Campaign workers for Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara. But Obama has his own controversial socialist connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.
Obama’s socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat. Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the “champions” of “Chicago’s democratic left” and a long-time socialist activist. Obama’s stint as a “community organizer” in Chicago has gotten some attention, but his relationship with the DSA socialists, who groomed and backed him, has been generally ignored.
I wonder how long the Oprah-fied media will continue to give him a pass for his all sizzle and no steak campaign full of "beautiful nothings"?
At least Hillary has finally gotten around to calling him on his total lack of substance. I hope to God Hillary can knock him down, because if she gets the nomination we can beat her - whereas I have serious doubts about being able to beat Obama, what with the way his campaign is sweeping up and collecing people based on FEELINGS rather than thought and substance.