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Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?
NewsBusters ^ | October 8, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/08/2008 1:23:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

The mainstream media thought that the membership of Todd Palin, who is not a candidate for any office, in the Alaska Independence Party important enough to report in such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the New York Times, among others. So now that Barack Obama's membership in the far left New Party has been unearthed, will they report his membership in that Socialist organization?

Proof of Obama's membership in the New Party was discovered by the Politically Drunk On Power blog:

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. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist 'New Party' was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations "fusion" reform platform as unconstitutional.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008election; barackobama; chicago; democraticsocialists; democrats; dsa; economy; elections; illinois; mccain; mccainpalin; msm; newparty; nobama08; obama; obamarxist; obamatruthfile
This is EXPLOSIVE. Membership in a socialist party plus proof that the Obama campaign was lying about his not having been a member of the New Party.
1 posted on 10/08/2008 1:23:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...

PING!


2 posted on 10/08/2008 1:24:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (FREE the Joe Biden raw video!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Oct 1995 Chicago New Party Update by Bruce Bentley About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The NP’s political strategy is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a concrete chance to “win”. This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110 elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.
3 posted on 10/08/2008 1:25:35 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (`Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: PJ-Comix

That was a long time ago and the thing is defunct now. Move along, nothing to see. /sarc


4 posted on 10/08/2008 1:26:22 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: PJ-Comix
Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?

DING!!

"What is 'No', Alex?"

5 posted on 10/08/2008 1:27:07 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Will MSM Report on Obama

No.

Next question...

6 posted on 10/08/2008 1:28:20 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Est Haud Deus)
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To: PJ-Comix

No, but scope this out!

http://feedlot.blogspot.com/2008/02/barack-obamas-marxist-plan-for-america.html


7 posted on 10/08/2008 1:29:57 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: PJ-Comix

So far, the Democrat propaganda machine, also known as the mainstream media, is ignoring this story.

Drudge is ignoring it as well.


8 posted on 10/08/2008 1:31:24 PM PDT by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK, OBAMA IS JUST CREEPY!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’m sorry, how is this news?

Shouldn’t you little people be paying your taxes instead of bothering us?

-your friends in the MSM


9 posted on 10/08/2008 1:33:09 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Was Ayers a member? Who were the other members?


10 posted on 10/08/2008 1:34:31 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: PJ-Comix

Oh, sure. This will be the number 3 story on Countdown to No Ratings with Keith Overbite tonight.


11 posted on 10/08/2008 1:37:35 PM PDT by AnnGora (I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
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To: PJ-Comix

>>>This is EXPLOSIVE. Membership in a socialist party plus proof that the Obama campaign was lying about his not having been a member of the New Party.<<<

This is A DUD. The concepts of socialism, communism, and totalitarianism have been so watered down by the media and schools that most Americans either don’t care or see those terms as archiac throwbacks to the McCarthy hearings.

You and I know better, certainly, but I’m talking about most people. The genius of leftist writers screaming “blacklist” for 50 years is that any accusation of leftist intent is viewed by most people as the barking of a toothless dog. Some of us, either by education or experience, understand the immense threat leftwing ideas bring to a society, culture, and government, but we’re nowhere near the majority.

Then there’s the utopian problem.

I’ve been a teacher for 10 years. During that time, I’ve heard two colleagues say these exact words: “Communism is a good idea, but it hasn’t been tried right.” (The colleagues were separated by 2,000 miles and four years, too... spooky.) There are also people out there who view infatuation with socialism and its byproducts as a good thing that all smart young people should dabble in, the same people who fashionably posted that poster of Che Guevara or Mao in their dorm room.

Add to that the sheer mass of people who think all politicans are lying scum, so they don’t care if Obama lies, too.

This news will unleash a collective yawn in the American psyche, which is too bad. This news is like standing on the tracks and mistaking the light of an oncoming train for a bright star on the horizon.


12 posted on 10/08/2008 1:37:43 PM PDT by redpoll
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To: PJ-Comix

If the MSM can get a guy this flawed elected they can get a ham sandwich elected.


