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President Barack Obama talks about taxes, Friday, August 3, 2012, in Eisenhower Executive Office Building
on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Author
Paul Kengor wants you to know just how radical Frank Marshal Davis — a
man many consider to have been a mentor to President Barack Obama during
his teenage years — was.
“Obama’s
mentor was considered so radical, and such a potential pro-Soviet
threat, that the federal government placed him on the Security Index,” Kengor told The Daily Caller in an interview about his new book on Davis, simply titled “The Communist.”
“That
meant that if a war broke out between the United States and the Soviet
Union, Frank Marshall Davis could be placed under immediate arrest.
Think about that. Obama had that sort of influence. And The Washington
Post will focus on whether Mitt Romney was bullying in high school? With
the kind of influence that Obama had, Obama would have trouble getting a
security clearance for an entry-level government job.”
Obama
refers to Davis in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” simply as
“Frank” and never elaborates on his radical history. Kengor believes
this is because Obama wanted to avoid the political liability of being
associated with Davis’ politics. But if Obama was concerned about
protecting his future political prospects while writing his memoir, why
would he include details of his drug use?
“On
matters like cocaine, he grew up in an era when that was going on,”
Kengor, who is a professor at Grove City College, argued.
“To
do cocaine was certainly not the norm, but it wasn’t unheard of. In
short, he rightly saw his adolescent association with Davis — a literal
card-carrying communist — as a greater political liability than cocaine
use.”
Kengor
doesn’t argue that Obama is a Marxist today, but even if he cannot
definitely prove, he does believe that Davis’ influence on Obama was
significant.
“Do I think that Obama, if he was a Marxist at Occidental, remains one today? No, I don’t,” Kengor said.“I believe — and this is really the central argument of my book — that Frank Marshall Davis was another of those far-left influences that helped Obama develop into the leftist, generally speaking, that he is today.”
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I told people back in 2008 that barry couldn't even get a job in the fbi because of his past relations with the radicals. And now he is their boss???? We gotta vet our people better, in the future. Some people are soooooo stupid. What do they say about spilled milk? I think we can---- we can wipe the milk up and clean up the table of crooks.
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