Posted on 08/02/2010 11:00:20 PM PDT by Nachum
I have contended for some time that Barack Obama owes his political career by three marxist organizations, Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America.
Of the three, Obama's decades old ties to Democratic Socialists of America are most easily documentable.
Part of this support has come in the form of favorable media stories about Obama and in orchestrated attacks against his opponents. It is no coincidence that several members of the recently exposed, pro Obama JournoList; had close ties to D.S.A.
Harold ; Meyerson is both a leading U.S. journalist and a vice chair of Democratic Socialists of America.
Meyerson is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and is the editor-at-large at The American Prospect.
While not an identified member of JournoList, Meyerson is professionally and politically associated with several.
After the success of health care reform, whats next on labors agenda? How can the labor movement grow and engage with a progressive movement that speaks to the Obama era? What is the role of younger workers, workers of color, and women? Is there a new New Deal on the horizon?Speakers included;
Its tragic for so many reasons that Michael died too young; his voice and his wisdom are sorely needed. How he would marvel at the election of Barack Obama and the promise that this victory affords all of us on the democratic left! He is sorely missed. But were he alive, I would hopeand expect, that he and others who are informed by this vision of democratic socialism would join with us in SEIU as we seek to take advantage of a moment most of us have spent our lifetimes only dreaming of.It should come as no surprise to learn that Harold Meyerson was the one of the first, if not THE FIRST , journalist to promote Barack Obama outside his his adopted state of Illinois.
From the Washington Post February 25, 2009;
In March of 2004, a few days before the Illinois Democratic senatorial primary, I wrote a column for this page headlined "A Bright Hope in Illinois." It was, I believe, the first column for a daily newspaper outside Illinois devoted to a rising young pol named Barack Obama. Bolstered by polling that showed Obama to be the clear leader in the race, I fearlessly predicted that he'd become Illinois' next senator and quoted the assessment of Jan Schakowsky, the Democratic member of Congress from Chicago's Gold Coast district, that Obama would "march right onto the national stage and the international stage."Jan Schakowsky, also a major Obama supporter, is of course also a very close friend of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
The Congressional Black Caucus had demanded a meeting with President Bush to discuss the situation in Haiti.
Schakowsky had also been invited because of her strong interest in the issue.
According to Chicago DSA's New Ground, May/June 2004;
Bush finally, at the insistence of caucus members, made it to this meeting and spent enough time to display his ignorance of the issue. He noticed Jan, a lone white face, and seemed to "jump back" when he saw her button. Osama? No, Mr. President. Barack Obama, and you'll be hearing from him when he becomes the Senator from Illinois.
You'd think his name alone would keep him from winning: Barack Obama. Put an "Obama for Senate" bumper sticker on your car and the dyslexic or myopic might just try to punch you out.Here's Stanley Meyerson plugging Obama outside the Democratic Party convention in Denver in 2008.Yet, three days ago, in its last preelection poll before Tuesday's primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama, a 42-year-old state senator, had opened a wide lead over the six other candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to succeed the departing Peter Fitzgerald...
Organization men are a staple of Illinois politics, of course, and investment bankers seem poised to take over the Senate in our plutocratic age. Obama, by contrast, is a candidate who all but defies categorization -- and who would certainly mark a radical departure for the stodgy Senate...
But that scarcely begins to describe the distinctiveness of Obama. His father was Kenyan, his mother a white girl from Kansas. The two met and married at the University of Hawaii in 1960 (when miscegenation was still a felony in more than half the states). His father disappeared from his life when Obama was 2; his mother raised him in Hawaii and Indonesia. Obama went to college at Columbia, then moved to Chicago for five years of community organizing in a fusion of civil rights crusading and Saul Alinsky house-to-house plodding. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the Law Review; returned to Chicago to run a program that registered 100,000 voters in the '92 elections, entered a civil rights law firm and became a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. ..
Seven years ago Obama was elected to the state Senate from a district in Chicago's South Side. In Springfield, he developed a reputation as an impassioned progressive who was able to get support on both sides of the aisle...
In October 2002, Obama made an eloquent case against the impending war in Iraq at a rally in downtown Chicago. Declaring repeatedly that "I don't oppose all wars," he distinguished what he termed "a dumb war, a rash war" from a string of just and necessary wars in which the United States had engaged. He is surely the progressives' darling in the field, drawing enthusiastic support from white Lake Shore liberals as well as the African American community. But he's also won the endorsements of virtually all the state's major papers, many of which -- such as Chicago's Tribune and Sun-Times -- note their disagreement with him on the war but hail him as a brilliant public servant nonetheless. Should Obama win, says Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston, who backs his candidacy, he'd "march right onto the national stage and the international stage..."