13 posted on 10/08/2008 1:38:03 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: PJ-Comix; Forrestfire; NYC_BULLMOOSE
Kudos to Politically Drunk On Power for digging up this information about Obama's membership in the socialist New Party.

The links to the New Party were first posted at FR (of course), in threads exploring the Google 2001 feature.

URGENTLY NEED FREEPER HELP -- scanning newly posted Barack Obama Data on Google


To: NYC_BULLMOOSE

What is the New Party

http://www.freepress.org/Backup/UnixBackup/pubhtml/newparty/newpart4.html

25 posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:35:13 PM by Forrestfire

14 posted on 10/08/2008 1:41:10 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: redpoll
socialism, communism, and totalitarianism

You're right. Using these words to convince someone of the danger Obama poses is almost a sure way to tune them out. "Oh come on", "I know he's liberal, but a communist?" "What, like Hitler? Gimme a break." It's like there's a complete void of understanding of what these things, that they exist in the here and now, and how they are very effectively and methodically being put into place via the Democrat machine -- and the media.

15 posted on 10/08/2008 1:44:33 PM PDT by workerbee (Sarah Palin's very existence is a threat to the Left.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Of couse the MSM will not report it. It’s up to Sarah to do so, if spineless John will let her!


16 posted on 10/08/2008 1:46:58 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: PJ-Comix

Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?

...not if they can avoid it.


17 posted on 10/08/2008 1:48:50 PM PDT by bpjam (If an enemy chooses you as his executioner, don't be rude by refusing.)
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To: PJ-Comix

We need to find out what was in the contract Obama had to sign as a New Party endorsed candidate!

Quote:
About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The NP’s political strategy is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a concrete chance to “win”. This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110 elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.

The political entourage included Alderman Michael Chandler, William Delgado, chief of staff for State Rep Miguel del Valle, and spokespersons for State Sen. Alice Palmer, Sonya Sanchez, chief of staff for State Sen. Jesse Garcia, who is running for State Rep in Garcia’s District; and Barack Obama, chief of staff for State Sen. Alice Palmer. Obama is running for Palmer’s vacant seat.

Source: http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html#anchor792932


18 posted on 10/08/2008 1:48:58 PM PDT by Columbo
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To: workerbee
Marxist

...Stealth Marxist.

The Post American World of Barack Obama

The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria

...connecting the dots to show Barack Obama's long-standing,
continuously developing, anti-American alliances...

Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Listen to this Interview of James Simpson, by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.

On Barack Obama's Marxist connections in Chicago

Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of [Marxist] Socialist 'New Party' In 1996

On Alice Palmer, the South Side's Marxist State Senator, Who Hand Picked Barack Obama to Succeed Her

More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:

Barack Obama campaigning with taxpayers' money for Raila Odinga, Marxist & pro-Islamist, despotic leader in Kenya

Barack Obama & Khalid Al-Mansour (old Black Panther comrade of Ayers & Dohrn and likely of Alice Palmer) who raised funds to get Obama into Harvard

And then there are... Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Pritzkers, and the "loose lips" of Charles Schumer and Harry Reid (and Henry Paulson is not above suspicion, with his control-freak power play and Goldman Sachs cronyism).

Get these articles and pictures out to everyone you know (or anything even more informative that comes up) -- voters, media, officials and staff of both parties, everyone. We have time if we act now.


19 posted on 10/08/2008 1:49:15 PM PDT by unspun (Web search: "Cloward-Piven AND Obama" - get the truth out to all GOP officials & conservative media.)
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To: redpoll
This is A DUD. The concepts of socialism, communism, and totalitarianism have been so watered down by the media and schools that most Americans either don’t care or see those terms as archiac throwbacks to the McCarthy hearings. You and I know better, certainly, but I’m talking about most people.

Unfortunately, I think you're right.

And remember the "Clinton Effect?" The more we found to pile on him, the more The True Believers fought back by refusing to even hear it.

20 posted on 10/08/2008 1:50:23 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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To: Columbo

I saw the same and was going to post, but yours is already up. See Post 18.


