Little is known about Democrat Party presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama’s life in the late 1990′s, other than an alleged homosexual tryst with Larry Sinclair. Now we have a new piece to the puzzle: Obama was the member of a Socialist political party in 1996.
The New Party was formed in 1992 by the Democratic Socialists of America to implement Socialist Rule in the United States and to counteract the influence of a Clinton-run Democratic Party that they viewed as too moderate and too centered. The New Party developed an effective strategy known as “fusion,” which let their candidates simultaneously run under their banner and that of the Democrat Party. This increased exposure died off between 1997-99 by a Supreme Court challenge to the fusion concept.
An Obama link to The New Party first showed him seeking the Party’s endorsement back in 1996. Now an archive of the New Party website shows Obama as a member in 1996:
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).
Two other Socialist periodicals independantly confirm Obama as a member of The New Party in 1996. The “Progressive Populist” magazine in November 1996 wrote that Obama was a New Party member who had “won an uncontested seat in Chicago”, while the The Democratic Socialist Party of America published in their July/August Edition of New Ground 47 Newsletter that “the NP’s ’96 Political Program has been enormously successful with 3 of 4 endorsed candidates winning electoral primaries [....] Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.”
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The New Party is not a “socialist” party, but it’s focus centers on social democracy, which is a political ideology of the centre-left on the classic political spectrum. The contemporary social democratic movement seeks to reform capitalism to align it with the ethical ideals of social justice while maintaining the capitalist mode of production, as opposed to creating an alternative socialist economic system. Whomever comes up with these articles certainly is spinning things so hard right that they become lies. Lies and illusion is not what we need just now. We need to be clear-sighted on reality (not illusion) in order to effectively respond to the crushing problems of today.