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Obama Mentor
August 24th, 2008The web is steaming today with collaborative investigations into an Obama “mentor”. The news is disturbing enough to the point that I had to update the Reasons to Vote Against Obama page.
Of course I need to add the Joe Biden nugget to that page as well. Obama and Joe — OJ. Obama my man, you are keeping me too busy.
Furor is flying over one Frank Marshall Davis. In his autobiography Obama described Davis as an important influence and someone who gave Obama advice. The important piece of this report is that Obama himself describes Davis as influential. If it were a mere matter of acquaintance I’d dismiss the entire eruption as political sniping.
Frank Marshall Davis is a book too open. As a hack reporter and poet, he said a lot about himself in writing. Davis joined the Communist Party USA while waltzing the then dangerous liaisons between union organizers and unrepentant socialists. Neither camp is fond of freedom and Davis’ writing exposed some of the same.
More troubling though was a passage in an autobiographical sexcapade titled Sex Rebel: Black (under the pseudonym Bob Greene). Living in San Francisco I am used to every imaginable (and a few unimaginable) kink and perversion, and frankly I don’t care. What a man, a woman and a consenting lama do in the privacy of their dungeon is their business and not mine. So most of Sex Rebel is voyeuristic drivel.
Except the child rape.
Davis admits that he and his wife had sex with a thirteen year old girl many, many times. Maybe more often than Larry Craig tap danced. To quote Davis about the child named Anne:
I didn’t want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life.
Anne came up many times the next several weeks, her aunt thinking she was in good hands. Actually she was. She obtained a course in practical sex from experienced and considerate practitioners rather than from ignorant insensitive neophytes….I think we did her a favour, although the pleasure was mutual.
Even here in San Francisco we frown on raping kids.
What does this say about Obama? I won’t join the salivating throngs who find instant guilt by association. Obama may have never known of Davis’ sexual battery. After all Davis wrote a lot of things and it is doubtful that Obama read even a small portion of it.
But Obama didn’t vet Davis before claiming him to be a mentor. If Wikipedia knew of the vile passage within Sex Rebel, Obama should have. Basic research is a requirement for elementary school book reports much less geopolitical strategy. Joe Biden’s statement that Obama was not ready to hold the presidency is eerily accurate.
Sex aside, Obama did know about Davis’ communist affiliations. Davis was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee and such scrutiny cannot be unnoticed. This inquiry occurred more than a decade before Obama’s birth leaving few excuses for not understanding “Frank’s” influence.
Obama was mentored by a child raping communist, has a wife who not proud of her own country, and he communes with known terrorists who sought the violent overthrow of the American government. These issues alone disqualify Obama from taking control of the free world.
You wrote “But Obama didn’t vet Davis before claiming him to be a mentor.”
Obama never claimed him as a mentor. He rejected claims of mentorship in his rebuttal to the Corsi book:
LIE: “But the key role Frank Marshall Davis plays in the autobiography is not to provide Obama with words from his poems as a voice for Obama’s black rage. Instead Davis is the mentor Obama seeks for wisdom and advice, for instance when he has a crisis with his grandmother that was so traumatic Obama still mentions it today.” [p 87]
REALITY: OBAMA MEMOIR CHARACTERIZED FRANK DAVIS MARSHALL AS A FIGURE FROM HIS YOUTH WHO “FELL SHORT” AND WHOSE VIEW OF RACE WAS “INCURABLE”
BTW: “Sex Rebel Black” is fiction.
Actually, the passage in Obama’s book reads “And if later I saw that the black men I knew–Frank or Ray or Will or Rafiq–fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own”
Apologies — I miss part of my reply.
Sex rebel was not fiction, or at least according to Mr. Davis. According to the Telegraph, Davis confirmed the autobiographical nature of the book in surviving manuscript. Davis (writing as Greene) said he “changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html
Frank Marshall Davis wrote a pornographic novel under the pseudonym Bob Greene, one chapter of which is devoted to the protagonist and his wife having sex with a thirteen year old girl, according to a British website (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html) on 24 August. According to the British website, “Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has “changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences.”
In a same day report citing the British website, “Accuracy In Media” (AIM) reported that Edgar Tidwell, an “expert in the life and writing of Davis” confirms that Frank Marshall Davis wrote “Sex Rebel: Black” as a semi-autobiographical novel. Despite Tidwell’s expert opinion that the novel was SEMI-autobiographical, AIM’s Cliff Kincaid escalated accusations against Davis by first claiming he was a sex pervert (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-red-mentor-was-a-pervert/) in their 24 August report. (Kincaid falsely attributed the “pervert” claim to the British website.) On 14 October, AIM again escalated the charges by claiming Davis was an “admitted child molester” (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/was-a-communist-obamas-sex-teacher/),
There are at least four distinct disclaimers that indemnify Frank Marshall Davis from literal attribution of this novel:
a. According to dictionary.com, “identity” means “condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is: a case of mistaken identity.” Changing name AND identities means changing names AND other “condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is,” which may include biographical data such as age.
b. “Taken from actual experiences” does not mean they are accurate representations of actual experiences. It only means they are based on actual experiences.
c. Edgar Tidwell, the expert on the life and writing of Frank Marshall Davis, says the book is “semiautobiographical,” which (according to dictionary.com) means “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.”
d. Further, scandalous memoirs such as “Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet)” have been a literary genre for centuries. According to Wikipedia, such fictional novels are allegedly factual, but are largely invented. The title, alone, qualifies it as a “scandalous memoir.”
In an honest evaluation, any of these disclaimers should protect the author from literal interpretation. The combination of all four should provide absolute protection from any culpability. Unfortunately, Davis’s accusers are dishonest. Like Mike Nifong, the disgraced ex-D.A. in the Duke lacrosse case, their campaign to demonize their target ignores exculpatory evidence in their reckless rush to judgment. In order to smear Barack Obama through guilt-by-association with Frank Marshall Davis, they are virtually lynching Davis by grossly misrepresenting his character and influence.
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.
This deliberate misrepresentation is only the latest in a long series of falsehoods by AIM professional prevaricators. Their “specific misrepresentation” is documented at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gGxdvX. 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.
For an objective report on “Sex Rebel: Black,” please see http://wxxxnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/sex-rebel-black.html