21 posted on 10/08/2008 1:50:54 PM PDT by Bushbacker1 (President Bush has let me down! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Tzimisce
Shouldn’t you little people be paying your taxes instead of bothering us?

-your friends in the MSM

You've captured the essence of the MSM...

22 posted on 10/08/2008 1:55:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Derivative traders HAVE MADE MORE MONEY THAN EXISTS - Bailouts & rate cuts to ZERO won't work.)
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To: Bushbacker1

Also, Obama’s ties with the DSA (Chicago Democratic Socialists of America) need to be explored.

This link contains Obama’s DSA endorsement and shows that he was a panel member at a DSA forum on the economy. He later received praise for his socialist comments at this forum. I’ll post that link as well:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010906162143/www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html

Quote about his socialist economics:

“When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.”

http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html#anchor540108


23 posted on 10/08/2008 1:56:55 PM PDT by Columbo
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To: PJ-Comix
Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?

When

24 posted on 10/08/2008 1:59:04 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: KansasGirl
Hopefully Drudge is not ignoring it and doesn't have it on his website yet only because it's new stuff (found yesterday) and he's checking it out.

Of course, my dream is he'll put it up with a siren. Hadn't had one of those in a long time.

25 posted on 10/08/2008 2:03:15 PM PDT by rvoitier (Democrat--gateway ideology to Communism / It's the Revolution, Stupid!)
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To: backhoe

“And remember the “Clinton Effect?” The more we found to pile on him, the more The True Believers fought back by refusing to even hear it.”

The true believers and Obama can have each other. I’m concerned about reaching the ones who might vote for Obama just because he’s the “not-Bush” candidate. The ones who want to switch parties in the White House, as if that could make all of our troubles go away. They can be persuaded. I know people like this. There are lots of them.


26 posted on 10/08/2008 2:04:49 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: PJ-Comix

I think more to the point is what kind of disgraceful behavior in his past would it take for the MSM to change their tactics and expose this creep? IOW, how far down the road to perdition are they willing to slither?


27 posted on 10/08/2008 2:10:23 PM PDT by Marauder (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
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To: skeeter
If the MSM can get a guy this flawed elected they can get a ham sandwich elected.

I will personally drive over there and slap you if you ever dare to disgrace the name of the ham sandwich again by comparing it to obama.

28 posted on 10/08/2008 2:16:21 PM PDT by NationalistVisionary (Who will be America's Charles Martel?)
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To: PJ-Comix
Only if it gets to the point that they can't ignore it. It took Hannity a year before the Wright story got picked up, and then it was with Hillary's help.

Skip Drudge, Rush and McCain and get the news to Sarah Palin. She's got balls.

29 posted on 10/08/2008 2:17:38 PM PDT by Paul Heinzman (McCain / Palin '08. Write-ins and protest votes won't help America.)
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To: PJ-Comix; All

Any 527’s going to act on this?


30 posted on 10/08/2008 2:23:52 PM PDT by Rick_Michael
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To: theDentist

I’m beginning to get the feeling that it really doesn’t matter what Obama has done or not done.Nothing sticks and the public is more concerned now with their 401’s than who Obama really is or who his friends may or may not be ?
It doesn’t matter that a close associate was a Weatherman bomber ? Or that he recruited for acorn ? And many,many other problems with Obama. So come January we are going Socialist and there is no stopping it.More than 50% of America is for this Marxist.If the top of our ticket were a true
Conservative ? We may have survived this.


