Posted on 10/09/2008 11:21:52 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I don't know how long Barack Obama's name will remain on the Wikipedia page for the New Party entry but it looks like it was added yesterday after a bit of struggle. By not so strange coincidence, your humble correspondent also provided evidence yesterday that Obama was a member of the socialist New Party. First the description of the New Party in Wikipedia:
The New Party was a third political party in the United States that tried to re-introduce the practice of electoral fusion as a political strategy for labor unions and community organizing groups. In electoral fusion, the same candidate receives nomination from more than one political party and occupies more than one ballot line. Fusion was once common in the United States but is now commonly practiced only in New York State, although it is allowed by law in seven other states. The party was active from 1992 to 1998. There had been an earlier New Party in 1968 that ran Eugene McCarthy for President.
The New Party was founded in the early 1990s by Daniel Cantor, a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, and by sociology and law professor Joel Rogers as an effort to break with the largely unsuccessful history of left-leaning third parties in the United States.
The party could best be described as social democratic in orientation, although party statements almost invariably used the terms "small-d democratic" or "progressive" instead. Its founders chose the name "New Party" in an effort to strike a fresh tone, free of associations with dogmas and ideological debates.
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PING!
Hope they spelled his (middle) name right!
Unfortunately, the word “socialism” is nowhere to be found on that Wikipedia page.
No but keep reading the FULL article. Wikipedia does include the New Party in its "Democratic Socialist and Social Democratic Parties and Organizations" page.
For Immediate Release: - 10/06/08
(Contact info and pdf of press release below)
Country is Headed to a Constitutional Crisis
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/06/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the Motion to Dismiss (which was) filed on 09/24/08.
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http://obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/29-berg-outraged-obama-a-dnc-file-motion-to-prevent-concurrent-discovery
The war is on.
Revisions are flying through the system.
I thought being a socialist was a mark of honor to these nut jobs.
Hey PJ—add me to your NewsBusters ping list please
The hypocrisy is amazing. He’s trying as hard as he can to keep this information out as biased, at the same time showing his own bias. Somehow this requires a visit to the library to confirm, where anything else on Wikipedia just requires a reliable Internet source. A party’s web site should be considered reliable for these purposes as far as that party’s endorsements go.
Obama’s name is already gone from the New Party page.
Obama is back. The leftists attempting to rewrite history to defend him are trying every tact, but can’t justify keeping it off according to Wikipedia rules.
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