I'm sure if you look hard enough, you will find that his political, religious, marital, educational and personal views were all also very fully balanced by libertarian, pro-Democracy, pro-capitalist people.

Or, you know, not.

Eric, you are usually rather humorously level headed and often sarcastically suspect of fringe thinking.

So, um...maybe one of us needs a minor tune-up?

Hey it could be me, but...

I suppose that first it would be good to know whether or not Obama had the faintest idea of the sexual history of his friend (since it appears that Davis published anonymously). Even granted that Davis at one time, along with others, had sex with one underage girl, that likely makes him guilty of statutory rape, but isn't exactly evidence of *being* a pedophile, any more than, say, being convicted once for DUI makes one a drunkard. I *really* don't want to be sticking up for Obama, but character assassination by association strikes me as questionable.

I suppose that first it would be good to know whether or not Obama had the faintest idea of the sexual history of his friend (since it appears that Davis published anonymously). Even granted that Davis at one time, along with others, had sex with one underage girl, that likely makes him guilty of statutory rape, but isn't exactly evidence of *being* a pedophile, any more than, say, being convicted once for DUI makes one a drunkard. I *really* don't want to be sticking up for Obama, but character assassination by association strikes me as questionable.

Eric,

Intuition driven by observation of kindred individuals and situations compels the premise that gang, pedophile and promiscuity aspects, including the spouse, are present in abundance. And probably also domestic violence, always part of the mix. The political philosophy and intent are Maoist, promoting all three activities as evidence of senior leadership perspicacity. He and she are very full suits, possessed of definite, decisive content. Nor are they reticent concerning its genius or telos.

David

Can anyone name one person Obama hung out with that was a regular American besides his grandparents?
The rest of his supporting cast is a bunch of criminals, communists and kooks.

And what is it we are now defining as "a regular American"? Again: I don't particularly want to stand up for Obama. I am unlikely to vote for him, but that's because of his political views and policies, not whether he hung out with "regular Americans." And what shall we say to liberals who blame blunders in Iraq on conspiracies involving Leo Strauss (probably not a regular American) and Albert Wohlstetter, since Richard Perl once took courses with them?

Elroy,

His grandparents were communists.

The original report came from the Telegraph UK. Follow the links.

In addition dedicated communists were big on destroying bourgeois values. Obama inhaled this stuff with his mothers milk.

Was Obama a participant? What are the odds?

Frank Marshall Davis was a known mentor to Barry Obama when Obama was a young teen. That is the perfect age to indoctrinate a person into a political philosophy. Barry was searching for an identity because he did not look like all the others in school. A black looking child in a white world. However that time frame was promoting ethnic identity i.e.: Black Power. Naturally Barry was vulnerable to that.

Barry also indulged in drugs and many self-destructive habits in the typical teenage angst.

Davis sexual proclivities were for girls not boys and no evidence indicates he liked boys sexually.

Sex with 13-year-old girl is not pedophilia. Many 13 years olds are very physically mature. Davis probably liked them sexually mature but young enough to be moldable in the mind.

Just because laws of statutory rape exist does not erase the reality that 12 years olds have been the age of marriage for centuries and only recently considered too young.

It is only a fashionable social construct that 13-year-old girls are too young. But in truth many of those 13 years olds are looking for sex so they can feel to be an adult.

That is why parents have to be careful to chaperone their girl children because the girls are tempted and there are males that
Will be glad to have sex. Especially the boys.

The reality is that girls who indulge in sex at 13 years old often end up prostitutes and then into drugs and are lucky to live to 30.

Parents need to be vigilant.