Posted on 11/27/2008 9:14:26 AM PST by MHGinTN
Obama file 52 here
According to the Washington Post, potential appointees to president elect Obama's new administration are being scrutinised like never before.
Now, as President-elect Barack Obama assembles his administration, an army of lawyers volunteering on his transition team are vetting his potential picks with unprecedented scrutiny of their personal, financial and professional backgrounds.
Obama is conducting the vetting process much the way he managed his campaign: methodically, thoroughly and on a prodigious scale. He did not wait until he won the election to vet his favored picks. Soon after he clinched the Democratic nomination, lawyers quietly prepared dossiers of about 150 contenders for senior positions -- often without the candidates themselves knowing....
Why then did president elect Obama, appoint a socialist to his proto cabinet- Transition Economic Advisory Board?
The man in question, former Michigan Congressman David Bonior is a supporter and almost certainly a "member in good standing" of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Despite its name, DSA is not "democratic" in the traditional American sense. The organisation is a several thousand strong alliance of Marxists, anarchists, former communists, Trotskyists and student radicals-dedicated to the socialist transformation of American society.
DSA has close ties and some cross membership with both the Communist Party USA and the CPUSA offshoot Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism-both of wich also supported Obama.
Many DSA members have ties to Castro's Cuba, Chavez's Venezuela and Mexico's Zapatista rebels.
One DSA National Political Committee member, Kurt Stand, (code name "Junior") was jailed in 1997 after the FBI discovered he had spied for the former East Germany.
A Friends of Kurt Stand support group is still run by senior DSA member William (Bill)Moseley.
According to Wikipedia Bonior was...
First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority (1991-1995) and minority (1995-2002), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively. During his tenure in office, Bonior was the public face of Democratic opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
David Bonior was a leading member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a grouping of around 50 leftist Democratic congressmen, which includes some DSA members.
From the DSA website.
No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus...Maybe sometime in the future, in coalition with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats
After leaving Congress in 2002, Bonior ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Michigan, backed by Detroit DSA.
From DSA's Democratic Left Fall 2002
Detroit DSA remains active in the electoral arena. Over the spring and summer, its work focused on Rep.David Bonior's gubernatorial campaign. The local endorsed Rep. Bonior almost eighteen months ago. He was the keynote speaker at its last Douglass-Debs Dinner. DSA helped with the early fundraising for his campaign, col-lecting signatures for his nominating petitions, distributing literature at Detroit churches, and walking door to door in Macomb County on his behalf on the weekend before the primary. On the weekend of July 20-21, the local brought Rep. Danny Davis (an African-American congressman and DSA member from Chicago) to Detroit to campaign for Bonior...
Danny K Davis is also long time friend and political ally of Barack Obama.
In 2003 David Bonior was a keynote speaker at DSA's national convention in Detroit
Bonior's speech-"Towards a North American Parliamentary Union" called for a political forum, or Parliament to address US/Canada/Mexico relations. While Bonior was a leading opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement, he is clearly not so opposed to North american political union..
Bonior told the DSA conference;
This organization has been just absolutely tremendous in the Detroit area in [the]living wage campaign’s great, great success—they have been one of the stalwarts in it—fighting for a singlepayer healthcare plan, and, of course, global justice. And I couldn’t be more thrilled to be here with you today and to be associated...
Four days after Obama won the presidency, on the 8th of November 2008, Greater Detroit DSA honoured David Bonior and his wife at their annual dinner.
At this year’s Fr ederick Douglass-Eugene V. Debs Dinner, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) with the New American Movement to form Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The dinner will be held at UAW Local 600 at 6 PM on Saturday, November 8th. This year we are honoring David and Judy Bonior and Judge Claudia Morcum...
Bonior also chairs the board of pro-union organisation American Rights at Work. Other board members include AFL-CIO president and DSA member John Sweeney, NAACP leader Julian Bond (once a member of DSA ancestor organisation Democratic Socialist Organising Committee) and two DSA connected politicians-former Congressman and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume and Congresswoman Hilda Solis.
Clearly David Bonior is close to DSA, but is there any proof that he is actually a member?
From DSA's Democratic Left Spring 2006
DSA has formed a Political Action Committee—Democratic Socialists of America PAC (DSA PAC), which will raise funds to enable activity that supports or opposes candidates for federal office. By law, DSA is not permitted to expend its resources in support of or against candidates in partisan elections; however, DSA is permitted to form a PAC for this purpose...
