in 2008 will willing drink from the Kool-Aid glass again in 2012.
Joellen| 10.22.12 @ 7:46AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the media is our worse enemy right now. Since Clinton was President they have gotten 'progressively" bold in promoting their agenda, which is the left's agenda. When we clean out the government this election, we must continue the fight by cleaning out the media (stop buying their papers, magazines, etc.); the Church, the Educational system (this will be extremely hard and I look forward to an article that addresses this and how we can do this in our lifetime); and Hollyweird. All five entities have been infested with Red Diaper Babies and the diapers need a changing.
TinaB| 10.22.12 @ 12:12PM
Joellen, for a 6 month long blog about that very subject, written by a mother of a pre-IB 9th grader, Atlanta attorney Robin Eubanks, writing every three days, with extensive footnotes and impeccable research, go to
invisibleserfscollar.com
For the latest news on the Public School Ed front, and the bad news that it's happening too quickly to counter without the media attention it needs, read every article. If you really want get the full scope of things this October, 2012, already in, or coming soon, to a school district near you.
Joellen| 10.22.12 @ 3:25PM
Thanks Tina - will do that - I am sure I wont be surprised by anything I read. Hopefully there is still time to right this situation.
OOPS - Seek might be offended by "right this situation".
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:44PM
Contest on Friday, Tina B.
B there.
Seek| 10.22.12 @ 12:23PM
Your phrases "clean out" and "infested" in this context carry a highly unpleasant totalitarian odor. While well on the Right, I detest it when conservatives mimic the worst instincts of the Left. As for "Hollyweird," gimme a break. I see a new movie a week. It hasn't affected my political views in the slightest.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 1:33PM
Show me a Black Democrat that ISN'T a Red Diaper Baby. Show me one Black in the Black Caucus, who doesn't love Castro, Che, Mugabe, or Chavez.
Show me one Black Democrat who doesn't Hate the Capitalist Economy. Who doesn't want to GUT THE MILITARY, and drive every Rich American to Hong Kong and Singapore.
Show me one Black Democrat who doesn't love the Generational Dependence on Welfare and Food Stamps for their Fellow Blacks, in this Country.
The only difference between them and their Leader is that he wants EVERYBODY on that Plantation in perpetuity, and he's Gay.
Other than that, everything else is the same.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:14PM
Barack Obama is the third President of the United States to be a traitor, and the first while in Office to be one.
Jimmy Carter is now a traitor, but that is as a result of being turned out of office after the 2nd worst performance in that office in the history of the United States. When in that office he was incompetent, but not traitorous.
John Tyler was the first President of the United States to turn traitor, openly when out of Office. He was also an incompetent when in office, and no one remembers him. Indeed, the only truly capable President inbetween Jackson and Lincoln was the great James K Polk. It goes to show you how strong the design of our system is, that it can tolerate the fact that the majority of our Presidents have been fools, morally deficient, or plain incompetents.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:17PM
The 4 worst Presidents, in my opinion, have been Buchanan, Hoover, Obama, and Carter, in that order. Hoover and Obama are a close tossup, since Hoover had no real foreign issues of note (Adolf coming into power in 1933), whereas Obama has foreign policy and domestic policy that he is screwing up left and right. One could easily move Obama into the number 2 position. But Buchanan is still the all time Chump. Number 5 would be the traitorous John Tyler.
JONVIL| 10.22.12 @ 2:29PM
Our country has been infested with diseased dysfunctional destructive liberalism/progressivism/socialism/communism which must be eradicated (cleaned out) in order to restore the Republic.
Butch| 10.22.12 @ 2:30PM
Termite analogies for real termites. Works for me. Maybe you need some de-sensitivity training.
Joellen| 10.22.12 @ 3:15PM
Seek, "your phrases "clean out" and 'infested" in this context carry a highly unpleasant totalitarian odor....You detest it when conservatives mimic the worst instincts of the Left" Well shucks, I do think thou protests for the wrong reason. But that's ok - I will continue to espouse my narrative in my way and not how you "feel" or "dictate" I should. By the way, you did get that right - there is an unpleasant "totalitarian odor" but it isnt coming from me nor any of the right. I suggest you check the other sides "diaper".