While practicing law in the early 1990s, Obama wrote "Dreams From My Father," a memoir and meditation of genuine literary merit that depicts his understandable quest for his identity -- a quest that immersed him in the world of Chicago's poor and that took him to a Kenyan village in search of a father he never knew. It's a story of worlds colliding, fusing and redividing, of a life devoted to re-creating in a grittier world the idealism and sense of community of the early civil rights movement, which provided the backdrop for his parents' marriage.
If by "American" we mean that which is most distinctive about us and our ideals, if we mean it to refer to our status as a nation of immigrants that could yet become the world's first great polyglot, miscegenistic meritocracy, then Barack Obama, if elected, would not only become the sole African American in the Senate: He would also be the most distinctly American of its members.
Yes, Barack Obama is Stanley's man alright!
It is clear that D.S.A. has had "the fix" in for Obama, for some years.
Would Barack Obama be president of the United States today, without JournoList and a sympathetic "progressive" media?
Would JounoList have existed, or have been as influential, without Democratic Socialists of America?
Does America owe its current president, at least partly, to D.S.A. - a few thousand strong marxist organization, that most voters have never even heard of?
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the USA is going to look like Haiti if we dont get the lefty’s out of DC...Too bad Bush didnt clean it up like he promised.
Not just the lefties, the two major parties are bloodsuckers, steeped in commie beliefs and practice—the bs that the two parties are “different” is in itself bs and proof that they aren’t what they claim to be.
Sure, throw the bums outta gubmint—all of gubmint, the three branches, the fourth estate, and all its dingo-buries as well.
The first thing a progressive has to do to be a progressive is to be prepared to lie about anything and everything.
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Spencer Ackerman | Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect | |
Thomas Adcock | New York Law Journal | ||
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Ben Adler | Newsweek, POLITICO | |
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Mike Allen | POLITICO | |
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Eric Alterman | The Nation, Media Matters for America | |
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Marc Ambinder | The Atlantic | |
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Greg Anrig | The Century Foundation | |
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Ryan Avent | Economist | |
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Dean Baker | The American Prospect | |
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Nick Baumann | Mother Jones | |
Josh Bearman | LA Weekly | ||
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Steven Benen | The Carpetbagger Report | |
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Ari Berman | The Nation | |
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Jared Bernstein | Economic Policy Institute | |
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Michael Berube | Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University | |
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Brian Beutler | The Media Consortium | |
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Lindsay Beyerstein | Freelance journalist | |
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Joel Bleifuss | In These Times | |
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John Blevins | South Texas College of Law | |
Sam Boyd | The American Prospect | ||
Ben Brandzel | MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign | ||
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Shannon Brownlee | Author, New America Foundation | |
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Will Bunch | Philadelphia Daily News | |
Rich Byrne | Playwright | ||
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Jonathan Chait | The New Republic | |
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Lakshmi Chaudry | In These Times | |
Isaac Chotiner | The New Republic | ||
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic | |
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Michael Cohen | New America Foundation | |
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Jonathan Cohn | The New Republic | |
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Joe Conason | The New York Observer | |
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Lark Corbeil | Public News Service | |
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David Corn | Mother Jones | |
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Daniel Davies | The Guardian | |
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David Dayen | FireDogLake | |
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Brad DeLong | The Economists Voice, University of California at Berkley | |
Ryan Donmoyer | Bloomberg News | ||
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Adam Doster | In These Times | |
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Kevin Drum | Washington Monthly | |
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Matt Duss | Center for American Progress | |
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Gerald Dworkin | UC Davis | |
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Eve Fairbanks | The New Republic | |
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Henry Farrell | George Washington University | |
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Tim Fernholz | American Prospect | |
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Dan Froomkin | Huffington Post, Washington Post | |
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James Galbraith | University of Texas at Austin | |
Kathleen Geier | Talking Points Memo | ||
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Todd Gitlin | Columbia University | |
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Ilan Goldenberg | National Security Network | |
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Arthur Goldhammer | Harvard University | |
