Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Obama A Member of a Socialist Party in 1996??

Politically Drunk found a newsletter from the socialist "New Party" which stated that Obama was a member of their party at the time he was elected to the Illinois Senate. Source.

I'm going to hold off judgment until this is run down by closer to mainstream sources, but I'd be surprised if it turned out to be false.

The "new party" advocates an end to private donations in election campaigns, a government takeover of the banking system, socialized health care, "[f]ull employment, a shorter work week, and a guaranteed minimum income for all adults; a universal "social wage" to include such basic benefits as health care, child care, vacation time, and lifelong access to education and training," and ending unilateral military interventions.

H/T: Mountain Sage

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).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're just never going to like him. Open your mind, see the future, it doesn't include McCain as president.

Ken said...

My mind was open. I made up my mind during Obama's acceptance speech.

It's not that I'm "never" going to like him... it's that I once did, but now realize that I was wrong.

I thought we'd be better off with him than Clinton. Yeah, I admit, I wasn't seeing the future too well when I was thinking that.