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Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time. ~ Winston Churchill Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof. ~ Inscription on the Liberty Bell Proud Supporters of Israel
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Arise and take our stand for freedom as
in the olden time. ~ Winston Churchill Proclaim Liberty...
throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof. ~ Inscription on the Liberty Bell Proud Supporters of Israel
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Barack Obama, Socialist? Part II
washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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WOODBRIDGE -- John McCain should not have to
be here, not on a crisp October Saturday scarcely...
two weeks before the election. Prince William County is the electoral Maginot line between the Washington suburbs and what a McCain spokeswoman has just ...
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The 'Socialist' Scare
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Stanley Kurtz: Media Near-Silent on Obama Ties to New Party and ACORN
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... in carefully targeted cities were seized upon — and only when the candidate fit the profile of a decidedly left-leaning progressive Democrat. In this way, the New Party set out to form a hard-left “party within a party” among the Democrats.
So it is pretty obvious that Obama had very close ties to both New Party and ACORN. But was Obama actually a member of the New Party? Kurtz's research provides the answer:
...we now have substantial evidence that Obama himself was in fact a New Party member. We even have a photograph of ...
Stanley Kurtz on Obama, redux
protein wisdom —
... it endorsed be members. Yet the New Party’s endorsements were carefully targeted. There was no attempt to endorse candidates in every race, or even to set up nationwide chapters. Carefully selected races in carefully targeted cities were seized upon — and only when the candidate fit the profile of a decidedly left-leaning progressive Democrat. In this way, the New Party set out to form a hard-left “party within a party” among the Democrats. More than this, we now have substantial evidence that Obama himself was in fact a New Party member. We even have a ...
Micah Sifry: Obama, the New Party and Stanley Kurtz's Horror
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Okay. For the purposes of argument, let's stipulate that Obama was indeed a member of the New Party in 1996 when he ran for state senate in Illinois in 1996. I don't doubt that he was endorsed by the New Party, if that's what this NP newsletter uncovered by the Powerline blog shows. ...
The dread New Party
Ben Smith's Blog —
... When this first emerged, I called up the founder of the New Party, a University of Wisconsin professor named Joel Rogers, who objected both to the characterization of the party and Obama's relationship to it. ...
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