I've been doing a bit of research on Frank Marshall Davis, a man whom Obama refers to quite often in his book "Dreams of my Father". In it, Obama mentions him as his 'mentor' who he went to many times and looked to as a father for advice. Many other things are mentioned about this guy and none are good.

Hmmm.... Frank Marshall Davis is a communist and a sex offender, according to what I've been reading!

Add this guy to the growing list of communists, socialists, crooks, robbers and thieves that Obama associates with.

And your research included what reputable sites?

What? Name them and have you libs say 'oh, that's not reputable'? Oh, just do a 'google' search and you'll find tons of them. Nothing good to say about the guy on any of them.

From Wikipedia:

Davis also authored a hard-core pornographic novel, which was published in 1968 under a pseudonym. The book, titled Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet), was written under the pseudonym “Bob Greene,” and was published by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing Company.


Frank Marshall Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is from Huffington Post:

Davis had published little poetry between 1948 and his final volume, Awakening, and Other Poems in 1978, but there was a revival of interest in his work during the Blacks Arts Movement of the 1960s. His porn book Sex Rebel: Black was published in 1968 by Greenleaf Classics, a busy smut-house which churned out stroke books at a steady pace; and while Sex Rebel: Black might be a 100% died in the wool truthful autobiography, it may also very well be that the pseudonym, Bob Greene, took over Frank Davis Marshall, allowing him -- to lesser extent than Linda Albert writing as JT LeRoy -- to express things otherwise left unsaid. . . . .

In a surviving portion of his autobiographical manuscript, The Incredible Waikiki Jungle, discovered posthumously, Davis confirmed that he was the author of Sex Rebel: Black after an astute reader/fanboy noticed the "similarities in style and phraseology" between the pornographic work and his poetry.

"I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine," Davis wrote. In the introduction to Sex Rebel: Black, Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has "changed names and identities... all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences."

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Lynne Cheney wrote a book about Lesbian lovers and she is married to the vice president. It was a real bodice ripper.

My neighbor's son is doing time for having kiddie porn on his computer. Nobody arrested me for having a neighbor with kiddie porn on his computer.

Let me guess mom2twins sources; FreeRepublic? Human Events? World Net Daily?

Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama - Telegraph

"Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, told the Associated Press recently that her grandfather had seen Mr Davis was “a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother".

In his memoir, Mr Obama recounts how he visited Mr Davis on several occasions, apparently at junctures when he was grappling with racial issues, to seek his counsel."

McCain was very friendly with a guy named Charles Keating. I'm sure you can find lots of info about him through Google.

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Again. . .what does lesbian lovers have to do with child porn???

I could care less about a book about consenting adults! But that's not what this book is about.

Davis explains: “Undoubtedly an individual’s sexual patterns can be traced back to early childhood experiences.” (p 35) Davis later writes of a threesome between himself, his first wife and a thirteen year old Jamaican girl. (p 71-78) His account begins, “Spring: warmer weather, children playing on the sidewalk in front of our building. An unusual looking child stared solemnly at me each day as I approached the entrance, then turned away when she caught my eye. I knew she was a niece of dad’s former landlady, but that was all. Some day she’d be brightly beautiful; she now had it in miniature.” The next seven pages are a detailed description of their sexual encounters.

Do you consider your neighbors son a childhood mentor? I'm not saying that this necessarily reflects on Obama. . .I'd be more concerned that Obama might have been a victim of this whack job.

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He was a rapist?

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I consider my neighbor's son to be a consumer of kiddie porn. He is exactly where he belongs.

I am not at all worried about Obama having been molested. I'm sure that he would appreciate your concern.

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My point was that people want to defend this guy because he was mentioned in Obama's book. I find that sick. I don't know what kind of influence he had on Obama. In, fact I think I saw an excerpt of where Obama said he felt uncomfortable around him. Good for Barack!

I find your comment about not being worried that Obama could have been molested a little disturbing. It would in no way reflect on Obama if he was. There is no shame in being a victim of a child molester. I don't think he was. But just saying. . .I find your comment flippant.

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I don't find any disinformation that this Davis guy was an admitted child rapist.

As far as the Redbaiting:

REPORT ON THE HONOLULU RECORD 11

Frank Marshall Davis author of a regular weekly column in the
Honolulu Record entitled "Frankly Speaking." Mr. Davis' column
defends Communists and attacks capitalism with the same vigor as
columns appearing regularly in the Daily Worker and other frankly
Communist publications. Typical of Mr. Davis' remarks are the
following :

Democracy today lies weak and slowly dying from the poison administered
by the divident doctors in Washington and Wall Street who have fooled a trusting
public into believiag that they are the specialists who would save us from the
dread diseases of socialism and communism * ♦ * They hope to hand us
fascism disguised as the healed democracy (Honolulu Record, July 28, 1949, p. 8).

