[WayneS]

Wasn’t Obama a member of a DSA ‘off-shoot’ party in Chicago when he first ran for state office?

[Mouton]

Who knows...nothing of his background has ever been probed by our TASS like media.

[kabar]

Wasn’t Obama a member of a DSA ‘off-shoot’ party in Chicago when he first ran for state office?

You have a good memory. Obama file 22 Barack Obama, Danny K Davis and the Marxist New Party -- When Barack Obama successfully ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996 on the Democratic Party ticket, he was endorsed by two interrelated organisations, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Chicago branch of the New Party.

[ChasBaltimore]

I believe Nancy Pelosi was the president of the California chapter of the Democratic Socialists many years ago. They eventually changed its name in order to become more politically mainstream; but it is still the same group. Research should be done into this.