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An interesting contribution to Barack Obama's campaign shows up in the records of the Federal Election Commission. Casey Kauffman of Al-Jazeera, who lists his occupation as a journalist in Doha, gave the Democratic candidate $500 in February.

Al-Jazeera, which most U.S.-based cable and satellite providers have rejected for airing because of its terrorist links and anti-American programming, probably won't be playing much of a role in the American presidential campaign. But the contribution is indicative of the bias that infects the media here and around the world.

The depth of the deception that is now underway can be understood by analyzing the significance of Obama's "I love America" foreign policy (web site) speech in Berlin, Germany, in view of the fact that the candidate and his media acolytes continue to conceal the central role that a Stalinist Communist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis played in his upbringing.

In Berlin, Obama almost sounded like Ronald Reagan, who became a strong anti-communist by fighting them in Hollywood. "And on the twenty-fourth of June, 1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the city," Obama noted. "They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin. The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin. And that's when the airlift began - when the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city."

Obama sounded like a veteran anti-communist. But it was completely at variance with what we know about him. Obama closely associated with communists for much of his life and career. We've heard about some of them, including communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. But one communist that few in the media want to talk about is Frank Marshall Davis, his mentor and father-figure. Davis actually wrote a poem (web site) in honor of the Soviet Red Army that Obama denounced in Berlin. This helps demonstrate the magnitude of his flip-flop.

Obama refers to Davis as just "Frank" in his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, but does note that he was a contemporary of black authors Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. What Obama doesn't mention is that "Frank" stayed with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) while Hughes and Wright broke from it. In fact, Davis was so extreme that he accused Wright of "treason" for exposing the CPUSA.

Davis's influence over Obama is demonstrated by the fact that Obama left Davis in Hawaii, attended socialist conferences and picked Marxist professors as his friends in college, went to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church with his children, and then launched his political career in the home of Ayers and Dohrn.

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