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 4:20PM
Even though I like Obama as a person, the negative synergism of Solyndra, too-expensive electric autos, and Benghazi means even if he were to win the election, he would be politically steercottled. A Carter.
Game over. It was over before the fat lady (the previous moderator) sang.
Alan Third Party Voter Brooks | 10.22.12 @ 4:22PM
"the negative synergism of Solyndra, too-expensive electric autos, and Benghazi"
And naturally much else besides. Biden's self-parodic debate merely for starters.
Parker| 10.22.12 @ 8:09AM
I am not so sure, "we know so very little..." I do not believe the media did, "virtually nothing," to learn of this man's past. In fact, I am certain the media dug into Obama shortly after his grand speech at the Kerry nomination convention. What I am also certain of, is they found out much of the same as others who delved into his past. The difference being, the media buried what they found and the fact that they have a bigger pulpit, and a much larger, mostly uninformed and uninterested audience, allowed for the fraud to go unnoticed. The media engages in name-calling and poo-poohing anyone who dares question the 'great' Obama. This is not a mere oversight or lack of due diligence on the part of 'journalists.' It is a deliberate effort on the part of progressives in every corner of government, academia and the media to implement a hostile takeover of our nation without a war and to take advantage of the disease of ignorance and apathy instilled in generations of Americans wrought by and through a deliberate 'education system' of the governments long-term planners. This is the fulfillment of the Dewey/Mann dreams brought to you by Woodrow Wilson.
Pecos Pete| 10.22.12 @ 8:52AM
Parker: You are correct. Excellent comment. We defeat them now or we wait for the revolution.
PatriotGal2257| 10.22.12 @ 9:22AM
I agree with Pecos Pete. Yours is truly an excellent comment and one which illustrates the herculean task ahead of us to try to counteract it. It will take generations.
Houdini| 10.22.12 @ 10:38AM
Excellent post. In whatever hell he is residing, Stalin must be smiling over the fact that the American people voluntarily elected one of his own. November 6 should rectify that situation.
A. C. Santore| 10.22.12 @ 10:49AM
If I may, Houdini, "November 6 MUST rectify that situation." Or we are done for.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:45PM
Comtest on Friday, Houdini.
West_Coast| 10.22.12 @ 3:51PM
Darin:
The media is no longer informative, it is conformative. It is not interested in broadcasting events unless it can also script them. It does not want to know what you think, it wants to tell you what to think. The consensus is the voice of the people and the Mediacrats are cutting its throat, dumping its body in a back alley and turning democracy into their own puppet show.
The media played and preyed on intellectual midgets in the last election. They aren't biased, they are self-imposed 'players'. Their goal isn't to skew stories, its goal is to take over the language of the narrative - THAT'S HOW OBAMA GOT ELECTED.
WE must take back the language and fundamentally RESTORE what Obama and the media transformed in the last election.
benny havens| 10.22.12 @ 6:51AM
Let us not forget the red diaper babies that he is surrounded by, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, among others.
When you are raised by ducks and brainwashed by ducks you don’t turn into a bald eagle.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 7:21AM
Particularly if you were a duck yourself at birth...
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 1:37PM
Exactly.
Moe Blotz| 10.22.12 @ 8:19PM
Yo benny and Al, youse really quack me up.
Gary B| 10.22.12 @ 7:15AM
I'm surprised there is any doubt. Absolutely nothing about Obama is American. Everything about Obama is anti-American, including his squawking wife.
OP4| 10.22.12 @ 7:33AM
It matters because unlike Radosh and others who woke and rejected the foolishness of their parents, Obama never has. He didn't ghost-write "My Father was a Commie Drunk". He still believes most of the nonsense his parents believed - despite the obvious failures when they are turned into policy.
Cobalt| 10.22.12 @ 8:00AM
How many more people like Van Jones are still hidden in the Obama administration?
At present, Valerie Jarrett may have more influence over Obama than any other person.
More information about Valerie Jarret can be found at DISCOVERTHENETWORKS.ORG.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.....indid=2418
Former Leftist, David Horowitz, should also be of interest to some people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 1:38PM
Every single Czar.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 8:15AM
"We shall know them by their works." (Ephesians 2: 9-10.
