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President Barack Obama has been challenged before about his alleged ties to the “New Party,” a far-left political group that once served as a third party option in the American political schema. Last month, The Blaze highlighted some images that seemed to corroborate the president’s alleged past ties to groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and, alas, the New Party, despite his campaign’s 2008 denial that he was a member of the movement. As noted, a picture of Obama was published on the cover of the New Party News pamphlet back in 1996, serving as a small sliver of...

Tomorrow is Tax Day, and conservatives across the country are planning "Tea Parties," intended to be grass-roots "revolts" against the Obama administration's economic policies thus far. Though organized independent of the Republican Party, a number of officeholders and candidates are planning to attend local events. At the White House, Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations. He will, however, mark the day with a White House event "to signal the important steps in the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families in America," Gibbs...

CPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical Forget for the moment about Bill Ayers and Obama’s other Communist friends and mentors of the distant past. Just behold the current ‘Election 2008' brochure from the Communist Party Of The United States (a pdf file):    (Click on images to enlarge) Election 2008 Help Make History Turn Our Country Around A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility. Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is...

William Ayers has written a new afterword to his old book. He reveals that he and Obama were family friends. He also reveals some of his involvement in Obama's early political career. In summary, he proves what we already knew. Obama is a liar. In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate. “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A Republican congressman from Georgia is calling President-elect Obama a Marxist and warning that he might be planning to form a Gestapo-like security force so he can rule as a dictator. Two-term Rep. Paul Broun of Athens cited a July speech that has circulated on the Internet in which Obama called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

"The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by...

Since there is so much right-wing blog assertion that Obama has socialist friends, associates, philosophies, and attitudes, I thought I’d take a look at the evidence and claims.

Sen. Obama has complained recently that he is being called a socialist. In fact, he joked that the McCain camp might call him a communist because he used to share his peanut butter sandwiches in elementary school. Of course, the senator cannot be accused of being a communist because he shared sandwiches during his elementary school years. A true communist would not share the sandwiches but instead would confiscate all the sandwiches in the lunch room for distribution among the party members. In order to remain politically correct, I will use the "duck" instead of "socialist" so as not to...

At the Far Left anti-Semitic Daily Kos website, Barack Obama wrote about driving moderates out of the Democratic Party.Via Sweetness and Light: I thought this might be a good opportunity to offer some thoughts about not only judicial confirmations, but how to bring about meaningful change in this country. Maybe some of you believe I could have made my general point more artfully, but it’s precisely because many of these groups are friends and supporters that I felt it necessary to speak my mind. There is one way, over the long haul, to guarantee the appointment of judges that...

HONOLULU, Hawaii – The late Marxist activist Frank Marshall Davis, frequently accompanied by young Barack Obama and his grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, sold marijuana and cocaine from a "Chicago style" hot dog cart Davis operated near his home on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki in the early 1970s, WND has established. A credible source, a well-known resident of Honolulu who spoke at length with WND on condition he not be named, disclosed that Davis was the source of drugs consumed by Obama. Davis was also the author of an autobiographical novel boasting of "swinging" and sex with minors, a copy of...

In 2001, Barack Obama said he saw aspects of Nazi Germany in American society and government. He also said the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally flawed. And that he was disappointed that the Supreme Court had not ordered federally administered financial equality as part of the civil rights movement. He also called for a political coalition to be formed that would force “redistributive” policies on the American people – using the power of government to equalize wealth across the society. In 2008, that political coalition is about to take power. It’s called Obama ’08. And more surprising than the fact that...

scathing new line of attack on Barack Obama’s tax plan at a rally here, citing an interview he gave as an Illinois state senator in 2001 as evidence that he favors socialist policies that fly in the face of the Constitution. “It was just the other day that a tape of an interview from 2001 turned up, and there he was talking about the need for quote 'redistributive change,’” Palin said. “And Sen. Obama said that—he said that he regretted--he regretted that the Supreme Court hadn't been more radical and he described the court's refusal to take up the issues...

<p>Does Barak Hussein Marx Obama have ANY long term associates who are NOT America-hating or Jew-hating Marxists?</p> <p>I'm talking LONG TERM associates, mentors, heroes, relatives, pastors, schoolmates, supporters, etc., those those who shape or have shaped his world view.</p> <p>If we drew up a list with two columns, the left column containing the names of his socialist, leftist, Marxist, Communist, terrorist, anarchist, abortionist, America-hating, Jew-hating, Christian-hating, atheist or Muslim friends, pals, associates, mother, fathers, relatives, heroes, mentors, professors, preachers, fellow travelers, bookies, drug dealers, law partners, corrupt indicted or unindicted co-conspirators, bribers, ACORN members, fellow community organizers, major supporters and benefactors, etc.</p>

Is Barack Obama a socialist? A Marxist? It is hard to believe that question could even be seriously asked of a major party political candidate. Nevertheless, there have been a few times that voters have gotten a glimpse of Obama in unguarded moments. Glimmers that remind me of the left-wing academic whom I ran into a number of times while we were both at the University of Chicago Law School. — When Charlie Gibson asked Obama in April why he supported higher capital gains taxes, even if that meant less government revenue and thus less money to give to those...

Glenn Beck: Frightening Obama Glen Beck interprets Obama's radio remarks that just surfaced. Based on Obama's remarks he comes to the conclusion that Obama, the lecturer on constitutional law, wants to creat a Supreme Court that will reinterpret the constitution until it is not recognizable. He wants a court that will concern it self with wealth redistribution, economic justice and negative liberties. Rather than to see the constitution as something that restricts the government, he wants to see a constitution that includes a Bill of Entitlements for the people. One that will guarantee Universal housing, universal healthcare, universal jobs. Beck...

A timeline of Obama's lifetime commitment to Marxism: 1960s-1970s Obama's mother and father were both Marxists. His childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was an open member of the Communist Party USA. 1980s Obama attends Occidental College in California, where he deliberately befriends the "Marxist professors." Later, Obama transfers to New York's Columbia University, where he begins venturing to the East Village for what he calls "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."

Apparently there is a new logo for Obama, one redolent with historical precedent and meaning.....

In response to increasing efforts by local market journalists to ask the questions the national media refuse to ask, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are growing furious at news reporters who have the audacity to label Obama’s socialist “wealth redistribution” campaign as “socialism”… Obama and Biden’s entire campaign is based upon government confiscation and re-distribution of private earned wealth, -“over-taxing those according to their ability; and redistributing confiscated wealth according to politically motivated deceptions of need…” Karl Marx, the father of “SOCIALISM” explained exactly what socialism is… “From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.”

First it was Barack Obama's encounter with Joe the Plumber. Then there was his 2001 interview at Chicago radio station. Today, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air highlights yet another in what is turning out to be a long line of links and other items proving that Democratic candidate Barack Obama is a longtime dedicated, doctrinnaire soc-, soc-, (yes, we're still allowed to say it) socialist. It comes from the March-April 1996 edition of New Ground, a publication of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (CDSA). I'll cite the relevant verbiage after the jump. But what's more important, I will show...

We are Democratic Socialists because America deserves a raise. And the only way we can be sure of getting one is with a strong labor movement. Arguably as important as a raise is the respect and security that a strong union movement provides its members. DSA is a proud and consistent supporter of organized labor and the right to organize and to bargain collectively; nothing is more subversive of corporate rule than a strong labor movement. We are Democratic Socialists because we are internationalists. We are internationalists because free trade, without agreements to protect the right to organize free and...