[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]K2000 wrote:
Here’s the Wikipedia entry for the New Party (I’ve never heard of it before this thread):
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If you’ve never heard of it before, what makes you feel qualified to speculate on it after reading a wikipedia entry? There are lots of posters here who have heard of it before.
"The New Party was a political organization founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor and Joel Rogers, with the objective of electing leftist or socialist individuals to public office in several states; the goal was to move the Democratic Party further to the left, with the ultimate objective of creating a major third party whose platform is Marxism.
Daniel Cantor, a former staffer with Jesse Jackson during his 1988 presidential campaign, and sociology/law professor Joel Rogers from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) created the New party, drawing many members from the Democratic Socialists of America and the civil organization group ACORN; the chapter in Chicago included former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members who had gathered together under the group name “Committees of Correspondence”. Among their most prominent members was Barack Obama, first picked to succeed Illinois state senator Alice Palmer while in the home of Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in 1995."
Founding party members include the radical anarchist Noam Chomksy, former SDS terrorist Carl Davidson, Communist Party member Raphael Pizzaro, black racialist Cornel West, Socialist Columbia University professor Manning Marable and Marxist welfare terrorist Francis Fox Piven.
'The socialist-oriented goals of the New Party were enumerated on its old website.
Among the New Party’s stated objectives were “full 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; a systematic phase-in of comparable worth; and like programs to ensure gender equity.”
The New Party stated it also sought “the democratization of our banking and financial system â?? including popular election of those charged with public stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over their pension assets [and] community-controlled alternative financial institutions.”
Many of the New Party’s founding members were Democratic Socialists of America leaders and members of Committees of Correspondence, a breakaway of the Communist Party USA.'[/quote]
I see a quote with a lot of spin, but no attribution. Embarrassed?
It’s mostly guilt-by-association stuff (former communists), fear-mongering, and exaggerations (‘Marxist Welfare Terrorist’, etc).
Yawn.
This kind of stuff fires up Republicans, but Democrats mostly take it in stride, and it doesn’t seem to sway swing voters. The American public has already seen Obama in charge for 3.5 years, it’s way too late to try to convince people he is a radical. If Obama’s such a Socialist, why is the stock market positively booming? Wealthy people are still sitting exactly where they were before. Obama’s big radical move: return tax rates to where they were under Clinton. I don’t recall this kind of fear-mongering under Clinton (but then Clinton wasn’t black.)
Glenn Beck was kicked off Fox News for being too weird. Any thread based on what Glenn Beck says can immediately be dismissed as a fucking joke. In another era, you jokers would have been fans of Father Coughlin.