Hannah Arendt' in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" explains how the Nazis and USSR were totalitarian with the latter coming closest to perfection. It was a combination of isolation and "atomization" of the masses, targeting and persecuting groups and arbitrary terror. In the USSR, if a woman's husband disappeared, the family would never mention him again in public for fear of retaliation.
Watch this video by Rachael Maddow and think about the Obama regime policies and it is clear by their works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....e=youtu.be
Bob K| 10.22.12 @ 9:30AM
Excellent post Von Mises Jr!
And a very interesting link with Rachel Maddow, who I don't really have much use for, concerning Obama's plan for "Preventive Detention" of suspected terrorists. It is surprises me that she is so critical of Obama here and in this case I have to agree with her.
However if you go back a few paragraphs in this article by Professor Kengor you will see that the FBI had plans for "preventive detention" for Frank Marshall Davis "in the event of a national emergency, such as war breaking out between the United States and USSR."
It never hurts to mention that this type of totalitarian mentality is not just limited to Nazi's and Communists as we know them but can also infect the minds of the people we consider protectors of our own freedoms.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 11:03AM
Thank you, Bob. But we must note that FMD was not arrested and he was allowed to spread his communist propaganda.
Wilson (D) incarcerated 175K Americans during WWI, FDR (D) interned the Japanese during WWII and now Obama (D) has arrested an internet film maker and in his own words said he would like to find us.
Jacob McCandles| 10.22.12 @ 11:25AM
Look at pictures of FMD and BHO's "father.". Look at them next to Obama's picture. I'm just sayin.
Drunken Sailor| 10.22.12 @ 2:04PM
With you on that one. Been saying it for almost 4 years now.
Butch| 10.22.12 @ 2:36PM
"Studies say" that communism is 85 percent heredity.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 3:05PM
Studies say the gay gene is hereditary. I guess nathan's parents were both switch hitters.
SUBVET| 10.22.12 @ 7:22PM
They all look alike to me...............
nathan| 10.22.12 @ 2:04PM
And you're not concerned about MR's willingness to engage in "preventive detention" of suspected bad guys? MR fully supports the Fifth Amendment destroying NDAA language and unlike his pledge to repeal ACA on day one, he has no such plans for NDAA. That doesn't bother you since "preventive detention" done by MR acceptable since he's a republican like Bush and will do it ONLY for the BEST of intentions just like BUSH did it. I mean how many of you yelled and screamed when Bush indefinitely detained Americans with no recourse to lawyers or courts in conditions that almost certainly violated their Eighth Amendment rights too? Oh that's right he was doing it to SAVE THE COUNTRY so since his motives were pure his gross violations of his oath of office didn't matter to you just like MR's violation of his oath after he takes it won't matter to any of you either right? Same actions for both MR and BHO the only difference will be the INTENTIONS. Same actions by the way with Bush and BHO difference again being the INTENTIONS. Good luck with that folks.
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:20PM
Nathan:
Blah. Blah, blah, blah. Yup, George W. Bush's policies really diminished the level of anti-Bush writing and film and reduced people's freedom to comment on him. I call bullshit on that, sir.
Butch| 10.22.12 @ 2:39PM
You need to talk to some former Gitmo guards as I have. Furriners have no American rights.
nathan| 10.22.12 @ 3:16PM
Oh, what about Padilla? An American CITIZEN ON AMERICAN SOIL? He was indefinitely detained by your hero in conditions that probably violated his Eighth Amendment rights. GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? And I'm sorry detainee abuse violates American law, international law and the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment says what "NO PERSON". Madison did not restrict the Bill of Rights to Americans. Now I'm sorry you didn't learn this in HS and college if you went. But foreigners do indeed have rights and those rights were systematically violated by Bush and Cheney. And detainee abuse was a major recruitment tool for the bad guys. When asked why are you fighting us in Iraq, many of them would answer, detainee abuse, not abiding by our own laws and principles. By creating more enemies this way, the number of additional deaths may be as many as died in the initial attack.
Now want to talk some more redneck nonsense with me? And MR supports the NDAA language which gives BHO now and will give HIM later the authority to detain anyone he wants including Americans. If you agree with that fine. I DON'T. I agree with Ben Franklin, those who give up essential liberties for a little or a lot of safety deserve neither. Obviously I'm in a minority here.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:48PM
He gave up his American Citizenship when he joined a Foreign Army in a War against this Country.
Period.
Look it up.
Butch| 10.22.12 @ 5:52PM
OK, I'll give you a redneck modification. An American CITIZEN ON AMERICAN SOIL?" (Excessive use of capitalization makes you appear immature.) Ah, Padilla, alias Abdullah al-Muahjir, declared an enemy combatant, and later convicted by a Federal jury for conspiring to kill, now serving a 17-year sentence. Redneck "nonsense" holds that those who conspire to directly or indirectly kill Americans indiscriminately in an act of war forfeit their American citizenship and their rights thereof. OK? I'm sure it is. Now have a good day, ACLU boy.
nathan| 10.23.12 @ 8:04AM
Let me try to explain the criminal justice system to you since your comments indicate you're not really familiar with it. At the time of his arrest, Padilla is an American on American soil entitled to all rights under the Constitution. Being "declared an enemy combatant" doesn't make him one in the eyes of the law, the Fifth Amendment makes it clear that "NO PERSON" emphasis mine, shall be deprived of life liberty etc without DUE PROCESS again emphasis mine and until the government goes through this process people like Padilla remain Americans and do not lose their citizenship. So prior to his conviction he is an American on American soil being indefinitely detained without access to counsel. Now if you remember the case the cirumstances of his detention were not the best. There is strong evidence to suggest that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated and that played a role in his confession and conviction. (The unconstitutional detention itself was said to have played a role in his willingness to cut a deal. Supposedly he just said, fine, I'll plea 0ut just to bring an end to this. We see this all the time in criminal cases like the Chicago Nine. Go to the Innocence Project site and look it up.)
Which is why we insist the government play by the rule even in cases like this. Because the next person to be subject to this could very well be you. Read the Martin Niemollor quote again. Or Tom Paine. We defend the rights of those we hate to secure our own.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.22.12 @ 10:43AM
Not sure how this fits in with Obama, but you're right about "atomization." The idea was to use fear to create a culture of snitches, so that everyone was afraid of intimate connections with other people. It was a nation of isolated human beings, all loyalty being to the central state, not in terms of content (which could change at any time) but in terms of form. All that matters is that you were loyal to the state, no matter what its policies were.
Von Mises Jr| 10.22.12 @ 10:59AM
Actually, I think we have spoken already about Richard Pipes and "Property and Freedom."
The Russians were prone to accepting socialism since from Genghis Khan to Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, the Russian people had been uprooted and family unity destroyed. They were already afraid to talk to their fellow comrades before Lenin scared the snot out of them.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.22.12 @ 2:08PM
If I remember correctly Arendt makes a distinction between the time of Lenin and Stalin, ascribing the atomizing method to Stalin's time.
Stalin was a real piece of work, comparable to Hitler, in my opinion.
PolishKnight| 10.22.12 @ 2:23PM
Look up the film "The Soviet Story" recently on DVD. There are a few mistakes in it (as with many documentaries) but the material they produce is as amazing as "The World At War." It's an especially fascinating documentary since it goes into modern day Russia and the Putin regime that Obama is pandering towards.
Anthony| 10.22.12 @ 8:47AM
So Mr. Kengor, you just figured this out did you?
You could throw a dart at any name associated with Obozo from his childhood on forward and each and every one of them was/is a hard core Marxist, and anti-American.
His entire maternal family were Reds, they entrusted lit'le Barry with Franklin Marshall Davis, Communist and pederast. His Muslim father was also a Marxist.
Lit'le Barry learned all his lessons well, unlike some Red Diaper babies, Obozo was and remains a hard core Marxist and Muslim.
His election will go down as a legacy to the brain-dead '60s generation. His loss in November will be America's first step towards recovery.
potkas7| 10.22.12 @ 8:47AM
It seems as if this is Frank Marshall Davis Monday. The first e-mail I opened was from a friend sending me a YouTube video of a Kiwi - Trevor Loudon - whom he had gone to see give a talk in Tampa about Obama's childhood mentor and Davis' life-long involvement in CPUSA. Loudon has written a book, "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within" detailing his researches into the backgrounds of Obama and his associates like Valierie Jarret. In fact, as I began reading this article, I was half-expecting it to be a review of Loudon's book.
