Frank Marshall Davis

Let's be up front about this: Frank Marshall Davis is getting an increasing amount of attention because of someone he met way back in the 1970s - Barack Obama. Barack Obama talked with Frank Marshall Davis a few times, when Obama was between the ages of ten and eighteen years old. The two both lived in Hawaii at the time, and their paths crossed.

They talked about poetry and about careers. Some say that means that Frank Marshall Davis converted Barack Obama into full red blooded Communism.

Sigh.

Read a rational analysis of this supposed controversy.

One final bizarre conspiracy theory about Frank Marshall Davis has come out in the final days of the 2008 presidential election. Independent writer Andy Martin insists that it was Frank Marshall Davis, and not Barack Obama Sr., who was the real father of Barack Obama.

On what evidence was this story founded? None at all, actually - just the weird imagination of Martin. Martin seems to interpret every event as connected to his conspiracy theory. For example, when Barack Obama flew to Hawaii to comfort his ailing grandmother, Andy Martin interpreted it as a sign that his conspiracy theory was close to the truth - and has frightened Barack Obama so much that he had to deal with the matter himself. Martin says that Obama silenced his own grandmother.

Hmmm. Maybe there's an alternative explanation...

You can judge the integrity of Frank Marshall Davis

Even though Frank Marshall Davis has been dead for many years, he is accused of being a threat to American sovereignty by a dedicated right wing attack dog, Cliff Kincaid. Kincaid serves as chief editor of AIM, a right wing media organization, and as president of America's Survival. AIM now suggests that Barack Obama is a Communist. Of course, AIM used to accuse Walter Kronkite of being a Communist as well.

Kincaid's group America's Survival has the goal, "to educate the American people and to expose the influence of global institutions, including an International Criminal Court, on their lives." They believe in secret international conspiracies by bureaucrats to destroy the sovereignty of the USA and create a "New World Order". These are the sort of people who believe that secret societies with names like the Bliderberg Group, the Knights Templar, and the Illuminati are trying to engage in a bizarre occult drug trafficking gun control agenda.

The fact that the Communist allegations about Frank Marshall Davis and Barack Obama come from the likes of Cliff Kincaid should lead readers to regard the accusations with a very skeptical eye.