Before Obama, no American president ever had a mentor who was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party

Excerpt from The Communist. Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor

In short, Davis’s discomfort over Stalin’s agreement with Hitler was not enough to keep him from joining the Party. He still drank from the chalice.

For the record, this wasn’t the only time that Davis helped accommodate Hitler. In 1940, he hooked up with one of the worst, most seditious communist fronts ever to operate in the United States: the American Peace Mobilization. That group, which in 1940 sought to keep America out of the war and from stopping Hitler because Hitler (at the time) was allied with Stalin, was organized by CPUSA and the Comintern in Chicago, which was where Davis was located. The communists who organized the “peace” mobilization sought out dupes from the Religious Left and other various “progressive” factions. They also directly recruited African Americans, claiming that the evil FDR was seeking to send black boys to their death to fight for evil Churchill and the British. This was the kind of vulgar propaganda that CPUSA regularly peddled. One of the African Americans that they targeted was Frank Marshall Davis. This was a powerful factor in bringing Davis into the Party as an eventual full member.

I must note that it was also through this group that Davis would work with Robert Taylor, who just happened to be the grandfather of Valerie Jarrett.

FP: That’s remarkable. Valerie Jarrett today is Obama’s right-hand woman in the White House.

Kengor: Yes, and it’s even more eerie than that. Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s mentor, also worked with Vernon Jarrett in these circles. Vernon Jarrett was Valerie’s father-in-law. And it’s worse still. Davis, Obama’s mentor, also worked with Harry and David Canter, two other Chicago communists. The Canters mentored a young man named David Axelrod in Chicago in the 1970s. So, the troika that’s arguably running America today—Obama and Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod—all have common bonds in Chicago’s communist circles from the 1940s. Their mentors knew each other.

I know this is incredible, but it’s true. You couldn’t make this up. No one would believe it. We’re being governed by ghosts from Chicago’s Communist Party glory years.

FP: Are there other people that Frank Marshall Davis worked with in Chicago who have relevance today?

Kengor: Oh, yes, I could go on and on. . .

How to change your life

Yes, we are all still are interested in "change" even after Obama's has basically turned it into a very dirty word (i.e. code for making him King of America).

But few are happy with how 2010 turned out, right? Or maybe even how your life has turned out up until now?

So here are some highly recommended books for those of us still working at changing our lives for the better in 2011:

Power of Full Engagement:

This was just recently recommended by British internet marketing guru now living in Spain, Andre Chaperon.

QUESTION: What's the #1 priority in business today?

My guess is that you're prob'ly way off base.

It's not what I expected when I heard the answer.

ANSWER: Reducing, minimizing and eliminating
distraction and interruption.

Think about that for a second...

Reducing, minimizing and ELIMINATING distraction
and interruption.

Wow!

I was first exposed to this stuff from Eben Pagan
in 2007 at his GetAltitude seminar.

Eben learned it from Tony Schwartz who was a
guest speaker at the $10,000 per person seminar.

Work The System:

British professional mentor extraordinaire Alex Goodall -- who gives the best and most detailed webinars on every aspect of running an online business -- recommended this book last year to his mentees.

Strategic Acceleration:

This was recommended last year by another internet marketing guru, Tommy Liantonio (who would probably object to that description and say he's just a very successful businessman). Tommy, who I think actually lives in New Jersey (not that there's anything wrong with that), gets so excited by the ideas he's discussing that he just can't help letting a few "F" words slip out now and again :-)

50 Success Classics:

The Best Business Books Ever:

Legendary lawyer and politician Percy Sutton has died at the age of 89, and the major media are omitting mention of one of his most notable acts...

...one of Sutton's most notable moments is absent from the media hagiographies I have seen: he stated on television that he knew that an Islamic supremacist, Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and advisor to a wealthy Saudi, had paid for Barack Obama's education at Harvard Law School.