If you're interested in hearing what Loudon has to say in his own words, he can be found via the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....44D6ZlFKI#!
Kwan| 10.22.12 @ 9:22AM
There was always a question on how far to the left Obama really was. Some believed that he was a European-style Socialist, but the warning signs suggested that he was something much more sinister, namely a confirmed believer in Soviet-style totalitarian government in order to achieve the left's sacred agenda of "social justice" and equality. An escapee from the Soviet Union commented in his autobiography that the authorities were always talking about equality, and it was his observation that the authorities had been highly successful in achieving equality for the Soviet citizens as they were all equally poor and equally without freedom.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 1:45PM
Let's see - His mother was an Atheist Communist. His Father was a Muslim Marxist. His Mentors were Communist, Marxist, and an Unrepentent Domestic Terrorist.
In one of his books, he says: "When I got to College, I SOUGHT OUT the Marxist Professors."
His Maternal Grandparents were Communists.
20 Years in a Marxist's Hate Church.
I hope that helps you.
Al Adab| 10.22.12 @ 9:31AM
Whatever cast or hue one wishes to use, the president is clearly not in the American tradition of political philosophy. He believes, it is his Faith, that the elites should rule the plebs who are not sophisticated or educated enough to know what is best for them. The concept of self-government is foreign to his thinking.
This is the Faith of the totalitarian Left. It is anti-American and opposed to the principles of representation and limited government on which the nation was founded. That we have elected a president and a large majority of Congress (both houses) who believe the same is a clear and present danger to our way of life.
Butch| 10.22.12 @ 2:41PM
The Secretary of State has the utimate "Vision of the Annointed," too, Al.
Cromulent| 10.22.12 @ 9:36AM
Kurtz' book deserves some play here. He makes a pretty good case that eventually Obama ditched the hardcore Marxist/Stalinist leanings of his early youth, basically because it didn't work here (in the US). He became a hardcore progressive instead.
While there were some fierce battles between the two branches eventually the Midwest Academy won the fight because they won battles and procured jobs for their kind. I wish I could remember now who Kurtz cited for this but there is a quote in the book from an MA person who when asked about the split said something to the effect that they agreed about the end goal, just not the path. And that is really the best way to frame Obama's career.
JimP| 10.22.12 @ 9:40AM
That Obama was a red diaper baby was there for anyone with eyes to see back in 2008. It is passe, however, these days to be an anti-communist. Many millenials, if not most, haven't a clue what a socialist or communist is and probably most of the Gen-Xers don't know either. Since Joe McCarthy's downfall, sounding the "Red Scare" clarion has been a certain way to be immediately branded as a kook and destroy one's general credibility and thus ignored and marginalized. We've seen the same thing done to "Birthers". Throw in groups like "Truthers" who actually are kooks and talking about Red Diaper Babies is a sure way to get ignored and ridiculed.
Stormy| 10.22.12 @ 9:47AM
How can a father that saw his son only one time ever have any influence upon his development? He can't.
Pecos Pete| 10.22.12 @ 9:55AM
Stormy: And your comment implies that the Kenyan was the father, which may not be true. Certainly, and you are correct, Frank M. Davis had more influence than the Kenyan.
PolishKnight| 10.22.12 @ 10:03AM
Obama was a special child since his bi-racial heritage entitled him to a variety of preferential treatment programs. The tragedy is that while Obama enjoyed an elevator to success as an affirmative action recipient in a leftist party, the vast majority of young men similar to him in background wound up in prison. The so-called civil rights movement put more young black men into jail than Democrat Jim Crow policies.
In the meantime, Obama spends little time among black men but mostly golfing in Martha's Vineyard or touring Western Europe. That's so messed up, isn't it?
Petronius| 10.22.12 @ 10:07AM
The Lefties have been peeing in the national sand box for a century now. By fostering an all too infantile electorate, their goal of a a perpetual global kindergarten is nigh. But the sand box is full to overflowing and with no adults to clean up Their mess, much less force them to grow up we must prepare for the worst.
