Posted on 10/09/2008 10:48:27 AM PDT by Plutarch
I would have thought the answer self-evident, but Roger Simon adds some nuance. Among other instances, he refers to Obama's apparent membership in the socialist New Party:
And now we learn of yet another strange obfuscation or omission. In 1996, Obama was apparently a member of the Chicago “New Party,” a now defunct socialist political party of some stripe or other.
There’s nothing wrong with being a socialist. I called myself one for the better part of twenty years. Millions of people have and many still do. But there is something very wrong with hiding who you are or who you were from the electorate—especially if you want to be President of the United States. Yet that seems to be a habit of Mr. Obama’s, with the collusion of the press. To my knowledge, no one in the mainstream media has begun to inquire into the details of Obama’s curiously unreported years at Columbia and Harvard, although much could be relatively easily ascertained. Obama himself has not been remotely forthcoming about them.
My guess is that we'll learn quite a bit more about Obama once the election is safely over.
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I take exception to that comment. Socialists are at best niave, but always effectivley tyrants. They are evil. Socialism kills.
The last line of his article is "In politics what goes around comes around".
One of the prime reasons I no longer read Powerline and haven't in months. Not that I disagree with their premise about the media being fully in Obama-lama Ding Dong's tank.
Everytime they ignore these dubious associations they inspire American rage which they translate into racism.
Whether or not he is elected, they will milk it for all it’s worth.
If he’s elected, they will really be able to wring non-stories out of any meaningless transaction that they want to spin as racism.
He is the greatest cash cow to ever come on the scene for MSM.
They are creating the news, just like the villain in “Tomorrow Never Dies”.
Obama’s Inaguration Day parties will be more like the Freakers’ Ball.
Um, Obama’s not going to win.
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