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It’s natural to be skeptical of excessive claims about Obama’s radical associations...there are so many. But one bears attention — because it helped him get his start in politics. In 1996, he won an Illinois state senate seat on a “fusion” ticket of the Democratic Party and leftist group called the “New Party.” The New Party with 7,000 members at its peak, had been an explicitly anti-capitalist party of ex-Communists, socialists and activists from ACORN, the hard-left group that’s constantly in trouble over voter fraud. The New Party didn’t ask for Obama’s association; he asked for the New Party’s endorsement.Blogger...

Election '08: The word is that Barack Obama is a mainstream politician who sometimes attracts fringe leftists. The record tells a different story — that he has sought out radicals. What does that say of his agenda?It's natural to be skeptical of excessive claims about Obama's radical associations. After all, there are so many. But one bears attention — because it helped him get his start in politics. In 1996, he won an Illinois state senate seat on a "fusion" ticket of the Democratic Party and leftist group called the "New Party." The New Party, founded in 1992 with 7,000...

Erik Ericson of RedState.com has a very detailed article today on Barack Obama's connection to a neo-Marxist political party called the "New Party." (I wrote about the New Party here.) Basically, Obama sought out the group as a result of his work with another far left organization ACORN - a "non-partisan" acvitist group whose members have been convicted in several states of vote fraud. And not only did Obama receive their endorsement, he used many of the party's members as campaign workers on his first state senate campaign:

It seems that Senator Obama's Old party was called the New Party. The party was a Marxist Political coalition. This was not a guilt by association thing. Senator Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. Read more on the Marxist endorsement that Barack Obama sought out: Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose...

America's Independent Party has as its goal the return of our nation to a set of foundational principles. We call them "the American Principles." The word "principle" comes from a Latin root which means "first things." The American Principles are the "first things" that our country should consider – in domestic policy, foreign policy, the internal functioning of government, and in using the "bully pulpit" of public office and the political arena to promote certain societal virtues and behaviors. America's Independent Party recognizes that these "first things" are clearly defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the...

Philosophy America The US Constitution is the finest and most enlightened governing document in the history of nations. The blessings of the Almighty were present as the men from the various former colonies crafted a system of republican rule that struck the fundamental balance between God-given individual freedoms, the autonomy of the States, and the necessity of a limited, but strong triumvirate federal government. The FALCON party recognizes not only the brilliance of our Constitution, but also the solemn duty to abide by its provisions. The Founders provided a mechanism to change the stipulations held within the Constitution, and the...

January 21, 2008 A Conservative Party Organized on a Federalist Basis? For purposes of discussion, if we were to try to establish state level versions of a national conservative party, how would we go about it? Think both inside and outside the box. I would suggest also giving a fair amount of consideration to the new communication and organizational tools now available to us that were not available even as recently as the Perot uprising.

I was listening to Rush and thinking about our Washington politicians. Is it time for a third party, the "Wall" party? I don't have the experience, contacts, or skills to know where to start on this, but here is what I would run on. Nothing about abortion It's too divisive an issue and can be dealt with in the courts. Term Limits No one serves more than two terms, retroactive. Build the wall Like the caller on Rush said the other day, hire the Mexicans to build the wall. They have the biggest concrete block company in the world. This...

Last update - 00:37 21/11/2005 Sharon leaving Likud, will set up new party By Mazal Mualem, Yossi Verter and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to announce Monday that he will quit the Likud and establish a new party, senior Likud officials said Sunday night. However, they warned that until Sharon announces the decision, he can always retract it. Other political sources said Sharon told Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Sunday that he plans to quit the Likud, but that it wasn't clear whether he would announce the decision Moday. "We'll only know for sure in the...

Greetings, fellow South Park Conservatives. I have been seriously considering our options as a legitimate and viable political party. The other parties, well, we just don't fit in with them. Dems: Self explanatory. Socialist weasels that go against the very grain of everything we believe in. Repubs: Ever-moving to the left. Currently outspending the most liberal of Democrats on everything except defending our borders, which is what their (the Federal Government's) job is supposed to be. They also want to legislate morality and tell us what we can and can't do/watch/say here in this "free" country. They are also just...

<p>The Independence Party of Minnesota lost a gubernatorial candidate Thursday and picked up a passel of recruits from the DFL and Republican parties to carry the IP banner in legislative races, including former DFL Rep. Edwina Garcia of Richfield.</p> <p>Christine Jax, the state commissioner of Children, Families and Learning, dropped out of the race for the IP endorsement to succeed the party's headliner, Gov. Jesse Ventura.</p>