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Dana Goldstein | The Daily Beast | |
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Andrew Golis | Talking Points Memo | |
Jaana Goodrich | Blogger | ||
Merrill Goozner | Chicago Tribune | ||
David Greenberg | Slate | ||
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Robert Greenwald | Brave New Films | |
Chris Hayes | The Nation | ||
Don Hazen | Alternet | ||
Jeet Heer | Canadian Journolist | ||
Michael Hirsh | Newsweek | ||
James Johnson | University of Rochester | ||
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John Judis | The New Republic, The American Prospect | |
Foster Kamer | The Village Voice | ||
Michael Kazin | Georgetown University | ||
Ed Kilgore | Democratic Strategist | ||
Richard Kim | The Nation | ||
Charlie Kireker | Air America Media | ||
Mark Kleiman | UCLA The Reality Based Community | ||
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Ezra Klein | Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect | |
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Joe Klein | TIME | |
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Robert Kuttner | American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute | |
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Paul Krugman | The New York Times, Princeton University | |
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Lisa Lerer | POLITICO | |
Daniel Levy | Century Foundation | ||
Ralph Luker | Cliopatria | ||
Annie Lowrey | Washington Independent | ||
Robert Mackey | New York Times | ||
Mike Madden | Salon | ||
Maggie Mahar | The Century Foundation | ||
Dylan Matthews | Harvard University | ||
Alec McGillis | Washington Post | ||
Scott McLemee | Inside Higher Ed | ||
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Sara Mead | New America Foundation | |
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Ari Melber | The Nation | |
David Meyer | University of California at Irvine | ||
Seth Michaels | MyDD.com | ||
Luke Mitchell | Harpers Magazine | ||
Gautham Nagesh | The Hill, Daily Caller | ||
Suzanne Nossel | Human Rights Watch | ||
Michael OHare | University of California at Berkeley | ||
Rodger Payne | University of Louisville | ||
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Rick Perlstein | Author, Campaign for Americas Future | |
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Nico Pitney | Huffington Post | |
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Harold Pollack | University of Chicago | |
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Katha Pollitt | The Nation | |
Ari Rabin-Havt | Media Matters | ||
Joy-Ann Reid | South Florida Times | ||
David Roberts | Grist | ||
Lamar Robertson | Partnership for Public Service | ||
Sara Robinson | Campaign For America's Future | ||
Alyssa Rosenberg | Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive | ||
Alex Rossmiller | National Security Network | ||
Michael Roston | Newsbroke | ||
Laura Rozen | POLITICO, Mother Jones | ||
Felix Salmon | Reuters | ||
Greg Sargent | Washington Post | ||
Thomas Schaller | Baltimore Sun | ||
Noam Scheiber | The New Republic | ||
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Michael Scherer | TIME | |
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Mark Schmitt | American Prospect, The New America Foundation | |
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Rinku Sen | ColorLines Magazine | |
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Julie Bergman Sender | Balcony Films | |
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Adam Serwer | American Prospect | |
Walter Shapiro | PoliticsDaily.com | ||
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Matthew Shugart | UC San Diego | |
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Nate Silver | FiveThirtyEight.com | |
Jesse Singal | The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly | ||
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Ben Smith | POLITICO | |
Sarah Spitz | KCRW | ||
Adele Stan | The Media Consortium | ||
Paul Starr | The Atlantic | ||
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Kate Steadman | Kaiser Health News | |
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Jonathan Stein | Mother Jones | |
Sam Stein | Huffington Post | ||
Matt Steinglass | Deutsche Presse-Agentur | ||
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James Surowiecki | The New Yorker | |
Jesse Taylor | Pandagon.net | ||
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Steven Teles | Yale University | |
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Mark Thoma | The Economists' View | |
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Michael Tomasky | The Guardian | |
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Jeffrey Toobin | CNN, The New Yorker | |
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Rebecca Traister | Salon | |
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Tracy Van Slyke | The Media Consortium | |
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Paul Waldman | Author, American Prospect | |
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Dave Weigel | Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent | |
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Moira Whelan | National Security Network | |
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Scott Winship | Pew Economic Mobility Project | |
J. Harry Wray | DePaul University | ||
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D. Brad Wright | University of NC at Chapel Hill | |
Kai Wright | The Root | ||
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Holly Yeager | Columbia Journalism Review | |
Rich Yeselson | Change to Win | ||
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Matthew Yglesias | Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly | |
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Jonathan Zasloff | UCLA | |
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Julian Zelizer | Princeton University | |
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Avi Zenilman | POLITICO |
WOW that list covers just about each news source out there with at least 3-4 members at each one. That is scary how deceived the public has been played.
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