Obama and the “New Party” (aka Socialist)

While the Demedia focus on what Bain Capital did after Romney left, flitting right over the companies he helped succeed with venture capital, like Staples, it could have looked into Obama’s roots in the New Party, which he denied during the last campaign.  Through his parents, grandparents, mentors and associates, Obama is a trained and managed socialist/statist.

“On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Party’s goal. . .

New Party co-founder and leader Joel Rogers told Smith, “We didn’t really have members.” But a line in the New Party’s official newsletter explicitly identified Obama as a party member. Rogers dismissed that as mere reference to “the fact that the party had endorsed him.” . . .

the meeting at which Obama joined the party opened with the announcement of a forthcoming event featuring the prominent socialist activist Frances Fox Piven [American Communist]. The Chicago New Party sponsored a luncheon with Michael Moore that same year. ”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302031/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz

From the Jan. 11, 1996 minutes of ACORN

“Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party  “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.”