SCPOret| 10.22.12 @ 10:17AM
No one has mentioned the book "The roots of Obamas rage" which documents all mentioned here. Also the Movie, "2016, Obamas America" which is based on the book. I read the book a couple of years ago and gained enough insight to know what would be Obama's move in almost every situation. So far my observations have been correct.
RCV| 10.22.12 @ 10:58AM
Still trying to sell your book, huh? Here's a newsflash: no one cares.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 11:08AM
Yet you showed up to comment, just in case (move along, nothing to see here).
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 2:32PM
That's because he cares.
CJW| 10.22.12 @ 4:42PM
In "Dreams from my Father," Obama mentions "Frank" and Rev Wright more than anyone else except his immediate family. So Obama's mentors are a Stalinist commie and an anti-semite, anti-American, racist so called preacher.
And we cannot forget the terrorrist Billy Ayers who was so far left even the Kennedys had to renounce him when Ayers supported Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Bobby Kennedy.
His financial mentor is the Chicago crook, Tony Rezko.
The Obama fanboys see in Obama what they want to see and ignore the facts, thus when you mention Davis, Wright, Ayers, and Rezko, they use the Clinton defense of "that is old news" hoping nobody pays attention.
Skippy| 10.22.12 @ 2:17PM
You do.
Don't you just hate it when the morons are smarter than the teacher?
Meowmeowoofwoof| 10.22.12 @ 1:07PM
One of the biggest question is " when did little 9 year old Barry Soetoro legally change his name back to Obama? Would that be before he left Indonesia or after he returned to Hawaii? There is no documentation in either country petitioning the court for redress. I believe the hanky panky started at this time as granny realized they had a citizenship problem with the newly arrived Barry Soetoro. Yours, Woofwoof
Pecos Pete| 10.22.12 @ 1:27PM
Anybody who signs their posts with "Woofwoof" not only should be, but needs to be, in this coming Friday's TLP contest.
Besides which, your post above raises an important question.
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 2:34PM
I think you're confusing me with Wierd Al Yankovich.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 4:13PM
By the way, have you seen which was the most commented upon article this morning? (Hint, you can tune a piano, but you can't tune Eesha).
TLP| 10.22.12 @ 5:50PM
I don't get it.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 6:07PM
Perhaps you should check out the thread of comments on last Thursday's Tunisia article, which was listed this morning at the top of "The Most Commented" section (i.e. the contest took first prize).
vigilant| 10.22.12 @ 1:10PM
I'm a little puzzled that the author is only now having the lightbulb come on (must be one of those crummy fluorescent ones being foisted on us these days). His conclusions have been apparent for years, with all new information only confirming the obvious. To Stormy: I hope you learn to think more deeply than you evidenced in your comment. The point being made was that Obama's mother was attracted to this kind of man, and she certainly did influence his development, as she and his grandfather saw to it that the communist ideology shaped his thinking. RCV: the fact that you don't care, and are confident that others don't either, illustrates what we are up against in our current culture--painfully ignorant groupthink which refuses objectivity.
Stan Redmond| 10.22.12 @ 1:32PM
Well first off is Obama a Red Diaper Baby...
I the immortal words of a generation of slackers.
WELL DUH! (No offense intended Mr. Kengor.)
The media and Republicans have ignored Obama's entire life because of the "THAT'S RACIST" charge.
BUT, We know Saemus the dog was in a dog carrier and strapped to the roof of his car 30 years ago, Romney allegedly cut the hair of someone 50 years ago, Anne Romney rides horses. And those 3 things disqualify him.
Bob James| 10.22.12 @ 2:29PM
"Romney had a dog on the roof of his car. Obama had a dog on the roof of his mouth."
Yet they screech about Seamus.
Here's a good commie term we need to apply to the lawless gang of cut-throats in the White House: Purge. As in November 6th, we purge this great nation of the socialist scum in office.
Rhoetus| 10.28.12 @ 12:23AM
McCain became a "Progressive" long ago and was no threat to Obama in 2008.
Kingofthenet| 10.22.12 @ 1:46PM
When Joe said in his debate, "My Church and I have certain views, but we aren't going to impose them on you." He no doubt was also speaking for the President, what a great thing for a Constitutional Republic.
