By Jack Cashill
AmericanThinker.com
July 24, 2012
Salon
contributor Eric McHenry will likely be surprised to find himself
categorized as "the media," but his omissions and evasions about Obama
mentor Frank Marshall Davis so impressively mirror the major media's
that he deserves the honor.
What drew my attention to McHenry's recent article in Salon,
"Obama's Oddest Critic," is that yours truly is the "critic" in
question. According to the subtitle, "Jack Cashill is obsessed with the
president's college poetry and positive it proves his life is 'one
massive fraud.'" In that exactly none of my most recent 100 articles is
about Obama's poetry -- and only a few even mention it -- I doubt I rank high on anyone's obsession index other than McHenry's.
The
reason I mention the poetry at all is to shed light on the young
Obama's relationship with Davis, his Hawaiian mentor. In my early
writing on Obama's literary talents, I took him at his word that he
wrote some "very bad poetry" and largely ignored the two radically
different poems he submitted as an Occidental College undergraduate, the
cringe-worthy "Underground" and the more complex "Pop."
It
was my co-conspirator Don Wilkie who prompted me to take another look
at the latter poem. "I have read 'Pop' now maybe 20 or 30 times,"
Wilkie wrote me a few years back, "and I think it is about Obama telling
us that 'Pop' really is, his pop."
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