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There’s a lot of buzz being generated about Obama, ACORN and Obama’s first political party – The New Party. How did the Oba-messiah get this far without anyone reporting he was a member of a fringe Leftist political party? Where the hell is the media anyway? Oh, I know. It was just Chicago … so he could get on the ballot, yadda yadda.

Yeah, sure.

Illinois: The first NP (New Party) (the Wiki) member heads to Congress, as Danny Davis (this Lefty is still in Congress) wins an overwhelming 85% victory yesterday (he got a higher percentage of the vote in that district than the President). NP member and State Senate candidate Barack Obama won uncontested. Interestingly, it appears that the local Democratic machine is trying to distance itself from our folks. At a “Democratic Unity” march on Chicago’s West Side, a flyer invited community members to join with a host of local democratic candidates. The only two west-side Democrats not listed: NP members Danny Davis (U.S. House candidate) and Michael Chandler (Alderman and Ward Committeeman).

Now here’s the thing – Stanley Kurtz addresses much of Obama’s significant ties to ACORN. But in a sense, the New Party was ACORN. ACORN ran get out the vote efforts for NP members, as Kurtz points out. And this below from the wiki linked up above. Obama is starting to make McGovern look like Scoop freakin’ Jackson. Maybe we should start calling him Oba-commissar, instead of messiah. It might actually fit.

After a false start in New York, the New Party built modestly successful chapters in several states. Some of these chapters ” such as those in Chicago and Little Rock ” had their main bases of support in the low-income community organizing group ACORN, along with some support from various labor unions (especially ACORN-allied locals of the Service Employees International Union).

If Obama gets the nod from the Dems, it looks like their candidate’s color this time out is going to be Red … not blue.

Was ACORN Obama’s First (Political) Love? How Has Obama Gotten This Far Without The MSM Exposing His Significant Marxist Ties?

there’s a “lot of buzz being generated about Obama , ACORN and Obama’s first political party – The New Party (a Marxist political coalition – check out the Illinois paragraph of New Party Online News – Elections Update.) Lest you fail to recall, most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party’s Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

Today, check out why Dan says if Obama gets the nod from the Dems, it looks like their candidate’s color this time out is going to be Red … not blue.

Like Pundita has said, “Wake up and realize that Barack Obama’s campaign is the real-life version of Gremlins. Notice that everywhere you look Obama’s radical dizzy thieving lying buddies are popping out from every corner, every closet, every drawer.”

It has to be obvious to all of us by now that the blogosphere is going to have to do the MSM’s homework for them; they are far too tied to Obama at the hip to have the slightest willingness to tarnish their messiah’s image or to do worse – expose him as the far left radical Marxist and follower of Black Liberation Theology – that he indeed is.

Related: As I said yesterday when I linked to it – this article is beginning to make a whole lot more sense now: Is Barack Obama A Marxist Mole?.

Also related: Barack Obama = Karl Marx With a Twist (complete with a Marxist commenter or two)

Acorn Fells Obama Tree?

UPDATE (more below): Related news, Catholic League: Obama-Pfleger tie runs deep–questions judgment of both, funding and politics in a church crossing the line, double standard. Cardinal George issues statement reprimanding Rev. Pfleger.
***Stanley Kurtz, NRO has another blockbuster report, (previously on the Rev. Wright) this time on Acorn and Barack Obama. For background on Acorn, Kurtz cites Sol Stern‘s 2003 piece in City Journal. They first drew my notice when they were harassing the University of Chicago hospitals.

Kurtz explores in depth Barack Obama’s community organizing experience with Acorn–read this as organizing demonstrations–useful stuff, huh–really improves people’s lives. No, the actual work is left to others, who actually care for indigent sick people, for example. Probably good training for a political campaign, though. Note this is Obama’s sole claim to experience for the presidency, other than his juiced up state-legislative record for a year in Springfield, oh and his degree in international relations.

Radical Acorn, starting out against welfare reform with loony LaRouche-like beliefs, now mostly under the radar in urban America. Read it all, but here a few excerpts:

Acorn’s new goals are municipal “living wage” laws targeting “big-box” stores like Wal-Mart, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks ” efforts styled as combating “predatory lending.” Unfortunately, instead of helping workers, Acorn’s living-wage campaigns drive businesses out of the very neighborhoods where jobs are needed most. Acorn’s opposition to welfare reform only threatens to worsen the self-reinforcing cycle of urban poverty and family breakdown. Perhaps most mischievously, says Stern, Acorn uses banking regulations to pressure financial institutions into massive “donations” that it uses to finance supposedly non-partisan voter turn-out drives.

