Barack Obama spent his formative years at the feet of the renowned communist, Frank Marshall Davis.

Professor Gerald Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Frank Marshall Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948, "at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson," came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves.

The 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified Davis as a Communist Party USA member (CPUSA). What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations.

Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.

In an article entitled, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Cliff Kincaid identifies the man who was most influential in Obama's life and education, as Frank Marshall Davis.

The record shows that Barack Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with frequent guest, Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, "Dreams From My Father," refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."

"Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self" -- the black communist writer now considered by some to be in the same category of prominence as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker -- gave him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18.

Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who also confirms that Davis is the "Frank" in Obama's book, did her dissertation on Davis and spent much time with him between 1972 until he passed away in 1987.

Clearly, what can be extrapolated from this information is Frank Marshall Davis was around Barack Obama from 1972 until he left for Occidental College -- his formative years,

What I find more interesting is that Davis was ALWAYS around the Dunham home.

The connection between Frank Marshall Davis and Obama was Obama's grandfather, Stanley. This relationship had to have begun during Stanley Dunham's early days in Hawaii, since, as Horne describes it, Davis "befriended" 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."

Takara describes Davis' relationship as, "a drinking companion of Obama's white grandfather."

Stanley Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis were buds for more than 20 years!
Punahou Obama writes in "Dreams," that he saw his mentor, the communist Frank Marshall Davis, only a few days before he left for Occidental College, and that Davis seemed as radical as ever.

Davis called college, "An advanced degree in compromise" and warned Obama not to forget his "people" and not to "start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit."