BREAKING
Another story MSM will embargo
Does a candidate’s history and associations indicate his current or future perspectives, goals or choices?
The argument has been that “I was only 8 when Ayers was a terrorist.” But the question is really, what is Ayers doing now and what were his goals when he and Obama worked with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge?
Now the story emerges that, when he was Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer’s Chief of Staff in 1995 and when he had her kicked off the ballot and ran, uncontested, for her seat in 1996, Obama was a member of the New Party.
Perhaps this news will be countered with the contention that it was just something he did to “get along and go along” in the machine that is Chicago Politics. In which case Obama comes off looking rather shallow and dishonest, even disloyal. Doing the expedient thing has become expected of politicians, but there are only so many people one can throw under the bus before folks get nervous.
It’s been oft remarked that Obama’s rapid progression from state legislator to major party nominee for POTUS in slightly over 10 years raises the image of a Post Turtle. Yanno, that instance where you’re driving along a rural highway and ya spot a turtle on top of a fence post. Ya know he didn’t get there by himself, and ferdamsure he has no idea what to do now that he is there and you’re bound to ask yourself, “What moron put him there, and why?”
“So it is reasonable to ask, who “sent” Barack Obama?" Was it the New Party?
If so, there is some reason for concern.
After allegations surfaced in early summer over the ‘New Party’s’ endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a member of either organization. The DSA and ‘New Party’ then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA’s New Party.
[Politically Drunk on Power] discovered a web page that had been scrubbed from the New Party’s website. ...published in October 1996, an internet newsletter update on that years congressional 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)."
And here’s the ACORN connection:
After a false start in New York, the New Party built modestly successful chapters in several states. Some of these chapters — such as those in Chicago and Little Rock — had their main bases of support in the low-income community organizing group ACORN, along with some support from various labor unions (especially ACORN-allied locals of the Service Employees International Union).
The more light that shines, the more dots come out of the darkness.
This young man [Obama] apparently gave his first public speech, against South African apartheid, at an Occidental College rally organized by Students for Economic Democracy, the student branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED] which [Tom Hayden] chaired in 1979-82.
Last election a great outcry went up that there was too much discussion of Viet Nam and other old, outmoded, dusty history. Now we’re into even more arcane details of the radical ‘60’s—something that is bound to be lost on the utes and even on many who were alive but not paying much political attention at the time.
To me the associations and the history is significant, but I doubt that it will make significant impact on the “average undecided voter”—whatever that means.
I recommend you follow the links, and their links. Let me know what you think. How do you think this will impact the election?
The question is not so much “who sent him” but rather “who’s going to run him if he gets in?”.
There’s a strong case that they’ll be the same people. Most folks don’t shove steamer trunks full of $100 bills at someone and not expect some little favor in return.
Maybe a place at the annual White House Easter Egg hunt.
(Which, by the way, will have to be stopped becuase of its overly religious overtones. And of course, because Muslims are offended.)
Posted by ZZMike on 10/09/08 at 09:29 AM
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