Jack Cashill writes: "Now About Obama's Teenage Years!"

Jack Cashill writes: "Now About Obama's Teenage Years!"

There may be family values on display in the poem—after all the title “Pop” does have implications of paternity—but those values have nothing to do with “Gramps,” Stanley Dunham. As Gilbert argues, and as I do in my book, the poem is inarguably about Obama’s relationship with Davis. Davis almost certainly wrote the poem as well, giving Obama a head start on his career as a literary scam artist. Six years later, Davis wrote a poem under his own name eerily similar in both style and subject matter called “To a Young Man.” Tellingly perhaps, the Davis family denied me permission to reprint the poem in my book.