Posted on 10/08/2008 1:23:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The mainstream media thought that the membership of Todd Palin, who is not a candidate for any office, in the Alaska Independence Party important enough to report in such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the New York Times, among others. So now that Barack Obama's membership in the far left New Party has been unearthed, will they report his membership in that Socialist organization?
Proof of Obama's membership in the New Party was discovered by the Politically Drunk On Power blog:
In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party". The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist 'New Party' was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations "fusion" reform platform as unconstitutional.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
yikes
The Great One lying? How can this be?
BTTT
NEW PARTY (NP)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY (WFP)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/
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