Obama 645,554 58% 42 Winner
Clinton 452,590 41% 32
I guess it's all over but the shouting. March 4 should decide the democrate nonomee. McCain was the winner on the other side in Wesconsin.
I fell yesterday and hurt my knee it hurts like the dickens as grandma used to say.
I slept last night with Ben Gay. He was a disapointment.
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Hope you are better and thanks for telling me about the bad post. I deleted it. I think machines make the post ...called worms. And yes, they can be bad. That is why some folks make you type in the letters...then a machine can not post. I hate typing in the letters so I will try to watch the post and just delete those. I have have a few of the posts.
I can smell the chicken poop in this picture all of the way in AZ
Obama and Frank Marshall!
Frank Marshall Davis was a publicly identified member of the Communist Party USA. Davis, a black writer, was accused of being involved in several communist-front organizations by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to Davis repeatedly as just "Frank" ... assumingly because Obama is not a stupid man and did not want to show the world that his mentor is a card-carrying Communist. So what does Obama tell us about Frank? Well Frank was a poet who visited his family in Hawaii. Frank was, according to Obama, "a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago..." Frank was "his old Black Power dashiki self" who gave Obama advice on his career and his college education.
Well someone finally put two and two together ... "Frank" was the same Frank Marshall Davis, black communist writer. In March of 2007 Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, made a speech at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at NYU. His speech was called "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party." Here's what professor Horne (a fellow communist) had to say:
... deploring these convictions in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir 'Dreams of my Father', the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation – though you would never know it from reading so-called left journals of opinion.
So what do we have here? A communist helping the Democrat front runner being "a decisive influence in helping (Barack Obama) find his identity"? Curious, to say the least.
"I slept last night with Ben Gay. He was a disapointment."
HA!
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), was a journalist, labor activist, poet, ex-patriate, and resident of Hawaii for almost forty years. As an outsider looking in, he functioned as a significant voice in documenting the progress of the social movement in Hawaii from a plantation to a tourist based economy. In his weekly column, "Frankly Speaking," in the union newspaper The Honolulu Record, he acted as a commentator on the impact of the union movement on the plantation economy in the post war Honolulu scene. As a major national journalist and former editor of the Associated Negro Press, Davis was able to analyze the changing configurations of ethnic groups, class structures and strategies of control. His keen observation of the imperialist forces and his subsequent fall in status due to his outspoken editorials seem a paradox in a "so-called" paradise. His was a voice that inspired and threatened. His uniqueness as a black journalist and his middle class status showed that Hawaii was indeed one of the few places in the 1940s and 50s where blacks held roles other than agricultural or service workers in a multi-ethnic setting...
The rest here:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~takara/frank_marshall_davis.htm
Many labor activists of that time period were associated with the Communist Party. Not a big deal, as the CP was and still is a LEGAL organization here in the US. As neither of the two major parties were sympathetic to labor during the time, you can see the attraction.
Unless you're just a red-baiting conspiracy theorist.
Solidarity forever, dude.
Ben Gay has always been a disappointment. LOL
Do they still color chicks for Easter? I haven't seen any for years. I can remember when I was small, my Grandmother would always buy us one, at that time I had one sister and one brother. One year mine was the only one that lived, I was gone over a week-end visiting my Grandparents and when I got back home that rooster was gone. Apparently my parents had killed it and tried to eat him, but he was pretty tough, I secretly thought good, you didn't have any business killing him.
I love to see that last message, Patsy. You have a real fan there.
Davis, a black writer, was accused of being involved in several communist-front organizations by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
That means he was attacked by Joe McCarthy.
Another reason to believe that Davis was a great American.
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