Mr. Davis constantly defended the 11 top United States Communist
officials recently convicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to
advocate the overthrow of the Government by force and violence.
One of Mr. Davis' comments on the case was as follows :

I feel strong sympathy for the Communist minority who are being oppressed
for their political beliefs (Honolulu Record, October 20, 1949, p. 6).

When Mr. Davis' column first appeared in the Record in May 1949,
the Record boasted that the author was a member of the national
executive board of the Civil Rights Congress. The organization is
cited as Communist by Attorney General Tom Clark as well as by the
Committee on Un-American Activities. Mr. Davis has signed a
number of statements in behalf of Communists under the sponsorship
of the Civil Rights Congress; one of these defended was Gerhart
Eisler, notorious Communist international agent who escaped jailing
for passport fraud by fleeing to the Soviet sector of Germany.


http://www.archive.org/stream/report...0unit_djvu.txt
Take that however you like.

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MOM2TWINS2: Obama does NOT mention Davis as his "mentor." That is disinformation. In fact, the Obama campaign specifically rejects claims of mentorship in its rebuttal to the Corsi book. If you "just do a 'google' search and you'll find tons" of disinformation spearheaded by "Accuracy In Media." The "Sex Rebel: Black" allegations are just an afterthought to the original disinformation campaign started in February against Barack Obama.

Davis wrote a SEMI-autobiographical fictional novel in which the protagonist had sex with a minor, as one of numerous sexual encounters. Names and identities were changed. "Identity" includes personal information other than names, such as age. With two columns devoted to this story (Obama’s Red Mentor Was a Pervert and Was a Communist Obama’s Sex Teacher?), AIM is increasingly desperate. Based on this novel, AIM's Cliff Kincaid is now calling Frank Marshall Davis "an admitted child molester" and is insinuating that he may have been Obama's "sex teacher." Davis was NOT an "admitted child rapist" as posted by Hambirg.

To attribute the alleged escapades of Bob Greene to Frank Marshall Davis is dishonest. The book is fictional, and states that names and identities have been changed. "Identity" includes biographical information such as age.

Further, scandalous memoirs such as "Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet)" have been a literary genre for centuries. Such fictional novels are allegedly factual, but are largely invented. The title, alone, qualifies it as a "scandalous memoir." In "Sex Rebel," Davis's Bob Greene (not unlike Nabokov's Humbert Humbert) hesitates at a pubescent girl's sexual invitation, but foolishly relents. Like "Lolita," Davis's faux foreword is written by a Ph.D impersonator who details the psychological significance of the memoir. Like Nabokov, Davis wanted to write under a pseudonym to shield his reputation, but felt compelled to reveal his authorship.

As a result, however, Davis has been posthumously accused of pedophilia, while "Lolita" is "considered by many to be one of the finest novels written in the 20th century." In 1998, it was named the fourth greatest English language novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library," despite also being initially dismissed as pornography, according to Wikipedia.

HAMBIRG: As far as the Redbaiting:

It is unfortunate that so many people believe falsehoods spread by "Accuracy In Media" (AIM), which has been conducting a disinformation campaign against the Obama-Davis relationship. The campaign consists of a series of small lies fabricated to support the big lie that "His values, passed on to Obama, were those of a communist agent who pledged allegiance to Stalin" (see Media Excuse Obama’s False Advertising).

Their "specific misrepresentation" is documented at Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Mark Davis's Blog: Redbaiting Barack Obama (9 August 2008). I invite any person of integrity to refute my evidence against any of these AIM lies. If AIM had authentic evidence of Davis's radical influence, they would not need to fabricate such evidence.

Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM's Cliff Kincaid cites as "an expert on the life and writings of Davis," demolishes right-wing misrepresentation of Davis's radical influence in one simple paragraph:

"Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a "closet member" during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans." (See Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Mark Davis's Blog)

I said that we don't know what Davis' relationship was to Obama and that I believed that Obama said that he wasn't comfortable around Davis.

I will have to disagree with you on Davis admittingly having sex with someone underage. I see no reason why he would make up the age. All we see now is people trying to reason it away to fit their agenda. He states in the forward of the book that it is auto biographical:

(p14) He changes the names and identities but emphasizes, “all incidents I have described here have been taken from actual experiences.”

