Posted on 10/30/2008 7:24:16 PM PDT by beagleone
This is from my own research and I have not seen this printed anywhere before.
The website of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America has an archive of their newsletters. Their Newsletter "New Ground 69 March - April, 2000". In this newsletter they give their "Recommendations for the March Primary Election". My emphesis in Bold.
For Congressman of the 1st Congressional District, the Executive Committee was faced with two very good candidates. As we are not making endorsements but merely recommendations, we felt no conflict in recommending both Bobby Rush and Barak Obama.
Bobby Rush is the incumbent Congressman. He was also a candidate for Mayor of Chicago in the last municipal elections, endorsed by Chicago DSA. While he hasn't always been the ideal Congressman from a left perspective (being a cosponsor of the "NAFTA for Africa" bill, for example), he's generally been quite good. To volunteer, call 773 264 7874. Contributions may be made to Citizens for Rush, 514 E. 95th St., Chicago, IL 60619.
Barak Obama is serving only his second term in the Illinois State Senate so he might be fairly charged with ambition, but the same might have be said of Bobby Rush when he ran against Congressman Charles Hayes. Obama also has put in time at the grass roots, working for five years as a community organizer in Harlem and in Chicago. When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy. To volunteer, call 773 846 2262. Contributions may be sent to Obama for Congress 2000, PO Box 497987, Chicago, IL 60649.
We'll have to take this up with Bill Ayers:
That me a chill. I feel like I am seeing the end of America.
It’s been posted by Freeper Columbo before: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104416/posts
It’s important to post again though! I can’t understand why Rush etc. don’t address this.
Thanks, sorry if its a repost.
no, thanks for bringing it up again! It needs to be seen.
I think New Ground 45 has the original report on the talk Obama gave. It’s the closest thing we have to a transcript unfortunately:
“Barack Obama observed that Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in the 1960s wasn’t simply about civil rights but demanded jobs as well. Now the issue is again coming to the front, but he wished the issue was on the Democratic agenda not just on Buchanan’s.
One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left. He felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution. The current proposals for welfare reform are intended to eliminate welfare but it’s also true that the status quo is not tenable. A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties. By “workforce preparation strategy”, Barack Obama simply meant a coordinated, purposeful program of job training instead of the ad hoc, fragmented approach used by the State of Illinois today.
The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.”
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
What is interesting is that it was four years later that they still remembered Obama’s speech and praised him for it in New Ground 69.
I remember reading on here a few weeks ago before one of the debates, I can’t remember if it was a comment or a thread. But I remember reading something like, “The Obama surprise won’t be at the debates against McCain, you will have to look at his debates with Bobby Rush.”
My little expose at http://www.prayformccainpalin.com/commu.html was all over google but got yanked except for one spot.
been posted several times, but keep the message out
I think a blank contract would be a “double” an Obama-signed one would be a “grandslam home-run”... I despair of ever seeing the later — the former though... that’s got to be out there somewhere...
Further down that same page is their list of endorsements for the primary:
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is running to gain the Democratic ballot line for Illinois Senate 13th District. The 13th District is Alice Palmer’s old district, encompassing parts of Hyde Park and South Shore.
Mr. Obama graduated from Columbia University and promptly went into community organizing for the Developing Communities Project in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens on the far south side of Chicago. He went on to Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree. In 1992, he was Director of Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration campaign that made Carol Moseley Braun’s election to the U.S. Senate much easier than it would have been. At present, he practices law in Judson Miner’s law firm and is President of the board of the Annenberg Challenge Grant which is distributing some $50 million in grants to public school reform efforts.
What best characterizes Barack Obama is a quote from an article in Illinois Issues, a retrospective look at his experience as a community organizer while he was completing his degree at Harvard:
“... community organizations and organizers are hampered by their own dogmas about the style and substance of organizing. Most practice ... a ‘consumer advocacy’ approach, with a focus on wrestling services and resources from outside powers that be. Few are thinking of harnessing the internal productive capacities, both in terms of money and people, that already exist in communities.” (Illinois issues, September, 1988)
Luckily, Mr. Obama does not have any opposition in the primary. His opponents have all dropped out or were ruled off the ballot. But if you would like to contribute to his campaign, make the check payable to Friends of Barack Obama, 2154 E. 71st, Chicago, IL 60649. If you would like to become involved in his campaign, call the headquarters at (312) 363-1996.
Something about that phrase is even creepier. How is it that people are standing for this? The pure, brazen arrogance to make that claim should be enough to send folks running to the polls to vote for McCain...what the hell is going on with our fellow citizens? How can parents stand by smiling while their children undergo nothing short of indoctrination into a radical belief system.?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2102477/posts
Good to see it brought up again, thanks.
I’ll settle for the former! We all know he signed it. It was a prerequisite of their endorsement.
“One new item (at least to me) in this material is the fact that he was a community organizer in Harlem, NYC, presumably while he was at Columbia, which I hadn’t heard before.”
I noticed that too. I wonder what kind of info is hiding in Harlem.
They're absolutely clueless. If Obama's proven anything, it's how ignorant 1/2 of the country is.
Coming from Obama, “fundamentally transforming America” is a threat on our very way of life.
I think that the average American spends a lot of time working hard, providing for their family and caring for their kids. After a hobby or two, not a lot of time for politics. These folks would vote more conservative if they understood the issues, or if their Grandma and Grandpa were not democrats. The left wing kooks, on the other hand, could care less.
Obama is a great orator. He can appeal to your emotion very well, without saying a whole lot. He also has the gift of being just vague enough that you can project what you hoped he said into what you actually heard him say. He makes many people feel good about radical ideas without ever spelling them out.
Unfortunately, the indoctrination of our children is getting out of hand. It started 30 years ago, or perhaps a bit more. A slow cancer has crept into our schools and our kids. Obama is the disease that can now penetrate the weakened body.
FR is a good vaccination!
Fear?
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