By Selwyn Duke

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Absent the ability to read minds and hearts, I can’t really tell you if
Barack Obama is uniquely dishonest. What
is for certain, though, is that his campaign is uniquely deceitful. These two things are not synonymous. Politicians are famous for suppressing facts
and manufacturing fantasies to hide their faults, and, while Obama certainly
practices this sleight-of-hand, I can’t say he is more inured to it that your
average prevaricating pol. But what is
doubtless is that he has more faults to hide.

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It’s ironic that Obama has used the
“lipstick on a pig” line, because Avon’s whole inventory couldn’t, sans media
spin, cover up his true colors. And color
is a factor this election. It’s not that
the senator is black, however, or that, as he said last debate alluding to
McCain’s criticism, he is “green behind the ears.” It’s that he is red behind the ears.

Barack Obama may be the most
radically-left major-party presidential nominee in our nation’s history. A recent analysis of voting
records – not words but actions – showed that the senator owned the most left-wing record in the Senate
in 2007, placing him ahead of even that body’s one avowed socialist, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. Now, if Sanders proclaims himself a
socialist, and Obama is to the left of Sanders, what do you call Obama?

Of course, some question the
methodology of the study, and, true enough, a different one might yield
slightly different rankings. But if
Obama is within a sickle-length of socialist Sanders, does it really matter if
he is a couple of spots above or below? This is an instance where we definitely should remember second place.

Yet accusations of socialism are,
well, just so hard to believe. But a
damning revelation just came to light that should leave no doubt about Obama’s
sympathies. The blog
“Politically Drunk On Power” (PDOP) just discovered documents showing that the
senator was a member of the “New Party,” which is, the blog explains,

“. . . 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.”

Now, listen to this. The New Party tried its best to obscure
Obama’s ties to the organization – I’m guessing with the complicity of the
senator’s campaign – and had scrubbed
the relevant documents from its website; however, PDOP was able to find them at
a non-profit Internet Archive Organization. Quoting from the October
1996 New Party update, the blog reveals:

New Party members are busy knocking on
doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates
this fall. Here are some of our key races . . . 

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off
against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack
Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).

PDOP then cites the November 1996
issue of Progressive Populist
magazine, which reported on the results of the general election, writing:

“New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate
seat from Chicago [emphasis mine].”

Providing further evidence, PDOP provides
an excerpt from the DSA’s July/August Edition of New Ground 47 Newsletter, which in
part reads:

. . . the NP’s ’96 Political Program has
been enormously successful with 3 of 4 endorsed candidates winning electoral
primaries. All four candidates attended the NP membership meeting on April 11th
to express their gratitude . . . . [One
of them,] Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged
NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.

Citing yet another source, the 1996
Election Update from the Columbus
Free Post, PDOP writes:

“The first NP member heads to
Congress, as Danny Davis wins an overwhelming 85% victory yesterday (he got a
higher percentage of the vote in that district than the President). NP member
and State Senate candidate Barack Obama won uncontested.”

Now there is an obvious
question. If Obama was a member of the
New Party, why was he running as a Democrat in Illinois? The answer is that these socialists were
Machiavellian and understood that they could not as yet win power under their
own banner. This tactic was outlined in
the New Party’s 1997
Happy Birthday Update. Here are
parts of the PDOP excerpt:

. . . the New Party would remain independent
of the Democratic Party – but without undermining the Democrats.

. . . the New Party’s founders suggest, the
left needs an organization that straddles the inside-outside fence. If the U.S.
left is ever to make a meaningful decision on the third-party-vs.-Dems
question, they propose, it must first take on the task of grassroots
power-building.

. . .  The party’s strategy has been to build
political organizations in a few targeted cities, working closely with labor
and community organizations.

Does Obama’s history as a
“community organizer” still sound innocuous or even positive? The above provides the strongest indication
that he was a socialist community
organizer (“agitator” is a better word).

Here is more from the update:

“Chapters run candidates only where
they have a real chance of winning, combine campaign work with organizing and education, and refuse to
spoil elections by stealing votes from the better of two major party candidates
[emphasis mine].”

Given this fact, is it any surprise
that ex-weathermen terrorist and Obama ally Bill Ayers obtained a $50 million government
grant for “education” and then gave it the senator, who, in turn, funneled it
to ACORN, a group involved in “organizing” (that is, organizing voter fraud)? 

The update continues:

. . . Until major changes in the legal
structure of the U.S. politics happen, we’re stuck with a two-party system, and
progressives – if they want to win many elections – will have to run, and vote,
Democrat.

. . . [Our affiliated] organizations can,
from time to time, move their political muscle and know-how into Democratic
primaries to back progressive candidates for state legislature and even
Congress, but do not have the size or clout to field their own candidates for
the Senate, the Governor’s office, or the White House.

No, but it now seems they very well
may soon have one of their number in the White House.

Next, PDOP provides evidence from
an article
written by New Party member Jim McGrath in 1997:

“. . . Chapters generally require
endorsed candidates to sign a contract, with requirements that they be NP
members, identify as such, support the NP principles and program, and work to build
NP chapters . . . .”

In other words, it’s highly
probable that Obama signed a contract with this socialist party and was a
member.

More from the article:

. . . For the New Party, whether
progressives should run as Democrats is a tactical, not ideological, question .
. . . Regardless of whether our
candidates run as "non-partisan" (in fact, the vast majority of our
candidates, as we’re generally running in local elections which are usually
non-partisan), "New Party Democrats" (inside Dem Primaries), or
independents, they all are New Party members . . . .

Note that all throughout these
quotations, we see continual admissions that socialists are, in fact, running
as Democrat candidates, using the major party as a political Trojan Horse. These socialists have also won offices in
many parts of the nation. Thus, two
ominous questions present themselves: Should Obama win the presidency, how many
in the Democrat-controlled house will be fellow New Party travelers? And, with both the legislative and executive
branches in their hands and the election past, will the lipstick come off? Will they feel free to legislate a radical
socialist agenda? 

Lastly there is the Chicago DSA
Press Release New Ground 69, which tells
us (in the Endorsements Section) of how “. . . Obama participated in a 1996
UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity . . . .”

What does “YDS” stand for?

Youth Democratic Socialists. 

I understand that some of you are
enraptured by Barack Obama. He is a
charismatic leader at the center of a cult of personality, and you may not want
to think ill of him. But we all want to
be responsible voters, and this requires placing country before oratory, before
image, before personality, before party, and considering evidence
presented. And in Obama’s case it is
overwhelming; it can be said beyond a reasonable doubt that he was a socialist.

Thus, responsible citizens must
demand two things before giving the senator their vote. First, he must come clean about his socialist
past and exhibit some contrition. Second, he must convince us that he has renounced these socialist
beliefs and will not push the DSA agenda from the Oval Office.

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We also must be mindful of the old
saying, “The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.” As for the Chicago surprise’s past, he cultivated
his political career in a very bad neighborhood.  A bad ideological one. And if he wants to now occupy 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, the onus is on him to truly prove he has left it behind.

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