Yes, they’ve implemented this strategy in Chicago, with their attacks on Wal-Mart, forcing it out of the city limits with the consequent job loss, to the point that the city relaxed its stance. But then the unions targeted those alderman who voted for Wal-Mart and brought down many in the next election. Acorn Chicago’s former president, Ted Thomas, has been alderman for some time. And of course, the banks have been pushed into making a lot of iffy home loans, courtesy of Acorn, part of the housing bubble bursting that we see now. Kurtz on their tactics:

Chicago is home to one of its strongest chapters, and Acorn has burst into a closed city council meeting there. Acorn protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers’ dinner and sent four busloads of profanity-screaming protestors against the mayor’s home, terrifying his wife and kids. Even a Baltimore city council member who generally supports Acorn said their intimidation tactics had crossed the line.

Hmm, don’t think Mayor Daley would like that Barack. Storming the City Council was bad enough. (This happened when Obama was no longer formally with Acorn.) Kurtz:

On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.Reading the Herald article, you might think Acorn’s demonstrators had simply lost patience after being denied entry to the gallery at a packed meeting. Yet the full story points in a different direction. This was not an overreaction by frustrated followers who couldn’t get into a meeting (there were plenty of protestors already in the gallery), but almost certainly a deliberate bit of what radicals call “direct action,” orchestrated by Acorn’s Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.

And this Baltimore connection rings a bell. From one of my Obama-Che posts, back in February:

Obama endorsed in 1996 by the DSA: Democrat Socialists of America. He was also endorsed by the far left New Party:

What was the New Party?

Strong in the mid to late ’90s the New Party was an electoral alliance dedicated to electing leftist candidates to office-often through the Democratic Party.Two organisations formed the backbone of the New Party-the Democratic Socialists of America and the US’s largest radical organisation, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

As far as Obama and ACORN we know about that already.UPDATE: Baltimore Communists for Obama.

Kurtz raises questions about the legality of Obama’s funding his political ally Acorn through the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation. (NY Timesmy post, and WSJ story, my post.) Then, of course, there’s the Acorn vote fraud, while posing as a “non-partisan” entity. Kind of like the post-partisan poseur and peddler of hate/hope, Barack Obama, whom they have endorsed. article,Will Acorn fell the Obama tree? One more radical tie.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin: Greatest Hits: All of Barack Obama’s Men of Bad Faith. Oh yes, then there’s Obama’s eminence grise, George Soros, who also funds Acorn. LGF.

UPDATE: James Taranto, WSJ, picks up on the Rev. Pfleger fiasco at Obama’s church, with a few pungent comments, and notes the earmarks Obama funneled to Pfleger’s own church, which The Swamp reiterated yesterday. The Left continues to say this has nothing to do with Barack Obama–yet he sought out the most radical pastors in Chicago to start his political career, openly claiming them as his spiritual mentors. And remember, early on in his presidential run he openly appealed for a faith-based, common good Democrat message. He made faith an issue, and he can’t disavow his radical pastors now that it is no longer politically expedient for him.

Michael Kinsley in Time lectures us that we shouldn’t link Obama to former radicals and should forgive them. Why? They are unrepentent, haven’t served time, and have even been lauded and rewarded by their leftie friends at universities–they have been sought out by one young professor Barack Obama to fund his fledgling political career and give him credibility as one of them. And poor Kinsley imagines himself the real victim. He was a peaceful protester. But people did die Michael, people were injured and paralyzed by their group-- and attempted murder on the family of a judge. If John McCain were connected to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, would Kinsley give him a pass? We are to forget about BillAyers and Bernardine Dohrn.

If this was just one association or a one time occurrence with Barack Obama maybe Kinsley would have a point–but this is not the case. Incredibly, Kinsley also defends Obama as part of the business as usual Chicago machine culture. But as I’ve said before, for someone so cautious he took care to repeatedly vote present in the Illinois legislature, who is running for president in part because he isn’t bogged down by the long legislative records that helped sink John Kerry and Al Gore, Barack Obama has an astonishing number of radical associations we keep learning more and more about. This is disturbing stuff. And the MSM keeps trying to bury it, or sanitize it, or excuse it.

Former Sen. Jack Danforth to Hold Conference Call on ACORN Voter Fraud in 20 Minutes

Looks like our guys are trying actual pushback against this radical voter fraud/fraudulent mortgage application organization — which is, by the way, strongly linked to the New Party.

On Now: In Jackson County, MO., the same person was registered ten times under different SSN’s and addresses.

Q: Claire McCaskill claims there is no proof of fraudulent voting, so t his is no big deal.

A: Fraudulent registration is also illegal. ACE ADDS: Um, the Democrat’s refusal to check IDs also makes sure that there won’t be much evidence of voter fraud. Their own rules hide the evidence– by design.

Back to Danforth: System “swamped” with these fraudulent registrations, which “overloads” the system and prevents detection.

In Nevada, the Dallas Cowboys starting line up was enrolled to vote by ACORN.

Q. Liberal media asshole spins for ACORN, claiming there was no problem last cycle.

A: Um, there were 12 convictions, dude.

Q: Oh, yeah, well ACORN says they “fingered” those people themselves. (Riiiiight…)

A: Whatev’s, Dude.

Q: How do you permit real registration while stopping the flood of fraudulent ones?

