OMFG — WND had to dig into a mothball-laden closet to come up with this as a news story — “Obama the Commie” because he was friends as a young man with

The mysterious “Frank” cited as a friend and adviser by Democratic president contender Barack Obama while he was growing up in Hawaii has been identified as Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA.

The identification comes from Cliff Kincaid in his column, “Obama’s Communist Mentor,” which was made available on the Accuracy in Media website.

“Let’s challenge the liberal media to report on this,” he wrote in his column. “Will they have the honesty and integrity to do so?”

“Obama’s communist connection adds to mounting public concern about a candidate who has come out of virtually nowhere, with a brief U.S. Senate legislative record, to become the Democratic Party frontrunner for the U.S. presidency,” he wrote.

In Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father,” he repeatedly refers to his friend and adviser as “Frank.”

“The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several Communist front organizations,” Kincaid said.

Kincaid noted Obama has admitted attending “social conferences” and seeing Marxist literature. [GASP! (silent movie organ music in background)] “But he ridicules the charge of being a ‘hard-core academic Marxist,’ which was made by his colorful and outspoken 2004 U.S. Senate opponent, Republican Alan Keyes.”

He described the link as “ominous.”

Speaking of retro, you only have to wind the clock back to 2004 to see where neo-con Bill Kristol is going as he offers this advice to Hillary — pull out the Homeland Security alert chart and jerk the public’s leash again. Think Progress:

Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the “politics of fear” to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL):

KRISTOL: [Obama’s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear. Kristol explained that his fear-mongering political strategy would focus on Iran.

From one of Digby’s 4th of July posts comes this interesting book review from Rick Perlstein of a book called The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat In Winner-Take-All America by Daniel Brook. The book is a look at how conservative attempts to dismantle the middle class have stymied intellectual and creative growth in the U.S., as middle class people have to choose between jobs where you keep your head down and your mouth shut (to stay middle class) or giving up on a chance to be in the middle class. Growing college debt, health care debt, and other conservative policy initiatives to shut down the middle class are essentially anti-freedom. When conservatives say, “Freedom isn’t free,” they seem to mean that it exacts a price, but perhaps a more accurate translation would be, “Freedom is slavery.”

Perlstein graciously offers that conservatives might just be too stupid to understand the relationship between economic stability and freedom, which is nice of him.

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“Howard K. Stern is a jackass.”

Remember when Michelle Malkin said:

I do hope all the left-wingers who are now newly enraged by problems at the VA sustain their interest beyond the time frame in which these stories maximize embarrassment of their political opponents. Supporting the troops takes much more than exploiting their neglect.

It’d be nice if the Army sustained its interest, too.

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The Base can be entertainingly bigoted.

I am frequently asked how I deal with the hate mail that I receive. I laugh it off because the level of intelligence behind them is, well, limited.

This is a good example of someone with way too much time on his hands.

That site isn’t work safe, btw.

Be sure to visit the main page of the site for more entries of the anonymous pearls of wisdom.

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Pat BuKKKanan on Hannity and Colmes, longing for the good old days when the “brown menace” wasn’t streaming across the border. (Think Progress):

“What I would like is — I’d like the country I grew up in. It was a good country. I lived in Washington, D.C., 400,000 black folks, 400,000 white folks, in a country 89 or 90 percent white. I like that country.�?

Someone get Tony Snow on the horn — where’s this end of racism he’s been talking up?

TP has the mind-blowing video.

This loon came up in another thread…

I hadn’t heard about June Griffin before her unhinged quotes surrounding Rhea County Tennessee’s voters booting commissioners who had attempted to ban homosexuality. At the time it was passed by those boneheads, Griffin bleated that she turned on her gaydar to spot the homos and “anyone I ever suspect, I go up and ask them directly.”

Well Ms. Griffin had to take a ride in the paddy wagon for her latest act of “patriotism.” (The Chattanoogan):

Conservative political activist June Griffin has been arrested for the theft of a Mexican flag from a Dayton business.

The 67-year-old Ms. Griffin, who ran for Congress in the recent election [a frightening thought?!], is facing misdemeanor charges of theft, vandalism and harassment and felony charges of civil rights violations.

She said on July 18 she had noticed a small Mexican flag at an Hispanic grocery in the former Rogers Drug Store. She stated, “I went in and there was nothing English in the store. There was one man who could not speak a word of English.” She said she was outraged about the Mexican flag, saying it was an “act of war” and it “insulted my citizenship.”

Ms. Griffin said as the Hispanic man watched, she tore off the flag from where it was suctioned to the building and left with it. She said, “Foreigners should learn English or leave.”

…She said she had been to local governments trying without success to get them to ban all but American flags. Ms. Griffin said the operator of the Days Inn at Dayton “flew a British flag on of all days July 4.” She said she went to him to protest the British flag.

Seems as though a bunch of folks have been making their 10 worst Americans lists. But to me that’s a bit like making a list of the 10 worst Oasis songs. I mean, sure, you could come up with one, but why would you want to? Especially during wartime. So instead, I’m making a list of the 10 BEST Americans of all time. Here goes.

1) Jesus
You know goddamned well, that if Jesus were alive today he’d be an American citizen. It’s not America’s fault that we didn’t exist 2000 years ago, so please don’t be childish about it, and make me roll my eyes at you. Of course, he’d still be kind of a fruit, probably writing children’s books with titles like “the good jihadist,�? and we’d all be making fun of him. But still he died for our sins, and that goes a long way.

2) George Washington
This one’s obvious. But here’s a little known fact. Did you know that George Washington hated cherries almost as much as he hated loyalists, the “liberals�? of his day? And he was known to take an ax to both of them.

3) All of our Soldiers Currently Fighting Overseas
And I’m saluting the flag as hard as I possibly can.

4) Richard Nixon
Primarily for this picture. Today, you may think of communism, like syphilis, as primarily a punchline. But like syphilis, it was once a serious menace, and there was no way of knowing who had it, and might be spreading it. Richard Nixon stood up to the commies when no one else had the balls to do it.

5) Popeye the Sailor Man
Sure, he’s a comic book character. But he’s also the perfect embodiment of American values. Meek and dimwitted until confronted by evil, at which point he eats some spinach and starts kicking commies all over the goddamned place. Also he likes his women anorexic.

6) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Known as “The Great Dissenter,�? Holmes is one of the few giants of American law, serving on the Supreme Court for 30 years, and crafting many well-written, well thought out, and influential opinions, thus shaping, as few have, American law and society as we know it.

And with that I’m all out of ideas. So make it 6, instead of 10, I guess. I don’t care.