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Obama Campaigned Before Socialist Group in ‘96
Big Government ^ | October 23, 2010 | John Rossomando

Posted on 10/23/2010 6:25:39 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Newsletters published by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America show President Barack Obama actively participated in a 1996 rally co-sponsored by the group and held at The University of Chicago during his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate.

The president’s defenders, including Obama himself, have sought to deflect questions about his socialist connections and dismiss them as partisan hyperbole or as guilt by association ̶ regarding his connections with William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Frank Marshall Davis. But an article in the March-April 2000 edition of the Chicago DSA’s newsletter, The New Ground, detailing its recommendations for the March 2000 Democratic primaries suggests the group considered Obama one of its own.

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1 posted on 10/23/2010 6:25:42 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

No surprise.


2 posted on 10/23/2010 6:45:57 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: RobinMasters
I now see why he is aware that he can only be a "one-termer"

Sorta' like a "socialist suicide bomber".

He's willing to sacrifice this country just to GET EVEN.

3 posted on 10/23/2010 6:51:52 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: RobinMasters

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/gov_philosophy/dsa_members.htm

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy!

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].


4 posted on 10/23/2010 6:53:11 PM PDT by mia
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To: Army Air Corps

Anybody who’s ever read Baraq’s one available published document from the Columbia Univ magazine in the early 80s would understand his disdain for Reagan and love for the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately the MSM were far more worried about the status of Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher’s trade license in Ohio.


5 posted on 10/23/2010 6:56:12 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: RobinMasters
Here is an interview with one of his Marxist buddies who knew him in 1980.

College Acquaintance: Young Obama Was Pure Marxist Socialist: 1/2


6 posted on 10/23/2010 6:57:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Army Air Corps
The Obamanista in chief is a flat out Islamo-Marxist.
7 posted on 10/23/2010 7:27:06 PM PDT by Armaggedon
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To: RobinMasters

When he ran for the first time in Illinois, for State Senate, he ran for “The New Party”. New what, you say? New Socialists.

I discovered that when I first researched him. People didn’t seem to want to believe it. Don’t know if it’s been scrubbed as has so much about him.


8 posted on 10/23/2010 7:29:16 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: mia

“Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy!”

This just illustrates the pervasive rot in the Democratic party. Even those Democrats who aren’t dyed in the wool Marxists have to cater to the significant percentage who are, or they can’t get elected. The American public need to be educated as to the dangers of this ideology, and the scumbags who ascribe to it need to be exposed and ostracized, so they can never hold a position of influence in public life again.


9 posted on 10/23/2010 7:46:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: FrogMom

“Don’t know if it’s been scrubbed as has so much about him.”

Yeah, pretty much every mention of him and the New Party that was on the web was scrubbed right after it began to be publicized. Luckily, some canny FReepers saved screenshots so we’ve got the evidence for all time :)


10 posted on 10/23/2010 7:47:50 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: RobinMasters; Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33
...or as guilt by association...

How about some old fashioned guilt? Still waiting for that birth certificate.

11 posted on 10/23/2010 7:50:10 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: RobinMasters

Very interesting.


12 posted on 10/23/2010 7:51:30 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Boogieman

Check out the website. You can probably find your least favorite Dem.


13 posted on 10/23/2010 7:51:43 PM PDT by mia
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To: mia

You’re kidding me!


14 posted on 10/23/2010 7:53:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

If you check out the DSA website you will find —

Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.


15 posted on 10/23/2010 8:11:18 PM PDT by mia
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The list, ping

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16 posted on 10/23/2010 8:12:24 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: mia

Thank you.


17 posted on 10/23/2010 8:33:21 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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