The PAC is a separate legal entity that will file reports of its activity with the Federal Election Commission...
Only DSA members in good standing may contribute to the PAC. Because the law is so specific, all contributions are carefully screened to make sure that they are from members...
"Only members in good standing may contribute..."
According to this page-David Bonior Political Campaign Contributions 2006 Election Cycle David E Bonior gave $1,000 to the DSA PAC.
BONIOR, DAVID E
MT CLEMENS, MI
48043 WAYNE STATE UNIV./PROFESSOR $1,000 06/19/2006 P DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA PAC
Either DSA, Bonior or both broke US electoral law, or David E Bonior was, in 2006, an official member of Democratic Socialists of America.
Others contributors listed with Bonior included confirmed DSA members David Green, Ed Clark, Adam Hochschild, Duane Campbell, David Knuttenen, Richard Shoemaker, Milton Tambor, Eric Edel, Oskar Pascal and William Moseley.
So it looks pretty likely that David Bonior was, or is, a paid up socialist.
If this is so, why would Obama appoint David Bonior to one of the most important posts in the country?
It is not as if Bonior and Obama go way back. Bonior is only a fairly recent convert to the Obama cause. Originally he was a campaign manager for Obama's Democratic primary rival John Edwards.
Even though Bonior's conversion is pretty complete…
why should Obama choose him above all other contenders?
The answer may be obvious.
Obama has his own easily documented ties to Democratic Socialists of America.
Obama almost certainly began attending DSA sponsored conferences while at Columbia University in the early 1980s. He was endorsed by Chicago DSA during his successful 1996 run for Illinois State Senate. At the same time he joined the partially DSA initiated New Party.
Obama has close personal and political ties to several DSA supporters including Quentin Young, Rabbi Jacob Wolf, Jackie Grimshaw, William McNary, the late Saul Mendelson and US Congress members Danny K Davis and Jan Schakowsky.
Is it credible that Obama has no knowledge of Bonior's DSA connections? Is it possible that Obama's sleuths missed Bonior's easily found socialist links?
Is it more likely that Obama is well aware of Bonior's background, but appointed him in spite of, or even because of it?
In appointing David Bonior to his "Transition Team" was Obama knowingly promoting a a socialist "comrade"?
There are some important questions to be answered here.
posted at 11/27/2008 07:56:00 AM
Another ‘over there’ source I thought you might want to see.
That is the fundamental change he means to bring.
Hear the relevent part of that interview and questrion answer below:
Because during the campaign he did promise to appoint someone to the right of him :-)
Jeff, do you have a politically savvy list to ping for this one? The media is avoiding such facts as these ...
I urge everyone to listen to that interview linked to above. it is perhaps the most revealing of OPbama's underlying Marxist ideology.
Obama has made it clear that he intends to bring fundamental change to America...his own words, make it clear what that change will be about.
We elected him. He’s going to be the President. Learn it, love it, live it.
WE didn’t elect him; but 62 million idiots did.
Hoss
No it was David Obey that was caught on tape. Bonior was not in congrss in 2006.
“We elected him. He’s going to be the President. Learn it, love it, live it.”
Give-up-assume-the-fetal-position Koolaid”
STAND UP AMERICA! The presidential election is not over!
We voted for electors, not the individual candidates. The electors vote on or after December 15, 2009. The results are then presented to a joint session of Congress and objections may be heard on January 8, 2009 pursuant to the 20th amendment and Public Law 110-430. See the letter on my About page hand-delivered to the local offices of my Republican Senators and Representatives. I urge you to take similar action, even if it is simply faxing a one page letter to Washington, D.C.
I think you are delusional if you think this kind of stuff is going to work. We’re in for four sad, long, years.
It may or it may not work. What do you have to lose that won't be taken from you eventually???
One thing for sure though, for those who could have tried and didn't, those next four years will be longer and sadder than if they had just tried. For them there will be no place of consolation.
I stand corrected. You are absolutely right.
Being what you show yourself to be doesn’t add a thing to this thread. But that was a nice try, maroon. You may have voted for him, but he is not Constitutionally eligible for the affirmative action position which he seeks. Of course, fools like you will be glad to set the Constitutional requirements aside to install this Marxist squirrel at the helm.
I didn’t vote for Obama. I don’t like Obama. But We the People voted for him, so we have to live with it.
Maybe
Because he’s a FREAKIN’ SOCIALIST!!!!!
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