August 9, 2012 at 11:07pm
Obama’s mentor was Communist Frank Marshall Davis. It was Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who introduced Davis to little Barry as a potential role model and black father figure. Davis knew and influenced Obama throughout his adolescence in the 1970s, right up until he went off to Occidental College.
Davis, Communist Party USA (CPUSA) number 47544, was a 20th century American who wrote pro-Soviet propaganda in newspaper columns and was a loyal Soviet patriot. Leftist Americans who took the extraordinary step of joining CPUSA swore a loyalty oath to the USSR—Stalin’s USSR in the Davis’ case. The oath stated:
“I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet Union, the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the Party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet Power in the United States.”
Through CPUSA, Davis worked with Robert Taylor, Valerie Jarrett’s grandfather and Vernon Jarrett, her father-in-law. Davis also worked with Harry and David Canter, two other Chicago communists, would go on to mentor a young man named David Axelrod in Chicago in the 1970s. So, the troika that’s arguably running America today—Obama, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod—all have common bonds in Chicago’s communist party.
