Many of us have commented that many of Obama’s policies and plans are essentially socialist, whether his campaign likes the term or not. However, I didn’t know that Obama had literally been a member of a socialist political organization in the 1990s until I read this article at Power Line. Here’s a teaser, but you should really read the entire article at Powerline (which includes archived web pages showing Obama’s relationship to the socialist “New Party”), then return here for my doubtless brilliant comments.
In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago “New Party”. The ‘New Party’ was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. …
After allegations surfaced in early summer over the ‘New Party’s’ endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a member of either organization. The DSA and ‘New Party’ then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA’s New Party.
On Tuesday, I discovered a web page that had been scrubbed from the New Party’s website. The web page which was published in October 1996, was an internet newsletter update on that years congressional races. Although the web page was deleted from the New Party’s website, the non-profit Internet Archive Organization had archived the page.
Powerline thinks it is inconceivable that the American people would elect a socialist President.
Sadly, I don’t. That has been the trendline in the Democrat Party for decades, and we now have two radical Leftists leading the Senate and the House. The energy in the Democrat Party has been on the Left for a long time, not anywhere near the “moderate center”. The Democratic Leadership Council (nominally moderate, though its members all vote in lockstep with the Left) is moribund, energy-wise. If Obama wins, it will be due to organizations like ACORN and the DailyKos/Soros crowd, combined with the racial politics of the NAACP and others.
It is no secret that Hamas essentially endorses Obama. Shoot, the Communist Party USA endorses him. The nominal opposite of the Communist Party USA (if you buy into the far left/far right dichotomy between Communists and Nazis), the Nazi Party, is no fan of McCain/Palin. Check their site. They don’t like anyone who supports Israel. They call Palin a liar on their site.
The point? This is not a case of the far Lefties endorsing the candidate closest to them on the political spectrum, with the same thing happening on the Right. This is a matter of the far Left recognizing a more-or-less fellow traveler, while the Nazis know that McCain/Palin will be no friend of theirs, in any way, at any time.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the main stream media to pay any attention to this. Expect the Obama campaign to cry “foul” and “personal attack!” and “politics of personal destruction!” and the like. But imagine: what if John McCain had been a member of, say, the KKK or the Nazi party or something similar in the 1990s? What if he had even been ENDORSED by one of those groups, even if he wasn’t a member? What if there was a webpage archive showing his relationship to such an organization?
You get the idea. But the double standard is in full flower.
October 9th, 2008 6:04 am
The double standard is mind-boggling this time around.