Pundita’s May 2008 Epiphany: Comrade Obama Ran On The Marxist Party Line in 1996

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Cross posted from RBO, who revived it from Pundita’s May 2008 Blog post.

 

After receiving a question from a regular reader, RBO looked — and came across this oldie but very goodie by Pundita posted May 29, 2008, at RW. Only woulda-coulda-shoulda somebody been paying better attention THEN — because it might have saved us all so much agony NOW.

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Hear ye! Hear ye! The astute Pundita—who always manages to amaze—has had an epiphany!—of sorts.

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Every time I threaten to stop blogging or delete this blog Caesar Rodriguez writes unsympathetically, “Another deathbed scene, another aria,” Pundita says.
But this it, I am afraid. No.. no.., this is not like the time Hurricane Katrina blew the lid off the true situation and I was found under my desk breathing into a paper bag every two minutes and squeaking, “Louisiana is a third world country and their foreign policy is being run out of Quebec by Maurice Strong.”

No, I’m afraid this is really goodbye. Events are out of my control due to my having had a nervous breakdown.

I am a little calmer now, after writing what’s underneath the little line of asterisks below — the calm of knowing exactly what I must do. After logging off I will start neatly folding a change of underwear into a backpack, then I will be off to buy a machine gun and, on second thought, bottled water — according to M. Night Shyamalan, water might help.

As to how my breakdown came about, this morning after putting up today’s post an instinct for survival told me, “Stay off the Internet for the rest of day.” But by this afternoon I’d forgotten the little voice.

That is how I came to read Evelyn Pringle’s third and fourth installments of Operation Board Games Cliff Notes, from which I learned that the next Chicago trial is the Great Pizza Parlor Scam, which involves Obama’s buddy Tony Rezko and a roster of sleazies finding another way to bilk the taxpayer.

That is also how I came across Aaron Klein’s report on what Michael Pfleger, a white Catholic priest guest orator at Obama’s church, thundered to the gathered faithful: “We must be honest enough to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head,” and “Hillary thought she’d win ’cause she’s white.”

My initial reaction to Aaron’s report was a touch of pride. I thought, ‘The only Americans outside the New Authoritarian Left who will understand what Pfleger is actually driving at are those who’ve read Professor Diamond’s discourses on the NAL. The rest of the country will assume Pfleger is just race-baiting. Pundita, you were so brilliant to recognize the importance of Diamond’s writings and promote them!’

Next I read a piece at Flopping Aces that gathered examples of Michelle’s speaking style, and which asked Michelle Obama, First Lady or First Whiner? Because by this time I am almost an authority on the NAL thanks to my study Diamond’s map of Leftland, I knew that Flopping Aces was wrong.

Michelle isn’t whining on the campaign trail. She is speaking in the carefully crafted Language of the Oppressed used by the NAL:

I wake up every morning wondering how on earth I am going to pull off that next minor miracle to get through the day. I know that everybody in this room is going through this. That is the dilemma women face today. Every woman that I know, regardless of race, education, income, background, political affiliation, is struggling to keep her head above water.”

It was at that moment — perhaps caused by a twinge of my abject fear of the Puffy Head Minders — that I decided to refrain from patting myself on the back again and instead catch up on Binky’s latest news over at Free Mark Steyn!
For those readers not yet in the know, Binky’s site went from being a relay station for reports on the struggle for free speech in Canada to being a Town Crier about every notable daily development in the various culture wars around the world to crash Western Civilization.
I noted with smugness that eventually the entire world would know about Dr Diamond’s discourses on the NAL because Binks Of a Thousand Eyes and Ears had picked up my post of today.
Then I froze in horror as I took in the other part of Binky’s blurb about my piece: “In other news, Barack Obama Ran On a MARXIST PARTY Line in 1996,” which linked to an Atlas Shrugged report that linked to the original Yid With Lid investigative report.
From Atlas’s comment and excerpt from the original:

Barack Obama Ran On A MARXIST PARTY Line in 1996:
It seems that Senator Obama’s Old party was called the New Party. The party was a Marxist Political coalition. This was not a guilt by association thing. Senator Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. Read more on the Marxist endorsement that Barack Obama sought out:

“Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials — most often Democrats. The New Party’s short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.
“Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party’s Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

“The New Party’s modus operandi included the political strategy of “electoral fusion,” where it would nominate, for various political offices, candidates from other parties (usually Democrats), thereby enabling each of those candidates to occupy more than one ballot line in the voting booth. By so doing, the New Party often was able to influence candidates’ platforms.

“(Fusion of this type is permitted in seven states — Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont — but is common only in New York.)

“Though Illinois was not one of the states that permitted electoral fusion, in 1995 Barack Obama nonetheless sought the New Party’s endorsement for his 1996 state senate run. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers.

Read the rest of Yid’s report here.

I blurted, “B-b-but just yesterday Dr Diamond was assuring me that the US Communist Party was insignificant! And I passed this news to my readers! Now I will look stupid before the entire world.”

Suddenly I recalled that also just yesterday, RezkoWatch had referred to me as “scary smart.”

I quavered, “This is The Puffy Head Minders at work. Why must they always rearrange the universe to teach me a lesson in humility? Why don’t they pick on someone with an ego bigger than mine? Someone like, someone like…”

Before I could dredge up a name, the awful truth hit all at once, as a parade of names flashed through my mind. Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Ali Ata, Orlando Jones, Allison Davis, Penny Pritzker, Malik Shabazz, Jeremiah Wright –

This wasn’t the Minders at work. The report on Obama’s romancing of Marxists was actually a Sign — one of many I’d been ignoring all these months, as I’d collected stories about his large circle of creepy promoters. This was the shock troops in action.
With the last shred of my sanity I said firmly, “I will not leave quietly” and composed myself to type the following.
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Dear Reader and Fellow Bloggers:
Wake up and realize that Barack Obama’s campaign is the real-life version of Gremlins.

Notice that everywhere you look Obama’s radical thieving lying buddies are popping out from every corner, every closet, every drawer.

No use to catch a few and throw them in the blender and the microwave. They keep falling on your head from the ceiling, leaping out from the light fixtures, grabbing your ankles from their hiding places under your bed and the couch.

Dr Diamond, you better start writing another explanatory essay, right this very minute. Forget about the New Authoritarian Left. The Obama presidential campaign is clearly the precursor to an attack from Outer Space. They’re getting even with us for all the movies showing humans beating the crap out of extra-terrestrials.

But that’s it; that does it for me. After six months of studying Barack Obama and his gremlins I can’t take any more. I’m going to join a nunnery; I’ll smuggle in an AK-47 so when they come to put me in the spaceship I can go down fighting.

See related RezkoWatch articles

Sen. “Barack O’bomb ‘em”, April 28, 2008.

Obama’s ultra-leftist backers – Part 1, April 28, 2008.

Update #1 h/t GS

Sol Stern, ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities, City-Journal, Spring 2003.

Bud Simmons, ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud — ACORN and Project Vote recruit and assign workers to low-income and minority neighborhoods to register people to vote, Thoughts of a Conservative Christian, November 2, 2006.

More Proof of Obama’s Socialism. In 1996 he ran as member of New Party, Obama WTF, March 15, 2008.

Updated #2

Warner Todd Huston, Obama Sought Endorsement of Marxist Third Party in 1996, StopTheACLU, May 29, 2008.

Dan Riehl, Was ACORN Obama’s First Political Party?, Riehl World View, May 30, 2008. Money Quote: “If Obama gets the nod from the Dems, it looks like their candidate’s color this time out is going to be Red … not blue.”