A: Missed this answer, actually, but it sounds like he said you firm up the screening process to allow stuff like instantaneous electronic verification. Which I assume the Democrats block, as “racist,” or something.
DANFORTH: Is trying to explain to reporters that fraud is inherently bad. Odd that he needs to make this case. He invites reporters to consider the “nightmare” scenario of Obama winning narrowly on suspected fraud, and what that would do to the country.

Suggests we need representatives from each party and the media at each polling place to ensure that no fraud is going on.

Also wants firm rules for precisely when judges are allowed to extend voting hours — which happens, of course, every fucking year in St. Louis. They suggested this to the Obama campaign — no response received to either of these suggestions.

“At least it would be a start, at least it would be a sign that both parties have an interest in competent elections.”

But Obama seems uninterested. (Ace’s gloss again.)

“There is a clear connection between Obama and ACORN. He has taught classes for ACORN. He gave $800,000 to an ACORN group. He defended ACORN in court. There is a close connection. Obama should have a special interest in making sure his allies do not practice fraud.” [paraphrased, sorry]

Last question: Were the Bush attorney firings motivated largely by refusals to investigate and charge ACORN for fraud?

A: I don’t know.
Background Reading: NetRight Nation is documenting all of these investigations.

More: Hussein’s Rotten ACORNS are Falling: Now with “dangerous incitement” videos.

Was Obama a member of the “New Party”?

When I saw this at Ace’s, it sounded so familiar that I spent 20 minutes checking our archives for the post I was sure Ed or Bryan had written about it. I was wrong; it wasn’t HA that blogged it, it was Erick Erickson at Red State in early June. Read his background, then see this post at Politically Drunk for evidence that The One was a member. I can’t tell definitively from either just how far left the NP was at the time; it may be that, like a lot of new third parties, they hadn’t quite hammered out a fixed identity yet. Erickson writes that “The New Party was designed as a loose confederation of unions, socialists, communists, and black activists who shared common values, but often had different goals,” although the party’s Wikipedia page suggests that they weren’t as far left as the Greens, which criticized them for being Democratic Party hangers-on. Doubtless Obama will claim that it was the union aspect that drew him to it or, failing that, that it was a brief youthful flirtation (he was, er, 35 at the time) with a fringier party than he ultimately felt comfortable with. Needless to say, I know I speak for all of us in denouncing this very racist attempt to question him on his party affiliations the way Sarah Palin was questioned on hers. After all, it’s not like any of The One’s other political associations have been worrisomely fringe.

The best part of this, assuming that it trickles up the media food chain and gets put to one of Obama’s spokesmen, will be trying to reconcile the inevitable profession of ignorance about the New Party’s agenda with David Brooks’s assertions about how “socially perceptive” Obama is. Truly, except for Ayers’s terrorist background, Wright’s sermons, Pfleger’s race-baiting, and the NP, his awareness of what’s going on around him is laser sharp.

**********(From June 2008) Surprise!… Obama’s First Public Speech Sponsored By Fringe Group Linked to Marxists & Weatherman Terrorists

Is this why the Ayers Family became so fond of Barack Obama?

Barack Obama’s first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED]. Far Left radical Tom Hayden who met with Marxist officials several times during his antiwar career chaired this fringe group in the late 70′s and early ’80′s. Several of the CED principal activists were also veterans of the Hayden-campaign and of the very radical group, Students for a Democratic Society.

Hayden was an important anti-American figure in the Students for a Democratic-Society a militantly leftist organization. 60′s radical Tom Hayden played a pivotal role both as founder and as principal author of this student group’s basic manifesto, the “Port Huron Statement.” This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills — including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.

Barack Obama does not include his time at Occidental College on his resume but old friends and former teachers remember his role in protesting college investments in firms doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Tom Hayden wrote this on Barack Obama at the far left Common Dreams website recently:

I didn’t see him coming. When I heard of the young state senator with a background in community organizing who wanted to be president, I was at least sentient enough to be interested. When I read Dreams of My Father, I was taken aback by its depth. This young man apparently gave his first public speech, against South African apartheid, at an Occidental College rally organized by Students for Economic Democracy, the student branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED] which I chaired in 1979-82. The buds of curiosity quickened. Soon I was receiving emails from David Peck, an organizer of the Occidental rally, who now is coordinating Americans in Spain for Barack Obama.

In 1969 Hayden’s students for democracy group began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The Weatherman declared “war on AmeriKKKa” at its Flint War Council in 1969.

The new entity dissolved Hayden’s Students for a Democratic Society and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name Weather Underground.

How odd that way back in the beginning of Barack Obama’s speaking career the group he was involved with had links to Marxists, the Weatherman and Bill Ayers.

It was not surprising then that after his first public speech at Occidental College Barack Obama found himself working several years with William Ayers, the founder of the terrorist cult Weather Underground, in Chicago.

PS– Is it any wonder that Barack Obama wants to re-introduce himself to voters?

The irony of Obama and the New Party association

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