The fact that you want to change the definition of "identity" to somehow cover age means very little to me. Sorry.

As far as the Red baiting. Again, you prove very little. I said we don't know what influence he had on Obama. I'm not sure what all the AIM stuff is about. My link is to his Congressional hearing files. What you show is that he was not a member BEFORE WWII. And that apparently the assumption is that he thought communism was an "intellectual vehicle" . . .I guess he thought the ends justified the means. He was wrong! Communism has never proven to be anything but a fast track to totalitarianism.

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YOU WROTE: "He changes the names and identities but emphasizes, “all incidents I have described here have been taken from actual experiences. The fact that you want to change the definition of "identity" to somehow cover age means very little to me. Sorry"

RESPONSE: "Taken FROM actual experiences" does not indicated they are accurate representations of actual experiences. Edgar Tidwell, the expert on the life and writing of Frank Marshall Davis, says the book is "Semi-autobiographical":

"1. pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
2. pertaining to or being a work of fiction strongly influenced by events in an author's life."
-Dictionary.com

Further, I have NOT changed the definition of "identity." Can we agree that it covers biographical data OTHER than name? Therefore, when you change "name AND identity," you also change biographical data OTHER than name? From dictionary.com: Identity: "condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is: a case of mistaken identity."

Once again: Scandalous memoirs are "allegedly factual but largely invented" (-Wikipedia). Do we need to define each of THESE terms for you?

YOU WROTE: ". . . the assumption is that he thought communism was an "intellectual vehicle" . . .I guess he thought the ends justified the means. He was wrong! Communism has never proven to be anything but a fast track to totalitarianism.

RESPONSE: Frank Marshall Davis considered membership in the CPUSA as a vehicle and tool because, according to "The New Red Negro" (cited by AIM's Cliff Kincaid as a source):

ONLY the Communist left had any significant institutional impact on African-American writing during the 1930s and 1940s. This support was crucial as the institutions that had maintained the New Negro Renaissance faded. And for better or for worse, the leading CPUSA functionaries involved in "Negro work" took a direct interest in African-American cultural production in a manner that was unusual, if not unique. Vilifying a writer for continuing to publish in CPUSA-supported publications, when they provided his only available institutional support, is completely unfair. Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Frank Marshall Davis all took advantage of this institutional support.

Further, as The New Red Negro makes clear, there was no monolithic Stalinist doctrine within the CPUSA: "This is not to say that the impact of the Communist Left on African-American writers in the 1930's and 1940's flowed from absolute unity of ideology and practical application of that ideology. As mentioned before, the CPUSA itself, despite the claims of both the party leadership and its most ardent detractors, contained various, often conflicting tendencies. This conflicts appeared within top leadership, where Earl Browder and William Z. Foster and their supporters were frequently at odds. They also surfaced in the regional leadership of important districts that were occasionally, and in the case of southern California frequently, in opposition to the national leadership. Finally, at the rank-and-file level, when leadership debates broke out into the open (as they did in 1929, 1956-1946, and 1956), the were replayed in almost every CPUSA unit, often serving as the vehicle for the expression of a wide range of "unorthodox" political beliefs (ranging from social democratic to anarcho-syndicalist."

A huge proportion of African-American poets (and writers and intellectuals generally) remained engaged with the Communist Left and cultural institutions from at least the early 1930's until at least the early 1950's. With the partial exception of the period from the German invasion of the Soviet Union to the end of the Second World War, the CPUSA placed the issue of race and the fight against Jim Crow near the center of all its work.

The bottom line is that communist ties were the NORM for African American poets and civil right activists during that period. Such ties did not mean that they internalized Marxist values, much less Stalinist values, even if they were aware of the distinction. To them, the CPUSA provided safe harbor from the ravages of Jim Crow America.

To add to my previous post, I heartily agree that " Communism has never proven to be anything but a fast track to totalitarianism." That is an easy assessment to make with 20/20 hindsight. In the 1930's and 1940's, however, the atrocities of communist rule were NOT common knowledge.

Here is the link to "The New Red Negro," quoted above: The New Red Negro: The Literary Left ... - Google Book Search

I am sure thats not the Frank Marshall Davis that Obama knew.....Just like It wasnt the Jeremiah Wright that he knew...I refuse to call him reverand....after setting under him for 20 yrs..........YEAH RIGHT!!! Guess it wasnt the Bill Ayers he knew either????? I think Obama must consider people stupid, if he thinks everyone falls this...Sherri

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