Skippy| 10.22.12 @ 2:21PM
Actions speak louder than words.
Who would believe Plugs anyway?
Occam's Tool| 10.22.12 @ 2:23PM
Right, and that's why Catholic Hospitals will have to cover abortion services for their employees under ObamaCare, because Biden and the President don't believe in forcing the religious to act against their consciences in matters of Life and Death, King.
Biden is to Catholicism as Noam Chomsky is to Judaism---self loathing.
J.C.Eaton| 10.22.12 @ 11:21PM
Occam, you, sir are on fire today. Excellent call on James Knox Polk especially. Told America what he was gonna do,said he'd do it in four years; did everything he promised; served one term.....and had the good sense to expire. All in all, quite a guy. Best,
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.22.12 @ 4:19PM
Your majesty, I know that Joe has a poor history of getting the right words out. I think that Biden meant to say "my church has certain views, but they're not going to impose them on me", as that would explain his support of abortion, failure to give to charity, and even his support of the death penalty for "drug kingpins".
That you are about the only person that I can recall (and I've followed his career for over 40 years) who has ever quoted him in a positive context should tell us everything we need to know about you.
Parker| 10.22.12 @ 10:27PM
Joe Biden is a lapdog who is sent out in front of the audience like a half-naked woman at a 'magic' show. He is merely a distraction. He is, however, stupid and he talks too much. As to his, "church," he is going to have to give account for aiding in the destruction of the visible church through his affiliation with the Obama plot to do just that. Many think it will come through the 'health-care' takeover, but that is only a distraction. The real hammer will come through the recent support of 'gay' marriage. The circuit court recently supported the 'unconstitutionality' of the DOMA and as such has opened the door for the beginning of the assault on the Church visible. When the sodomites begin demanding their, "right," to be wed in the church and the church refuses, then shall begin the outright assault against her. She shall be stripped of her cloak of independence and raped and plundered as a conquered vassal. The church has only herself to blame for this position when she bent her knee to the state and joined in the fraud of licensing the sacrament of matrimony. The judgement of harlotry takes time, and the time for judgement has come. The judgement of the Lord always begins with His own. Take heed and know that Biden is an idiot who takes the name of the Lord in vain and his words and his works hang limp like the legs of a lame man.
Cats1cowboy| 10.22.12 @ 2:04PM
Obama is not a "black" President any more than Clinton was. Obama is 93% white with a tan. His mother was white and his father was arab-kenyan. That doesn't qualify him as "black".
Parker| 10.22.12 @ 10:39PM
You're right, he isn't pure bred by any stretch. I don't know why anyone thinks he could be referred to as a pedigreed negro. The man has no papers and the media knows it.
Buck Ofama| 10.22.12 @ 2:32PM
>. There's the commendable: the truly historic achievement (with apologies to Bill Clinton) of being the first black president.
NOT BLACK... M U L A T T O.
Get over it.
lms57| 10.22.12 @ 6:41PM
Believe it or not, Obama was referred to as a red diaper baby in 2008 on the American Thinker -- put the term in the search field and you will find a great article.
Thank you Mr. Kengor for all the superb research you have done to inform the American public about our president. His public facade is a complete fabrication.
Burlington| 10.23.12 @ 4:15AM
Kengor,
How can you write a book about Frank Marshall Davis and not realize the probability that he is the sire of Obama? Joel Gilbert has found thirty nudie photos of Ann Dunham taken in Davis' apartment with his furniture as props. The Christmas tree in the background dates the photos. Davis at the time is in his mid-fifties and is a horny old man who is certainly still capable and got lucky. Obama looks like him and not a bit like Obama Sr.
Has anyone checked out this Russian language class story? What counselor would let a first semester freshman take a Russian language class? That seems very weird to me. How about Stanley Dunham, drinking and smoking with a black guy, older than him, who in 1960 was banging his daughter, what a guy.
Brian Richard Allen | 10.23.12 @ 12:55PM
Make that "Red Diaper Doper Baby" and you'll be closer. But he's far from being the first of those and is even further from being other than a poor pretender to "president."
ebonystone| 10.24.12 @ 7:52PM
I don't know about the red part or the diaper part, but he's certainly our first baby President.