flip-flop wrote:jmq wrote:Flip – so all them things on that site ain’t “facts”? Really?
In all cases, I say, PLEASE consider the source of your information. I am not saying that to be flip. I agree there is some bias in the media, but I think the media is so sensitive to it that they sometimes err far on the side of caution to the point of leaving the "liberal" candidate twisting in the wind. Look what happened to Hillary. I would not say the media was kind to her.
Either way, I am careful of the sources I quote. That whole guilt by association thing can come back to bite you.
Sage advice, to be sure...However, most of this article was taken from bits and pieces of Obama's books.
Are these not facts?
1. Obama attended many socialist conferences during his days in Chicago
2. Obama wrote a book titled "Dreams from my Father"
3. In that book, he repeatedly refers to an important person in his life - however only refers to him as "Frank"
4. Many people, including Trevor Loudon, Gerald Horne (editor of the communist party journal Political Affairs), and Dr. Kathryn Takara (professor at The University of Hawaii) have said that indeed, the "Frank" in Obama's book is reference to Frank Marshall Davis
5. Frank Marshall Davis was a REGISTERED member of the Communist Party USA.
5. According to Obama's book, "Frank" read him poems, gave him advice on his career path, was full of "hard-earned knowledge, gave him advice before leaving for college in 1979, etc.
6. Gerald Horne, that editor of Political Affairs (communist journal), said that
"Davis came into contact with Obama and his family and became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves".
7. Is it not written in Obama's book that a few days before he left for college, he told Barry not
"to start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that stuff" (well, he didn't say stuff).
8. It is also true that Frank Chapman, a supporter of the Communist Party USA sent a letter to the party newspaper hailing Barack Obama's win in the Iowa caucuses
This stuff is more than guilt by association...You guys hate Bush so much that you are willing to prop up a man who has deep ties to Socialism/Marxism/Communism (Davis), Domestic Terrorism (Ayers), and outright racism (Rev. Wright).
I have a theory about young Obama...His Dad tragically left the family when Obama was young, leaving him with no male influence in his formitive years...Men like Davis walked into his life, spouting off about inequality, anti-capitalism, racism, etc...He went to Occidental College and then on to Columbia where nobody knew him because he was trying to find himself, by himself.
After Harvard, he was recruited to his community organizing position by non other than the son of Saul Alinsky...After getting to Chicago, he met up with Bill Ayers, who was spouting off about the same things that Davis used to tell him back in Hawaii - all the while attending socialist conferences. And of course, he sat in the church of Rev. Wright, who not only officiated Obama's wedding, but baptised his children.