31 posted on 10/08/2008 2:24:10 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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To: PJ-Comix
I wonder what Barack's speech was about? Maybe he was there to refute the socialist principles of the sponsors?

http://groups.google.com/group/chi.politics/browse_thread/thread/d5d92296fba9a75f/17699d1e87cff10e?lnk=st&q=%22%22barack+obama%22%22#17699d1e87cff10e

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The Democratic Socialists of America Present
The First Chicago Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity

EMPLOYMENT AND SURVIVAL IN URBAN AMERICA
a discussion of policy, problems, and possibilities

with

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON,
Director, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago

MICHAEL DAWSON,
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

BARACK OBAMA,
Candidate, State Senate, 13th Legislative District

TONI PRECKWINKLE,
4th Ward Alderman

JOSEPH SCHWARTZ,
Professor of Political Science, Temple University

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
7:00pm
Ida Noyes Hall, Cloyster Club
1313 E. 59th Street, Chicago

Sponsored by:
*University of Chicago Democrats
*Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
*University of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
For more information call:

University of Chicago Democratic Socialists, 312-955-6371

32 posted on 10/08/2008 2:24:42 PM PDT by bobwoodard
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To: PJ-Comix

If the entire global financial system can melt down, so can the “liberal-stream media”. If they fail to report this story, they have sealed their doom.


33 posted on 10/08/2008 2:31:28 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: bobwoodard

Bobwoodard,

Indeed :)

The DSA later praised Obama for his words at that forum:

“When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.”

source:

http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html#anchor540108


34 posted on 10/08/2008 2:36:28 PM PDT by Columbo
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To: PJ-Comix
Obama is not a socialist, he is communist all the way. Only the blind cannot see it.
35 posted on 10/08/2008 2:40:21 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Columbo

Not to mention that for someone who was not a member of the NP, he seemed to be a regular in their newsletters during that timeframe.

Here are a couple of blurbs from New Ground 47 (NP newsletter) regarding the 4 candidates they endorsed (Barack was one):

“All four candidates attended the NP membership meeting on April 11th to express their gratitude” - Too bad there’s no YouTube for his chat with the NPers.

“Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.” - I wonder if this links up with the work ACORN was doing?


36 posted on 10/08/2008 3:01:44 PM PDT by bobwoodard
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To: PJ-Comix
The mainstream media thought that the membership of Todd Palin, who is not a candidate for any office, in the Alaska Independence Party important enough to report in such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the New York Times, among others. So now that Barack Obama's membership in the far left New Party has been unearthed, will they report his membership in that Socialist organization?

obumpa

37 posted on 10/08/2008 3:15:35 PM PDT by Dajjal (Visit Ann Coulter's getdrunkandvote4mccain.com)
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To: workerbee

bttt


38 posted on 10/08/2008 3:21:13 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (`Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: PJ-Comix

The entire black caucus belonged to the DSA before the commies at DSA took the info off its web site in the 1990s. Pelosi was a member of DSA, too.

The bed-wetting liberals who vote these traitors into congress don’t care. Hell, half the members at my local American Legion here in the socialist/welfare state of Michigan are either communists or socialists. This country is stinky stuffed to gunwales with Marxists. Sooner or later, we need to do a major house cleaning.


39 posted on 10/08/2008 3:48:01 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Genoa
The true believers and Obama can have each other. I’m concerned about reaching the ones who might vote for Obama just because he’s the “not-Bush” candidate. The ones who want to switch parties in the White House, as if that could make all of our troubles go away. They can be persuaded. I know people like this. There are lots of them.

I hear you, and agree. My brother in law got suckered to the dark side, but so far, no luck convincing him Obama will be poison for him & his girls. He somehow conflates the death of his first wife, the closing of his business = Boosh! And of course, he wants "change..."

40 posted on 10/08/2008 4:11:38 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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To: PJ-Comix

yikes


41 posted on 10/08/2008 6:10:31 PM PDT by jonatron (God save America)
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To: PJ-Comix

The Great One lying? How can this be?


42 posted on 10/09/2008 3:42:05 AM PDT by hershey
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To: PJ-Comix

BTTT


43 posted on 10/09/2008 10:45:59 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: PJ-Comix

NEW PARTY (NP)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434

WORKING FAMILIES PARTY (WFP)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/


44 posted on 10/09/2008 10:50:22 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: PJ-Comix
Seen this?
Photo Discovered Of Obama With Fellow Chicago Socialist Party Members
45 posted on 10/21/2008 7:05:08 PM PDT by philman_36
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