Book Review: "The Communist" - Does Frank Marshall Davis Have An Ideological Godson In President Obama?[...] In fact, [Frank Marshall] Davis [the mentor, Frank, Obama describes in his autobiographical, "Dreams of My Father"] was the subject not only of "Pop," but also of an Obama high school poem, "An Old Man." Both poems deal with the relationship between a naïve young man and a jaded older one. Curiously, so does Davis's poem, "To a Young Man," written just a few years before Obama's. Had McHenry given his readers a link to the article in which I make the case for Davis as author of the Obama poems, they might not have thought it as amusing as McHenry does.
McHenry likewise thinks it irrelevant that "Obama didn't remember the poem from his high school magazine when reminded of it in 2008." Again, however, he denies his audience critical information. When Obama was shown "An Old Man" in 2008, he responded, "It sounds in spirit that it's talking a little bit about my grandfather." Obama knew better than that. Like his handlers and their media accomplices, he consciously steered the conversation away from Davis.
There was good reason for the steering. As McHenry concedes, Davis was a communist and a pornographer. Had Mitt Romney written two youthful poems about a man of comparable interests, that man's name would be more notorious than "Bain Capital." As it is, not one Democrat out of a hundred could identify "Frank Marshall Davis
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